They don’t just want the machines to create the art and music for us, they want them to consume it for us too, so that we’ll have more time to slave away at our jobs.

I bought a custom sectional sofa for way too much money to shove into a too-small room.

I think my thought process at the time was that I would have a place to relax and also a spot for guests if I had them over for entertainment, but it took up so much space that it was more of a hindrance and I very rarely had people over and when I did they didn’t want to be packed into a small spare bedroom that I used as a computer room.

Couldn’t sell it either. Had to pay junk removal to take it away.

These are the people who are about to win the console wars once Microsoft throws in the towel with Xbox.

PC gaming hopefully about to have a third golden age soon! 🤞

Nah, your posts are good. Fuck the haters. I don’t even bother to look at usernames 90% of the time but I recognized a few of the posts you’ve made over the past few days in lemmy shitpost and they are genuinely good.

His family says they really like me, but they’d never accept me as his wife since I’m not Arab

Who is saying this to you? Are they saying it, or is he saying it?

Because if his family says that they really like you but they are not willing to accept you as part of their family if one of their own desires it, then no matter how good they think their reasons may be, they don’t actually like you. They are just making excuses.

And if he’s the one saying it and you’ve never received any kind of verbal confirmation from, say, his siblings or parents about the topic, I would be highly suspicious of his motives.

I think that this is a larger discussion that has to happen with your boyfriend. Telling him how playing second fiddle to another woman would make you feel might give him some much needed perspective. If he’s not willing to budge on the traditional marriage, you have a choice to make - you can continue to be with him and reap the benefits of the relationship, but you are going to accept that eventually he’s going to push you into a situation that you cannot tolerate (being a mistress, essentially) and you are going to end up with nobody and all the time and years of your life that you can never get back spent cultivating the failed relationship will be lost.

On the other hand, there is a nonzero chance that he might change his mind. Maybe money isn’t as important to him as your love and affection for him is. Maybe he will mature a little more and recognize the importance of keeping someone he knows he cares about close, rather than taking a chance on someone else who just happens to be of the same race. But that’s a lot of “maybes” and “what ifs”.

Personally, I would draw a line in the sand. Like a savvy gambler, you have to know when to quit while you’re behind, because losing the relationship will no doubt be hard for you emotionally, but you know what’s worse? Losing the relationship anyway after trying for years to salvage it and then realizing that you wasted that time of your life chasing someone who didn’t value you instead of hitting the dating scene right away. If you straight up tell him that you want to be his #1 and only wife, and he rejects that, you should leave him. Stick with him for the sex and the company if you want, but don’t hesitate to put yourself back on the market, and take time to start emotionally distancing yourself from him.

They won’t.

Yeah, because the AI will look at everything with cold logic and rationality and come to the conclusion that even though the best chance of survival is for everyone to keep their fingers off the button, all it takes is for one actor to do it for the whole system of mutually assured destruction to collapse into nuclear armageddon, in which case the best chance of survival is to be the first one to launch your nukes and take out all your enemies capabilities to retaliate.

A human being who isn’t psychotic can clearly see that the resulting survival and new world order would not be particularly a pleasant one to live in. The AI doesn’t care about its own comfort, though, so it will see this as the best outcome that minimizes variables.

This is why AI should never be allowed to make decisions.

What could possibly be more important than the patient?

Why, the shareholders of course, silly!

This is fantastic news! Not because I actually give a shit about sticking with Discord after getting slapped in the face with this insulting age verification nonsense, but because Discord has basically no competition and 6 months will be plenty of time for a real contender to emerge in time for them to shoot themselves in the foot again.

I don’t think Discord actually appreciates how much market share is going to slip away from them in the next 6 months. They were probably better off going through with their clandestine spying plan now while some people might be complacent enough to just comply and provide their ID to get handed over to the fucking Feds.

Would this not be grounds for a massive class action lawsuit? FSD was marketed as a feature when the cars were sold.

High school girlfriend. I used her for sex. We knew each other from like early grade school and I always had a crush on her, very physically attracted to her.

I took a leap of faith and asked her out, and she said yes.

Turns out, we weren’t really compatible, but we were both horny teens with limited supervision. Did not take long at all for us to start experimenting. Eventually, her parents found out we were boinking and split us up, but I realized at the time that I was not heartbroken or sad, I was just disappointed that I wouldn’t get to have sex with her anymore, and it was a big wake up moment for me.

I was wrong, of course. We did have sex a few more times once we both became adults, and we both kind of acknowledged that the other person was just a convenient fuck buddy and that we had nothing else in common. I eventually had to break it off with her when I started getting serious with another girl.

I feel like I’ve matured a lot since then.

Put it on polymarket or something, I want to make some money off of such stupidity.

Over my dead body. These services can go fuck themselves and die.

It does get tiresome going to steam threads and seeing the same copy pasted “don’t ruin the game with woke shit” post up voted to the top.

There’s a pencil thin line between farming clown emoji and overt bigotry getting pumped to the top of the reviews section by bad faith actors.

So they haven’t walked anything back, they’re just adding in a motherfucking clanker as a middleman. What could go wrong?

Big corporations have absolutely laid waste to the internet. There’s nothing left unspoiled at this point.

Im surprised as how many people discount this feature. Sometimes I sit in voice chat in my small Discord server alone for hours because nobody would show up if nobody was around.

We’re all adults with jobs and responsibilities and shit, we don’t want to have to dial people in to shoot the shit late at night. That would feel like a chore.

An alternative with no drop in voice chat is a non starter for my group.

I think it’s great that acting like a cunt online can have consequences.

It doesn’t seem to have deterred you at all…

I use Slack for work and I kinda hate it. I can’t really explain why. Something about it offends my senses on a subconscious level.

I haven’t used it in over a decade so I’m not surprised it has new features. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.

I think Discord does a lot of things that no one other program can also do. There are certainly better programs out there for voice chat, for text chat, for screen sharing, etc. but none of those programs that do it better can do all the other stuff.

If Discord dies, you would need like two or three other apps to replace all of the features you’ve lost.

For people who only use Discord for voice, it’s easy to say “Let’s just got back to using TeamSpeak or Ventrillo”, but if you also used Discord to stream your games to your friends, you now need to find another alternative for that since TS and Vent don’t have that function and likely never will.

It sucks because I think the Discord app is great for what it does. Yes, it creates information silos when everybody uses it for their support/documentation, but before Discord it was Facebook/Twitter and I didn’t use those platforms either. I like that Discord is packed with features and the most basic ones are free to use. Finding an alternative will be tough.