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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • If a feature is useful people will use it, be it AI or not AI.

    People will also use it if it’s not useful, if it’s the default.

    A friend of mine did a search the other day to find the hour of something, and google’s AI lied to her. Top of the page, just completely wrong.

    Luckily I said, “That doesn’t sound right” and checked the official site, where we found the truth.

    Google is definitely forcing this out, even when it’s inferior to other products. Hell, it’s inferior to their own, existing product.

    But people will keep using AI, because it’s there, and it’s right most of the time.

    Google sucks. They should be broken up, and their leadership barred from working in tech. We could have had a better future. Instead we have this hallucinatory hellhole.












  • This feels like a setup for a comic like

    Villain: casts this spell. “You fools! You’re now too gay to defeat me! Cower before my mighty hetero–”

    Gay fighter stabs villain

    Double gay ranger shoots him with an arrow.

    Pause for a beat

    Party: “So pride is this weekend you want to go to the beach?”

    Like, the spell had no impact on their combat prowess and the bigot thought it would.



  • My monthly food bill is typically around $120.

    • A lot of beans or other canned vegetables: $30
    • Bread: $5
    • Peanut butter, $8
    • bananas: $10
    • rice: $10
    • Other fruit that’s on sale: $10
    • Some fresh vegetables (usually onions, broccoli, peppers): $10
    • Flour: $10 (may last more than a month)
    • yeast: $5
    • Seasonings: $5 (also lasts more than a month)
    • Cheese: $5
    • Tomato sauce: $5
    • Pasta: $5

    I got laid off a while ago so I’m trying to make my dollars go farther. When I had a well paying job, I’d also buy more stuff, but nothing too crazy. I miss hummus the most, I think. I never buy soda.

    The other day I was with someone and we decided to order food like old times, and it was like $40 for two of us. I was like, fuck, that’s a third of my whole month’s budget right there. But I don’t want to live like a monk all the time.