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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Yeah, but asking for the small piece how I get through social situations like birthday parties with grocery store sheet cake; I think grocery store sheetcake is absolutely disgusting and a standard-sized piece will literally make me sick, but I will suffer a few bites to be part of the festivities and not make the host feel judged for their taste in desserts. Give me a big piece and I’ll feel obligated to finish the whole thing or rudely waste the gifted food.

    Also sometimes I’m full or have a bellyache or already had a big dessert that day and really can’t handle that much sugar.

    Either way if I’m wrong and decide I want more, there’s this concept called “getting a second serving.”




  • fireweed@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldWhy do you hate AI?
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    23 hours ago

    Sincere question:

    Most of the comments here cite reasons for disliking AI that include one or more of the following: environmental degradation, resource consumption, increasing energy/hardware prices, disregarding copyright, disregarding privacy, undermining human artists, mass layoffs, creating a market bubble, throwing education into chaos, monopolization by corporations/billionaires, AI hallucinations/inaccuracy, a product that is overpromising/undelivering, a product that makes generating misinformation easier.

    Which of these reasons for disliking AI do you think fall under your assertion of “anti-intellectual technophobia”? They all seem like legitimate, well thought out reasons for disliking something to me, especially when considered together.












  • I do this (I watch the first season when it comes out and then if I really liked it I’ll wait until the whole series is complete so I can binge it in one go, and if I just thought it was just okay I’ll watch the seasons as they come out because I don’t care that much if I miss stuff on account it forgetting what happened previously) and I know it screws with viewership numbers when it comes time to decide what to renew/axe but when the alternative is rewatching the entire series every time a new season comes out…

    (Otherwise known as the tale of why I’ve watched Bojack Horseman S1 five times)


  • DS9 is a funny example because (relative to contemporary shows TNG and Voyager, but other TV of that era too) they oftentimes doesn’t wrap up the philosophical/moral/ethical conundrum neatly by end of episode and leave things more open or unresolved or ambiguous, which is simultaneously dissatisfying and refreshing IMO. Also, I think some of their best episodes from a conceptual perspective ended up a bit clunky in execution, like they don’t have enough time to properly explore the subject at hand in only one episode so they squeeze it into a more superficial plot that then as a result feels a bit drawn out (also Star Trek dialogue usually ranges from mid to meh–with a few standout lines sprinkled in–which unsurprisingly taints the acting too). There are a number of single-episode plots that were good but could have been great if they’d given them more time to marinade over multiple episodes, but they already had a huge number of balls in the air for an episodic show in terms of plot and character development, so maybe that would have been disastrous to attempt idk.