Count Regal Inkwell

I’ve seen the videos about historical fashion

I know for a fact that this is all fabric padding. u-u

You WILL look like you have an impossibly thicc butt and an impossibly slim waist if you’ve basically strapped a Blahaj to your ass and another to your boobs.

I am all of these depending on how depression/anxiety has been treating me lately

The Parahumans: Worm (2011)

Why though?

Two things, really. First, I’m not a tech guy. I’m a writer with mild interest in technology and science. The whole thing is drowned in jargon and it honestly feels to me like a lot of it is intentional. If something a. Is very complicated; b. Doesn’t hook me; and c. It is not my job to know it… I can’t be arsed to research it.

Second, and more relevant if less respectable – Negative emotional vibes. Too many bad experiences with The Worst People On The Internet ™ being all over crypto.

🤔

WELL. I will concede on the thing about american dollar hegemony. Even I, a crypto hater, would be stupid to pretend cryptocurrency didn’t at all move the needle on that. I’ve seen it benefit third world people with my eyes (I live in the third world, hi)

Other than that I’ll just nod and say ‘yes’ because I really don’t care enough to research into crypto (imma h8r), so I’ll assume you’re right. [nods] “yes”

That said. MAN, you must hate the kind of company you end up stuck with. Crypto as far as I know is MOSTLY very weird AnCap types

A Marxist Cryptobro

Can I put you in a glass display case? You are an incredibly rare and incredibly strange specimen.

Muh prompts tho /s

Yes I most definitely mean the recent hype train from the likes of chatGPT which kickstarted a market bubble.

… Because if I were to include all Machine Learning, that’d be silly. We’ve been using things with machine learning in it for decades now and – No one cares. It’s the best kind of technology in that it is invisible.

Reminder: Your stick figure doodles during math class are worth more than the most gorgeous thing AI has spat out.

I do feel that, unlike Crypto, AI (or, to drop the buzzwords, LLMs and other machine-learning based language processors and parsers) will end up having a place in the world.

As it is NOW, the AI hype train is definitely an investment bubble and it will definitely explode in a glorious fashion eventually. Taking a lot of people down with it.

But unlike Crypto, AI does – It like does things, you know? Even if I personally feel like it’s mostly only good for a toy, all my attempts to use it for anything society would deem “valuable” were frustrated, but at least I can RP with it when my friends aren’t available. It is a thing that exists and can be used.

Crypto was funny because it was literally useless. Just an incredibly wasteful techno-fetishistic speculative vehicle with precisely zero shame about being that.

As for what’s next, I think Quantum Computing might be it. That is, assuming the Tech Industry even survives the bubble’s burst in its current form. Because everyone in the industry is putting all their eggs including theoretical eggs that haven’t even been laid, and in fact there’s not even a chicken in this AI hype train. And even with AI becoming part of people’s lives, as I predict it indeed will, when the bubble does burst it might end up hitting the reset button on who is truly in charge of things.

They blocked the piracy comm

That was enough for me.

Account hopping costs nothing (it’s not like Lemmy has “karma”)

I made my first account on dotworld, but then dotworld started doing defederations I didn’t like. Now I’m in a furry-centric instance. :P

The only sucky part is, of course, that a lot of games no longer support LAN play.

Though I suppose you could just stick to ones that do.

Cats pushed it off the edge.

“It” being the health of our collective unconscious

400 years old / Unicorn / A Faeric Kingdom

Ah yes

Unborn Criminal

The sworn nemesis of the Assigned Cop at Birth

Bad meme but I’m upvoting anyway because it introduced me to the historymemes comm and that makes me happy. Thank.

I think it WOULD be pretty fucking funny if a community had an “Absolutely NO Buddhism” rule.

This meem is ahistorical

Cats just sorta moved in with us when we started doing agriculture, because of all the bugs and mice.