There is a saying in my country that we are always 30 years behind other countries. No matter what that is.

AI at scale will flop, but will return later as open source small businessess tool.

The same thing have been posted last year and will be posted next.

Many companies would lose profit. Many greedy fucks would not be able to afford their third yaht and fifth house.

Google and others regularly pay growing fines to EU over breaking laws. Still data of european citizens is valuable enough that they earn more with fines than they would following law

I’m sceptical. Usually when something is advertised as “global” it barely exists outside USA

Paraphrasing Trump: the tax just got 10% higher

The world will fall apart, but me and my family will still live in the ruins. Local community will get poorer but not dead. Also I am fairly away from “world” media speak of.

Ashamed to see my country still holding mostly favourable views of USA, but then again many people here don’t have access to more information sources than state TV and perhaps some local press.

Why would it? In ireland case it’s the distance.

I enjoyed some few-days bans for saying that USA is not a greay country to live in. And a bit longer bans for saying Israel is doing warcrimes. But never permanent. Curiosity brought me to lemmy but this platform feels tad empty

We degraded status of planet named after god of underworld… and the world started going down the drain.

Americans will do nothing, mark my words.

Not a monarchist, but I definitely have one big gripe with democracy.

Who is responsible?

I feel like there is no responsibility within democracy. Politicians just point at abstract things like party, commission etc. They can sell the country to the outsiders for cash money and nobody will be at fault. Or perhaps it’s the voter, his fault for voting. And when there is too much “guilt” put on party they just disband it and start a new one. Same people, same issues, just a different name.

As for British Monarchy - they are literally pets. I wouldn’t mind a permanent big-brother house with royal family for my country. Would certainly save up on production of telenovelas.

That’s why they followed orders, no?

Progress isn’t driven by peace and cooperation. Most of human inventions, improvements, everything you may call “progress of civilization” boils down to “how can we fuck over other people for our benefit”. No matter what kinda change you may try to call “positive progress” it was really someone profiting by fucking over others.

There is a road in Poland. A4 it’s called. It’s officially a highway but never in it’s history did it satisfy requirements for that title. Label of highway cannot be removed for as long as road is under repairs, renovations or upgrades.

So there is a highway that shouldn’t be one, permanently in construction and never finished. It’s also paid road, one of the most expensive roads to use in EU.

And yet people still pay to use this road because alternative is a slower route through smaller roads and varied towns.

Software is the same - your application can be buggy shit, but as long as it’s best buggy shit available people will prefer it over more finished ones.

I made a free esoteric knowledge app for android. It’s named Baba Yaga. It has tarot, runes, astrology and some shamanic guides.

Currently I’m in the progress of reworking visuals to look better, after which my goal is to add herbs and dream symbols.

Pacifism, like democracy and capitalism, are functional only if everyone participate in them in good faith. There was never in human history a group of people where everyone participated in something in good faith.

I have similar experience. LLM is about as good as Google was before enshittification. All it does it replaces 10 minutes of me searching for the correct piece of documentation with 2~3 minutes of using LLM to grab the same information.

Intern could find it for me in an hour, two if he used LLM since AI works much better with jargon.