That being said, if he owned tiktok, he would have access to an algorithm to push an agenda. Whereas twitch doesn’t really have the same kind of thing.

He kinda does. Amazon owns twitch

Awesome. Love to see it

I have visited reddit only a small number of times since I left. But holy shit it’s unbearable now. AI answers everywhere. What’s the point?

I knew they would be killing people. I just didn’t expect it to be this fast. It sucks that there’s realistically not much that I can physically do other than spread the word that shit like this is happening and boycotting American products. It doesn’t feel like it’s enough

Just donated to wikipedia. I’ve used it a ton over the years.

Which one? I feel like there were multiple lol

I’m not well educated on the subject, but wouldn’t we be able to like…kerblam(!) the space debris or send up some kind of giant net to like…catch the debris?

I guess the main issue would be how to catch the debris without messing up still opporational satellites, etc. But surely we can unfuck a fuckup like that right?..right?

To answer your question, I hope your odds are high of living long enough for it to be a possibility, but that we avoid that possibility

Man, they did not understand the assignment. Really speaking with their actions here…

Lol actually that’s a good point. He’ll do whatever for profit

I kinda hate that it kinda got to this. I hope that things work out for the best, though. It makes me sad that people are suffering/will suffer because of crazy people

Ooof what the heck happened to PC parts? Is this still from the pandemic?

I just looked online and locally, the best I can find is a 4070. But online the 4090’s are going for $3700+? At that rate I might be better off just getting a prebuilt with a 4090 right?

Thank you that’s good to know!

Haha, yeah, I get that. I thought I would be okay on my current PC. But I guess I waited too long to upgrade, and now I basically have to just rebuild due to needing a new motherboard. I’ve been using a R9 280x and honestly, if it wasn’t for wanting to play some PC games I’ve missed out on and the streaming/video editing I would ride or die with this PC until the end.

The 5090 just released, right? I figured in the worst case scenario, I could get whatever the next best thing is, and it would probably be something I’m happy with.

I just wana be able to run DaVinci resolve well. Maybe multi stream(?), run vtube studio, and play the latest games as high as I can. Currently, my PC just limps along, and I’m actually very impressed that i’ve been able to push it as hard as I have.

In terms of streaming, it’s honestly more of a hobby for the time being. Maybe one day I would go with a dual setup? I’m not entirely sure how practical that would be. I mean I have my current PC. If I could still make use of it, maybe I could go that route? I honestly don’t know a thing of how that would work or what would be needed.

Ooh I should have mentioned that I’m Canadian, so no microcenter. I will be going with windows because it’s what I’m used to, however I reluctantly accept my windows 11 fate :')

The only thing I don’t like it stolen artwork/voices/identities being used.

I also don’t like how I have to now hyper analyze everything I see and hear as an additional step to confirm if I’m seeing something legitimate or if it’s someone trying to mislead people.

I think my favorite parts of these tools are translation and simple word editing. Being able to prompt it to assist with various logic problems can also be nice.

So I feel conflicted. I guess like with any tool, it can be used properly or improperly

Federally, Canadians flip flop. I don’t think they understand politics and just vote based on feelings, just like Americans do.*

They get pissed at party 1, and then go for party 2, eventually they get pissed at party 2 and go for party 1.

There’s Trump lovers and fascists all through Canada, too. We might have some people who are educated, but there’s still more that are stupid as hell. Don’t trust us to know what’s right.

*I could be wrong. I could be the stupid one here. I’m basing this entirely on voting patterns for the past 30 or so years.

Currently, Canadians are upset because of the cost of living and housing issues. The Liberal party did not deliver in many ways that they either promised or that people hoped they would.

The logical conclusion would be to vote for a party further left such as the NDP or even the Greens, but instead, they will vote concervative or the dreaded PPC party(which is further right). I would bet money on that for the next election.

Nice to see that so many showed up to stand up to nazis

This seems like a fundamental failure in education systems. People need to be taught how to research and find accurate information for themselves. I know when I was in school, we did that, but I have doubts that it’s being done globally or properly overall.

This just seems like weird censorship/control to me. Unless they can come forward with hard evidence that TikTok is working for the Chinese government.

I just think of all of the actual hateful and concerning websites out there that stay up and nobody blinks an eye.

I’ve never used TikTok and I don’t really like what I’ve seen from it, but a ban seems unnecessary