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These idiots just want to return to the 1950s where baby's were healthy. You know because infant mortality in Australia was almost 10 times higher so all the babies who had a troubled start just fucking died. But at least you only saw the strong babies being wheeled around in strollers by their mothers, and that's all that counts. Seriously these people...

I think all the online influencers need to be tracked down and asked if they are confident enough in their whack job conspiracy theory beliefs to be held to the same standards as the Medical Professionals they slander. A few medical malpractice claims in the right community should make a lot of people a lot more considered in what they say.

My first thought was, how do you work at a company with literal toddlers at management level and above and expect it to end well? I just started at a job where my boss is planning on slowing down and stepping back. A key part of getting the job was a willingness to work independently and with little to no direct supervision.

But then my boss is in touch with his business and aware of what's happening without having to actively spy on us. Also finding he loathes progress reports for the sake of progress reports. I'm still adjusting to no longer being actively micromanaged but it's clear that I need to check in when something is too much for me or when it's finished, anything else is wasting time.

Cool, if there are two resources this country has way too much of its power and water.

Just the other day I was complaining to my wife that our powerbill is way too low, I was really hoping the government would come up with a strategy to raise it...

And water, well we are having a good year with record levels in local catchments, that means this will be the way of things forever... Right... Right?

We couldn't possibly end up facing down water restrictions while slop factories got to keep using because of the economic necessity... Right? Right?

Late stage capitalism just continues to be the gift that craps down the collective throats of all the people.

on Saucy Memes · c/australia · 4 pts · 46d

Not myself, the old man. Strange that it affected the three people who used tomato sauce but not the two people who didn't, tomato sauce vs chilli sauce being the only difference in their meals.

So tell me, let's hypothetically say you strongly suspect that tomato sauce which had gone bad turned your ass into an IED for two days. Would it really stress you to put the bottle, the one that says refrigerate after opening, in the fridge?

Hell I have a cousin that can't bring himself to eat garlic bread, and an ex who can't eat chicken for the exact same reason.

If anything the old man just made a small tweak to how he stores it and kept throwing it on his meat pies, showing some real gastrointestinal fortitude.

on Saucy Memes · c/australia · 3 pts · 46d

My dad became a strong advocate for this after a particularly nasty dose of food poisoning.

"But it's too hard to get out of the bottle!!!"

"You know what wasn't hard to get out? The two days of explosive diarrhoea! I'll take shaking the bottle a bit, thank you."

Its worse than that, if they were to do a Microsoft or Sony and sell it at a loss to try and make money back on the games, then what would happen when they sell through the batch they currently have of presumably pre "BiBi and Donnys special visit to Iran" costed units, then what?

Suddenly all the other components are spiking in price, the pcbs and the plastic cost more, the packaging is more expensive, and they are forced to raise their prices. The sound of screeching from the terminally online intensifies as a bunch of "experts" declare that Valve can afford to lose money because Gabe isn't walking around in a barrel Diogenes style.

As a software company in the hardware industry Valve are a lot further down the chain than the bigger names, they aren't securing super long term contracts with anyone. They don't dictate terms. I doubt they are making a ton of money on any of their hardware, they are just trying to nudge the market in the right direction. We are going to see so many knock off steam machines in the next few years, Microsoft will keep releasing targetted versions of Windows to try to smother SteamOS, its a great time for the rest of the gaming ecosystem while AI fucks the hardware side.

Once the US economy craters into the recession it should by all rights currently be working through... Oh I am sure at that point there will be all sorts of companies dumping all sorts of things into every market they can to try to survive.

The AI bubble bursting will fuck the world in ways that will take decades to unfuck. If sanity was even slightly fashionable right now governments around the world, especially the US would be using every power they had to put some limits on this whole mess. Regulation, taxation, environmental controls everything would be on the table.

Instead we seem to be racing at the wall as fast as we can with NVidia and co in the driving seat, and governments around the world in the passenger seat screaming "Go! Go! Go!"

That's OK though, economic turmoil is felt by the individual based on their starting wealth. The rich often manage to become wealthier, it's the poor who get buried. Yay capitalism.

Our sense of morals are adaptive and mutable, for good and ill. I have definitely done dumb stuff without thinking in the past, I have done the wrong thing with the best and worst of intentions, I try to learn from it and become a better person.

Also, I do not have some paternal permission slip of a god who will absolve me of my wrong doings, I have to live with everything I do, good and bad, it's a pretty powerful incentive to do better and to seek professional help when needed.

I hope I got across I wasn't trying to be critical. Just curious. And I find the actual homophobes so painfully tedious to talk to that I generally just don't any more. I can't imagine how bad it must be for LGBTQ people who have those opinions smashed round their heads at every turn. Have a nice day.

I'm curious, why would the gay shi be a problem? I am straight and I remember when I read "A Land Fit for Heroes" I just kinda read it, but there was all this public discourse about how "The Gays don't belong in Fantasy", which first of all LOL. Secondly I have never had an issue with the portrayal of people who are different than myself. The protagonist of a piece of media having a different sexuality to me makes about as much difference as them having a different gender, or skin colour, or handedness, or hair colour, or taste in music. So I am just curious why that was a point that needed pointing out?

Not accusing you of putting any sort of spin on that BTW. Just genuinely curious why something I believe is a fairly minor part of the plot (haven't played it, just listened to a bunch of online gamer screeching) was something you felt warranted disclosure?

What I am curious about is why this should be a negative for anyone, devs who want to use AI get an easy way to filter out the people who will kick back against it, the people who will kick back against it get a quieter existence, Lemmy should be happy.

I keep seeing how having to categorise will provide a perverse incentive to not disclose and I guess I don't understand why that would be the case.

It's not like they are tricking people into buying these free programs, it's not like they are soliciting contributions from other devs (they have an AI for that), and its not like there is some sort of score being kept (besides earning some sort of credibility on Github as a pro-AI developer through that star thing I guess).

So what would be the motivation to try to trick the community into embracing these sorts of projects? Open and enthusiastic disclosure and a community push to simply move on if you find that style of development distasteful would work better for everyone.

I have walked away from using a project that was developed with AI and I didn't feel the need to slam the developer for it, I just moved on. They didn't betray my trust because they don't owe me anything, and I didn't unfairly judge their work because I don't owe them anything. Everyone's a winner.

But that's just my humble opinion.

So I wonder if the pay is better in the Right Wing grifterverse... I mean if he wanted d out of any contracts with Nine, so he could do a hard pivot into that media realm this was guaranteed to get that result. It's not going to hurt him with the type of person who was always going to follow him / One Nation voters. The only people this will turn off are the terminally uninformed who think he is some sort of impartial centrist, surely a vanishingly small number of people who were only ever going to passively watch him on breakfast TV.

Its almost like they use a complicated model to determine the price based on what the market will bear rather than set a price based upon a certain percentage of profit against cost pricing and some countries embrace the cult regardless of the cost. You could almost view Apples pricing in a given market as a measure of the pragmatism and rationality of the local consumer base.

Worldwide the prices are likely to go up as the data centres they use to provide these tangible benefits have to compete with AI data centres for resources. It will be interesting to see if price rises are applied evenly or if they use some of the more profitable whales to subsidise the areas where the consumer base is more sceptical.

I also wonder if theres going to be a golden age of snapping up unused capacity when the AI bubble bursts and all these speculative data centres that are being built before the demand eventuates get desperate to stay afloat.