Also middle aged and my only real issue is how stupid everyone is

They don’t read. They don’t research. They don’t question… not in a “conspiracy theory” way, but they don’t see a headline and go, “is that true?”

They’re morons that feed off negativity.

They’ll post an article about something terrible but then I’ll look it up, find out it’s bullshit, and then post the data that shows it’s bullshit and instead of everybody being like, “oh thank God, I was worried there for a second” they go, “Fuck you. Obviously everything is shitty and how dare you even try to point out that it’s not”

What the fuck is wrong with people these days?

It can

I don’t run a nature magazine, AI will do just fine for my Azure profile picture

He’s literally talking about the distant future of mankind where we’ve colonized other planets

You guys really think he just walked into a room and completely unprompted and with zero context to any kind of previous conversation told someone in the media he wanted a trillion humans and then left?

It never occurred to you that this was probably in context of a larger conversation and that maybe you should go look that conversation up before you form an opinion?

She’s probably mad AI can take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional and I no longer need her

I wouldn’t mind paying someone like her if it was reasonable. It’s not reasonable, so I don’t hire her. I still need photos though. AI can do it for free? OK.

he was literally on a podcast talking about Blue Origin and a distant future where humans have colonized multiple planets

According to flat earth supporters, if the earth were moving in any way at all you would feel it. Since we don’t feel any motion obviously the earth is stationary

I’m part of some flat earth debate groups because I like physics… they’re real

Mostly it’s a religious thing. These people you have to just ignore because you can take them to space and push them out into the void of space with no helmet so they could see the round spinning earth with their own eyes and the last thought that would go through their brain before they froze in the vacuum of space would be, “the devil has taken control of my vision”

I’d guess the 2nd most popular group of flat-earth supporters are just weird-o conspiracy people. The government lies about everything and since NASA is a government agency it too must be lying.

Then you got the people who are dumb and know they’re dumb but after a lifetime of being called dumb have convinced themselves that they’re actually the smartest person in the room and the only reason everyone thinks they’re dumb is because everyone else is too dumb to understand their genius. These people think they know everything about physics but the shit they say just showcases their complete inability to understand even the most simple concepts

And then you just have people who just don’t know any better. Like maybe it’ll be a guy who’s profile picture is him with some goats in a small village in Africa. He’s well meaning but he knows nothing about relativity or gravity because he never really went to school and the education he did get was just from some other person in his village doing their best. You don’t really need to understand relativity to survive in the deserts of Africa and so it’s not well understood out there. This man walks 50 miles a day and has never seen a mountain in his entire life. All he’s ever known is flat lands and dirt. Then one day he travels to a near-by village with electricity and gets on the internet only to see a bunch of crazy white people talking about how water sticks to a spinning dirt ball in space and he laughs. Silly city-people, they don’t know shit.

McDonalds sells hamburgers for $7

I can beat that. Let me sell you a hamburger for $1

Capitalism approves… the government does not

I’m not allowed to sell you a hamburger. Not without a permit, and an inspection, and a place designated as a business to sell that hamburger from. What, you think you can just cook a hamburger on a grill and sell it to someone?

So I get a business license, find a place of business, get my permits, get my inspection, and open the doors… except all that cost money so I have a $12k loan and a building that costs $3k a month and I still need electricity, water, and wifi. Once all that is paid for I still need to earn enough money that I can go home and pay my own bills and survive

At $1 a hamburger, I’ll never sell enough hamburgers to survive so I have to raise the price. My hamburgers are now $9

McDonalds knows this. They got a stranglehold on the market and while anybody could technically compete and that competition is suppose to keep product quality high and prices low people can’t actually compete

Now McDonalds can make their burgers smaller, the quality worse, and jack up the price… what are you going to do about it?

You think Wendys will save you? Burger King? Nah, they do the same thing

Now apply this to literally everything. Clothes, washing machines, dish washers, etc… I guess in theory I could make a better TV that doesn’t come with a bunch of bullshit advertisements built into it and sell it to you for less, but the government won’t let me

That’s why I think they’re all 15. They literally have zero idea of what AI is actually doing in the world and when I tried to explain it to them they told me I was lying

I have a kid so I’ve seen the Shorts on YouTube and a lot of them are “AI Slop”. It’s bad… like, real bad. If this is all I knew of AI, I’d think anyone who sees it as a useful tool is an idiot too

The biggest offenders are the videos that start with a wild concept. Like, “this woman dyed her hair using 13 gallons of pink hair dye! You’ll never believe how it turned out!”

