The whole fuck cars movement and the walkable neighborhoods movement
this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2025
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The person working the drive through at McDonald's should be paid a livable wage.
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Kill your lawn! Be a vegan. The devil is a landlord!
Linux is great actually, and Lemmy is cool.
AI is untrustworthy and shouldn't be used
I have management talking about copilot usage rates and I hear people casually refer to "what ChatGPT told them" in conversation
i actively zone out when anyone higher up than me talks about copilot or chat gpt. i also dressed down a colleague for using chat gpt for a stupid simple task.
The other day on Reddit someone was saying they just fact checked something with ChatGPT.
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AI is untrustworthy and shouldn’t be used
I have a more nuanced take. AI is simultaneously untrustworthy and useful. For many queries, DuckDuckGo and Google are performing considerably worse than they used to, while Perplexity usually yields good results. Perplexity also handles complex queries traditional search engines just can't.
About a third of the time, Perplexity's text summary of what it found is inaccurate; it may even say the opposite of what a source does. Reading the sources and evaluating their reliability is no less important than with traditional search, but much of the time I think I wouldn't have found the same sources that way.
Of course there are other issues with AI, such as power usage and Perplexity in particular being known for aggressive web scraping.
Nuance and depth isn't as popular as I'd like on or off Lemmy.
Ah, but you see, I never claimed AI isn't useful. In fact, you can check my comment history. I've agreed AI is a very useful tool, I still think it shouldn't be used for ethical, social, and personal reasons
A problem with nuance is that people want to discuss the specifics and nuances of what they care about but for the most part won't do that on subjects for other people. So you need to tailor your responses to your audience. FWIW on Lemmy I see a lot more instances of people with specificly opposed takes where both sides have similar vote counts. So while it's not perfect it's better than most
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Depends on the subject
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I’ve met a lot of people who don’t agree with “billionaires shouldn’t exist”
The propaganda is so strong with this one. If you talk to someone who owns just about anything, they somehow imagine you're coming after them and their stuff if you even mention anything like taxing the rich, much less getting rid of people who own more than some entire counties.
They just worked harder than the rest of us and had good ideas at the right time.
Erm, no, that still doesn’t make their labour worth thousands of times more than the next person.
People I talk to know millionaire workaholics and think that but for some timing that person would be a billionaire because they don’t understand how orders of magnitude work. 100k in the bank vs 1 million is a much smaller barrier than 1 million vs 1 billion never mind 100 billion
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linux desktop and russian propaganda
That Lemmy is a worthwhile use of our time?
That’s the best one right there
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Linux
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Communism
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independent social media
"You should totally install Linux, Bro/Sis"
And if you install it often enough you might change from bro to sis /s
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"Eat the rich." Appearently people don't think they are tasty outside of Lemmy.
It's all about how you prepare the meat.
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I still have no idea what a Tankie is. As far as I can tell it only exists here on Lemmy and I might be one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, social democrats, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.[5][4]
As an example, I recently had someone unironically claim that china has more free speech than france, from a server hosted in france 🤦
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