I mostly played video games in between intense bursts of productivity to get work done.

Yes, I was doing this before remote work was a thing. You just have to be slick. I once set up a “lab” of three PCs to “test some new software” in a back room and then played Birth of the Federation on one of them while the other two ran perf counter output, for 3 months straight. This was an act of desperation to keep my mind busy. They had laid almost everyone off in the company so I didn’t have much to do, but it started a tradition that carried me all the way to retirement!

Has anyone developed a FOSS solution to making them spin their wheels faster? I would install that in a heartbeat.

That is an important point that I missed in what I read of the article before I got grossed out. Thanks. I’m still not sure about this line of research because if (when?) they do make something that achieves a level of sentience, consciousness, or even just the ability to feel, will it be able to signal to us that it is happy, content, in agony, mental anguish, etc? The thought of being trapped in that situation is terrifying.

Yeah and it was just a bunch of sedated live rats pinned to little trays with their brains exposed and a bunch of shit stuck everywhere into their bodies that I had to see while working on the lab computers.

I’m not going to get into an argument about whether there’s value in animal research (I think there is) but there’s some horrifying shit that comes with it, and I’m just pointing out that I’ve directly worked with plenty of scientists that are completely unfazed by that shit. So while it may be a few cells on a mesh now, they won’t stop at that.

The hard truth is that there are a lot of completely un-empathetic scientists out there.

Some of the shit I saw them doing to animals when I worked for Baxter still makes me sick when I think about it. And I only had to go into that lab a couple times.

I have been on the internet almost since its modern inception in the mid 90’s, and I have never seen such a low effort troll in my entire life.

Actually kind of impressive.

You’re using a tool to do it that literally takes food off artists plates. Educate yourself on the situation before defending it.

Having a disability doesn’t give you a license to steal.

Reddit is garbage. The end.

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So this is what you call “a hack”, right?

They are still debugging the bot.

You may be in shock still. I know when I got cheated on it took a while for the pain to really set in. Sorry man. No matter what, deception is going to hurt a relationship one way or the other.

Not funny, and AI steals from artists.

Technically correct, but since it has never happened, it has also never gotten any harder.

You might even be able to afford therapy.

Uh yeah. What else is new? This is why nobody should be using ANY of their stuff. They are objectively a force bent on social destruction for profit. By using any of their services or buying any of their products, you are contributing whether you agree with them or not.

And even with the increase it’s still a freakin’ bargain. Such a good game!

Doing my part to make this a good post, cause it was.

I am cringing in horror at how poorly my factories would run on a Switch. Do you find playing it to be an acceptable experience?

He’s basically saying “suck it up, buttercup”. They think people are going to have no choice but pay these prices, with all the crazy shit going on. Maybe the Switch 2 will be successful, but most of my adult video gamer friends have already said they are going to pass. Only the ones that still have small kids are considering it.