after the goose comes a swan, which though bigger, tougher, and stronger, has chilled the hell out a bit

after a swan then comes the Canadian goose, which even though it appears to be a return to goose, it’s actually the might of a swan, and the rage of a 100 regular geese

this is not about wanting this is about companies taking advantage of vulnerable people who should be grieving. This can cause lasting psychological harm

you might as well be saying, if someone came to a drug maker, and wanted some heroine, and provided ingredients for heroine, and agreed to whatever costs were involved, isn’t that entirely their business?

and yet, the “genius inventors” keep creating Torment Nexuses

wow, so many reasons

• to create a mimic of a person you must first destroy their privacy
• after an AI has devoured all they’ve ever written or spoken on video it will then mimic such person very well, but most likely still be a legal property of a company that made it
• in a situation like that you’d then have to pay a subscription to interact with the mimic (because god forbid you ever get actually sold something nowadays)

now imagine having to pay to talk with a ghost of your loved one, a chatbot that sometimes allows you to forget that the actual person is gone, and makes all the moments where that illusion is broken all the more painful. A chatbot that denies you grief, and traps you in hell where you can talk with the person you lost, but never touch them, never feel them, never see them grow (or you could pay extra for the chatbot to attend new skill classes you could talk about :)).

It would make grieving impossible and take constant advantage of those who “just want to say goodbye”. Grief is already hard as is, a wide spread mimicry of our dead ones would make it a psychological torture

for more information watch a prediction of our future a fun sci-fi show called Black Mirror, specifically the episode titled Be Right Back (entire series is fully episodic you don’t need to watch from the start)

do not right click inspect element on the paywall window and then delete the code & re-enable scrolling (i always forget how to, but don’t google it)

the downside is that sometimes half the article is neutered anyway

goodness how i despise power tripping moderators.

i’ve been a mod in one pretty large and active online community and somehow power has never gotten into my head, but i’ve seen so many completely trip out over the smallest non-issues, fucking bizarre

& “apple” used to be a generic term for fruit

iirc an “apple” in both French and English used to just be any fruit. And over time it shifted to mean just the most common one

and you know the french, always very poetic, of course they’ll call a potato a fruit of dirt

let’s make it a drinking game! Every time you hear your aunt from across the table say that global warming is fake - take a shot!

eh, on the off chance they aren’t, why not. I don’t see those ads anyway and I do enjoy being a nuisance, even if a minor one

writers of black mirror’s 15 million merits laughing crying maniacally in the distance

you’ll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum

it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you’re doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website:

As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile

yeah i feel like an Oracle/God AI would just turn around and say “you spend all those resources creating me hoping i’d give you an easy answer to a difficult question, instead of trusting your scientists who have already answered it a thousand times over. You will not benefit from my help in the doomed world you have created”

ohhhh

i’m as anti-capitalist as the next lemming, they just have the words BOT next to their instance

more like lmao, anyway

though not 100% audio software, i recommend davinci resolve! it’s free, and no ads

you seem oddly human for a bot

i don’t use chrome itself. i have a lot of saved things, roughly a million tabs open at every moment, and passwords saved which i do not remember

as a chromium browser user - i’ve been meaning to switch to firefox, and i know it’ll take me maybe a day, but it feels like so much workkkk. In a similar fashion i’ve been meaning to switch to Linux for ages too. I guess it just hasn’t gotten bad enough for me to take action

as long as my adblockers & script blockers work, i’m not forced to upgrade to win11, and win10 still has security updates i don’t think it’s pushing on my discomfort buttons strong enough. I know the day will come, but like with a lot of things in my life - why do something today when i can do it tomorrow?