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  • People have said that, but I disagree. I think that fascists really are that stupid. It looks like a strategy because a lot of mainstream media has been happy to embrace the chaos, all they want is that 24-hour news cycle. But if you look at reliable political writers, people who think long-term, none of Trump’s bullshit baffles anyone.

    If you think about the tariffs, he was trying to flex because he’s a narcissist, and people around him, perhaps including himself, were getting richer through insider trading. It’s a basic scam. Everyone understands it. No one is baffled.







  • fodor@lemmy.ziptoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldDear slim
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    7 days ago

    I don’t want anyone to have access to nuclear weapons, since you asked.

    But the reality is that some countries, including Israel and the United States, already have them. These two countries are currently engaged in military and terroristic activity in multiple international venues. So if that’s the rules that the big boys are playing with, and then someone else comes along and considers whether they might want to join the party too, your question is I think irresponsible. What you should have been asking is, what is likely to keep the Iranian people safer, nukes or no nukes?

    In Palestine and Israel and Iran, it’s fine to look at the governments and say how bad they are, and you may well be right, or maybe not, I don’t know. But we can look at the people whose lives are being destroyed or permanently ended and wish that those numbers went down. If the administrations are full of evil jerks and they stay in power but the death count drops, that’s still a good thing.



  • Trust your instincts. If it’s really easy to write LLM prompts and generate consistently useful quality output, then there’s no chance you’ll make a lot of money doing so. You won’t even make a little money doing so, because that work will be outsourced to another country with a lower minimum wage.

    Of course that’s the point. The AI snake oil sales people want bosses to believe that they can underpay or fire employees, but we know that it doesn’t work that way, that all of these companies are just screwing about to make a little bit of money for either the shareholders or the bosses or both.





  • fodor@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.worldIs Google about to destroy the web?
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    13 days ago

    The article is also full of bullshit and it gets basic history wrong. The agreement was never made, but to the extent it exists anyway, it was never supposed to be about a monopoly that’s destroying shit. Once upon a time, not even very long ago, there were competing search engines.

    I know tech writers want to write stories that sound fancy, but if they don’t know the facts and the history then they need to find someone to proofread their work more carefully.






  • Obviously the situations are different. We all know that. The point is that it’s hypocritical of a company to say hey, let’s ask our employees to do more by throwing AI at them, and then getting pissed off when potential employees do the same thing.

    Although I think it’s more funny than anything else. The company found out that people are gaming the system, which means they have a really shitty system, and rather than change how they interview people or what types of questions they ask, they’re just acting obstinate.