Behind The Bastards made a very interesting observation:

In almost every society, the rich and/or powerful get so used to not being bound by the law, that they effectively push themselves to break more laws to see what they can get away with. It inevitably ends with them being pedophiles.

Robert Evans has said that he doesn’t know if powerful people are actually pedophiles or if they are simply drawn to the power that they can become pedophiles without any consequences. But he also says it’s a difference without a distinction.

This almost seems like a canary. If an AI bot pulls the code and submits a PR, the meow would be and indicator that AI was used.

Aubrey Plaza had the brand that she was this independent and couldn’t give a fuck progressive chick. And then she did a milk propaganda campaign and her reputation took a hard dive.

Look, I get everyone needs to get paid. But it’s not like milk needed another spokesperson. This was on the same level as Terry Crews doing an Amazon commercial on the heels of them denying unionization at a warehouse.

I lost a lot of respect for her after this commercial.

I hate when companies do this at conventions.

A few times I approached a booth because I heard some good things about them. More often than not it’s an attractive woman who stands there all bubbly to attract engineers. I ask technical questions about the product because I assume that this person wearing the company’s shirt that they actually know something. But then they shepard me to toward the technical staff who are exactly who you expect them to be.

One time this happened I asked them why they aren’t at the front talking to people and they said their managers wanted someone who could pull people in. I figured out then that the eye candy weren’t even employees at the company.

OF, like anything connected with capitalism, suffers from the same motivation: extract as much value for as little effort as possible.

Unless the model is truly, 100% wanting the life associated with OF (they exist but are rare), they gonna capitalism.

I have made friends with a handful of OF models (met them completely outside OF and found out that’s what they do) and they hate the grind but they have to. Their competition is every other model and porn site so they have to be personal.

Honestly, it’s probably one of the few industries where men are paid less than women.

I looked into the porn industry during the pandemic and it’s wild, pun intended. Some companies are legit and super concerned about consent and paying people well but others are not (i.e. girlsdoporn). Some production companies are super progressive while others are normal capitalistic ventures with shitty values.

Even individual models (e.g. onlyfans models) can be deceiving. Some are “real” in the sense it’s the real model interacting with you while others hire third-world companies to manage their sites. (Aside: be careful not to form parasocial relationships with OF models.)

Alt-Right Playbook: Never Play Defense

I pitched the idea of an AI clock at a meeting once. Basically you ask what time it is and the AI checks it’s LLM and then confidently tells you the time it thinks.

Now, do you believe it?

Take it a step further and have AI set meetings for you or tell you what is on your calendar.

Do you trust it or do you check your calendar?

The amount of trust we are putting into a machine that is effectively a probability script is mind boggling.

People keep telling me “That’s not how you’re supposed to use it.”

And I keep having to remind them, “But that’s how it works.”

If the goal is to reduce speeding, road design plays more of a factor more than cameras.

A fine means that it’s a revenue grab.

Vince Gilligan was born in Richmond!

Depends on the purpose of the safe.

I have a fire safe for all my important documents (life insurance, will, birth certificate, etc).

It has a nice handle so I can move it if I need to.

So yeah…like prison labor, it’s a symptom of late stage capitalism.

Overseas sweat shops “benefit” from currency imbalance where the US dollar, British pound, etc all go farther. So a kid at a Bangladesh sewing factory might be getting paid a dollar a day but that’s enough to pay for several days worth of meals.

The problem here is capitalism and I’m not saying that slavery is good. It sucks all around.

So yeah…like prison labor, it’s a symptom of late stage capitalism.

Overseas sweat shops “benefit” from currency imbalance where the US dollar, British pound, etc all go farther. So a kid at a Bangladesh sewing factory might be getting paid a dollar a day but that’s enough to pay for several days worth of meals.

The problem here is capitalism and I’m not saying that slavery is good. It sucks all around.

I agree with your vibe, especially supporting local craftsmen. But buying American a bit more complicated than looking for the “Made in the USA” sticker.

Some “made in the USA” stuff is prison labor. These companies are profiting off of prisoners. It’s better than slave/child labor overseas but it sucks all around.

Another aspect is that politics around the “Made in the USA” are merky. Final assembly can occur here in the US but it doesn’t mean that it was “made” here.

I went into a deep dive a few years back and found that because of various loopholes, American branded cars are often made in Mexico and then “finished” in the US whereas most foreign brands are assembled in the US.

All of this to say: until we escape late stage capitalism, it’s hard to know for sure how to best support Americans.

Phew. I thought it would be all day.

It’s in my contacts so Gboard brings it up as a suggestion after writing the.

I use thepresident@whitehouse.gov. The only website I’ve found that won’t take this address is quiznos wifi

I find nothing wrong with stealing features from Reddit. Lemmy is a link aggregator, like Reddit.

Shadow banning shouldn’t be used on humans who are annoying but would for spammers.

Unhelpful bots should be shadow banned if they keep evading bans

I mean it’s literally machine learning. Every time it’s blocked it learns that it was detected as human and then tries again.

Lemmy needs a shadow ban function for these accounts

• Obama got elected in 2008
• the common abbreviation for the year 08
• Obama is the first black President
• 08 - 1 = 7
• average horse has 7 horsepower

Source: Math