you’re probably an idiot. I know I am.
I think VR + generative AI is a clear pathway to Star Trek’s holodecks. Imagine being able to just say “I want to play a game I’ve never played before, in an Amazonian rainforest”, and then the AI renders the game and environment for you in VR. We’re genuinely very close to that reality.
Before we accept the *economic hardship" narrative, can somebody please let me know what their executive team is being paid?
Because I have a feeling they’d be feeling less “hardship” by reducing those numbers.
I answered this in another thread, so I’m just gonna copy and paste my answer here. Sorry if the context comes off slightly odd, like I said it was originally elsewhere:
I’ve thought about the topic and I think I can answer why there has been a rise in step-porn.
I think it’s pretty simple: people are more isolated, and people now socialize online.
We’re simply seeing less of each other than we ever have (especially during the pandemic, but this isn’t specific just to that timeline). Whereas we used to go out and socialize and develop crushes in the real world, for a lot of people, especially a lot of young men, these days the vast majority, if not all, of the non-online social interactions they’re having with the opposite sex are within their own homes. And while our brains may be adapting to this new internet landscape well enough, I think our bodies are still lagging behind. When you’re an 18 year with raging hormones, the sexual drive extends beyond the reasonable brain. And so it attaches to what your libido recognizes as the other sexually viable candidates regularly in your sphere of influence: the women inside your own home. And thus they develop crushes on their mothers, their siblings, their stepsiblings, and are turned on by pornography that lets them indulge in this taboo but still very real crush.
And to be clear, I am attempting to explain the phenomenon, I am not attempting to excuse or justify it. Incest is gross and faux/step-incest may be biologically better but is still pretty socially/culturally fucked.
I’m just glad I grew up in the 90s before our lives had moved so heavily online.
A- I like your wit.
B- I really appreciate this comment because it taught me that if somebody edits their comment Lemmy will also retroactively change the comment notification to the edited text as well (when I saw it originally it was before your edit so the message said “I am an internet person” but now shows your Zuck joke)
@labbbb
Are you a person or a bot?
Has your boss ever said something to you to the effect of “Hey I know you already clocked out but you forgot to do ___; can you knock that out for me real fast before you go home?”
If so, you’ve been the victim of wage theft. Wage theft isn’t not making the whole sum of the value you bring in to the company, it’s not getting any portion of the sum for which you are legally and ethically entitled to.
It depends, largely on your opinion on and experience with Linux.
See it’s funny because we name things after other things
Of course then it won’t be long until TP companies triple their prices to compensate for this long on their end, but that’s the fun thing about capitalism: given enough time, everyone can lose!
You say that but I feel like we’re only a couple years from seeing automated TP dispensers that dole out tightly-rationed squares.
Won’t that mean everyone is walking around with shitty assholes, you might ask… And yes, yes I think it will. Which would make it sound impossible, until I tell you that corporations could reduce TP costs and improve their profits by 0.0001%; now it practically sounds like a shareholder mandate!
I refuse to acknowledge shaven Riker. Bearded Riker is the only truth
Just save the post with the save tag and check back, I guess
It’s okay that you don’t have standards. Enjoy your Stovetop 👍
I’m with ya. Cranberry sauce is S-tier, and I don’t discriminate between fresh or canned.
Whatever form cranberry sauce comes in, please put it in my mouth
Soda. I’m cool with “soda pop” for a little personality and flair, but if you’re calling soda either just “pop” or god-forbid “coke” then I assume you’re the kind of person who watches NCIS
I’m not. Stovetop tastes like shit, no matter who makes it. Cheap mass-produced dried bread with the cheapest possible quality spices & onions.
If you can’t comprehend how a homemade stuffing with quality ingredients is vastly better than a shitty box from Kraft foods, then I have to assume you think McDonald’s is gourmet haute cuisine.
I haven’t consumed every piece of media on the planet so I can’t speak to the reference you’re making, but no, no it is not.
It is recommended to not stuff the bird because a turkey is large enough that stuffing will significantly increase cooking time and without care it is very easy to undercook the now solid interior, which can then soak bacteria-ladden juices into the stuffing which has not reached sufficient temperatures to kill said offending bacteria.
Stuff your small birds like chickens; dress your big birds like turkey.
Yet.
It used to be that we couldn’t just round up US citizens and put them in internment camps, until suddenly Executive Order 9066 changed the rules to say we could.
Never rest in the comfort and safety of the status quo; evil can spring at any time.