BREAKING NEWS: Guy who said he wanted to be a dictator and that you will never have to vote again intends to stay President for life.
mrmaplebar
joined 1 month ago
If they can afford to buy Trump gifts, they can afford to pay taxes.
Keep in mind that the President of Ireland is really a symbolic and ceremonial position with very little direct power, as it should be!
Putting aside my ethical and cultural issues with training generative AI for a second, I have no idea what the appeal of this stuff is as a product.
Like, if they want me to pay a monthly subscription, what do they expect me to do with it? I have zero interest in chatting to a computer that's not thinking and is just stringing together words based on probabilistic bias, and I have zero interest in making or consuming AI-generated media. I don't want an AI "girlfriend", nor do I want an AI to play a video game for me. Finally, I don't see the value in having an AI tell me things that it summarized from various internet sources when we all know that the chances of it "hallucinating" (aka: making shit up or generally being totally wrong) is extremely high and basically unavoidable.
So, aside from the basic novelty of talking to your computer, what the hell is the point of all this?
Personally I wouldn't pay $2/month for LLMs, let alone $200/month...
If the last decade has taught me anything, it's that the civil war never ended.
Many of today's Republicans would be perfectly happy to bring back slavery, but just like they wouldn't cop to Project 2025, they just don't feel that the overton window has shifted quite enough yet to be comfortable admitting it.
It's starting to get annoying waiting for Valve to announce a Steam Machine and having to listen to Microsoft's future Xbox-as-a-PC plans instead.
Once they start squealing, that's a bad sign.
- A competent government would see Ticketmaster and LiveNation as the effective trust/monopoly that they are, and break them up into multiple smaller, competing companies.
- To his credit, Biden passed executive action to ban bullshit "junk fees" that get tacked on to ticket prices (among other things). I'm honestly not sure what became of that rule once Trump got into power, but it is absolutely a rule that we need.
- We need like 50x more scrutiny on corporate mergers and collusion of corporate entities to jack up prices.
It's hard to know if GoT counts as "controversial" because it seems like everyone unanimously hated it.
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