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I recognize this and my reply in my comment is:

The sad truth is that no candidate will fix these things.

It's hard to get people motivated when they recognize that even their top pick will still not resolve any issues. I'm not saying you shouldn't vote because of that, I'm just saying I can empathize with that sentiment.

I voted, but devils advocate here.

These are the big issues in my mind: Health care Housing Cost of living/ worker rights Climate change War in Gaza Infrastructure improvement

At absolute best maybe infrastructure and cost of living get addressed in a minor way.

The sad truth is that no candidate will fix these things. Even if they weren't such complex issues, big $$$$ will make sure 2/3s of these things remain the way they are.

Since I've been alive (born in 90s) I have only seen the decline of every system around me regardless of what polical party is in.

So yes I voted, yes I hope the people I voted for get in, yes they will reduce how quickly things are going downhill, but I do not expect them to even address most of those topics in a meaningful way.

It makes it difficult to give enough of a shit to vote in the first place. Even if my candidates win, the issues I care about the most will almost certainly not be fixed.

I recognize this is a very pessimistic view and I crave to be proven wrong but the last 20+ years I've lived would lead me to believe I will be correct.

Mint's sweet I switched from 10 a few months back. Biggest difference is getting use to the different file system, only 2 games have been unplayable (didn't try to make them work tbh).

Linux, while overall almost botherless, still looses to windows.

Been using mint for around 2 months and I would say this is pretty accurate. Pretty much every game I play works out of the box. Discord however crashes the whole system sometimes and I can't figure out why. Would still recommend Linux over windows but you will for sure encounter more issues.

Yeah I looked for a picture too, there are not any good blue monkey ass pics, wtf internet

Criticize the hell out of them man, I do it on a daily basis as well. Just know you ain't doing shit but yapping unless you bring some plans to the table.

Oh yeah these people don't ever ever ever give actual solutions on how to achieve any goals. They just constantly criticize and then act like the victim when you call out how absurdly outside reality they are.

I disagree, I think it is basic human/biologic that drives us to grab up resources and hoard them to ensure survival/reproduction/future generations. Capitalism is just a vehicle in which we are capable of expressing that biological greed on a global scale.

Strong agree here. You hit on a lot of the core issues on LLMs, so I'll say my opinions on the economic aspects.

It's been more than a year since chatGPT released this plague of "slap AI on the product and consumers will put their children down for collateral to buy!" which imo we haven't seen whatsoever. Investors still have a hard-on for the term AI that goes into the stratosphere but even that is starting to change a little.

Consumers level of AI distrust has risen considerably and consumers have seen past the hype. Wrapping this back around to the CEOs level of power, I just don't think LLMs are actually going to have enough marketability for general consumers to become juggernaut corpos.

LLMs absolutely have use cases but they don't fit into most consumer products. No one wants AI washers or rice cookers or friggin AI spoons and shoehorning them in decreases interest in the product.

I personally disagree, mainly because the interactions have much more depth than the same 30 unfunny comments that people make on reddit ex: this. Don't get me wrong it happens here as well, just way less. I also see people back claims up with evidence here way more, it's not always valid evidence but at least an attempt is made more.

The thing I like the best is the lack of self righteousness (ironic I'm making this comment on this post haha) that reddit has, that was my personal biggest complaint there. Like on reddit if there is an animal in a video in any way shape or form you can almost always find someone screeching about animal abuse, even when it is obviously not.

I of course have bias in favor of Lemmy and this is highly dependent on the community. I will admit Lemmy is super left leaning, which I like, but definitely supports your hive mind argument. Even though I lean left I think it would be healthier for Lemmy to have more of a presence from the right. Unfortunately with how the political landscape is today I think it won't be very achievable but hopefully when we hit the post Trump era divisiveness will ease making coexistence here more achievable.

Fair enough, Jesus they're getting really brazen

Those are grow kits not actual mushrooms, it's more of a grey area although selling spores for growing is expressly illegal.