Ashelyn

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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it depends on the reason you do not use it. The Luddites were primarily frustrated over automation displacing their high-skill job with low-skilled ones that produced worse quality goods. It's a 2 for 1: we are losing the jobs we need to survive, but also we lose the personal touch from the work of artisans + lose appreciation for their talent.

I am not carte blanche against AI as a concept, but it really does seem like a technology that makes interactions worse quality, more depersonalized, and on top of that it has a horrible externalized environmental cost which benefits nobody in the long run.

Addendum: I believe technology has the power to be liberating when it provides for all of us, and oppressive when it concentrates wealth+power into the hands of moguls and tyrants.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

If it gets you talking about it, even in the context of telling them to shut the fuck up, it's working :)

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Allow me to make a hackneyed code block diagram

 • <- rotational center
 |
 |
 +👈<<<  <- pounds (force applied at radius)
 ⇡
 feet (distance from center)

Because the final unit is a combined feet×lbs, it's subject to the commutative property of multiplication. For example, 89 foot-pounds of torque is equivalent to 89 pounds of force at 1 foot away from the rotational center, or 1 pound of force 89ft away from the rotational center.

I typically imagine it by putting a weight of x pounds at the end of a 1ft wrench held perfectly level, idk.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

The gerrymandered border slicing through an American's house to isolate its occupants into different districts

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Missed the opportunity to turn the crowd in the last panel to just a pile of crates

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

u will become crab one way or another 🦀

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago

They don't even have to be blue! You can have useless ticks in many different colors!

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Seems like a good way to get ants

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Drive throughs absolutely need ways for people to leave, though I'm not sure if there are many great ways one can be implemented without increasing the (already quite large) concrete/asphalt footprints of suburban fast food buildings. I see a lot of concrete curb islands that only seem to serve the purpose of locking people into the wait, and those would be a great place to start.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 3 months ago

In my experience, you find out BONTO! had a security breach via an Ars Technica article published around 4 months after the fact because the data was found on the dark web. Zero correspondence from the company itself except in rare circumstances

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

You see, the thing is that this particular house actually required a lot of skill and planning to make

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because TurboTax lobbied to change the narrative to "we already have private market solutions for tax, therefore the government hosting a no-cost option is actually wasteful and bad for the budget"

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