I‘m convinced it’s an excuse. They‘re stuffing everything with „AI“ right now to justify the erratic spending spree while scrambling to find actual use cases that actually transform entire industries so they can keep bullying us out of our wages and jobs.
This research is cooking us alive right now and for what? So machines can do all the creative things while we fight for scraps? I‘d rather the overly rich spend it on something harmless but silly. At least the average joe can make a living producing luxury items. As grim as it sounds but that‘s preferable to what‘s coming.
It’s the most inefficient technology but praised as the most efficient because it simply runs on investor money. But that well will run dry eventually and who will bear the cost then? Consumers without jobs?
I don‘t expect anything to come out of this because the way Germany has been dealing and not dealing with this is frankly atrocious. It‘s also atrocious how German media HAS to remind everyone of the October 7th massacre and claim how it alone „triggered“ the war whenever they talk about Gaza. Just disgusting rhetoric.
Steam is criminally understaffed and always caves in with no resistance when any actor wants to block access to thousands of games to millions of potential customers. This is just the latest chapter in a long history of them neglecting their users.
For example a large number of affected games in this case have already been blocked in Germany for a while because Steam refused to implement any type of age verification. They didn‘t even want a dialog with authorities and flat out region blocked affected games instead.
Now, I will say that this move by Germany was complete hypocrisy because it only affected unrated games and porn, when other 18+ games are still perfectly available because they „only“ contain massive amounts of violence. Somehow age verification isn‘t necessary here for some reason and gambling with cosmetic items is fine too? Good to know we have our priorities straight. /s
Whatever the case, the point is Steam always choses the path of least resistance. Germany has a system that lets users verify their age anonymously. Sony has implemented it for their store no problem but Steam doesn‘t even bother to have a single German speaker in their support team.
Private? I remember LLM services to actually warn you about sharing sensitive information with the bot because there’s nothing private about it. If you’re shocked about this you’ve been living under a rock.
Trumps entire success strategy can be summarized with: „claiming victories where there are none“. That‘s it. It‘s not a very clever or original strategy but that orange is clinging to it like few before him.
There will be items in the generated pictures that won‘t be part of the menu and it will be a shitshow.
Finally we can watch all the trailers that radical christian groups allow us to watch without interruptions!
Yes, I know. The problem is that most people see an average stat and think it‘s a universal law. That goes for life expectancy, height and even GDP per capita among other things. In reality no one is perfectly average and extremes exist everywhere.
Okay I‘ll just wait a couple years then /s
Two larger cities created one together just two weeks ago and it‘s already dead.
They also lived shorter on average. Some of them still reached a very old age. The average really doesn‘t tell us that much about the extremes that existed.
I assure you there isn’t one but thank you anyway.
What should have been a moment where Europe proves itself as a third power in the world between the US and China, we got the greatest political fumble of a lifetime instead. Right now I doubt anyone alive will see the day where the unprecedented dominance of the USA will really be challenged again. Let‘s hope they get their shit together and save whatever is left of their democracy because no one will be able to help them now.
I used to make actual friends and have meaningful relationships in german internet forums. We would meet up somewhat frequently. Come to think of it I haven‘t had that since installing Discord. In fact I have not made a single friend on Discord in nearly 10 years. Everyone on there is too busy with themselves, so it‘s not that surprising I guess. There was a time when I was a trainee and made a lot of friends through room mates but that‘s all gone since I moved and the pandemic.
I learned that skill but socializing has become too cumbersome in today‘s social landscape where almost everyone is either online on an app that doesn‘t incentivize equal relationships (Think Instagram, Youtube, TikTok) or busy hustling and making insane posts on LinkedIn. Just meeting up is something nobody does anymore it seems.
Das kommt halt dabei raus, wenn ein Kabinett aus Millionären das Land aus ihren Elfenbeintürmen regiert. Und die nicht betroffenen Rentner, die es Gewählt haben klatschen jetzt wahrscheinlich noch.
Is that a recycled piece from 2023? Because we already knew that.
The annoying thing is that some states like Germany pretty much prohibit surveillance of this extend by constitution. It couldn‘t be made any harder for a legislation like this to pass and yet they keep trying.