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Can you back it up with data? Or is it just what your bubble thinks? For whatever reason anti-AI sentiment seems very prevalent on much of the Fediverse, but the Fediverse as a whole is niche.

“Nobody wants” is false.

Whereas I’m upvoting because I support adding options. If you don’t like it, don’t use it.

Not to mention that in the atomic oxygen case it all comes back 5 seconds later, resulting in the greatest firestorm the Earth has ever seen as it recombines.

They are not yet in a similar boat.

At least Ukraine can show that some positives have come out of the war for them, too. Their bonds with Europe have strengthened, their national identity has been forged in fire. I’m not saying it wouldn’t have been awesome if the war had never happened, or that it was a net benefit, but at least they are coming out of this with some real tangible benefits in addition to the tragic losses.

Russia gets nothing and loses everything.

And Argentina’s hyperinflation is way down. Argentina had 112% inflation previously. Economies are complicated and you can have good things happening alongside bad things, for various reasons.

My point is that the simple fact that Argentina needed a bailout doesn’t mean that his policies “don’t work.” These things are more complicated than a simple red or black number in an annual balance sheet.

To be clear, I don’t like Milei. But Argentina was in a terrible state for a long time before he came to power, and whether I like a person or not doesn’t have much effect on whether his policies are effective.

Or, Argentina simply has an enormous hole to dig itself out of from its previous mismanagement.

I’m not actually fond of most Libertarian policies myself, I lean socialist in general. But you can’t judge his performance purely on the basis of needing a lot of money, he wasn’t starting from a blank slate. From what I’ve read he’s actually managed to make good progress on a couple of deep economic problems Argentina had.

Yes, I know. I’m saying it should be an unnecessary layer.

Sure, it’s possible. But you’re basically turning the browser into a virtual machine and building an app on that virtual machine, jumping through a lot of weird hoops in the process. It’s unnecessary. Or should be unnecessary, anyway, with a sane operating system.

Here’s the app’s page on Google Play.

Features: • Anonymous Recording – No account, no personal details required. • Secure Uploads – Encrypted transfer to privacy-focused storage. • Map-Based Sharing – Videos appear where they happened, for public awareness. • Offline Support – Record even without internet; upload when connected. • Metadata Control – Strips identifying data before publishing.

Seems like more than just a website wrapper.

Yeah, Usenet was structured that way more for practical reasons than political ones. Local users were truly local, as in you usually connected to a server that was geographically close to you. Often it was on the same university campus you were on. The long-distance connections between servers didn’t have the bandwidth for everyone to just be freely hopping around browsing whatever they wanted whenever they wanted, at least not at first, so mirroring the content was a better approach. It also made things much more reliable, the servers didn’t need 100% uptime.

Usenet was a lot more “trusting” in its structure. The newsgroups didn’t have moderators per se, and they weren’t hosted by specific instances; they were more just a “tag” you could add to a post to let people filter which subjects they were interested in seeing. There was a globally agreed upon list of newsgroups and a distributed system for creating new ones, but it was all pretty informal. Wouldn’t work well in the current Internet, it’d get spammed to death in seconds. But on the surface level it really felt a lot like the modern Fediverse does, with subject-specific groups and threaded discussions and such.

Long ago, when I first got on the Internet, the big social media forum was Usenet. It was a distributed network of instances where users would have an account on a particular instance, where they could subscribe to “newsgroups” dedicated to particular topics. Their instance would broadcast their posts to a newsgroup to all the other instances that were following that newsgroup, so everyone could interact even if they were on different instances.

Then the World Wide Web grew, and centralized sites like Digg and Reddit appeared that handled the same sort of social media. Usenet faded. It’s still around, I suppose, though these days last I checked it’s largely a mechanism for distributing pirated files.

Someday those centralized sites might also fade. Who knows, maybe a decentralized system like Usenet might grow again to replace it?

The wheel turns.

You explicitly say you’re casually dating, and your description of how you approach marriage indicates you consider marriage to be “casual” too.

The woman you’re dating says she’d like a more serious relationship, but your history and your own explanation of your philosophy indicates you don’t do serious relationships.

Yeah, that’s a red flag. I don’t see how it couldn’t be, or why you’d be surprised by this. Frankly it sounds like it’s good that you’re both being honest about this incompatibility up front, it’ll save you from divorce number six and let her know she needs to look elsewhere for that serious relationship.

Anger feels good. Especially anger that is socially validated. Being part of an angry mob means you get to feel righteous anger and not fear negative repercussions because everyone’s supporting you and providing cover for your bad behaviour.

And social media like this, where you can be an anonymous member of an angry mob? Candy for the human psyche.

In theory, the Nobel’s prize money is meant to support the winners in future endeavours. So not much point if they’re dead. IIRC Nobel didn’t really intend it to be about fame and glory, it was meant to be supporting development in those fields the Nobels were allocated to.

Answering your questions specifically:

I mostly never delete anything. Storage space is pretty cheap these days. The exception is stuff that I’ve downloaded that’s large and likely to be easy to download again in the future, like popular TV shows or movies.

I store them as plain old files in a plain old directory tree. I actually don’t like using zip files for this sort of thing because if one gets corrupted somehow that could destroy everything in it. Why take the risk for minimal benefit? Compression doesn’t gain much, as I said storage space is pretty cheap these days.

No particular naming convention. I give the directories names that seem meaningful to me and I put them in a structure that seems meaningful. Some stuff is a bit more rigorously organized, for example I keep audio logs as a personal journal and those get automatically sorted into folders based on the date they were recorded. Same with photos. But the rest is just however seems right to me. Spaces are fine, it’s the 2020s, technology has advanced quite a bit since the olden days.

The result is that there’s a large amount of data that I would have no idea how to find or sort through easily. But I actually anticipated AI to some degree so that never bothered me, and now I can be pretty confident that within a few years I’ll have an agent running locally that I can point at my archive and say “hey, what was the name of my neighbors ten years ago, again? I’ve forgotten.” And it’ll dig out everything relevant to that. I’m already almost there for my audio journal, I’ve transcribed it all and built a little search engine for it.

And then there’s the Americans, for whom literally everything has to be about America in some way or another.

By which do you mean “nothing but vibes?” I’m not trying to support a particular position here, I’m just challenging yours. If you’ve got nothing to back it up then you’re just throwing your own personal opinion into the ring and that’s not really worth much.