[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If you have a real solution, I'm open to suggestions.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fallacy of false equivalence. Your example is of actual criminal activity (vandalism) resulting in tangible damages (the vandalized home now needs to be repaired, also surrounding properties lose value due to criminal activity).

Please feel free to try to make your point again, this time without using a logical fallacy or bad faith argument.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

recent supreme court rulings make a president immune to prosecution for "official acts", so all the treason trump did while in office is ok according to the supreme court.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

548 followers, they're insignificant. Yeah, they suck, but there's literally a button to make them go away and you never see them again.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I wonder which will happen first: I'll quit watching youtube because the platform becomes too much of a pain in the ass for me to bother with, or I'll quit watching youtube because of how difficult it is to find content I actually want to watch.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Order of operations is important. Yes, if we got rid of all the guns then gun violence would stop being a problem. There's a whole discussion that could be had about sensible gun regulations that is beyond the scope of this comment. Reform on the matter is necessary.

However, that 'order of operations' thing I mentioned: I'll give up my guns when the fascists give up theirs, and not a day earlier.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I am by no means an expert, but the test that was explained to me is that if you look at the famous tianamen square picture of the guy holding grocery bags facing down a line of tanks, and then proceed to side with the line of tanks, then you're a tankie.

When I say that I am not an expert, what I actually mean is that I'm a random idiot from the internet, so don't take anything I say as gospel truth.

I've only been on lemmy for a few months, and I've never heard the term tankie on any other platform. My understanding is that a tankie is a militant supporter of communism, who completely disregards (or is in support of) how every time it's ever actually been done it turns into an authoritarian dictatorship (or something similarly unpleasant to live under).

My own biases exposed: I am an american, and most of what I know I learned in the absolutely fucked american public education system, which says communism = evil, because of the red scare a while back.

If you do some googling, there's a wikipedia article on the subject. I've forgotten most of the content of that article shortly after I read it, I should look at it again and maybe it will stick this time.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Is that normal? That doesn't sound normal. If I, a random nobody from nowherevill got convicted of thirty something felonies in a single trial, would my sentencing be multiple months later? I actually don't know, and that might be because I'm kindof an idiot, but this whole thing smells of bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is the year of the linux desktop!

By our powers combined, we'll exceed 2% market share!

(no actually, please support linux. I just switched like a month ago and while it's so much better than windows there are so many petty annoyances that will never get resolved unless more people bitch about it and that kind of support needs more users)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

fucking love that article. sums up everything wrong with AI. Unfortunately, it doesn't touch on what AI does right: help idiots like me achieve a slight amount of competence on subjects that such people can't be bothered with dedicating their entire lives to.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

There are things that chatgpt does well, especially if you temper your expectations to the level of someone who has no valuable skills and is mostly an idiot.

Hi, I'm an idiot with no valuable skills, and I've found chatgpt to be very useful.

I've recently started learning game development in godot, and the process of figuring out why the code that chatgpt gives me doesn't work has taught me more about programming than any teacher ever accomplished back in high school.

Chatgpt is also an excellent therapist, and has helped me deal with mental breakdowns on multiple occasions, while it was happening. I can't find a real therapist's phone number, much less schedule an appointment.

I'm a real shitty writer, and I'm making a wiki of lore for a setting and ruleset for a tabletop RPG that I'll probably never get to actually play. ChatGPT is able to turn my inane ramblings into coherent wiki pages, most of the time.

If you set your expectations to what was advertised, then yeah, chatgpt is bullshit. Of course it was bullshit, and everyone who knew half of anything about anything called it. If you set realistic expectations, you'll get realistic results. Why is this so hard for people to get?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'll never have kids.

My niece though will have a thorough education on sailing the high seas when she's old enough to choose media on her own.

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