WonderRin

joined 6 months ago
[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

If it's any consolation, a lot of us don't feel like adults

I remember I was asked by multiple people when I turned 18 how I felt. What I felt was that that was a weird question lol. It's not like one day passing made me suddenly feel somehow different from the day before.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

What's the point then? I pay for a game that I'm not even playing just so, what, my numbers of "completed" games goes up?

I'm someone who likes seeing the stats go up as I watch anime. But I do it naturally and over time. This AI idea is like if I were to start an anime, put it on auto-play while I sleep, and when I wake up it'll be done, without me seeing a single scene.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Kinda same. One time in primary school when I got a book from the school's library, I had to walk about 10 minutes to get to the bus station after classes, and I remember being disappointed that this meant I couldn't continue the book for those 10 minutes. I also had a children's encyclopedia back then with all sorts of topics from astronomy to history to technology, that I read several times.

Granted, I was never necessarily all in on reading. I would be split between that and gaming or TV as well. But compare that to today, after school managed to kill reading for me, and now I don't really read, and just play games or watch anime instead.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Damn, I got here too late, I wanted to make this reference too!

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps a dumb question, but I'm not from the U.S, so a genuine question here: Why might the Superbowl be a way for a lot of Americans to learn about ICE?

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Personally, as a European, I would be pro this happening if Canada wants to join and the EU is willing to let them join.

I get that geographically it wouldn't make much sense, but culture is also important. Geographically, Belarus for example should join the EU instead of Canada, but I think most of us can agree that Belarus should not.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago

This is the second comment I see mentioning Upscrolled, and the first I see mentioning Cara. Up until like two minutes ago, I have not heard about either of those, and I think I don't want to hear about them anyway. I haven't been using TikTok or Instagram anyway, so I don't really need a replacement for those apps.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, it's just like with cookies. Sure, even without an Adblocker and all that, you could disable the cookies, but that means pressing several more buttons to disable all of the things. So, I feel like most people unfortunately just press accept and move on because it's the quickest way to get to the information they were searching for.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Elon Musk being against the social media ban on under 16-year-olds is him basically reaching a good conclusion from the wrong equation, because he's not doing it out of privacy concerns about how everyone would probably have to verify themselves to prove that they're older than 16 years old. He's doing it because it would not be good for his business.

I'm not sure how they could implement this without requiring ID verification on every single internet user. I guess I'm not familiar with the topic enough to say if there is another way that they could pursue, but even if there is, at the same time, I'm not too confident in the governments opting for the other options. I'm from neither Spain nor Greece, so I guess I can't speak on this, but I'm just referring to governments as a general group. And because a lot of different countries are trying to do this at the same time, I'm also not too confident about my own country not doing this at some point, sooner or later.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, even if time travel were theoretically possible to be invented, there's also a high chance that we're just going to destroy ourselves before we get to that point anyway.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

I feel like this will end up being a cycle. The AI companies are pushing for AI summaries, which then leads to younger Gen Z and the new Gen Alpha being familiar with and preferring AI summaries. This, in turn, leads to other companies implementing AI summaries because they see that's what the new generations are using, which leads to the new generations being even more accustomed to those summaries, which leads to more companies implementing them, and it's just an endless cycle.

[–] WonderRin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Not sure how to make sense of the first one, but as for the second one, it seems like they forgot to type a word. Add "on" right before "Valve's handheld", and that sentence makes sense now.

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