But then the video is interrupted by AI Jesus or AI cats or something and the cats or Jesus beg you to like the video but also also if you love your mom you should subscribe and also if you love Jesus and your Mom (or you don’t want this cat to starve to death in the street and you love your mom), leave a comment telling Jesus or the Cat that you love them so they’ll know you care

And then it finally goes back to the woman who dyed or hair or whatever, but it’s barely a second long, and it’s just like, “her hair was pink” and the video ends.

So 99% of the video is badly animated AI Jesus with a bad AI voice begging you to like the video or else you’ll go to hell and the remaining 1% is, “this woman dyed her hair with 13 gallons of pink hair dye. You’ll never believe how it turned out! Her hair was pink”.

The ones I really hate though is when somebody takes an existing short (maybe of somebody cleaning a dirty rug) and they have AI write a song about it and they play the AI song on top of a video someone else made

The songs are always awful and they always end the same way, “but they were sad because they didn’t get any likes”

It’s bad… and it use to not be this way. Shorts use to be quick game tips or quick montage footage of what to expect on the full channel. But after AI blew up it’s almost all this AI slop with shitty AI Jesus or whatever.

And so if I were a tween who spent my lunch break watching TikTock and this is what I saw, this is what I knew of AI, of course I’d hate it. How could anyone defend that trash? That’s what we’re sucking up all the water for? But they also think it’s a trend. That eventually these videos will stop getting likes and when that happens people will stop making them and AI will go away

It won’t though, AI is here to stay

I should also be able to walk through the worst parts of Compton as an out-of-town white man by myself with a 10k necklace on and not be worried I’ll get robbed and shot

But also I need to take responsibility for my own actions and not make bad choices

Is it victim blaming to call me stupid when I get robbed? Probably

Was it stupid of me to walk through the worst parts of Compton by myself as an out-of-town white man with a 10k necklace on? Also yes

You can wish in one hand for a perfect world where you can work an easy job taking orders at McDonalds and make enough money to buy a 5 bedroom house in a good neighborhood with a decent yard and have enough left over to raise 3 kids and take a vacation ever year while treating yourself to daily high-quality coffee and fancy snacks…

or

You can climb down from the fantasy world in the sky and join the rest of us here in reality and realize that if you want to move out of your moms house you’re going to need money and the only way to have lots of money is to figure out how to save as much money as you can

it doesn’t matter if you like it; that’s how it is

I think most of them are 15 year old kids whos experience with AI is what they see on TikTock

Bad AI videos, bad AI voices, bad AI art and music; that eventually these types of videos will stop getting views and the whole AI think will die

What they don’t know or understand is that this is the side effect of AI, not the driving force or even it’s primary use

In reality AI has infiltrated most businesses and is very quickly, if not already, an integral part of daily business routines

I got banned from a sub for being a shill because the mods did not believe me when I told them we use AI to transcribe our morning meetings, make tasks on our kanban board, review code, run tests, and manager our build pipelines

I was told, “AI can’t do any of that” – huh?

You don’t know what you don’t know

Get out there, do something new, see what you learn

Really long term, Earth is doomed. Not Climate Change, the sun will literally die one day. If humanity is to survive, we need to leave Earth and eventually our solar system

Waiting until the sun is expanding to start working on this problem is a lot like the issues we have with climate change. “Not my problem” type of attitude.

In your defense, the time length between climate change and the death of the sun is beyond massive, but still, it’s the same kind of thinking. You don’t need to leave Earth today and while people in the future probably will for any number of reasons, so what, let them figure it out, right?

We’re humans, this is what we do… we explore. Lets go

Lets say music literally kills the art of playing music instruments. It won’t, but lets pretend it does

So?

Really think about that. Music isn’t gone, people just don’t play instruments to make it anymore

OK, and?

my experience is that lemmy users are actually worse than reddit users, but there are less people here so you don’t have to put up with as much stupid shit

I think the average reddit users is like 30, where the average lemmy user seems to be 15

That being said, I can stand to come here once every couple of days and browse for 15 minute

I rarely see anybody say anything of any intelligence while I’m here as it’s just more of the same doomer bullshit I’d find everywhere else, but it’s like 6 people saying it here instead of 1,000 saying it there

IF you take that advice literally you’ll never be able to buy a house because you head the words but you didn’t understand the message

The message is to not waste money of frugal things you don’t actually NEED. Every dollar counts a pennies a day can add up to a lot over some years.

