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AVincentInSpace

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AVincentInSpace ,

Did ToiletPaperUSA make the jump?

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Say more about that

AVincentInSpace ,

What does this even --

brain catches up with eyeballs

--fuck you.

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    I still do not see what the difference is between AI generated porn and photoshopping one person's face onto a different person's naked body.

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    relevant xkcd

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    Nailed it

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    genital sex

    as opposed to...?

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    A furry is a human who believes/"knows" they're the wrong species, and/or acknowledges their humanity but wishes so hard that they weren't, and/or is willing to enter into alt-personality fantasy to a level that non-furries might say is taking it way too far. Importantly, furries have a preferred non-human form

    You are thinking of therians/otherkin. Furries are just humans who enjoy animals with human intelligence in human situations.

    Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers. (www.vox.com)

    Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do. The generation that grew up with the internet isn’t invulnerable to becoming the victim of online hackers and scammers.::undefined

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    The difference now is that in the olden days when something broke you could fix it if you had enough technical know how. For some reason that doubtless involves money that I do not care to learn, companies have invested a staggering amount of R&D into making fixing anything as close to impossible as they can make it unless you are an authorized service technician.

    Pop the hood on a modern car, you can change the wiper fluid and that's about it. Apple is proud of their walled garden and parts pairing and is considering charging for the privilege of sideloading apps. Most applications nowadays don't even show crash report data to the user and error messages are getting less and less descriptive for fear of being confusing. The only thing you can really pop the hood on nowadays is webpages, and even then you'll often have to do at least an hour's worth of reverse engineering to get anywhere useful.

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    Regardless of what caused it, the fact remains that people stopped learning how to fix their own crap because there's hardly anywhere they can apply those skills.

    I'm in a particularly techy subset of gen Z. Every electronic device I own is either jailbroken or running a different operating system than the one it shipped with. I use Linux exclusively which is a fancy way of saying I'm used to having to fix things when they break without any instructions on how to do that. I have trouble with tech meant for normies. They hide so much complexity it makes them impossible to troubleshoot. How can I expect people who were raised on tech meant to be seamlesa to mend the inevitable seams when I don't know how?

    It's not their fault, is what I'm saying. I agree that interfaces nowadays are too user friendly.

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    do you have any idea the shitstorm that would go down in the Void Linux forums

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    wait till op finds out these things can decide they're sick of the rock they're attached to and just get up and leave

    zero seriousness in this place

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    She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

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    Come now, my hardware is newer than that

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    1. Piracy isn't stealing, primarily since the victim still has the pirated goods and can continue to sell them, but doubly so since people who pay for those goods legitimately don't own them and are at the complete mercy of the company to continue to access them. History is rife with examples of companies removing access to digitally paid for goods with no explanation or recourse. Look at the recent PlayStation fiasco, or Warner Brothers cancelling Infinity Train and Inside Job (and pulling the completed seasons from streaming services) because they wanted a tax write-off.
    2. Questioning the validity of science and half the global population's worth of empirical evidence and endangering oneself and others purely to be contrarian, and, more importantly, continuing to support someone who calls immigrants vermin and quotes Mussolini in his campaign speeches goes beyond "having a different opinion"
    AVincentInSpace , (edited )
    1. Questioning the conclusions that scientists before you have reached is something that is good to do if you have the tools to do your own primary research and publish your own study. If you don't have the tools to do your own study, looking at the hundreds of papers out there in peer-reviewed journals (peer-reviewed meaning multiple independent teams of scientists did the experiment as described and got the same result the authors did) all showing the same results are about as good as you can get. If you don't trust Big Science, just look around you. Take for example the question of whether the vaccine is safe to get. A common argument I heard was that people didn't want to be guinea pigs, which would have been fair were it not for the fact that half the global population had already gotten it and less than 1% had any ill effects. As for whether it protects people from the virus, one need look no further than the endless stories from healthcare workers about the people they kept alive. All of the life threatening cases were from people who hadn't gotten the shot.

    Acting as though the conclusions scientists before you have reached are false because a podcast you follow said they were, without supplying any data to suggest such a thing, is a wholesale rejection of the scientific method.

    1. The person you replied to never said anything about Parler itself, let alone whether platforms that don't follow the popular consensus should exist. That is unambiguously good. What they said was that the people who run Parler are fascist bootlickers, which, now that Trump has said in as many words that he plans to be a dictator, is true of anyone who still supports him.

