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Daz1··on Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru
"capitalistic hellscape"

get a grip lmao

Daz1··on I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack
People don't actually care about answering this question, they just want to steal music and keep a 'clean' conscience.
Daz1··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
>Because cloud monetization was awful

Citation needed

Daz1··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
Do you like losing money?
Daz1··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
what a cringe comment
Daz1··on I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)
Phones come in dozens of different sizes too, what are you on about? TVs come in a greater range of sizes because they're designed for different viewing distances and room configurations. Phones don't have this variable, you hold them in your hand.
Daz1··on We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
Yes Trump and the capitalists are hiding the cure, you're right
Daz1··on Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight
Yes and also there is zero aesthetic thought put into japanese towns which is why they're so ugly, everything is functional
Daz1··on How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta
Why would I want to do this?
Daz1··on Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)
>You're selling yourself for free.

I get to avail myself of their product for free

Because "they" will attack you economically by psychologically targetting you with advertising for items you don't actually need, but they will manipulate you into thinking you do.

Meaningless buzzwords, nobody is being 'economically attacked'

>Because "they" create an electronic copy of you with all this data. With AI and other existing / future technologies they could create a version of you to populate their metaverse.

Slippery slope fallacy. Does not exist

>"They" sell the electronic copy of you, and this can be bought by anyone, including governments. If the government of the day (which may change - boy howdy) don't like things you say or how you conduct yourself (or re-define what fraud anbd corruption means), then they can target and harass you much more specifically when armed with all this extra information that's extracted from your electronic trails.

>Another slippery slope argument.

Daz1··on A Year of Telepathy
Severe case of MDS
Daz1··on Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
No I'm not mad at Meta, keep up the great work.
Daz1··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
>In 1960 the top tax rate was 91%

How many times does this need to be debunked?

Daz1··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
>Plenty of places have had catastrophic droughts, famines, and plagues. Nearly half of Europe died a few times from plagues. Most natives in America were absolutely wiped out from disease and other issues. Tens of millions died of famine in China last century. Tsunamis washed away and killed hundreds of thousands in Indonesia and Japan this current century.

Conveniently you selected pre-technology examples. How curious.

Meanwhile the impending global famine(s) - (plural) of the 20th century never came to be because captitalism kept pumping out agriscience improvements to improve crop yields to 10 times what they were in 1900.

Daz1··on How Japanese black companies oppress workers (2014)
this is mostly fantastical nonsense. I go home at 6pm everyday. go outside at 6pm and you will see businesspeople everywhere also on the commute home.

also it is nearly impossible to fire anyone in Japan for anything

Daz1··on New iMac with M4
>No way that any technologically competent person can claim that the iPhone 16 is a massive and amazing improvement over the iPhone 15.

Kicking off with a logical fallacy, strong start.

>There is "change", sure - the chip is now every so slightly faster, it can do "AI things", it can take slightly better photos, etc.

Just say you're technologically uninformed.

>But any comparison of these changes with the previous model for an average use case

Kathy using Instagram while she waits in line at the supermarket is not a useful point of comparison when we're comparing iterative improvements, keep up.

>Apple could have easily skipped releasing a new model this year, packaged exactly the same hardware and released the iPhone 16 the next year and fundamentally nothing would've changed.

What an absolutely ridiculous statement.

>But the shareholders won't like that, will they?

Low IQ statement.

Daz1··on New iMac with M4
>There is very little change from one iPhone to the next

Visually, sure. Under the hood? Wrong.

>The business model is built on a revolving demand cycle that is unrelated to long term thinking, maintainability, efficiency, nor sustainability.

Sorry you need to qualify this statement. An iPhone 6S is still completely usable and almost certain to be in a functional condition assuming it has been looked after correctly. That's a 8-9 year old phone. Meanwhile my 2001 phone was hopelessly outdated e-waste in 2007.

Daz1··on New iMac with M4
Literally every comment is nerds complaining
Daz1··on New iMac with M4
They are built to last. I'm typing this comment on a 2015 MacBook Pro.
Daz1··on New iMac with M4
They can't correct for low IQ unfortunately
Daz1··on New iMac with M4
Why did you stupidly buy a product you KNEW would eventually land you in this situation?
Daz1··on New iMac with M4
Define "consumerism"
Daz1··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
Sounds like a skill issue on your part
Daz1··on Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations
>I thought it was common knowledge that it was impossible to tell whether text was generated by AI.

Anyone who's been around AI generated content for more than five minutes can tell you what's legitimate and what isn't.

For example this: https://www.maersk.com/logistics-explained/transportation-an... is obviously an AI article.

Daz1··on Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
"Content warning: This blog post references domestic abuse and violence but doesn’t go into specific detail.

I’m not an expert in that topic at all, so I may not use the preferred terminology in all instances. Sorry."

What the hell is this?

Daz1··on Is the attack helicopter dead?
Not related to the 'meat wave' myth I hope
Daz1··on Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
> your business shouldn't exist. What kind of take is this?

Your take was worse

Daz1··on Australian employees now have the right to ignore work emails, calls after hours
Something which would materially affect the businesses ability to continue as a going concern?
Daz1··on Missing Henry VIII portrait found after random X post
No? I have an Edo-era plate I bought from an antique store in Japan which I then gave to my mother. Did I steal it from Japan? If someone did the same thing 200 years ago then put it in a British museum is it a stolen item? Is my mother in possession of stolen goods?
Daz1··on LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear
All you need to do is look at Samsungs abysmal reputation for refrigerators to see my point in action.
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