nickiwest

joined 11 months ago
[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

I theorize that the fragile straights aren't actually straight. Which I assume is what the developer is poking fun at with the quotation marks.

Our social default is still to assume that most people are straight. It doesn't make sense for a straight person to have a driving need to prove that they are straight ... unless they think someone would have a good reason to put them into a "non-straight" category.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

If Dobbs continues to be the law of the land for any real length of time, we can also expect crime rates to rise in 18 to 20 years, just as they fell in the same time frame after Roe. But I'm sure the GOP is already planning to spin that as the Democrats' fault, too.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

I wonder what would happen if the world found out that Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (or any other celebrity/athlete/role model) was using Chat GPT to respond to fan mail. My gut feeling is that people would find it disingenuous at best -- and there would probably be significant outrage.

Where's the AI that does my dishes and cleans my house so I have more time to write, create, and connect with others? That's the technology I want -- not one that does the meaningful part and leaves the menial stuff up to me.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

The convicted felon?

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

We also would have accepted Rusty Shackleford.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Agreed on both counts.

Let's not forget Echo, November and Whiskey from Dollhouse.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

For real. Every time I'm scrolling through a news article and I see a rectangle with an X in the upper-right corner, my initial reaction is, "Oops. Ad. Scroll past." I'm quite certain I've missed some embedded tweets that way.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

This is something I wish that more people understood. In almost any other democracy in the world, Bernie Sanders is only slightly left of center. On a global scale, US Democrats are a center-right party and US Republicans are a far-right party. There are no successful left-wing politicians in the United States.