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Dec 31, 2023 7:33 PM
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Sleepingpanda1260
Watch the oceans for clues
kingdoppopopolis
But remember, still gotta threaten to withhold your vote for Biden too!
saganworshipper
World war is not looming. Too much money at stake. Cross that off your list. This older generation seems to be filled full of entitled cowards. That…is…bad.
zortroz
scottEkarate
Maybe he'll die
UncleRat
Oh, how about throwing in a human population of 8,000,000,000, too?
Omni21
workingnonstop247
Dictators don’t live long in America sorry
gryzlock
Guys... can we just lighten up the mood just for today?
Wargamez
Every single year for as long as I can remember WW3's been going to start, and we're all going to be doomed. At this point it either needs to shit or get off the pot.
CorgisButtsDriveMeNuts
UncleBuckFutter
Hatrax
Not if we kick GOP ass at the ballot box. The ball is totally in our court.
angpanange365
Oof
wandermanspacebot
Is anybody who really understand current global conflicts worried about a World War.
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
No
dingybasement350
We were already under threat of dictatorship last year.
HumansArePrettyNeat
My approach is to only use the assets of major Hollywood studios and their executives likenesses to create just the most heinous ai pornography imaginable. You won't believe what Bob Iger mouth do.
thehappyrunner
Conversely - We're making massive strides on climate change. EVs are picking up and solar power is now cheaper than coal. The U.S has continued to stand by Ukraine in a war Russia thought was going to be a quick takeover, and the AI tools are actually pretty awesome. We're at another "welcome to the internet" moment. Honestly, the future looks brighter than it has in years.
Rasdwatrium
yeah, the AI scare is dumb. Either AI is unimaginative and doesn't create art. Or it does create art and is an equal.
sharaldo
Thanks for that
newsguycraigevans
Oh, no. I've had an anonymous user tell me that Russia is just dragging out the war on purpose and could conquer Ukraine tomorrow if Putin ordered it. The user was serious. I still chuckle about it.
DJOldguy
WW3 started in 2008, when Russia began supporting separatists and invaded Georgia. Seizing Crimea was the same as Nazis seizing Austria and the West's response was Chamberlain's appeasement all over again. Invading Ukraine was next step and West won't be doing anything more to avoid all out war.
wandermanspacebot
Soooo.... 16 years later and it'll get here any minute, right?
DJOldguy
No war just happens, it always builds up. Might take another 10 years or more before someone does something irrevocable. Sept 1, 1939, Poland was invaded, but we know WW2 started long before. Same thing here.
DJOldguy
Sometimes it takes a longer view to see the patterns of events. Russia''s flirtation with democracy has crashed just like Weimar, slower less spectacularly, but Putin is the "strong man" and war is his only outcome, just like every other strong man leader. Keeps people distracted and the don't see how shitty things are getting so won't turn on their strong man. He always has someone to blame, "the enemy".
wandermanspacebot
Interesting doomsday forecast, but I think most would disagree.
DJOldguy
Yes, they do, but that doesn't make me wrong. We shall see. Historians always like a point and say "This is when this war started." Unfortunately, they are always wrong. They talk about causes, but never take them as starting points. e.g. Treaty of Versailles, 1919, was a direct link to WW2, but is never counted as a starting point. Has anyone asked if the Treaty was less harsh on Germany, would Hitler have been able to gain the power he did to lead into WW2? We don't know, but maybe not.
Shaodyn
On the plus side, some Republicans have said (on Twitter) that they'll only ever vote for Trump, and won't vote at all if he's not on the ballot (and will encourage other Republicans to do the same). So, if the Supreme Court kicks him off the ballot, a lot of Republican voters will stay home on voting day.
JohnThatcher
I trust them not to vote about as much as I trust my kid to be safe at church...
Shaodyn
I don't think it'll happen either, but it'd be nice if it did.
CookieMonstersCrumbs
We don't even get skynet. We get fucking corporations doubling down on tech that does nothing but make bad (sometimes funny) memes, deep fake political battles/porn and running artists of every industry out of a job. Tech that no one really even wants!
mecalise
There be plenty of people that want ai porn ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
TheSwedishCryptid
Cyberpunk mega corps future is locked in it seems.
FuzzyOne313
We don't get Skynet. We don't get Vault-Tec. We don't get the Cyberpunk corpos. We get Buy-N-Large, without the cute robots and hoverchairs. Or escape luxury liner.
Colopty
Frankly it's not even running anyone out of any jobs, it's just used as a pretence to pay the people in those jobs less, and as an extremely thinly veiled attempt at circumventing copyright.
sylkysmooth
I want it. One of my two life goals has been able to draw well. Primarily character art. While I have the practical skill and have practiced shapes and stuff it became obvious to me at some point that something was wrong. Eventually I learned aphantasia is a thing and y'all seeing shit in your head and then I understood why every artist was confused af when I asked how they knew what to draw, where to start a drawing, what shapes to use, how to make a character without seeing it, etc. >
sylkysmooth
> I want to see the characters and cities and landscapes and such that I "paint" in words to so many that I narrate or DM for. I want to see scenes with characters captured in their most amazing moments! And I don't want to have to pay hundreds of dollars to see it all and I've learned that if it isn't right in front of me I have no idea how to draw it, no matter how much I try, how much advice I get or where I get it from, so much of art, of drawing, requires mental vision that I just lack.
