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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I regularly have YouTube channels on in the background as I work. After a few auto play recommendations that I wasn't paying attention to, I ran into a couple about astronomy and I got excited for a second, because it was talking about the discovery of Planet X and other stuff... But as I paid attention to it, I recognised some blatant falsehoods, and it began to repeat itself with different verbage. It was really weird stuff too because I enjoy watching/listening to conspiracy and paranormal stuff.

I looked at the channel description and found out it was an entirely AI content generated account/channel. I was flabbergasted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Same. I got brigaded in my first 24 hours because I corrected someone on a RUS/UKR disinfo comment they made. Nearly made me leave. I've blocked both instances in my client but I still occasionally see them pop up for some reason regardless of the alt account I'm on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That was my assumption too. My main account was on lemmy.ml and it was almost three months before I found out the ".ml" part apparently stood for "Marxist-Leninist". This came as a surprise, as I hadn't seen anything in the server espousing that, and Lemmygrad and Hexbear were seemed to attract the lion's share of Leftists.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Imagine getting written up by your supervisor because you dared to ~~look away from your monitor~~ take your VR headset off to give your eyes a break

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not enough apparently

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

If you want a good book series that explores unchecked rampant corporatocracies in the near/distant future, check out The Unincorporated Man. 10/10

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

My w10 machine says it doesn't meet minimum requirements for w11. I'm safe!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's a good point, and you're probably right. With how expensive it is to survive, not to mention American healthcare, I don't think I mind the tradeoff. I'd rather die immediately than have lifelong injuries I can't pay for nor work off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well shit, I thought they were talking about cockrings too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

For real. If I'm getting an EV, I'm getting it for efficiency, not luxury. I wouldn't be traveling across the state or the country. I'd be using it to get to work and get the groceries. You can't tell me it's not possible to make something with an electric motor, spartan accessories, and a decent range for less than 12-15k. Seriously, I don't want a car that drives itself. I don't really even want automatic transmissions, although electric almost negates the need for any transmission. I just want a car that is cheap, does the job, and that I don't have to chop my left nut off for these days.