7bicycles [he/him] @ 7bicycles @hexbear.net

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but I also played the trivia game on the Shrek DVD at like 2:30 am thia morning.

Everyone but you is a casual

Embarassing that this slipped my mind

I doubt this person even tested the limits of the rules. Most don't. It's just confirming to the evil for free.

What like conjuring up more food than whatever serco delivered for the day?

christ no, imagine how much those tyres and tubes cost. Or the spokes. Or paying somebody to true the wheel. Or the hubs. Also it's either a fixie or just has no brakes

broke: dick measuing contest
bespokle: Phallo-Market of Ideals

A lot of people fearing they might also get "randomly" murdered because somebody shot their CEO makes for a fucking terrible judicial argument as per terror charges. Like I'm sure it'll fly but that's just a precedent for everything being terrorism now, you just gotta find enough scared suburbians 30 miles away to attest that they all feel like they're next because they saw it on the news to prove this was terrorism.

Anything by Yiotro. . They're all free, with no ads or microtransactions and no data transfer anywhere. It is surprising how little battery they eat up due to this. Most of them are some form of "popular game devolved a bit to make it play easy on a phone, including the ability to just bail at any moment", i.e. Vodobanka is basically Doorkickers without the bells and whistles. Antiyoy is distilled Civ and has the same addiction loop of one more round.

Listening to Doug Stanhope Specials is better therapy than asking the agreement machine. Like even in the most bening constellation of not needing therapy here, not needing therapy and talking to your houseplant at least it doesn't give you realistically human sounding answers that are all lazerfocused to validate you at every turn since people like being agree'd with. In any other constellation this is actively hostile, the most hack fraud therapist and I include your loser cousing who thinks mayans built the iphones here, would at least strike you as not being authorized by some sort of authority

No. But I do appreciate how it helps people, specifically those who may not have the time or patience for the arduous years of practice art skills usually take to hone, to create and visualize things that would otherwise be stuck in their head.

But it doesn't tho. There's like 0% chance the AI gets it right, it gets "close enough". I mean I'm not gonna flip my shit over using AI to generate Shrek does 9/11 or whatever but that's stlll just AI slop. Get on MS Paint and crudely draw it in there for all I care, at least it means somebody gave enough of a shit about the concept to put literally any amount of effort into it.

I also think that AI is great for general comedy purposes, whether that's audio, video, or meme images. I've seen great uses in this way whether it's the various AI U.S. president videos where they make them say silly shit, or the Jack Black Elden Ring movie trailer that was posted here recently.

I hate to go to bat for Jack Black but generating photorealistic images of somebody half naked is unethical even if it is him and it's not exactly sexual. I know expectations of privacy differ between hollywood stars but how would you feel about this?

Basically, if AI is used for stuff like that, I don't think it deserves the same hostility as when it's used in it's worst possible ways (Tech bros putting far too much faith in it and replacing people, usually leading to their regret).

There is genuinely good uses for AI. Speech transcription via an LLM is a good idea for contexts where it's not life or death, so, most of them. AI Search Functions for big huge databases can be very good because they "understand" context and it can expedite a lot of research. But that's boring logistics instead of hilarious AI slop

Thatcher won comrade, there's no society. It isn't just the UK, large swathes of people have moved away from looking at things like starving children within their own communities and proposing some sort of plan to fix it - and I mean this politically neutral - to just figuring out who to blame. Sure starving children is a problem, but it's very clear these few (hundred?) thousand individuals fault for being bad people.

Excluding Military Hardware I really am struggling to think of a worse use for the agreement-machine other than therapy

Please use crosswalks.

I think this is rather the wrong thing to take away from this whole thing

In a car brained society, so something like the US, prosecutors will often sympathize way harder with the car driver than anybody else unless there's two of them involved.

They can see themselves whoopsy-ing a child to death in their car much more than they can see themselves having children or alternatively not keeping those children imprisoned until they can drive their own cars or being somewhere where "this sort of thing doesn't happen."

Sometimes it's a bit more subtle, like here, but surprisingly often prosecution or even the judges will just directly come out and say such things. It's just most car "accidents" don't make any sort of national or even regional news on account of how ubiquitous they are so it's mostly buried in boring ass local court files.

The expectation that people are responsible in any way for what they do behind the wheel of a car is long gone. My favourite example, and I do bring this up often, is people referring to accidents with nobody but them involved other than a tree or something in the passive as "having been in a car accident". It's not even my fault if I take a corner too fast and slide sideways into a tree, that tree shouldn't have been there, that road should've been straighter.

Just being in HR gives you some kind of brainworm but being in HR and posting about it with what seems to be a personal account is more like having a brain shai-hulud

surely no car driver would ever go overboard with anything

I'm sorry but this just sounds like you can give yourself night blindness as long as it doesn't interfere with cop work

Our Rodents start screaming once they hear the coffee machine but I assume this is due to it meaning they're getting fed soon and not because they're coffeine hounds

right, perfect

I did go to one of those places to have a strip of dark tinting put onto the top 1/3 of my windshield that fades down to a much lighter one.

Hold up once more isn't this sort of factory standard in the US? My fucking 90s Volvo 940 had that