Sasurau
I mean, the internet runs on porn, so it's little surprise that AI runs on it, too.
IUsedToHaveUsernameOnce
You forgot cats. But you ain't exactly wrong. However weird this might sound porn has been responsible for a lot of innovation in things like 3D for example.
PenguinPete
3Davideo
Deep fake political porn? Hmmmm...
kogdati
Isn't there literally a sky net in China? https://www.economist.com/china/2023/11/23/chinas-enormous-surveillance-state-is-still-growing
Shaodyn
Example of tech nobody wants: Tesla finally (after six years of trying) figured out the "neural network" that can make windshield wipers auto-sensing. Rather than having to flip a lever or push a button to turn on the wipers, they'll come on without you having to do shit.
UWAGAGABLAGABLAGABA
My Mercedes has that on it, and it's a 2017.
Shaodyn
Apparently it's been a thing for like 20 years, but Tesla wants to pretend it's brand new because they did it with AI.
Shaodyn
I'm pretty sure absolutely zero people wanted that.
VulpesIncendium
One person wanted that. And I'll bet you can guess who.
Shaodyn
I always thought the point of a business was to give customers what THEY want. Then again, he's convinced them that what he wants is what they want, so...
InTheBeginningWasTheNerd
That's very impressive of Tesla. Considering my dad's five year old car (not a Tesla) already does that. It can even sense the intensity of the rain and adjust the frequency, and it even has a lever if you want to do any of that manually.
It's a quality of life thing. It's not necessary, but since it's already there, why not use it. It's like seat warmers - you can live without them, but they feel good when it's below zero and you get in the car and the whole seat starts pumping heat into you.
MileysVirus
Audi?
itdoesntmatternoneofthismatters
My 2005 car has rain sensing wipers. That tech is old enough to vote.
AllMaktAtTengilVarBefriare
My 2007 Mercedes does that
ChloeRed
...first car I had with auto wipers, with variable wipe was built in 2005, and launched in 2001, it's pretty old tech now *nods*
Shaodyn
Other auto manufacturers had been doing the same thing for literally 20 years, and we're supposed to think Tesla is somehow better because it's done with AI. Make that make sense?
Shaodyn
So it took them six years to do something that other auto manufacturers had already managed when they started? That's pathetic. "Oh, but we did it with AI!" Big deal.
TheSecondPiewackit
Which means they didn't have a fucking leg to stand on until they prompted ChatGPT to figure out their mistakes.
GriffinMann41
tbf that sums up pretty much everything Tesla's ever done. "We did X thing that every other car company has dome before, usually for cheaper and/or just better already, but also our manufacturing sucks so much ass our cars will fall apart and/or explode violently on you." and then they have the gall to call themselves leaders in the field for conning shitloads of people
ProfessorDumbass
This ain't gunna end well
exbenedict
It will end about as well as your English grade.
DongleDingler
It's up to all of us, GO VOTE! Make sure you're registered in time for the next election vote.gov ...unless you support the abhorrent orange, then ignore all of that
Rpgjgb
cnphilli
decent chance we'll be ok. odds that we are living at the apex of society is low.
Kbantar
Decent chance it won't be the worst as that would time some time. But the ball is rolling and few are truly trying to stop it.
cnphilli
Don't think of it like a snowball. Think of it like waves. Because that's what it is. "Good times bad times, you know I've had my share"
rusrsdude
With the policies Republicans are trying to push, it's a snowball, not a wave.
cnphilli
history would disagree
GodAintReal
Who is “we?” What do you define as “ok?” Because I can’t think of a single time when “we” have been “ok” in the way I would define those terms and I certainly can’t see any reason why - with even the most generous definitions - you should be so confident that we will be.
cnphilli
oh. well if you think life has never been worth living for the average person at any point in history then I'm not sure why you would worry about the list of things in the above image.
GodAintReal
Have you ever heard of a straw man argument?
cnphilli
ok
netharia
Said by someone who isn't staring down genocide.
cnphilli
unfortunately some are, but most of us aren't.
HomerSimpsonsEvilTwin
But it is gonna end!
secretdpp
In a couple decades. We still get to ride out the collapse
Sorrontis
That's the problem, it won't. It'll just get worse.
DurendaI
Every beginning stems from an ending.
mouseasw
Prophet warning that the end is never going to arrive, you'll have to continue to suffer till you die
SilverFoxChaser
oh thank god. .. *sobs*
NirvanaNik
NancyReaganSchoolOfGawk
It’s only the end of the easy now it’s the extra bad times.
Leithoa
Hey, don't be so pessimistic. You could be at ground zero.
NancyReaganSchoolOfGawk
I live in the United States, isn’t that like the same?
Leithoa
I mean like under the bomb ground zero.