In America, and other countries, it used to be backed by gold.

Best ELI5 here!

This is part of what Forrest Gump was about. Think Forrest and Bubba would have made it to boot in the first place?

our aim is to keep Reddit the most human place on the internet

Every time this guy posts or speaks publicly he has to mention the “human” aspect of reddit. No idea why. 🙄

The Debian bit hit a little too close for home. “You only use the command line.” Debian has a GUI?!

Hence the post! Everyone will still understand your intent and take the appropriate action.

If someone says, “Turn the AC up.” you know they want it colder but you actually turn it down.

Semantic satiation is the word you’re looking for. :)

The bullshit lemmy tells me I see on Windows, I do not see. I have never once had a Windows issue that has come up on here.

I don’t hate AI nearly so much as I hate what’s going to happen to the American economy, and then the rest of the world. Have a look at the Buffett Index.

That’s all driven by AI speculation. We haven’t seen numbers like that in history, not before the Great Depression, dotcom bust, 2008, never.

American here, kids are 11 and 13. I have no memory of paying anything for our doctors, testing, delivery, anything at all. I had health insurance for myself, and my wife was unemployed for at least one of those births.

Posts like this really fuck with my head. We were living in a trailer on one income and somehow it was all free? Had to have been, I’d remember the budget hit back then. We didn’t get any sort of welfare, not even food stamps. But we must have?

Also, their infant to toddler years were basically free. Clothes, toys, furniture, whatever, all $0. My ex might spend $10 on FB Marketplace and score a monster garbage sack of basically new clothes. Only real expense I remember was diapers. No getting away from that!

There are dozens of FB groups, even in this little metro, giving baby stuff away. You buy it, use it a few months or a year, pass it on. Want a car seat? There is at least one at someone’s curb here in the hood, right now tonight.

My wife breast fed our first, couldn’t go as long for second born. First go round she bagged and donated milk. Second go round, we got that milk back. We did spend a little on formula, but much was donated.

Just don’t understand why people act like babies are so expensive.

You might like this Morakniv. I got it to cut rope on the water and in case of emergency. It would zip through a seat belt. Cheap, weighs nothing.

You and I are 1-in-50 purchasers, if that. Nobody gives a shit if AI is in the game.

Go grab a random dude on the street,

“Hey! Just one question? If you’re considering buying a video game, is the fact they used AI in making it a deal breaker?”

Nobody cares. I’m with ya. Don’t fucking buy it, I won’t. But enough other people will that it won’t make a difference.

You can tell most everything you need to know about a company by looking at the CEO. That’s because they’re the leader, they set the tone, contrary to lemmy beliefs. Happy or unhappy employees? Look to the CEO. Solid earnings, year after year after year? CEO. I ask at every interview, “What’s the CEO like?” BUT…

A) Ultimately, CEOs do what the fucking board of directors wants, or they get fired, hence, the golden parachute. Would you take a monster job knowing that you could be forced to fuck your industry reputation and not hedge that bet? Nah. Force me to do something stupid yet needful? I want paid when you fire me on purpose for doing what you said.

B) I think you are in an echo chamber around here. Most CEOs are great folks, you only hear about the major fuck ups at the major companies. Also, the decisions the big dogs make that lemmy tells you are unpopular, really aren’t unpopular in the wider world. EA Games still exists after all.

everyone will have to 'fess up to using it eventually as AI will become "involved in nearly all future production.

True enough! No reason not to say it up front, right?

Look y’all, not 1-in-20 people give a flying fuck about AI like we do on here.

Most people won’t run an ad blocker.

Incels. Interlinked.

Wait till you hear where ice cream truck music comes from.

If the natives are outgunned and technologically outclassed, how are they to prevail without help from “the inside”? Otherwise it’s just a depressing plot about the natives getting overrun.

the natives are incapable of helping themselves

I’m having trouble thinking of a time when the natives were able to help themselves against colonizers. OTOH, guerilla warfare has worked pretty damned well in the last century.

Ah! But you’re not accounting for radio, then television and now the internet. Mass communication is squashing languages and dialects and accents flat, while at the same time working for archival purposes.