But who is the comrade of the eye? Perhaps the other eye? We may never know.

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/problem-with-a-product-or-service-you-bought/repair-replace-refund-cancel

These are direct quotes from the ACCC website (my bolding added for emphasis):

• When a product has a major problem, consumers can choose between a refund or replacement.

• When a business sells a product with a major problem, or a product that later develops a major problem, it must give the consumer the choice of a: refund, or replacement of the same type of product.

Do you mean shot dead?

Too many enjoy the (temporary) safety that Trump provides them to stand up for others. Too many still are afraid to stand up for the rights of others for fear that their rights might be taken away in response. Too many others are beaten down and exhausted from the system that keeps them oppressed to be able to stand up for what’s right. Too many have either never read or truly understood Martin Niemöller’s “First They Came”.

For a long time now, humans have been utilising machines and robots to perform tasks that humans would otherwise have had to perform - particularly when it comes to manufacturing. Occasionally, one of those machines will encounter an error or issue, and a human will need to intervene to either fix the machine or guide the process before it can resume its task.

These advancements have allowed a very small number of humans to oversee what would have otherwise required hundreds, potentially thousands of humans to do independently. Even when humans were performing these tasks, they would occasionally need someone with more specialisation or experience to help them with completing such a task.

The point of this tech - the point of all tech that I’ve described above - is to reduce the amount of humans needed to produce a given result. It’s a reduction in the need for labour. It’s a matter of efficiency, not a complete replacement of any need for any human to ever intervene under any circumstances. Under communism, or even well-fleshed out socialism, it would free up humans from having to perform menial labour to instead pursue their passions, work on vital human skills, create and consume art… just live better lives.

Now, would I ride in a self-driving vehicle? Certainly not yet. The tech still needs time to develop before I’m confident in it. As time goes on, the need for human intervention will continue to drop, and hopefully my confidence will grow.

Not sure if this is a major difference between the US and Australia, but the vast majority of jobs I’ve gone for I’ve been interviewed by the people who are the managers of the position they’re hiring for. HR tends to handle booking in interview times and what not and then onboarding once a decision is made, but the only time I’ve been interviewed by someone from HR was in a panel interview where the line manager was also present and interviewing. I’ve never worked for big business, but a lot of government and NGO roles as well as large retail chains, cafes and the like.

It’s Australia. We always consent to a good, hard pegging.

I tend to prefer ‘Naughty Sex: Anal’

I’m a nerd for… not knowing that a book exists? Weird, but okay I guess.

As an Australian who has never studied Agatha Christie in any context, I literally had no clue what the censored word was. I was, and am, appreciative of the context that was provided by other commenters. Be careful when you make blanket statements like “we all knew what the book was”, because you’ll almost always be confidently incorrect.

What the fork did you just fricking say about me, you little bench? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed pewpews. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the flip out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fudging words. You think you can get away with saying that spit to me over the Internet? Think again, fuddler. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, misanthrope. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your “life”. You’re finking done, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can booboo you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable bumbum off the face of the continent, you little shirt. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your franken tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goshdarned silly. I will poop fury all over you and you will swim in it. You’re fully dumped, kiddo.

Very, very few did, as you’ve pointed out, but I was lucky enough that my Dad was one of them. He wasn’t an avid gamer or anything, because he tended to work long hours, but he’d regularly sit down and play multiplayer games with me and my siblings when I was younger and used to live with him. I didn’t really realise how lucky I was at the time.

I’m curious, what’s your definition of communism?

That’s a perfectly reasonable viewpoint to hold, though sadly from a pragmatic perspective all it does is maintains the power imbalance between employers and employees. I’d love to live in a world where I don’t have to commit fraud in order to get a decent job but, for as long as I do, I probably will.

While I totally agree with you, it’s important to note that LLMs are decidedly not part of the evolution of AGI. They’re a separate piece of technology on their own branch. An LLM could never feasibly be developed into AGI. The development of AGI is going on in the background, as you said in a slow grind, but those researchers are not working on LLMs nor are LLM programmers working towards AGI.

The Gnostics really were onto something there. They’re the only Christian sect that makes a lick of sense.

Kill. Murder. Execute. Shoot. Decapitate. Dismember. Disembowel.

These are words you can use on the Fediverse. You don’t need to self-censor with words like ‘unalive’ because there’s no corporate algorithm, no shadowbanning and no de-prioritising content based on language. There’s no need to import TikTok/Instagram newspeak.

Honestly, it’s just as bad as the “nobody:” that’s in so many memes these days. For me, at least, they both actively detract from enjoying whatever the actual content is. I can’t imagine for whom that actively increases their enjoyment, but I’m also pretty sure I don’t want to meet them.

Depends on the store. I worked at a big box hardware store and every public holiday you’d have old geezers just milling about wanting to strike up a 30 minute conversation with you about some esoteric project they’ve been working on for the last six months while you’re frantically mixing four different customer’s custom paint colours and trying to point other customers in the direction of things that have huge signs already directing customers to.