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AGMs are actually worth the squeeze even on a car that doesn’t necessarily require one, they’re genuinely good-ass batteries. Expensive, though. But they’ll blow the pants off a lead acid in a stress test.

Also lots of cars have an option to toggle the auto-off. Not all of them though. And some will reset it every time you turn the car on and off.

I’d be surprised if that’s still what it says. They have the edit history, they could roll it back whenever.

I guarantee with 100% certainty that that isn’t what they’re feeding into their AI, as well. You just planted a great big flagpole on all your old content that states “this account was previously run by a real live human” and probably doubled the value of the edited comments for AI training. Bots don’t have a reason to protest-edit their content.

I approve of the attitude, but spez has got us in a vice here where any attempt to damage reddit’s data store is actually just helping them. Best thing to do at this point is to scrub them from memory and just ignore them forever. Unless you’re up for some seriously large-scale corporate sabotage, that’s the best we’ve got.

The peak of their problems is the impending fall of international society into fascism and ecological collapse

But they’re not old enough to be expected to worry about that yet.

That’s the fucking Feywild, bro. Those borders aren’t going to stay where they’re at. France needs to look out.

I award you a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Even if there isn’t tech to buy I’d immediately make infinite money off the instant private delivery of goods. You would have every drug dealer and government in the world blowing up your phone to get your services.

We’re currently on GPT-4… You should look up what happened to GPT-1 through 3. If I remember right GPT-2 in particular was ruined by a bad feedback loop that ended up locking it into only writing the most disgusting, vile smut you could think of in response to any query. Not sure what happened to the others but frankly speaking I don’t think “feral rampancy” is off the table here.

The media industry, like several other industries in America, is never going to shed its yoke unless it is destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up. It’s the unfortunate truth. The destruction of the media giants would be very bad for individual creators in the short term and potentially the only way to actually regain control of their industry in the long term.

I say, let 'em burn. You can’t stop humans from making art, but we can stop working for Disney’s bottom line. But that’s easy for me to say as someone who doesn’t make their living from that.

This movie was 100% trash and I loved it when I watched it as a kid. It did not hold up to a later rewatching as a 20-something, even when stoned.

Or on big-ass clock towers that are supposed to be visible from a large part of the surrounding area.

Arguably, yeah it could be performance art.

This sounds exactly Aussie enough to be true

I have really, really mixed feelings about this. On one hand I understand that YouTube is a business and Google needs it to at least approach profitability. If nobody watches ads and nobody pays for premium, there’s no profit. No profit means the adpocalypse gets worse to make up costs, or else the service gets shut down.

On the other hand YouTube is such trash compared to what it was even just a couple years ago that I also use an alternate front-end.

I don’t want it to disappear because I really don’t think anyone else has the resources to do what Google has done with YouTube. If we lose YouTube, especially if we lose it and aren’t left with access to the data store of existing videos, we’ve lost an incredible amount of information. Millions of hours of tutorials and good information will be taken away from the world, not to even mention the billions of hours of entertainment. I don’t want to lose YouTube and what it means for international informational accessibility. But I’m also not going to sit through twice as many ads as I have video.

I foresee YouTube going to a cable-TV-like subscription only model in the future. I don’t like it. But I don’t see how else they actually lift themselves out of this hole they’ve dug.

https://youtu.be/kkfIXUjkYqE

“got covid”

Man, Lyles showed up with covid. On one hand I genuinely do understand, you have an opportunity to compete in the Olympics, you’re going to take that opportunity come hell or high water. But that was seriously a dick move on his part. Let’s just show up to the most crowded international event in the world and just expose everyone to a potentially deadly disease… In a world that makes sense that could be an actionable legal offense.

Are there really, though? Especially ones that pay a wage you can live on. Those are rare, and generally already occupied by someone who isn’t leaving unless forced to.

Everyone wants to be like “oh if you don’t like it then just quit” but if every restaurant server in your city took that advice I guarantee there would be a huge stink about it. We’ve been hearing it for years already with the “nobody wants to work anymore” - no, people want to work, they need to in order to survive. Just, nobody wants to work for your shitty wages that they can’t pay for both rent and groceries with.

A pretty significant number of relatively disconnected cultures all have ancient legends of dragons or creatures very like them.

Always thought that was sort of neat.

Ditto this but with Metal Gear Solid. I always felt like there was a ton of potential in there for a show or a movie and if we’re being honest, half of the MGS games are just movie-length cutscenes anyway. Hideo Kojima wants to make movies but he’s trapped in a game development company.

Oh you’re in for a treat my friend. I can’t think of another show based on a game that even approached the level of quality and care shown in Castlevania. Traditionally those shows or movies based on games are pretty shit. But Netflix seriously knocked it out of the park with this one.