It’s to tell you to track your spending and see how much you waste on things you don’t need and to analyze how you can save more

Also, don’t just save it, invest it somehow if you can. This what banks are for. Go there, talk to a financial expert.

Houses are stupid expensive, that’s true… but it’s also true that you probably waste money. If you waste money, even if house prices drop, you still won’t be able to afford one

Normal people don’t use VS Code either… what’s a silly article

I don’t use a scalpel… so I guess scalpels are stupid and Surgeons are idiots?

I’m not rioting for bread, I’m rioting to tear down a broken system

If I want bread, I’ll just steal it. I don’t have to burn down Target to steal bread now, why would that change?

I do need to remind the people in charge who they work for though… and if they’re not willing to share what they have, then I’ll take it from THEM. If they’re not willing to get rid of their shit to save the environment then I’ll get rid of it for THEM

I don’t want to steal a TV from Target, I want to steal the TVs from the CEO who decided bread costs $7

I tell people all of the time

“I won’t throw the first brick, but when the bricks start flying give me a call”

The thing that broke me wasn’t data centers or hot weather, it was when I had to pay $7 for hot dog buns

The business men who put a $7 price tag on hot dog buns during the 4th of July are not nearly as afraid of the public as they should be.

It’s fucking bread. Bread!

When stealing bread to feed your family is almost a felony… burn it down.

Problem is, if it happened, you would need to choose your targets wisely for it to be effective. Looting a Target isn’t the answer. The point is not to get yourself a new TV; it’s to advocate for real change. Don’t burn down your own place of business, don’t burn down your own neighborhood… burn theirs

Find the motherfuckers in the Epstein Files, sink yachts, tear down the walls surrounding billionaire neighborhoods, etc…

yeah.

I made a comment in a match thread and got the alert on the little bell icon that usually means somebody responded

But instead of a response it was an auto-message that said my comment had been removed because my account is too new and doesn’t have enough Karma to post. But this auto-message also said something like, “message the mods here” and then had a link I could click to message the mods of the World Cup sub, so that’s what I did

And all I was doing was explaining that I’m not a bot and I’ll take a picture or whatever to prove it, I’m just a dude who signed up for reddit that day just to post in the world cup match threads. That waiting days before being allowed to post isn’t the end of the world but considering the World Cup is a limited-time event, not allowing me to post for days would mean I wouldn’t be able to post in match threads for 12 or 13 of the games (at that point there were 3 or 4 a day)

So I was just asking if they could lift my ban considering the circumstances

But they came back and questioned why I had no posted anywhere else on reddit.

So I told them, “I don’t really like reddit. I don’t have any interest in posting anywhere else. I’m literally only here for the World Cup match threads”.

And I guess me telling them that reddit sucks was a trigger because the response I got back after that was super nasty

It wasn’t until later did I think, “I be the World Cup sub is a sub created by reddit admins themselves because of it’s popularity. So I bet the mods of that sub are people who work for reddit. And I just told reddit employees I think their site sucks shit, hence the nasty response”

It’s just a bit ironic because it was their chance to change my mind and prove that reddit doesn’t suck. Instead they banned my entire account and just kind of proved to me that everything bad I think about their site is not only true but actually much, much worse

I got banned for making an account just to post in the World Cup threads but the sub wouldn’t let me post because my account needed to be older and have a certain amount of karma

This “you can’t post message” came with a note saying I could message a mod and then a link to click to do just that, so I did

I explained I wasn’t a bot, I was a human, I’d prove it however they wanted, but I couldn’t really wait days to post because the World Cup is happening now and in 3 or 4 days I’d miss like 12 games

They responded saying that I had zero karma and had not made any posts…

So I replied that yeah, this is exactly true because I don’t like reddit I only signed up to post in the World Cup Match threads

I received a very nasty reply where they told me that reddit was super popular with millions of users and that it wasn’t their problem I didn’t like reddit and then my account got banned

I believe the World Cup is super popular and so it’s not just a random sub ran by random people in the world… but a sub made by reddit and moderated by reddit employees. So I just told a reddit employee I hate their site and so they banned me

It’s a pretty shit site