Pegging, of course.

I don’t think this kind of meme really does anything good.

I don’t give fuck about Kirk and if you look, neither do conservatives including his ex wife.

What they managed to do is to weaponized his death toward their advantage, spreading pictures of him dying makes someone who didn’t know what he was preaching, disgusted. I think this kind of memes help this.

I personally like the ones which says that it was congratulating him on not saying anything hateful for a year, but frankly I would just love of he would move into obscurity, which is what he deserves.

There’s something about getting older one gets more gullible.

Majority of the outraged people on Facebook are boomers, scammers love to target seniors, it seems like 40+ is the filter they use for targeting.

Like it or not, as we are getting older we are getting less sharp.

I understand what you are writing, but I also see a very valid point of OP.

Participating on those platforms is endorsing what they stand for. This is especially bad because celebrities still using those platforms keeping other people attached to them.

Bands existed long before Facebook and people still were able to find information about them.

Today they also have their websites and can have users subscribe to their mailing lists with updates, and they would have full control of that platform so there would be no Zuckebergs changing their account name for example.

That definitively is a negative side effect.

Though imagine you have a chat bot that is very convincing, it doesn’t always say the truth but you can control what it will say.

What do you think is best use case for this, and does it have something to do with Western countries changing public opinion toward authoritarianism?

This is a very powerful tool to manipulate public opinion, imagine having a tool and a social network that can manipulate public opinion to get politicians that you back to win, to get laws passed. How valuable such tool is.

Have you wondered why they wanted to put 10 year moratorium on states being able to regulate it?

The age verification isn’t to check age, agree is r excuse they want to tie the account to you.

We’ve looked at alternatives for obvious reasons, but we’re still on discord. All the alternatives we looked at come with some compromises. Often they lack some critical feature of discord.

I’m no discord user so unlikely I will have an answer, but if you genuinely looking for help you should list what those critical features are (I mean the fact that those services don’t have these features means they weren’t critical for the devs that created them).

Ideally you could list service that was closest to what you want and the features that it was still missing.

What IRC server are you using?

IRC is older than World Wide Web, and unfortunately there wasn’t as much innovation over years.

It was designated for a live chat so thought of also storing history and replay it didn’t make sense then (the reasoning was that if you needed to send something that’s not live, why not use email?)

Though people come up with own adhoc solutions like for example mentioned bouncer, some networks also had memo service where you could leave a message and there were also bots storing channel’s log.

If features like these are important to you, I didn’t think you will be happy with IRC, adding them would require rearchitecting the whole thing.

You can see for example slack doing it (it is heavily influenced by IRC although it evolved so much that maybe that is less visible now)

I didn’t have a chance to play with it yet, but I heard Matrix could be the successor to IRC.

Nothing against IRC, I spent years on it and loved it, but it isn’t great if important features for you are things like chat history when you were offline, embedding pictures in chat, threads, audio/video chat etc

The things where IRC still rules is: simplicity, very low resource requirements, and no accounts need, just pick a nick and you are in (this is also why keeping history for each user is so hard to add, when servers didn’t really handle accounts.)

Shows Greenland’s real size?

trump thinks it’s the same size as the entire US.

The new map projection makes land close to equator bigger and land closer to the north and south poles smaller.

Anyone who is not living under a rock knows what is happening and those who still approve genocide don’t give damn they are getting bigger.

That’s a different thing though. It is driven by marketing people, they want each iteration look different to give people impression that they aren’t purchasing the same product every year.

Apple does that too for example each release of their phones has a bit different look.

Did you guys designate your seconds yet?

Speaking of economic constraints, we might soon see ourselves not being able to afford it. Not just because of the AI data centers but also geopolitical changes that are happening now.

The main thing I remember about Tim Cook was him making me realize how wealthy white cisgender gay men were hardly different from wealthy white cisgender straight men.

Same with Bessent, or maybe even worse.

They want us to flight because of color, gender, sexual orientation etc. so we don’t notice that the real war is a class war.

It’s sad that so many people still don’t see this.

I heard they are hiding behind explanation that their maps update data automatically from USGIS databases, though that is lame explanation as they can easily override it, like MapQuest did.

When he was changing name of Gulf of Mexico they didn’t have problem to make it show only four US audience.

You have low standards if you think Apple products are perfect.

True, I mean just for heating using engine is cheaper.

All of those companies are trying to fuck us over. Purchasing from any of them right now is expressing consent.

If you want things to change show some self control or go to piracy if you really can’t.

The only company (with two exceptions) that I actually paid for games is GOG. Exactly because they don’t include DRM and also provide offline version of their games.

Leasing to unnecessary procedures and costs is probably the reason why dental offices would be interested, lol.

Though to clarify, did dental offices started using LLMs?

The things is that LLM and to a lesser degree other generative AI (generating pictures, music, videos) are the things that generated current hype and they have the hallucination issue.

The traditional AI that we had for years like image recognition, or solving specific problems (for example driving a car), machine learning (back then we were more humble and that name was used to emphasize that it doesn’t actually think) etc those things are as they used to be and they don’t have this specific hallucination issue. The hallucination is really problem of the LLMs, but looks like now people call everything AI, which technically is not wrong (even things that we take for granted like GPS navigation or speech recognition are AI), but that help LLM obscure itself with other intentions.

I actually hope dentists use the old proven image recognition not asking chatgpt which is a chat bot that also incorporates other technologies to make it look better than it actually is.