• 0 Posts
  • 227 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 1st, 2023

help-circle


  • Some More News had the right take on this: all these companies just dumped (either in investment or development) (hundreds of) billions of dollars into AI development.

    The problem is, we’re still 10-15 years away from AI being actually useful in gadgets and stuff. But these companies want to get paid now, so they’re shoving the cheapest, shittiest “functional” AI onto the market just to try and recoup some losses. And it’s painfully apparent it isn’t working.







  • Not only that but I haven’t seen a single actionable demand by the advertisements for this campaign. It’s a hollow, confused threat that simply doesn’t make sense.

    Ironically I haven’t spent money anywhere today but that’s just because I spend most of my life trying not to pay giant chain retailers.

    If someone wanted this campaign to work they would have united the whole thing under a banner or a brand, declared that this was not the first protest they would be staging, say something like: “this is only a threat, if companies don’t do X in 3 months we will organize a week-long blackout. Then if they don’t do anything after that week-long blackout we’ll do another one for two weeks or a month.”

    That makes sense. That’s negotiation and it’s how you demonstrate the power the people hold.

    The X should be something policy-based and actionable. It can be a huge sweeping demand but it has to be actionable. It should not be a laundry list of long term demands. Then, when you get that first demand met you can delay action and keep pushing later since you’ve proven the tactics work.

    Compare that to what this protest is doing. It’s pretty far-cry.


  • Donkter@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldLife Goes On
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    21 days ago

    Part of the issue I have is that what you’re saying is technically correct (the best kind). But I think it’s only right for a very small amount of people. It feels good to say that you just want to recognize that there are people who can’t do it, but saying that in this type of discussion gives that demographic the feeling of equivalent weight when they’re a very small portion comparatively and gives the false impression that there are enough people who straight up can’t do it that anyone reading that can just assume they fall into that category and never try. Most people can change or turn their life around, there’s just a culture of patting each other on the back and saying “not everyone can do it”.

    I think part of that also comes from something else you said: “I just want to recognize that as trying so hard to get that perfect life turnaround is like winning the lottery”. The culture I mentioned comes from this binary attitude of deciding either you’re going to go all the way and get that perfect life or you’re just one of the unlucky ones who shouldn’t try. But turning your life around can happen in so many positive ways that don’t include getting a perfect life.






  • Idk, it seems worse that he’s self aware. Before it could be dumping these women because he gets some “ick” about them that he can’t explain. It turns out the ick is a deeply misogynistic fetishization of youth, but if he didn’t put any thought into it at least you could say he’s a toxic product of his culture.

    If he’s aware of it then it’s something he could be working on and changing and he instead makes the active choice not to do anything about it.






  • I mean, you still “cussed”. Switching two letters around doesn’t change the meaning and the original word doesn’t hold any special powers.

    I agree it’s not much to make a reply about.

    I think the attitude stems from the view that using placeholder words for swear words is often associated with religious/puritanical attitudes since there’s not really a reason to do it so the user reacts as they would to puritanical people invading their community i.e. hostile.

    I think that’s not as true today but that’s where the backlash comes from.