Presenting everything that’s happening as somehow normal — even while sensationalizing it — is what the mass media do now. I don’t mean it’s a conspiracy, it’s just that’s all they know how to do.

Justin.tv

I will perfect the science of divination with frog entrails.

I’m surprised that I haven’t yet seen anyone influential claiming that AI is the Antichrist.

Uh huh. Anyway, I guess someone has to link this: https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Far-Side-Dog-Translator.jpg

Somebody should go ahead and make an “is-user-old” command that just reads from /etc/age.txt and returns YES, NO, or IDK.

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The conclusion is correct but you need to show your work a little more.

That feeling the rest of the world gets when Americans applaud someone for preventing “domestic” mass surveillance.

searx NG.

What would I do? Probably flee the settlements and take my chances as a swamp shaman.

Well I disagree with you both, but I’m upvoting you anyway.

I’d probably do it if I were a lemmy user, so long as you can hide upvotes as well.

Web sites cannot know the geographic location of all their visitors, and it’s silly of them to pretend otherwise.

Some of the bots, on the other hand, are very easily distinguishable from humans. The one who’s profile I checked out was posting well-polished exactly bot-like political memes for the past few months at a rate that would be a full-time job for an unassisted human.

I saw a couple that were obviously bots, when I looked at a news-relevant hashtag on mastodon today. I only noticed two, but that’s two more than usual.

Higher oil prices due to a global carbon tax would be an incentive to move away from fossil fuels. Higher oil prices due to war is just a gift to every petrostate that isn’t directly hit by the war, and is great news for Vladimir Putin and American oil companies. The higher prices, should they persist, will be taken as a market signal to expand production even more. I can already picture Mark Carney and his friends gloating about how Canadian oil and gas exports are even more profitable now.

Go ahead and upload your biometric data to “age verification” websites, kids. It’s perfectly safe. What’s the worst that could happen?

It depends on the society you’re talking about, how newsworthy the bad outcomes are considered, and whether or not everyone has unconsciously made a decision to ignore the risks of the thing because we’re all used to it like we are with cars and fossil fuels.

I remember when “dogging” was the hobby everyone was talking about. When was that, 2015 maybe? Good times.