Minnie Mouse coming back is not on my bingo card.

This

For real? That’s respectable

AI told them to do it.

Conservatives buying land do a whooping cough habitat.

Lol, true. But significantly less energy put into that. I love writing SQL, but some things are tedious. And I also don’t know by heart. I can get AI to write most of the query for me, then I need to review it and fix issues, but in the end it is saving me like 20-30 minutes having to google and figure out syntax.

Am I worse off at writing SQL? Maybe, but I’m putting that energy into reviewing the results of the query quicker.

I use SQL as an example cause I just did exactly this. My energy is being used now to write a comment on the internet :)

Every advancement in technology resulted in the same conversation. What ends up happening is the energy we put into one thing is now put into something else and our productivity goes up.

I guess the real danger with AI if it meets its potential is we may not have a place to put our energy that AI isn’t already better at.

I’m honestly fine with companies not paying taxes so long as their profits are being spent on people in lower tax brackets.

Current tax structure makes it easy for the company to just give all their profits to their executives.

70% tax on income over $1 million. Go back to a progressive tax structure for company profits. Not sure why my local donut shop is paying the same rate as Microsoft.

Yeah, that’s one half of both.

Why not both?

This was a very interesting read. This was my favorite tidbit.

“There was a popular movie website at the time, Ain’t It Cool News, and the guy who ran it was a fan of my work, and I contacted him,” Baker continued. “I said, ‘Listen, Universal wants to paint Jim Carrey green. I feel it’s a major mistake. I did a test on myself of what I think it should look like. Can you somehow say that you saw this test and that Universal is making a major mistake and they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about?’ And he did. And it was outrageous responses from everybody. ‘What the hell is wrong with these people at Universal? I don’t want to see green Jim Carrey. I want to see a Grinch!’ Blah, blah, blah. So they finally caved in.”

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Did you tell them that? They’re gonna waste a lot of energy cause they think it will.

https://archive.ph/d6LEb

Yeah, I get this, but this is minor to me.

This is partly the responsibility of us Lemmy users to make sure it is known which instance to use. If we are letting the newbies go with a random instance, it’s probably not going to work out overall.

Honestly, I appreciate that they do not attempt to manipulate the lemmyverse in a way that pushes their agenda. Let them have a default. It’s fine.

People should come into Lemmy with the understanding that it is all about multiple instances and choosing the best one for you. I don’t like who Reddit is run by, but I can do nothing about it from within their ecosystem. Lemmy is built in a way that you can avoid supporting people you don’t want to.

Even if you don’t want to participate in the Lemmy, just steal the source code and rebrand it and use that as a starting point.

That’s basically what Truth Social did with Mastadon.

Honestly, this is what’s so great about Lemmy. If the Amins are the problem, there’s always another place to go.

True. Comments saying “build your own application” were more popular than comments suggesting Lemmy.

Even if you wanted to “build your own Reddit” you’d be better off starting with Lemmy source code anyway.

Also possible that Reddit buries the Lemmy posts. You can’t see the up/downvote counts. After all.

I think people just don’t want to make the move, and are making up excuses to stay where they are. I see a lot of that in that thread.