I’ve been trying to live more by the first one since I’ve realized how easy and safe negativity is. Just be a jerkass cynic and you’ll never have to actually try and change something for the better. You’ll still be disappointed and bitter in the end, of course. It guarantees the worst outcomes but at least you won’t be hurt from trying.

I don’t get it either. If you don’t have the skill to do something you can always pay someone. That doesn’t make you the one with the skill though. If they did it for free then you still aren’t the one doing the thing. You’re just an ideas person. That’s not a bad thing but it usually is the easy part of any creative endeavor.

54 entries in about 2 months on the blue site. Yeah, that isn’t a lot.

There’s room for at least three more rows of flags, then it’ll look like those AI slop pictures of trucks on Zuckbook that other bots post AMEN under.

I’ve only learned to drive fairly recently so I still remember getting to the point where I’m sort of comfortable with manual shifting. There’s two ways of doing it (that I know of). The simple way: Put it in first gear, then very slowly let the clutch go, don’t touch any other pedal. You’ll find some point where it engages and the car starts creeping forward. A bit further an you’re out of the danger zone and can drive normally. Took me a bunch of tries but I’m reasonably fast with it now without fear of stalling the engine.

The other one is mostly the same idea, but you start accelerating pretty much right when it’s engaging, without really waiting for creep happening. I’ve actually found that easier on some cars, but it’s also a great way of creating interesting noises.

This coming from someone with what looks like the Chinese flag in their name is… interesting.

I just don’t believe what he’s writing, his whole career is built on lies and the other prison tweets seem like bullshit as well.

It, uh, like, can reserve a table for you in some restaurant? Maybe?

So-called AI partly relies on random outcomes, so no, it might not do what you tell it to do. Which is part of why it sucks so much.

Oh, he’s the one running Linkedin, now it makes sense why that site, of all places, has anti-AI features now. I hope the shareholders will have mercy with his soul.

Intensively obsessive fans with no respect for boundaries have existed for a long time, before the Internet. Ask the Beatles or the cast of the original Star Trek series. This is not a new phenomenon, this one just comes with a coat of extra slop.

That’s not going to make anything better though. You’ll just go down a path of addiction and self-destruction. Plus it’s expensive.

No no, these things are getting better in my opinion, in Germany/EU at least!

It’s starting to show its cracks (see Facebook), I’ll count that as getting better.

Older Millennial here, they are right, too bad people my age didn’t get the memo. Never understood, even back in school, why getting plastered is celebrated.

In no particular order, from where I am:

• Linux/FOSS
• Renewable energy
• Crime rates
• Consumer protection laws
• Furry cons
• Vegan & vegetarian products
• The AI bubble (slowly)
• Left-wing parties

I don’t expect it, but I’m also not going to be complicit in them getting worse. Lethargy and cynicism means you’ve already lost, which is what the assholes at the top want.

I aim to please 🐱

I thought Interstellar was about as good as 2001.

I so am not, they are both horrible.