What do you mean?

I’ve seen your stance on meetup and sites that profit from human interaction, and I have to say I have massive respect for that. Well done for sticking by your morals, too, especially when things feel difficult like they do for you right now. That’s commendable, and not a lot of people work that way.

I moved away from all my friends and family just over three years ago, a long way away (relative to the UK), and to a place I’d never been to or even heard of.

The first night was a little nerve-wracking, but after that it was okay. I started with work, trying to be helpful there and make decent friends out of my colleagues while I was in the office. I started going out after work to the local pubs in my area, and just chilling at the bar or at a table with a drink. Eventually, I got talking to people - whether it was to borrow a lighter and then roll that into a conversation, give somebody a cigarette, or just answer a question that a small group were pondering out loud if I was nearby and it didn’t seem creepy.

It’s tough, I don’t know if you drink or smoke, but pubs are always a good place to meet people, at least in the UK. One of the local pubs here runs a chess night, which is free, you don’t even have to buy a drink, and there’s a gaming cafe a little way down the road that runs all kinds of card game nights. You do have to pay to get into those but we always have strangers turn up and I’ve met some people who have become friends from there.

It’s tough, though. You will face rejections, and you will have evenings where absolutely nothing goes right for you and you end up feeling defeated. I would say don’t be too eager to make friends. Don’t go out trying to make friends if you’re having a particularly tough night either; it won’t help. You want to be relaxed and comfortable. Bar staff are generally friendly too, at least in the UK.

I’m working! But I’m working from home, which is nice, and there’s only a few other people in. Thankfully the entire “management” (it’s three people) are off, so I can focus on my job.

Or, I would be able to, if the marketer who is in would stop messaging me about random little tasks that they can’t be arsed to do.

Reform’s not good enough

That’s weird phrasing when we’re talking about an openly bigoted far right wing party that is absolutely, clearly, and unashamedly running on racism.

It’s not about them not being “good enough”, it’s about them being distinctly cruel and malicious. It’s sort of like if you’d said Hitler wasn’t “good enough”.

Cyberpunk is absolutely full of loading screens, they’re just not ONLY in the elevators. Part of the reason they’re saying the engine is a miracle is because of the way it loads.

Basically, if you have a webcam, the game tracks your eyes and every time you’re not looking at the screen (e.g. you’re distracted, you blink, etc.), the game quickly flashes to a loading state and loads of bunch of assets in.

The real smart stuff comes when you don’t have a webcam though! The engine figures out where in the world your pc/console is, and then uses a bunch of meteorological data from that region to calculate how often you’ll need to blink, on average. For instance, it’ll work out how dry or humid the air is, and whether there’s a high pollen count. It’ll figure out how hot your machine is running, and use that to estimate whether you’re in a dusty home or not.

It really is a technological marvel. That’s why it was so buggy on release for a lot of players; the loading hadn’t been fine tuned yet so it was just going haywire and loading all the time.

No, but that sounds really interesting. I’ve long been frustrated by rampant consumerism, and not just that but also by how blatantly companies will shaft consumers on quality, size, functionality… A laundry list of ways to make their products worse because it nets them a tiny saving per product which all adds up to a new megayacht. Nickle and diming bastards!

Haha fuckin awesome, Jake’s off the deep end again 😂

Why are world leaders even entertaining this fuckin guy?

It’s also not a great sign that my faith in spineless Starmer is so low that I’m actually glad I haven’t eaten chicken in weeks, and a little sceptical that I’ll be buying any until all this has stopped.

Isn’t this one unraced?

Edit: oh duh, unraced for now. Serves me right for not reading the article before replying lol, sorry! I guess if the price tag is lower, it’s because the 2026 car has not proven its legacy yet, whereas something like the MP4/4 has a very storied and desirable (and therefore very expensive) provenance.

Hoozat?

Agree, ban the spam

Did you feel a little silly talking tough like this on Lemmy as if you’re really in that person’s face? I always feel a little silly when I get annoyed by a comment like that lol

Like “I’ll be pedantic right here” right where? On the toilet, on your phone? 😂

No, no, stop it. She was horrible before this turnaround, horrible before she was in Congress, and horrible before Trump. No rehabilitation for somebody so clearly malicious without some serious and real work - not just vague and obvious words. Actions. Hard work and effort. She is not reformed. She’s grifting. Stop.

I think I disagree; I know the trope about metal fans and music genres etc, but I would argue that having a “trance” community and a “classic rock” community is fine because it’s the same medium, sort of, in as much as it is all “music”, but its very different and not just because of the subject.

If the music communities were like “lovesongs”, “happysongs”, “sadsongs”, “angrysongs” etc, I think that would be closer to what this batch of AI spam communities are. Or maybe if it was a community for the key a song is in, like “songsing”, “songsina” etc

I can’t believe they have so many communities. It’d be one thing if it was different media, like how normal people might have a “painting” and a “photography” community, but it’s not. It’s all one big pile of generated images, and they’ve sorted it by subject… How weird is that!

Anyway, yeah glad it’s not clogging up your feed anymore. I think that mod went into powertrippingbastards a few weeks ago and commented some nonsense bragging about how they block and ban anyone who downvotes their spam so hopefully we can all get conveniently added to the banlist.

I love that you capitalise “THIS” in all of your titles. It’s like a bot programmed to create 2012-style clickbait headlines for spam articles or YouTube videos, but I don’t think you’re a bot. It makes me smile every time I see you do it.

It sounds like you’ve fallen for the marketing, and believe the chatbots are alive. Chatbots are not alive. They don’t “confess” or “admit” or “lie” or “hide”. It’s a text generator. Please spend more time with your friends and stop interacting with the chatbots.

Now this is actually fantastic news. Congratulations, and maybe this even helps some people who might read this!

Okay great and this means… What? This reporting is gonna get MAGA people or Elon fans to suddenly realise it’s all lies? Will Elon or anyone involved with DOGE face any kind of consequence for failure? Will anything change in the face of this finding or is this yet another reminder that the rich are immune to consequence, and the willfully stupid and cruel are immune to evidence? Fantastic, happy fucking new year! 🥳

Hey man, I agree with everything you’re saying and I genuinely mourn the freedom of expression that the web has lost. I was using “just tracking and stuff” as a shorthand as part of a conversation, cos I was just asking specifically about what I was missing from what people were talking about.