V0ldek

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is probably the least surprising thing ever.

CocaCola is like the symbol of capitalism. Everything they produce is corporate slop. GenAI is a perfect fit -- soulless, artless, hastily slapped together bright pictures that ultimately don't matter and carry no value. The world is not better with CocaCola ads, and it would be no worse without them. They're just there, to be lost in time, forgotten. Like tears in the rain.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

You know, you can just click on the link in the article to watch the ad it talks about

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Radical thought, maybe read the article?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If you're hearing this, then there is still hope. Hope that you can avoid making the same mistakes we made.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So, how does Abdaal watch anime and TV productively you might ask? Well, the fact that his listens to audio books on 3.5x speed should give you an idea.

[…] normally what I do is, I'll just speed-speed-speed-speed-speed-speed-speed up until it gets to an interesting point, and I'll speed it as fast as I can so I can still keep up with it.

And because he obviously can't hear what's being said when watching at 3.5x speed anymore, he's speed-reading subtitles.

Lol, great, at that point you can just as well read the plot synopsis on a wiki or something. Or ask ChatGPT to tell you what it was about... aaand I just rediscovered the main thesis of this essay, nice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I see calling like Raegan's margin in 1984 "decisive"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Also, not that it’s the point but I have to note that technically most election victories are decisive, in the sense that they resolve the winner with little to no ambiguity (which is usually the case, even when the margin is narrow). In that sense, the only way Trump’s victory is not decisive is if you contest the legitimacy of the whole election.

This is such pedantry that you might as well say "the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines decisive as..."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Also it isn't? 50.2% to 48.1% of votes is not decisive in any sensible meaning of the word?

If you account for the turnout (around 60%) it means 30% voted for Trump and 28.9% for Harris, so "none of those" won decisively with 40%!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

My mom will never grok LibreOffice.

I tried to switch her for a long time but I gave up when she called me one day to complain that her coworker can't open a file she saved. Apparently the coworker in question was too, emm, talented to open an .odf

There are things that are outside of human reach. I can't even put into words the strife that MSFT caused in my house when they switched Internet Explorer to Edge and thus "broke" her computer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

We should harness this and power ChatGPT with it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Audibly rolling my eyes

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