True, but I think it’s a small price to pay. I’d rather have a smaller Lemmy that maintains the current atmosphere than a bigger Lemmy with a larger percentage of jerks.

If assholes don’t like Lemmy, GOOD.

I think that’s why Neeson might be a success. Leslie Nielsen reacted to absurd situations with deadpan seriousness. He was an excellent clueless straight man.

Neeson himself doesn’t have to be very funny. As long as what’s happening around him is the right kind of humor, it could work.

I’m smart enough to understand that setting up domestic manufacturing is much more complicated and expensive than I could guess. I also know that getting a project like this from concept to steady, reliable, marketable production takes years.

I also know that the people who think this is quick and easy will proudly wear their MAGA hats today.

All I can do is extend my sympathies, and tell you that you’re better off in the long run. Most people here don’t like corporate social media because of situations like yours.

Don’t worry about profanity. People swear all the time and don’t mark their posts.

I wonder if he’s open minded enough to accept information he wasn’t expecting, or one of those people for whom no proof will ever be good enough.

Just jump in! You don’t have to be perfect, just click around and upvote and leave comments.

That’s pretty much what I still do, and it’s been something like two years lol.

A wire brush. Handheld, not attached to an electric grinder or something like that.

Cheap wire brushes should be available in most hardware stores. I know that ours carries them in the paint section.

Remove the nozzle and hold it with pliers or something.

It’ll be corporate owned and centralized, so I don’t care at all.

My answer depends on whether the country you’re going to has an extradition treaty with the United States.

Musk paid to build (and is paying to maintain) an AI that calls him out on his bullshit and stubbornly refuses to be “corrected”. That is an oversimplification, but I fucking love it anyway.

I hate AI and avoid it as much as possible. I don’t really care who is better at it.

America won big both morally and militarily in WWII. For the average poorly informed citizen, that meant our government had permanently earned its position as the Good Guy. Lots of people thought (and still think) that any evidence to the contrary is merely a mistake or anomaly.

Then there’s capitalism. Wartime manufacturing brought us out of the Great Depression, and even the average citizen benefited. Unfortunately, capitalism became much more powerful than we realized, and now we’re beginning to see what a monster we’ve created. We know that the top 1% are literally killing our biosphere to protect their investments, but somehow our Good Guy government is allowing it to continue. The average citizen can’t reconcile those facts, so they decided that the facts must be wrong.

Government and capitalism have always been intertwined, but never to the extent we’re seeing under Trump. A Nazi billionaire is shaping government policy. That was supposed to be impossible. Again, the average citizen can’t reconcile those truths, so many of them decided that the libtards must be exaggerating.

I wouldn’t say that we Americans are stupid. I’d use the word “foolish” instead. “Deceived”, too. A few people saw what was coming and tried to warn the rest of us, but we let it happen anyway, because organizations that we thought we could trust lied to us.

Those of us with at least some awareness of what’s going on are traumatized (whether we think so or not). We’re trying to accept that our own government suddenly hates a lot of us, and that the corporations that have tried so hard to make themselves indispensable are, at best, constantly trying to deceive and monetize everything about us.

Children’s TV shows

Generally, when we were kids, whenever that may have been. We were taught that sharing and compassion were good things.

Remember when giving a shit about others was touted as a virtue?

Hearing Downey will play Doom actually got me enthusiastic. Conversely, I’m indifferent to Majors being dropped.

I was only thinking of eliminating learned bigotry, but you raise a worthwhile question.

Well, most of humanity has been sexist since time out of mind. Even if AIs are trained on nothing but objective data, they can’t help but mirror our sexist society. They must be carefully programmed to show society as it could be, instead of how it is. At the same time, they have to keep facts right - like the number of fingers on a hand, for example.

Even then, I’m sure we’ll encounter problems. AIs do not “think” in ways we understand.

I love that this was considered enough of a problem that the manager felt the need to post a sign.

I feel sorry for the employees. That manager is probably hell to work for.