VinnyDaCat

joined 6 months ago
[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I wish I could say this instead of having to schedule my vacation time a month in advance.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter. The lovely Christians where I live would throw a fit because most of them want Israel to do even more damage.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Damn, I used to watch GB growing up and he was one of my favorites. Loved how even when he was getting his ass kicked on the field you could still see the guy smiling as he lined up for another play.

Fuck man why did you have to do this?

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Tbf it’s rare to see normal people posting on social media in 2024, at least everyone I see is fucked up in some way.

This might be a bold assumption on my part but I would say most normal people do not have the energy for the craziness that occurs on a lot of socials now.

You want to engage and be a part of the community but it's just far too exhausting in many cases. Easier to just browse most of the time.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I stand by my opinion that learning systems training on copyrighted materials isn’t the problem, it’s companies super eager to replace human workers with automation (or replace skilled workers with cheaper, unskilled workers).

I mean it's the heart of the issue.

OpenAI isn't even the big issue regarding this. It's other companies that are developing and training specialized LLMs on their own employees. These companies have the capital to take the loss on the project because in their eyes it'll eventually turn into a gain as long as they get it right eventually.

GPT and OpenAI is just a minor distraction in regards to what is being cooked up behind the scenes, but I still wouldn't give them a free pass for that either.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. I suspect many of us knew her stance on this issue before she said it but she really did not need to say it.

I appreciate the honesty but I do wish that she would avoid this one topic in particular. This is an issue that younger voters feel very strongly about. Younger voter turnout may not be good anyways, but I would really do my best to avoid upsetting that crowd. We're not trying to make people go back to feeling apathetic regarding the election again.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's much easier for people to mock and ridicule than to educate and correct.

I'm not saying we shouldn't call out poor behavior but the way we do so should be constructive as to not breed further resentment. This goes for most everything too, not just for the issue in the OP.

This is just a small part of creating a world that you want to live in. We can't shut out the world or those we disapprove of, but we can contribute to the betterment of others, making the world a place we're more more comfortable with sharing.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

It doesn't take too many traitors to the party to ruin any attempts at passing progressive legislation sadly. Even if it's not the usual suspects like Sinema or Manchin someone will always step up, and if they don't get voted back into office later then they'll just cash in those connections with a lobbying firm.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really don't think that this was necessary.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Probably doesn't need to be said but memes aside I appreciate you being nice to them. I always feel incredibly bad for the people working in that industry.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't even think we had that many religious people. It was the biggest city in a very rural red state but I can't think of much else for why the reaction was that bad. We had an air force base nearby but I mostly chalked up the experience to bad luck and sitting next to the wrong person.

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Guessing by kids we're talking about young children and not teenagers because old YouTube was practically made for teenagers. The more popular layouts people used back then often had the same aesthetic as myspace pages. There was more gaming content on the site than anything else, followed by viral vids (=3).

There's a lot to dislike about the modern structure of the platform but as a grown adult I appreciate that there's a much larger variety of content now which was essentially what the shift in design was supposed to achieve.

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