My phone has IP68 with an usb-c and headphone jack, and the SIM/SD tray. Not a rugged phone though.

because saying you’d need to build a power plant for every 72 homes would not make the technology very attractive

quoth Rage Against The Machine:

‘fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me’

Thank you. Your service is well appreciated!

now now, no need to be dismissive of other age groups in this matter. I’m sure there’s plenty of non-teenager people that think the same way too. on the internet, nobody knows you’re a 74 yr old extremist

I mean you’re not wrong. But here we are. If you’ve ever tried to convince anyone of… well anything that conflicts with their views, you’re probably well aware that there’s no changing peoples’ minds.

So I guess my honest question is… what now?

I’d say all these articles about social media saying it’s broken are just about maintaining the illusion of something better. As long as they can keep it up, people are going to think “it’s bad but it shouldn’t be!” and just keep coming back hoping it improves. And that can keep social media alive with everything it can do for everybody using it as an income stream.

It has never informed users and a pet peeve of mine is governments using fucking twitter to communicate. And businesses too lazy to create their own webpages (or pay somebody to do it for them) and pay for some hosting (deductible as a business expense, by the way) so they use fecebook instead.

Also, as somebody mentioned in a different comment, it is actually the town square, as it always was (I believe their comment evoked witch trials as an example).

That’s a Wired article though, they sometimes run those too and the quality of them, at least from my perspective, is dubious.

drink verification can?

I would like onion shaped carrots, please

Not the original commenter, but I’m going to go ahead and assume he meant that the forum has no place in the traditional ‘bread and circuses’ used to control masses.

Free exchange of ideas and healthy debate mostly yields good philosophies or slight enlightenment of people participating (and when they get back home they bring that with them and spread the enlightenment), though one should consider whether these romanticized versions of the pub and the forum are actually in line with reality. In order to have a good debate you need the right people and the right place.

I would assume that the base example would be workers gathering in a pub and thinking ‘what if none of us works tomorrow? who’s going to build their stuff?’. And some might not have even thought of that before. And this leads to unionizing.

Contrast that with a platform like facebook that channels you into a place where you find what you already know and think you want via algorithm, and thus are basically shielded from knowing stuff you don’t already. Knowledge is power and all that. Sure, the forums and pubs are fairly easy to poison, but it takes more effort.

Also, little known fact, 9 women can deliver one single baby in 1 month from conception!

Nonsense, Microsoft will just put lots of PMs and Scrum masters on the task and they’ll have a working reactor in 1 year max.

/s, just in case any PMs are reading this and think it’s totally reasonable

shhh, don’t spoil the myth now!

yes, immurement does seem like adequate punishment for his kind

Yeah, apparently working as a contractor apparently involves a middleman, a ‘pimp’, if you will, that brings nothing to the contractor, the person doing the labour, but instead just serves to make it easy for the company in need of services to skirt labor laws. Even unionized, what are you going to do, strike against the one with which you do the actual contracting by not attending the monthly check-ins with PimpCo and refusing to submit your timesheets?

I wonder, however, shouldn’t not doing the work cause a breach of contract between the company requesting the service and the middleman and thus cost the middleman some valuable business?

Hey now, LLMs have um… a presence… here, too.

Though to be fair, it’s probably something I’d ask ChatGPT as well, just to see how it works.

Honestly, I can’t tell anymore. Didn’t do any sort of work, just hit reply.

nice shoes and cars mostly

just wanted to say, username checks out

I hear you, but aren’t pro-points 1 and 4 something we already have via good old automation? Can it even get any better on those points by using the-technology-currently-known-as-AI?

Same for con-points 1, 2, 4, really. Thinking of automation for point 1 (human assembly lines vs robotic used in car manufacturing, for instance). And stuff like social media algorithms have been around and exploiting one class for the benefit of another for quite a bit now. Though, admittedly, point 4 can always get worse.