Love the countdown to their next prediction of AGI lol

Sort of the point though. If they take a small creator to court, they can just bankrupt them through expensive legal proceedings, and because they do have the patents the judge is unlikely to throw the case out

While I agree at the usefulness of podcasts. The vast majority of people find podcasts through engagement algorithms on Spotify and other platforms, so they are certainly beholden to being fed slop content the same way other media does.

half the people on the planet

e.g. “not to worry advertisers! These aren’t simple bots we are using to inflate our numbers so you pay us. These are AI!”

I don’t care what anybody does to make money unless it puts someone else at risk. A car is a method of transportation, but more importantly, a weapon. Focusing on getting the right angle or right clip or whatever for your meme puts other people at risk as you control a 5500 pound piece of metal. My criticism is on the choice of using a moving vehicle as a recording studio.

Lol there was definitely an AIM mobile app for flip phones that I installed soon after getting a flip phone like freshman year of high school and then my parents realizing the bill I had unknowingly built up

Good call, I missed the grey on grey seatbelt. Edited my comment

it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car without my seatbelt on and film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks good

You should go up the chain and put the parent company of the parent company and all the related properties there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EssilorLuxottica

Gotta pick a new OS for the workstations. ipad

Appreciate it but no apologies necessary. You shared a story, I shared a story. Better done over a beer or coffee, but for now Lemmy can do. Absolutely don’t feel bad about your comment, I just wanted to spread a little awareness of the opioid epidemic in the US and how it was mostly caused by profit-seeking corporations. Cheers from across the pond and wishing you the best

Edit: forgot, totally reciprocating that hug!

Hey thanks! It was quite a long time ago, and I’ve since grown to using that experience to try to help others where possible. No trauma ever fully goes away, but healthily addressing it is key. Wishing you the best, friend, beating an addiction like that is is no easy feat, always feel free to shoot me a message if you feel like it

My biological mom died from an overdose of a “speedball,” e.g. mixing heroin and cocaine at the same time.

And that was years after she went into the hospital for pancreatitis, and they just blanket prescribed her opioids. From there the doctors kept bumping her prescription up, and then from there she sought pills on the street, and then finally she moved to heroin. I guess if she was alive today fentanyl would have been the next jump.

She was a byproduct of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic

And I blame the pharmaceutical companies like Purdue who profited off it more than anyone else.

This was exacerbated by the aggressive and misleading marketing of drug makers, e.g. Purdue Pharma. Purdue trained its sales representatives to convey to doctors that the risk of addiction from OxyContin was “less than one percent.”

Im guessing you mean “should not have” and “should not moving forward.” Because the models were most certainly trained on Reddit. If that’s the case, agreed

“I guess you didn’t know it, but I’m a fiddle strawer, too. And if you’d care to take a Super-Sized dare I’ll make a bet with you.

True, I’m lucky to work for a company that was half founded by engineers who know the cost of compounding technical debt, which is almost never the case.

Sure, though having gone through an entire monorepo refactoring of like half a million lines to basically destroy the codebase and switch from vue 2 to vue 3 among other things, it’s also possible to build the new, better designed wall right behind the old one, test like hell against that wall, and then shift that wall in when it’s ready in a planned release, ready for the issues that come because that wall isn’t quite like the old wall

I’ve seen that multiple times. I always slow down, get the tag number, and call the cops to report them. They don’t deserve to drive putting lives at risk like that

It’s the common term in India, not sure where else.

It might mostly be the banks, but I know of one gas station near me that hits that max hold, and then seconds after I’m done filling, the charge quickly switches to 30 or so dollars I put in. Whereas the other gas station that hold stayed there for almost a day. My guess is intermediary card processors play a part as well. I also learned place number 2 sells fake BIC lighters, so I don’t go there anymore.