No…he means the ones just staying at home. Not the ones covid killed.

…hi.

Assuming ASD stands for antisocial disorder, I didn’t realize there was therapy for it. I thought it was essentially just “I don’t like those people, and I don’t like THOSE people either…actually, I don’t like most people. I’m just going to keep to myself.”

Now, maybe I’m wrong, and ASD stands for something else.

Alright. Lets say Zelinskyy and NATO have a closed door discussion, and they decide Ukraine was going to “war” against NATO.

That war? It’s Zelinskyy taking off a white glove, and using it to slap the leader of any NATO country. Just a slap in the face of a white glove, and now all of NATO needs to protect the attacked nation.

Why are you holding my birth certificate???

I went to home depot today. Do you know what I saw? They are selling picnic tables, prebuilt, for $25. I couldn’t believe it. That seems like a really good price. Makes me wish I had a back yard to put one in, so I could go outside once a year and reminisce over that time I got a good deal on a picnic table at home depot.

I just want life to be less interesting. Just in general. I am NOT looking forward to the next 4 years. Just everyday, waking up to ANOTHER outragious, absurd, and infuriating tweet from an old man who just says things for attention but also holds power over the entire country, not to mention our military and nuclear codes. He might have a temper tantrum one day, and just nuke toronto. Just start WWIII with Canada on a whim.

I’m not saying that specifically will happen, but I’m also not NOT saying it will happen. You just never know whats next when a racist man being pulled by equal parts dementia and narcissism is pulling the strings with the emotional maturity of a fucking toddler.

You know what Biden said today? No, really, do you know what current sitting president Joe Biden said today? Me neither. I haven’t a clue what he said. I assume he may have ordered a sandwich on rye bread around noon. Just guessing. I very well could be 100% wrong. And that’s kind of the point. Biden is boring. That’s why I like I like Biden. There’s no drama.

That IS weird!

…that you voluntarily use facebook I mean.

…wait, what? You’re pooping so much you’re losing FAT? Like, I’ve heard that sometimes people get backed up, and it’s extra weight. But the weight is still fecies. Elvis was said to have had over 25lbs of backed up fecies inside him when he died.

But you’re saying you’re pooping so much that your body is burning fat??? Thst’s…that equally impressive as it is worrying. How hard are you pushing??? God damn!!!

I get the first one…no idea what the second references. It sounds like if something from transformers were crossed with the matrix, and handled by santa claus.

Which if that existed sounds kind of terrifying.

…wait, but I wasn’t playing socom…

Ah, a history joke! Don’t forget Coke(Fanta)! Also, the history of Volkswagon is pretty interesting.

The surprising part is, despite everything Henry Ford believed, I don’t remember ever hearing Ford being on that list.

Is it bad that for a brief moment when you said you were switching to a local fiber provider, I thought you were talking about making sure you tdke healthy poops?

Takes sunzu2 to the farm, and hooks them up to the milking machine

…what? I can’t kill you for meat. Nobody eats human meat. But I can milk ya!

Always have been.

steals your game save

Oh, irony!

I’m more worried about someone using AI to harvest the power of all these smart devices to record our daily lives in real time.

Like your samsung tv records what you watch, while you watch. Your samsung phone records gps of where you go, when you go, how often you go. The little voice assistant on android records your speech paterns, and is able to create a voice profile of you.

Your laptop/pc records what you do in real time, even with no software installed on your pc. Even if you use linux, because they’re logging this data outside your control via the link between you and your isp.

The grocery store records what you buy, when you buy it, how often you buy it.

And all these companies start mingling, and sharing data between them. Which as of 2019 is totally legal. They build personalized profiles on you, using AI to collect all the data from the various sources, and ties it all in to one profile. So even though best buy shouldn’t have any reason to know what day you got married, it knows because your wife registered 15 years ago at some bridal registry. Now best buy may not have any use for that info, but its part of your profile. And now everything in your life is documented, profiled, archived, and shared.

And it’s not crazy. Most of this has been happening for decades. The only part missing is the AI to gather these individual profiles, and tie them into one collective profile, and seek information out to add to it.

What’s your shoe size? AI adds data from that time you shopped at footlocker. What’s your phone number? That was added from AT&T. Where do you work? That was gathered from Verizon when you used your place of work to get a discount 2 years ago, and your daily GPS records confirm. What’s your mothers maiden name? That was added from a website you used this as a password recovery option on. Whats your pets names? This was taken from your vet.

All this info and data. Just out there seperately, and now AI can gather it, build a profile on everybody, track you in real time, and not have any oversight or responsibility because nobody is in charge of it. It’s just data shared around.

Meanwhile you wonder about cartoons.

I’m 41 now. But I can remember being 14 in 9th grade. And I was sitting next to a window in math class. The teacher was writing on the board a math equation and explaining how to solve it. I was looking out the window.

After 5 minutes of explaining the concepts of how to solve it, he noticed I hadn’t looked at the board once.

He decided to try to publicly humiliate me by asking me to solve, with the idea being I hadn’t been paying attention. So when he asked someone to solve, and then called my name, without even glancing at the board once, I said “52”. He was taken back, because it wasn’t even a moment of hesitation. I didn’t even glance once at the board.

He thought I was somehow cheating, and got angry. He yelled “How could you possibly know that??? Is someone outside that window helping you???” And comes to look out the window.

