As an American, I hope Canada just tells Trump to get fucked and gives him nothing. Make us suffer. Leave absolutely no room for argument that Trump’s tariffs are in any way beneficial. Come back to the table when we have a reasonable president and negotiate then.

You could be the proud owner of a slightly smaller than average hotel room for only £155,000!

I strongly suspect the people doing this would much rather be going after Elon and DOGE directly, but it’s an issue of access or security, so they’re doing this as the next best thing.

It’s heartening, really, that this is happening. It strongly signals an appetite for more targeted anti-government action.

I wouldn’t trust that blowjob. That beak looks sharp.

fancy version of piano

The organ? Or did the church you visited have something else?

You’d do very well on a few game shows, too!

This certainly seems like the best out of these options. Start a gravel company. Infinite stock. If you can just create it out of nothing at the location of your choosing, you don’t even have to pay for trucks, which I imagine is probably a greater cost in the gravel industry than the gravel itself.

It’s got to be one of:

• He’s just stupid. Maybe his ego requires him to stay in the spotlight, and with Elon getting a lot of media attention, he feels he has to do absurd shit just to get attention. Like a toddler throwing a fit when their parents are talking to other adults.
• He’s actively trying to sabotage the country, probably as part of a quid pro quo with Putin for helping him win the election.
• It’s cognitive decline. He has no idea what’s going on anymore. Maybe he even thinks he’s doing something that benefits someone here. Who fucking knows

Whatever the situation, it’s increasingly dangerous to have him as president, and the damage he’s dealing is going to outlast his presidency.

I’d much rather someone who actually needs the money enough to pick up small change takes them rather than for them to just sit there. If someone’s desperate enough to fish coins out of a fountain for a few dollars, they can absolutely have them.

This reads more like a joking copypasta than an actual post from a political representative.

If you send an important email, text, whatever and do not get a reply for hours you know that at least today that person is not being attentive to work

This might be industry specific, but for me it’s the exact opposite. If I respond to emails or slack messages immediately, it’s probably because I don’t have anything important that I’m working on, or that I’m just browsing Lemmy or something. If it takes me an hour to respond, it’s because I was head-down on something and didn’t want the interruption by changing focus to something different.

I’m convinced that the problem with AI isn’t its existence or uses, it’s just that we don’t have UBI to go along with it. It’s the obvious step, but we’re skipping it because capitalism. I don’t think anyone would care if all of the menial jobs were done by AI, as long as they didn’t need those jobs for basic necessities.

Is that actually what this is about, though? The article specifically says:

Prime Video will begin offering AI-aided dubbing on licensed movies and series that would not have been dubbed otherwise.

Obviously they might be misrepresenting the situation, but it doesn’t sound like “They were previously having employees do this and are switching to using AI”; it sounds like “This was not previously being done at all and is now being done by AI”.

There’s a few choice people who I wouldn’t mind preserving it for, just for a little while, though there’s a more appropriate method than a firing squad, and they don’t live in Idaho.

Well, I’m sold!

I guess AI is really gonna replace a lot of people jobs by the end of 2025…

I’m kind of torn on this. On one hand, if this starts getting used instead of traditional dubbing with an actual translator, that sucks. I’m sure the quality won’t be as good, at least initially, and the whole “AI taking jobs” thing sucks. (If we had UBI, it wouldn’t be an issue at all, for the record.)

On the other hand, if it’s used to add dubs to shows that didn’t have them at all / would not have had them at all, that seems like a fine use for AI. I don’t know.

Yeah, that’s completely reasonable. Or mandate reductions on a fixed schedule, e.g. 50% of today’s numbers in 3 years, 0% in 6.

Somewhat different style, but there’s also Starsector!

Geez, I’d forgotten about that game. I spent an unreasonable amount of time playing those.

How much do you think extreme climate change is going to lower living standards globally?

If personal transport and home heating and whatnot were transitioned fully to green energy, and fossil fuels were used exclusively for large-scale shipping, it would be a huge net gain.