circuitfarmer, circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org

Can’t stop winning.

The sheer amount of vacuum in that orange head surely must be causing issues. I saw what happened to Oceangate. Granted it had more than one vacuum inside.

How many more signs are we waiting for?

How about we remove the dangers to children who are in congress or other parts of the government, before we use it as a scapegoat to take away privacy rights?

Don’t look too closely at family trees in the Bible Belt.

Time for a new supervisor.

Porn-Tsar is my new favorite word.

Yes, and Tucker Carlson. It’s kind of a thing.

The difference is that Beck and Carlson are actually more straightforward with regards to how they lean. Rogan always suggests he’s a centrist, sometimes even suggesting he is apolitical, which is patently false.

Thanks. I like to be extra careful.

There was one that really stuck with me. This poor homeowner needed a plumber but she had no cash. It was a harrowing story of love and loss, and the climax was stunning.

Yes, I agree with that about confused young men. However, at the end of the day, if JRE turns them into toxic men, then they’re still just toxic men.

I would hope that doesn’t happen. In general I think we as a society need to be kinder to these confused young men before they take that path. It’s a more difficult conversation to have and the solution is not very clear.

Either way, JRE is dangerous because it offers propagandistic suppositions as answers to people with big questions.

I’ve never understood why this theme became so popular in porn. But also, it’s porn. If you’re watching it for the plot, you should probably be watching something else.

But obviously, this is more about banning something than actually an issue with the porn. Oiling up that slippery slope.

Because if so, then it seems like even the slightest bit of critical thinking ability would easily steer men clear of it.

Absolutely correct, in my view. “Fear of judgment and a low sense of self worth” is also spot on.

Rogan gave national voice to plenty of people who regularly used the term “snowflake” to describe what they saw as weak people who like to complain (I’m speaking from memory here and generalizing; Rogan probably has also used this term himself, but I’m not searching transcripts, so take all this with a grain of salt). By this logic, a “snowflake” is someone who is perceived as weak because they let so much affect them emotionally.

But these toxic men are “snowflakes” in every sense of the term. They go on Joe Rogan to complain about trans people, or gay rights, or “the war on Christmas”, or the perceived persecution of “alpha males”, or any number of other issues. Some guests are only famous because they complain about such things.

So what is the difference between a toxic “alpha male” on Joe Rogan and one of the “snowflakes” they like to complain about? Absolutely nothing, except that the toxic men believe that anger doesn’t count as an emotion, so their insecurity allows them to show it regularly.

(And to be clear, there is nothing wrong with showing emotion or caring deeply about something – that’s not a point I’m trying to make)

These products exist to collect data to train models. Every other function they perform is secondary.

People are paying hundreds for these, and then they’re paying the companies with their data, over and over again. Never before has an industry been able to have such spin on a product.

It’s effectively paying a company for the ability to give them unpaid labor.

So is it fair to say (in your view) that the case is more about AI personhood than copyright itself?

Headline definitely seems misleading. Even some parts of the body of the article try and push it the other way.

MAGA will never turn on Trump.

They spent years harping on a “deep state cabal” that was trafficking children. When the world learned that the reality was actually much worse, but Daddy Trump was implicated, all of a sudden it was fake news.

If that didn’t do it, nothing will. They won’t turn on Trump because MAGA is a cult of personality. It’s not about facts and it’s not even about principles. It’s about each of them keeping Donald Trump’s tiny penis in their mouth at all times.

The FCC added that Charter and other cable firms will continue to face competition from fiber, fixed wireless, and satellite broadband providers. Competition from those sectors “will have a significantly greater impact on their pricing decisions than the possible increased ability to benchmark due to the loss of a single cable provider (Cox) in a different territory,” the FCC said.

Horseshit. Only in America is the literal handful of ISPs available considered healthy competition. This makes a couple near monopolies into nearer monopolies.

Sloths can’t poop without leaving the tree

Rogan is a great example of a few things:

• The Dunning-Kruger effect

• “I’m just asking questions” being used as an excuse to host an unbalanced number of individuals purporting one specific worldview

• Toxic masculinity posing as intellectualism

He is extremely popular with one particular demographic. That demographic tends to share the toxic masculinity and the Dunning-Kruger-fueled belief that they can be experts at everything from the armchair.

Microsoft will have plenty more missteps as they continue to fall from relevance.