Social media is just one of many forms of open communication that any technological society will eventually have to weather.

What's going on now could have happened in email chains or newsgroups (truthfully worse had probably happened on usenet just at smaller scales)

As much as social media leaves a vile taste in our mouths, I'd say the problem is beyond social media itself; it's just the transport, or the messenger if you will. People are sending the drivel, projectile vomiting it back and forth, anonymous, non-anonymous, verified, paid-verified.

The bar used to be well if you leave things unchecked, you end up with kiddie pics, but that apparently isn't bad enough anymore.

Public forums need to be moderated. Some basic level of morals, voted on openly by the masses, needs to set the moral limits of speech. Free Speech at the cost of hate speech? Free Speech at the cost of facist takeovers? How about another fairness in broadcasting act. How about penalties for fake news? How about penalties for opinion pieces filled with lies?

We are incapable of moderating ourselves well enough not to have some safeguards in place. We are also incapable of letting the "elected officials" decide what those safeguards should be. Shit needs to be WAAAAY more democratic than Bob Moneybags deciding that pornhub is too much because he managed to gerrymander his way into power. Morale laws get voted on directly from the individual, and all Bob gets to do is suggest what goes on the ballot.

I've converted no one. But I get the most tempted looks when I say: there are no ads, and when you search for anime, noone is adding that to their secret database of your likes

Especially when you try to expliain that you can send stuff from mastodon to lemmy, but not lemmy to mastodon, unless it's just tagging a user, and then it's only on certain platforms.

We all play together, but we don't all play the same way and it's not always nice.

There was a video of it somewhere months ago. They're not taking the wheel; they're just telling the automation to stop what it's doing and give it alternate commands it can actually execute. They showed a gridlock of waymo, they went back to a car that could actually get out of the situation, told it to go park, then told the ones in front of it to back up until the locked car could get out.

Seems like something an autonomous swarm should already be able to do.

That's not quite how they're doing it, though. That BMW vallet image on the site is misleading. I watched some documentary recently where they talked about this.

They're intervening when the shitty AI can't figure something out, which is a lot. But they're not driving it remotely; the latency would be dangerous. They're telling the automation to back up and go around or to pull up to a certain point.

You still have to pay for all the lidar sensors and computers on the car. You're just paying the cheap labor to change the instructions when the ai can't complete the assignment as it currently estimates it.

We used to put indoor koi ponds in houses too.

From the pit standpoint, you could excavate the whole thing, put a sump in then build it two-level.

There's always a way, it's just not usually cheap.

So, this is TOTALLY doable with two caveats:

1. For most things, you're going to need a variance on high-efficiency and pollution laws. Those old appliances weren't sipping water and electricity, and their refrigeration cycles threw out tons of waste heat and used refrigerants that were super rough on the atmosphere.

2. They're going to cost 3 times as much as a current appliance. Those heavy metal fridges were expensive back in the day, they were equialent to thousands of dollars today with shitty freezers and manual defrosting. Cast metal and shipping are disproportionately more expensive than the used to be.

My wife started watching tt, I had just escaped the youtube client, reddit and facebook. I watched we swipe past 6 things and pause to watch one for 30 seconds, then swipe through 4 more. OHHH FUCK NO, NOT TODAY SATAN.

I do have to admit, She gets her news a LOT faster than I do. But she also gets a tremendous amount of knee-jerk conjecture.

Honey, did you hear X?

Umm, that doesn't sound quite right.

grumble well I just saw it, but whatever

I'm ok with almost everything there except Debian. And I'm not even running Debian these days.

There's nothing super or complicated about it that would make it Chad. It just works out of the box with non-free software.

If this was an S-Tier, I'd agree, but Chat tier connotates there's some reason normal users would not run it.

Their biggest failure is the failure to market.

I didn't see bezos or mush in that list.

In a baby steps scenario, I'd count that as a marginal win.

It's marketing, my friend.

Just inconvenience yourself for this month for the greater good.

Ohh month's already up... he that wasn't that bad was it, maybe keep going?

We're the closest we've been since the cloud started, but sadly, people are still addicted to the almighty algorithm.