Sasha

Me

It's been one of three things for me:

• Like having a cool friend you see a lot. Good memories, but never a relationship that lasted.
• Someone working out how to twist my own mind against me, controlling me for their own gain and never actually understanding that a relationship isn't a transaction. (and hopefully that one isn't stalking me on lemmy again, otherwise I or one of my friends will get harassed and I'll be filling out an intervention order)
• The most beautiful thing that I didn't know was possible, I thought I'd been happy before but when you meet the right person you really do just click and life becomes worth living. Never felt so good about myself as I did then, just hurt all the more to lose it so suddenly. I've written a lot about others I've only met briefly, songs about people who'd never think of me that way, but when it's true love I just can't. I don't think anything I can say could really capture that. There just isn't enough poetry in the world to describe how magical it is to look up at a pair of beautiful brown eyes swimming in a field of stars and hearing them say "I love you" for the first time.

I don't like commercial "AI" period.

That said, I did find some use for chatGPT last year. I had it explain to me some parts of Hawking's paper on black hole particle creation, this was only useful for this one case because Hawking had a habit of stating something is true without explaining it and often without providing useful references. For the record, chatGPT was not good at this task, but with enough prodding and steering I was eventually able to get it to explain some concepts well enough for my usage. I just needed to understand a topic, I definitely wasn't asking chatGPT to do any writing for me, most of what it spits out is flat out wrong.

I once spent a day trying to get it to solve a really basic QM problem, and it couldn't even keep the maths consistent from one line to another.

Inb4 robodebt 2.0

Don't take my explanation for an endorsement, I've no love for DST either

It's about daylight savings, it provided more daylight to hunt in the evening, presumably because the day's other activities ended earlier.

Devices less sophisticated than smart phones were once pretty common in sci-fi novels, but they still achieved the same sort of thing, all the world's knowledge in the palm of your hand.

You can get smartphones for absurdly cheap these days, and while crappy by modern standards they're still technological marvels.

I feel like the difference is what you're preparing for, when I think of a prepper I'm thinking of people who are planning for an enormous society ending disaster.

I've also got a bug out bag, but it's just for general emergencies if I need to leave my place in a hurry very unexpectedly.

Good point, time to order some trans pride programming socks

Terfs

I have a trans pride flag and a baseball bat next to my front door

I don't think his personal accomplishments really matter in the face of his support for the far right, crushing hatred of trans people, calling people pedophiles and the absurd amount of misinformation and bigotry that he promotes on xitter.

If SpaceX needs an absolute piece of shit like him in order to succeed, then there shouldn't be a SpaceX.

The balls, sigh