So me, being a sarcastic, and now insulted teenager said “Yeah. I got a got man on the inside who’s bugged the room, running special ops surveillance of your teaching agenda. He’s using flag signals to feed me the answers. And when it’s time for gym class, you should see how he’s going to help me cheat running laps. It’s pretty elaborate. He works with the CIA.”

He storms over and sticks his head out the window. I THOUGHT it was implied that I was calling him an idiot for suggesting I was somehow cheating by looking outside. What he was looking for, I have no idea. Every student was losing their shit because they all got the joke. Somehow the teacher was on something else. Then he closes the window shades.

So he makes me stay for detention and calls my dad to school after the school day is over. School lets out at 2:30. My dad doesn’t leave work until 3pm. Which means he doesn’t get to my school until about 3:30. This whole time, him waiting an hour, furiously twitching waiting for my dad to get there. My dad walks in, and before he cal even say a word, not even hello, my teacher is like a chicken clucking it’s head off.

“MR (last name), YOUR SON IS BEING VERY DISRUPTIVE IN MY CLASS TODAY!!! DO YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID? DO YOOOUUU KNOOOWWW WHAT HE DIIIIIID???”

Keep in mind, it was the late 90s. Cell phones existed, but not even most adults had them yet. And no kids had them. So there would be no feasible way for me to contact a factory worker during the work day, or the drive over. It should have been well understood that I’d have not had contact with him.

And my dad was already annoyed by his tone. He says “Well sure I know what he did. I just got here, you haven’t told me anything, why WOULDN’T I know what’s going on?”

And that just pissed off my teacher more. He says “EARLIER TODAY I WAS TEACHING CLASS, AND I WROTE A FORMULA OUT IN CLASS!!! YOUR SON DIDN’T EVEN LOOK!!! THEN HE JUST LUCKY GUESSED AND GOT IT RIGHT!!! HE WAS LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW, AND SAID CIA AGENTS WERE HELPING HIM IN GYM CLASS!!! I HAD TO CLOSE THE BLINDS!!!”

So my dad, knowing I had to focus on multiple things at once, just said “What were you looking at?” And I said “a cat”. And he says “and did you guess his math equation?” I said “No. He explained the concept for five minutes. I understood the answer in 30 seconds. Then I was bored for 4 and a half minutes.”

Teacher is now back on his bullshit. He writes another, different problem on the board, using the same concepts. He asks me to solve.

So I go up to the board. What he didn’t know was I went to the computer lab instead of lunch. I wrote down this long elaborate calculus problem. Then spent the rest of the day memorising it. Not how to solve it. Just how to write it down. And what the answer was. It’s like an actor reciting lines about topics they have no clue about. They’ll sound right, because they are, but they as an individual will have no idea why.

So he’s just written down that similiar algebra problem. And I walk right past him, and start writing this beast out on the board next to it. I’m just writing from memory, and all the while secretly glancing at his board to solve in my head. I almost screwed up the memorization for a moment, because I was trying to do too much, but they didn’t notice.

So now I’ve written this long piece of shit math out, far beyond a 9th grade level, probably on a masters degree level. Then walked over to his math problem and write “22” as the answer.

Then I said “I’ve solved your equation. Can you solve mine?”

And he just stared and stared and stared. And eventually said “Mr (last name), I’m sorry to have wasted your time.”

On my way out I wrote “48” under my memorized math problem. So that if he tried to solve it later, even if he fot help to do so, and got the right answer he’d see I already got it long before him.

On the way home my dad said “you have no idea what the answer was to the long math you wrote out, do you?” I said “I wrote 48.” And he said “ok, but you have no idea how to solve that on your own, do you?” And I said “Nope.”

Stop! Please! I can only get SO erect!

Well…I don’t know why you included Twitter on that list, as they’ve NEVER been part of the fediverse.

Threads is fully integrated. You can personally block them from your end, but thats all you.

It would be like saying “Dominos doesn’t make pizza. It has never been a pizza company”. With your logic being that you don’t like their pizza. Doesn’t make it true just because YOU don’t eat the pizza.

Bluesky I hear conflicting reports on. Some people say it is, because it can be, others say it’s not, because it’s not official. I get both sides on this.

But the last part…is objectively not true. It happrns to work that way FOR NOW. It just isn’t profitable enough for the major players to sink any real resources into.

The fact that it’s adfree has more to do with the fact that 60k people on all of Lemmy with most instances having a few hundred people “on” it, and also advertising companies not understanding the concept of federation.

I could start my own instance, and sell ads to corporate overlords. The biggest problem I’d face is the idea of trying to convince any company with money to spend that money on me putting an ad on for such a small audience.

If/when the fediverse ever gains momentum and becomes mainstream, you can guarentee that ads will be everywhere.

Because nobody owns the fediverse. Which means if I sell an ad on my instance, all federated instances will see the ad. Sure, you could defederate from my instance. But what would happen right now if lemmy.world sold ads? Is every instance going to defederate from the biggest instance, with the majority of communities? That would essentially break the fediverse.

We’re all on a service that you think is immune to centralization, but forgot the core concept that humans like to socially congragate. Which means it’s inevitable that there will always be one big dominant instance. Which means if this thing ever goes mainstream, the ads are coming, and they’ll be on all the big instances.