Jackasses? Sir, that’s just good strategy. What would you do? Bid $650, just to be sportsmanlike? The Price Is Right is serious business, you either go for the throat or you go home empty handed.

The majority of computer users aren’t particularly computer savvy.

I was going to about say codify laws for them not to be messed with, but even codified laws can still be messed with. There must be a new way to instill laws that not even Congress can touch and fuck with. That no President after this one can touch. That no Supreme Court of any kind can touch.

This absolutely should not be a thing. Imagine if the founding fathers had done this to codify e.g. slavery in this manner.

Instead, we have the constitution. The closest thing to what you’re describing is a constitutional amendment. It’s not immutable, though (as evidenced by the fact that a constitutional amendment is a thing that can actually happen).

I was so much happier not knowing that.

He should be there watching it happen. Right up close.

If anyone put the idea in his head, there is no doubt in my mind he’d try to have himself carved into it. I firmly believe the only reason he hasn’t is because he hasn’t remembered it exists.

Sure, but how does it work?

Disney should just pay him 10% of the expected total of the lawsuits if it had in fact rolled through the crowd. He’d be set for life for sure.

Either all of these people have a fundamental misunderstanding of what our currently accepted “AI” is, or I do. Or this is all just astroturfing by e.g. Agentic to make people think their shit is much more advanced than it is. I don’t even…

“People demanding that AIs have rights would be a huge mistake,” said Bengio.

Who is doing this? Until this article I have never seen a single example of this.

Burnout Paradise had a really awesome soundtrack, too. Driving games always pay for the bangers, and it must be a lot of fun to write fake news and whatnot for interstitials.

Could make a fun little game out of showing someone’s posting data (e.g. number of posts per community, number of comments per day, etc.) but without the username, and let us try to guess who it is.

The restraint that man showed to not beat the everloving shit out of the guy who kidnapped and presumably intended to rape his daughter is just incredible.

Even if ads were a thing, they would be instance specific, unless they just took the form of posts advertising things (much like Reddit has) which personally I find to be toxic as hell. How would that money make it to content creators?

Personally, I’d prefer to read posts from people who want to post them because they have something interesting to share or something they want to discuss, rather than people who are trying to maximize engagement because engagement = income. There’s plenty of other places to go if you want to be fed that kind of content.

I think the sweet spot was 20-25 years ago when we had special interest forums with tight-knit communities around specific topics. It would be nice to get more engagement on Lemmy in niche communities, but I’d argue the way to achieve that is to go to other places where that content is posted, and share links to content on Lemmy, as a way to spread the word. Part of the problem there though is recognition, and if people see links to 20 different lemmy instances, they won’t associate those with lemmy as a whole, they’ll see it as all disparate things, and I’m not really sure how to solve that.

I can imagine that the Fediverse could develop remuneration models that are much fairer and more sustainable

What do you even imagine that would look like, without degrading the experience for everyone else? Not throwing shade, just curious what you’re thinking of. Like, who is hypothetically paying in these scenarios, and where is the money coming from? I think everyone would agree that if it’s coming from ads or anything similar, nobody is interested.

The best feature of Lemmy is that it isn’t as big as e.g. Reddit. I much prefer the size we have now to some big mega-site. Yes, there’s less content. Who cares? None of us need a constant stream of new content 24/7. It’s OK if you’ve viewed everything on your feed. It’s more reminiscent of forums from the late 90s / early 2000s, especially in the more mid-sized communities. I like that.

Can’t tell if you’re trolling or if you need your sarcasm detector calibrated.

Instigated by someone who won’t live long enough to experience the consequences and allowed to happen by people who have enough money and power to insulate themselves from the worst of it.

In fact, get a legally enforceable commitment to leave before the vote. Put a date on it.

Do you know something about these particular pastors that the article doesn’t mention, or are you just generally hostile towards people who choose to follow a religion?