It also serves to dismantle and pacify any possibility of actual opposition growing a pair. When just saying something is “ripping” someone, it has the effect of making it seem like something that is actually effective is being done. When the cult does it, it works for them because it is intended to build cults of ideology that oppose reality by appealing to egos, but they also call for their base to mobilize in ways that are effective. Here, people and politicians just don’t want to face doing what would be effective, so they just add stronger language for their usual fallback.

Imagine if the American revolution had been about people just waiting for the British parliament and King George III to roll over with peaceful protests while they waited. The side with the gullible personality cult is the one getting mobilized and radicalized while the opposition is pacified with the illusion that due process will suddenly materialize again and that everyone will acknowledge how right they were.

All these headlines make the relative pacifism that is happening seem like activism that is being effective. People need to realize how bad things are going to feel bad enough to do something about it, not be told that just pointing out “that’s bad!” is ripping anyone a new one just because it comes from another mouthpiece. There’s nothing wrong with the news getting out or pointing out how bad it is, it’s the language that suggests that more is being done against it than actually is.

Couldn’t agree more. On YouTube I’m particularly sick of MeidasTouch, not just because of this exploitative use of headlines but because their sponsors are usually equally bad gimmicks.

Using AI is telling people they shouldn’t care about your IP because you clearly don’t care about theirs when it passes through the AI lens.

I mean, it sounds to me that the biggest problem is not having the experience to manufacture and modify electronics readily throughout Europe so we have to treat them all as take or give. I don’t mean in the sense of being able to retrofit foreign PV inverters, I mean in regards to being able to accurately define and even potentially disable the threat.

One of the ways this used to be done was with the development and enforcement of standards within markets, why isn’t this being done instead of outright bans? Seems like it’s more about companies lobbying against economic threats instead of actually enforcing industry wide standards, although I’m also curious if and how much of this concern has to do with the recent Spanish blackout. The biggest problem with Chinese tech is that they are sold as the alternative to get around excessive proprietary BS pricing only for them to pull even worse proprietary BS shenanigans.

If you see Netflix as part of a bundle, get the bundle without it. You having no choice to get out of the subscription is feeding into this.

What I can’t get around with is people expecting AI that was developed by not respecting IP rights to suddenly begin respecting their presumed IP rights (not that most are not just accepting them away through the associated EULAs) with what they generate using them.

Just because something isn’t going the way you want it to go doesn’t excuse any and all behavior. Most parents are able to teach their children this one basic rule.

I was stuck in traffic the other day, and waiting for the traffic to move wasn’t doing anything so I just took my rocket launcher out and started blasting.

Had a presentation where they told us they were going to show us how AI can automate project creation. In the demo, after several attempts at using different prompts, failing and trying to fix it manually, they gave up.

I don’t think it’s entirely useless as it is, it’s just that people have created a hammer they know gives something useful and have stuck it with iterative improvements that have a lot compensation beneath the engine. It’s artificial because it is being developed to artificially fulfill prompts, which they do succeed at.

When people do develop true intelligence-on-demand, you’ll know because you will lose your job, not simply have another tool at your disposal. The prompts and flow of conversations people pay to submit to the training is really helping advance the research into their replacements.

If the bar has to be that high given everything they have already done, then perhaps you are living in an oligarchy.

It will be several orders of magnitude worse than prohibition era policies if it passes, although I suspect part of the impetus is because save for the ideologues they are better at competing and prospering in black markets than they are in open markets.

Trump’s MAGA is a terrorist aligned personality cult, confirmed.

Well, it was the democracy you have, and you could either choose to vote a fascist or a less despotic environment to bring the choice you wanted. Well, had. It’s no longer your choice, so don’t worry, put whomever you want on that dart board. Not even American and the people I interact with through social networks no longer matter even if they are Americans, so that really should be a load off my mind. Really should be focusing on the ways democracy is under threat in mine.

They are the same piece of generic rhetorical label you slap on or argue you can’t slap on whenever it conveniences you. If your solution is just a sentence long, you are an over-simplifying things.

So what happened to the ancient civilizations that collapsed before capitalism existed? Ducks. It’s the ducks that need to be shot.

The trick is to go from extreme to extreme and always have “democrat” on the dart board, because there clearly isn’t anyone better to have on it. You should get together with MAGA, you have a lot more in common than you might think.

Honestly, that’s not what I see from them. They may have the lowest paid employee working cashier, but the people who handle customer service desks are chosen and trained to handle these sort of situations diplomatically, even when effectively the same thing happens and they just talk bad about these clowns in the staff room. The only places I see people just openly admitting “I don’t care” attitude openly are usually people on a second hand market apps and people with small businesses who have their local market penned in. Might just be my experience, I’m also not in the US.

Excerpts from Wikipedia:

A replication attempt with a sample from a more diverse population, over 10 times larger than the original study, showed only half the effect of the original study. The replication suggested that economic background, rather than willpower, explained the other half.

Work done in 2018 and 2024 found that the Marshmallow Test “does not reliably predict adult functioning”.

It’s great for a confirmation bias, but such a study is way too simplistic to really reach a conclusion. Oh, and:

The results seemed to indicate that not thinking about a reward enhances the ability to delay gratification, rather than focusing attention on the future reward.

I’d have the one just so I don’t have to wait 5 minutes to get out of that weird ass test.

Back to the US’ real problem, the democrats!

In my opinion, those sort of businesses are also the ones that end up crying out when they lose to bigger players in the space who are willing with those sort of customers. At the end of the day, are you there to feel good, or are you there to get money? Here’s a little secret: nobody cares about those sort of people, it’s just that some care more about the money they can get from them than others.

For me, it’s right up there with tech support that complain about the trivial bullshit they are called for when it is that trivial bullshit that gives them a job.