IMO online commenters are increasingly showing pathological binary thinking - the attitude that there are exactly two sides to every issue - the Right one and the Wrong one. Questioning ANY aspect of the Right one means you’re obviously a hardcore supporter of EVERY aspect of the Wrong one. You’re either morally and ethically pure or your character is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. To me it’s a really paradoxical way of thinking about diversity and acceptance - more like we’re supposed to either wholeheartedly embrace people or despise them.

A friend of mind, currently being treated in a mental hospital, had a similar sounding psychotic break that disconnected him from reality. He had a profound revelation that gave him a mission. He felt that sinister forces were watching him and tracking him, and they might see him as a threat and smack him down. He became disconnected with reality. But my friend’s experience had nothing to do with AI - in fact he’s very anti-AI. The whole scenario of receiving life-changing inside information and being called to fulfill a higher purpose is sadly a very common tale. Calling it “AI-fueled” is just clickbait.

Well hey, when your invisible friend says kill, you kill.

No matter how valid the premise is, that headline kills this article. It should say, “Want More Productivity? Start with yada yada…”

Borat

I prefer the laptop-size screen and keyboard vs miniaturized versions of them

I’ve watched a few youtube videos on this specific subject, just search narcissist there. Please also be aware of the Dunning Kruger effect (where Psych 101 students think they’re psychiatrists), remember human behavior is too complicated to draw serious conclusions from superficial observations, so please don’t think you know more than you know and don’t treat people like memes.

Yep exactly. Many people in 1975 might have thought a smartphone was some kind of trick, but the professor I’m thinking of was very familiar with digital electronics and would know it was absolutely impossible to build such a thing at that time. I would really love to tell him all about the Internet etc. And of course when to sell his house and buy Microsoft stock lol.

I have a recurring fantasy of visiting my favorite physics professor in the 1970s and showing him a modern smartphone. He showed me how to use integrated circuits, when microprocessors were a very new thing and we were mostly just making LEDs blink.

That’s my current situation after retiring a few years ago. I stay busy with personal software projects, running a weekly in-person D&D campaign and playing in others, cooking, 3d design and printing, Arduino/ESP and electronics, woodworking, reading, TV & movies, and random crafting and other stuff that comes up.

Pad Thai and Panang Curry Chicken, ★★★.

Wait tho, I thought the idea was to make fun of people who can’t let go of the past.

It solves the familiarity problem, when getting somebody to do something by a date they readily understand at a glance takes precedence over making everybody in the world change a lifelong habit.

Is there an ISO standard for how to say, “I don’t agree with a very specific aspect of your politics, or a specific statement one of your political heroes made, for a very specific reason, but I’m not declaring myself at the extreme horrible kitten-eating end of whatever political spectrum you live in.”

OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.

I should make this for D&D food tomorrow. Haven’t had a bread bowl in eons.

Remember when COVID supply-chain difficulties made prices shoot up? And several years after that situation peaked prices STILL haven’t gone back to normal? This gonna be like that except COMPLETELY unnecessary, brought to you entirely by MAGA. Remember it when the midterm elections come up in 2 years. That won’t be difficult cuz it will still be going on and will be even worse.

Try dunking cookies in tea. Or orange juice. I love both but I get strange looks when I tell people.

OTOH a few people have told me peanut butter and cheddar cheese make a great sandwich. I tried once, was not a fan.

On social media the standard is to call everything AI by default. It’s nearly impossible to prove otherwise before people lose interest in the thread, so you can feel right every time. Nothing but win!

Nice idea - I remember on reddit some subs had a rule that required exact source headlines only, no user-written version. Lemmy doesn’t seem to have that restriction.