I know it may be hard to believe if you only browse Lemmy (like myself), but the average person actually likes these so-called “AI” tools or at least a significant amount of them do.

This is probably true but makes me sad. I tell all my friends not to use the lie machines but a bunch of people at work use them all the time.

I don’t think there’s any evidence that AI needs to be baked into the browser. They have a robust extension ecosystem for this sort of thing.

They don’t think. They feel. They’re little better than toddlers. You wouldn’t ask a child how their blanket is going to protect them from ghosts.

Microsoft doesn’t have to compete very much. They’re not a monopoly, probably, but a strict definition. Apple exists. Linux exists and is better than the terminal hell the average person thinks about. But that’s not enough pressure to make microsoft actually try to appeal to customers. Most people are basically stuck.

We should break up all of these companies that are so big they can coast with shitty products for years.

Really want the news media to stop quoting and normalizing trump voters. They are idiots. I don’t want to hear what they have to say. Unless it’s a clear “I was wrong and will never vote conservative again”, I’d rather all the space be given to people who are more worth listening to.

No system will long survive players acting in bad faith. There’s no system you can come up with that is immune to conservatives and capitalists fucking with it. It might take them years, but they will never stop. They are the worst people on earth. If you could thanos-snap away conservatives, the world would become a better place overnight. Every problem we’re facing is either their fault, or made worse by them.

And we’re never going to get rid of conservatives. There are always going to be shitty humans who believe their in-group needs to be protected and the out-group needs to be bound. Shitty, scared, little shit bags that will blame brown people or queers or whatever, anything, so they can think down familiar paths and avoid any hard introspection.

So I don’t know. You don’t stop building a home because the elements are always trying to tear it down. But you can’t punch the wind in the fucking throat so hard they cry and vomit at the same time, so maybe it’s not quite the same as a maga hat.

How will it reduce demand for parking? Do you envision the car will drop someone off and then drive away until it finds a parking spot that’s farther than the person would want to walk?

That sounds like a very hard problem , and people wouldn’t be happy waiting 5-10 minutes for their car to navigate back to them. Or it would just cruise around looking for parking, causing more traffic.

Cars could tailgate like virtual train cars following each other at highway speeds with very little separation, lanes could be narrowed to fit more cars side by side in traffic, etc.

Once again reinventing buses and trains

It took like 100 years to build the car-hell we have now. It’s going to take a lot of time and effort to fix it.

And people are, famously, stupid. They’ll fight like hell to avoid change, but once it’s in they’ll fight like hell to keep that change.

Plus there’s a lot of selfish idiots that need to be overridden.

So leave that problem for later. Let them keep driving themselves, and focus on improvements where people actually live.

Most people live in or close to cities.

You have to be careful at low skill/knowledge levels, because it’ll happily send you down a crazy path that looks legitimate.

I asked it how to do something in oracle SQL, because I don’t know oracle specifically, and it gave me a terrible answer. I suspected it wasn’t right so I asked a coworker who’s an old hand at Oracle, and he was like “no that’s terrible. Here’s a much simpler way”

I found it’s useful for code where I know like 70% of what I’m doing. More than that and I can just do it myself. Less than that and I can’t trust and diagnose the output.

I’d rather have old fashioned stack overflow and tutorials, honestly. It’s hard to actually learn when it just gives answers.

I don’t have the means or motivation to do research now from the couch, so I’ll concede you may be correct. However, I think it might be even safer to take those same billions of dollars and invest them in mass transit and other infrastructure changes. That would mean fewer car accidents, less pollution, nicer spaces, healthier people, healthier economies, etc. private car ownership cannot be the long term solution. If it’s not an outright dead end, it’s certainly a side street instead of high speed rail (if you’ll pardon a strained metaphor).

Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.

Why are they a great idea? What are they making better? How is it worth the real and opportunity costs?

To be clear, I didn’t insist we run women candidates anyway. That’s a tactical decision I don’t feel qualified to make from the toilet where I make Lemmy posts.

I just want us to agree that those 30% of men or whatever are trash. Because they are trash. Trash that votes, but still trash.

(And not irredeemable - many things that end up in the trash can be fixed or repurposed. People are not immutable.)

Some men will simply not vote for a woman, it’s sad, but it’s reality.

Can we all agree that those men are trash? I don’t care what else they’ve got going on, if they refuse to vote for a woman because she’s a woman, they deserve to go into the dumpster.

I’m so sick of all these sacks of shit making the world worse

Self driving cars have always been a stupid solution to the wrong problem.

We shouldn’t be investing billions in them. We should be investing billions in creating livable spaces that don’t need cars so much. Then people will be happier and there will be less pollution.

But I guess that’s not profitable so I guess we’ll just do idiotic garbage that gets people killed.

I didn’t think anyone liked Vance. But I guess there are a lot of sexists and Republican cultists out there.

It’s hard to explain a real plan when most people are only semi literate, with no attention span, and no real knowledge of how government works.

What percentage of people believe the president writes laws, do you think?

Are .gov sources still legitimate? Are we sure this wasn’t written by rfk’s brain worm?

I comment. Reminds me of how I’d end up playing medic in tfc/tf2- someone has to do it.

I don’t post original stuff often, though.