    2. Can't help but notice your response didn't address the piracy issue. Can I assume we agree on that?

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    1. So you disagree with the scientific consensus. Cool. Where's your data to the contrary? When are you publishing your study? Or are you just here to cast doubt on the validity of science as a concept, and use that as a basis to believe whatever a talking head says?

    2. Parler advertises itself towards Trump supporters. I think it's safe to say there are Trump supporters there. Also, once again, neither I nor the OP said anything at all about Parler itself, only its founders. Where did you get the idea that I think it should be shut down?

    3. I already told you why piracy isn't stealing. Do you have a response to that?

    It's becoming increasingly obvious you're not arguing in good faith. I'm going to bed now. You'll have to pretend to argue with someone else for a while.

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    am I supposed to recognize that gear? is it the logo of something?

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    generational antagonism is a tool of the capitalist class to turn workers against each other

    Isn't that what this meme is about?

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    Okay, it's not about that, but it is about why generational antagonism is stupid

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    Literally how is this image rage bait? It's saying that even if previously generations were shitty to you, don't be shitty to the next one.

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    honestly nat is so real for that

    AVincentInSpace ,

    Let's play a game called "how many red flags can you cram into a single paragraph of text"

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    me n the besties on our way to spread the leftist agenda

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    Yeah. They're happy to give you 24GB VRAM as long as you're willing to pay five grand for a GPU you can get with 8GB VRAM for a tenth of that.

    AVincentInSpace ,

    Did you read the post in the screenshot?

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    You seem unwilling to admit that people can have bad opinions.

    You seem awfully hasty to shove words in my mouth based on absolutely nothing.

    Also, if you think that the average person is as unreasonable as the person in the screenshot, I am begging you to go outside.

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    I agree that those are problems, and I agree that we need to invest more in public transportation, but the fact that public transportation in its current state sucks is not something I can immediately do anything about beyond voting and opting for jobs that don't require me to physically commute. If I want to go to a friend's house, or to a grocery store that's too far for me to walk, I still have no choice but to drive.

    I still don't see what this has to do with me or the person you originally replied to (we're two different people) trying to convince anyone that anyone who disagrees with them is a troll.

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    No one is so totally oblivious that they refuse to change their mind about whether or not minds can be changed in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary. For that matter most people do not completely discount evidence that disagrees with their viewpoint.

    I strongly disagree with your claim that anyone who tells you not to talk to someone who refuses to change their mind in the face of ample evidence is probably a troll, and that even if they're not, they're not worth talking to, is part of the shadow government trying to drive the left and the right apart.

    For that matter I really don't know how anyone can seriously argue for political unity now that Trump is quoting Mussolini.

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    I agree that most people would not change their minds in the heat of an emotional argument. I also believe that despite this it is the duty of every citizen with a brain to change their minds when presented with new evidence. I also believe that no one could miss the irony in the original post unless they were doing so intentionally.

    Anyway, you were talking about driving the left and the right apart.

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    Okay. I'm not yet fully convinced of the existence of such people, but I can all but guarantee there aren't any in this thread. There's a big difference between that and saying you should stop arguing with someone who clearly isn't interested in what you have to say.

    Also, no one said trolls were lying about what they believed. Many trolls like to hide behind "I'm joking" as an excuse for believing things that are not acceptable to believe in modern society.

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    A stuffed crust pizza is only a calzone attached to toast until you cut into it. At that point it becomes sushi attached to toast.

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    Better yet, make an example out of Haier. Prove to companies everywhere that allowing open source compatibility can only be good for them.

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    My dad in a conversation with other parents:

    "When I was their age, a car meant freedom. It meant you could take yourself to a place your friends were and your parents weren't, anytime you wanted. To them, the Internet means freedom, and they don't really see the point."

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    Remember when they were saying GPT-2 was too dangerous to release because people might use it to create fake news or articles about topics people commonly Google?

    Hah, good times.

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    People still like Steve Jobs.

    Ugh. There's time yet.

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    BSD is Unix

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    https://i.imgflip.com/7jxqdu.png

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    no it's from snapcube

    AVincentInSpace ,

    So if I'm reading this right, you buy the air vest, and then either buy or rent a gizmo that tells it when to inflate

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    Roosevelt

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    [citation needed]

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    no longer relies on data mining customers to maximize ad effectiveness

    You're an idiot if you believe they won't do that anyway.

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    Six country songs, speed matched and cut together, presented without further comment

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    coughs politely in flatpak

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    Apple's MO is, and has been for a while, seeing something a startup is doing, saying "That's a stupid idea", then two years later unveiling an identical product and calling it innovation.

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