After all, it’s only intelligence when I do it.

We obviously live in a matrix/simulated world, and it can’t be older than 50 years, because before that, computers didn’t exist. Checkmate christians.

/jk

this is a dildo😳

I think they were held in earlier times as a deliverer of meat, for people who lived in cities and didn’t have the space to hold pig. I guess? It would make sense.

You’re a plant, and capitalism is a great fire. By pulling yourself up by the roots, you’re exposing yourself to the great fire, instead of hiding in the dark underground.

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… and does that bother you?

on mobile? do you really wanna know?

I guess people are afraid of sending E-mails and doing phone-calls for this reason.

The fear of accidentally pasting a porn-link into an email is immense. So much that I clear my copy-clipboard regularly, just to be double-sure.

I do wonder why people buy smart TVs instead of getting regular displays together with a Linux PC.

yeah i know i was joking

maybe it wasn’t a good joke ^^

Open means “uben” in german so

Free Libre Open Source Software is FLUSS in german and that roughly translates to “fucking” and I think that’s beautiful.

“I mean a lot of glazed here. Some sprinkle stuff. Some of these cinnamon rolls. Just whatever makes sense.”

You gotta see it from their perspective, they’re CEOs (presumably) and aren’t used to knowing the details. They just vaguely point in vague directions (“pitch”) and let the employees figure out the rest.

I don’t believe there’s misinformation because we fail to discern the truth though. Misinformation exists because people believe what they want to believe.

almost how a printing press made the production of books so much faster

… and we all know that lead to 30 years of bloody war, btw

Your comment somehow just made me realize something: When we see/read news, we have to trust the one who’s telling them to us. Since we weren’t there in person to see it with our own eyes. Therefore, it’s always about a “chain of trust”.

This is true no matter whether photos can be manipulated or not. People have been able to lie since humanity exists. Nothing has really changed. Photography, just like globalization, has only brought everything closer together, making it easier to have a more direct, straightforward relationship to other people and events. With the beginning of AI, this distance between you and an event is going to increase a bit, but the core mechanics are still similar.

I kind of wonder, how do we really know that something is true? Do atoms actually exist? What if we’re being lied to by our authorities. You say “of course not”. But what if? I mean, if we blindly trust authorities, we end up like the republicans, who believe everything that fox news tells them. How, then, do we discern truth?

How, then, do we discern truth? I guess we have to give “proof” for everything, in the sense of mathematical proof. Something that everybody can follow, using only their fundamental assumptions and deduction. I guess that is what science is all about.

yeah, every time you go to a party, and fun happens, somebody pulls out their smartphone and starts filming. it’s really bad. people can only relax when there’s privacy, and smartphones have stolen privacy from society for over 10 years now. we need to either ban filming in general (which is not doable) or discredit photographs - which we’re doing right now.

interesting thought. we haven’t had photos in history, and people didn’t need them. also, we’ve been able to produce text deepfakes all throughout history (and people actually did that - a lot) and somehow, humanity still survived and made progress. maybe we should question our assumptions whether we really need a medium to communicate absolute truth.