People are making leaving so needlessly difficult. Do you want to leave? Just leave and say that it’s time to leave.

“I think it’s time for me to leave. It has been great seeing you again and hanging out!”

Want people to leave? “I am starting to feel a bit tired, so I think we got to wrap this up”

If you are leaving a party with many people? First say goodbye to the host, then announce it to everyone. “It’s time for me to leave. Was great seeing everyone again!”

Always say goodbye to the host, just leaving is in my opinion a bit rude. People may disagree on this.

Maybe even breaking sanctions and supporting terrorists

While this is probably not for me. I appreciate the diversity and creativity of humans.

I have seen AI “art” that has moved me emotionally, and been inspiring, increased my immersion etc.

The AI satire video about US workers in a sweatshop factory was politically important, and made me laugh.

I once made a picture of a cat that was busy working tirelessly in the style of Rembrandt, and it was emotionally moving. I saw myself in that cat. 🥲

I and friends used AI for immersion when roleplaying.

This supports your point of giving people the ability to artistically and quickly express ideas without being a skilled artist.

I also believe that the ethical issues of ownership, and theft from authors and artists are huge issues.

The environmental issue is not my biggest concern considering how cheap and quick some genAI can be. So all gen AI isn’t automatically seen as unethical due to environmental concerns to me.

Also, has image generation gotten worse? I feel that all generated images are more “correct” but has this bad look to it now, that it did not previously have.

I am against the death penalty, it’s a barbaric practice and not something a civilized country should do.

But for fucks sake, when you decide to have it, why not just heavily sedate someone first, with the help of an anesthesiologist or another medical professional?

Interesting, thanks for sharing

Upvoted.

I have a counterpoint to those claiming that paid are better. By using a privacy oriented search engine, then they don’t know exactly who you are. In theory just your IP. Maybe fingerprinting.

When paying they know exactly who you are. You have to trust them.

So in one case you can protect yourself, in the other you have to trust them.

Also, Kagi also uses the Russian index Yandex 😑

If you are confident you can be a bit embarrassing and people just like you more for it. You are open, unique, a bit quirky and cute. They laugh with you, not at you. At work people lower their guards around you and you get people to deliver quality and get shit done. Being well liked and often right is a killer combo in the engineering world.

Embrace the cringe, so that the cringe just becomes embarrassing, then it becomes good times and team building.

I wish I was stronger in this regard. Will make and a eat a vegetarian dinner today though.

Yes of course. It is super rigorous. With both required extensive theoretical classes, theoretical test, required session with driving on ice, minimum hours of driving, and a driving test.

I mean’t the humor for teaching it

Thanks, that mortality rate is frighteningly high. Luckily no human to human transmission so far. Hopefully never.

Might be good to have some personal protective equipment in my emergency toolkit, as people would probably go instantly nuts for that if there is a breakout of human to human transmission.

I live in Norway, so the government will do everything in it’s power to protect its citizens probably. Like it did during COVID.

Theres no supply chain issues here currently either. During COVID pretty much everything was available besides acceptably priced GPUs

How to prepare for this shit again? I guess I can start by storing some masks, and a lot more food.

Any advice or thoughts? I can work from home fulltime, and grocery deliveries is possible.

This should be in drivers education in Europe

This is why I subscribe to lemmyshitpost

Having some distance while working on yourself is probably better. Maintaining friendships at least somewhat. Everybody needs and deserves human connection. If you believe you are toxic to other people and harm them, then limit the amount of time per person. But remember, it’s not only your responsibility, if they are bothered by your toxicity, then they also have a responsibility towards themselves. Do not make that decision for people, maybe you are not as toxic as you believe.

Being toxic is also not a permanent state of being. People change, and they do it all the time.

I have friends that struggle with mental issues, they can be too much sometimes. It is however always nice to spend a couple of hours here and there. Life is not black and white. You are not either toxic or not toxic. Most people can be pleasant for a couple of hours once in a while.

If you believe you are toxic, then fake it til you make it. Be fake positive and fake nice for an hour or two, after a while it will become second nature, and then it will become who you are. If you have views that you consider toxic, then challenge them. Use UnpopularOpinion or other forums to discuss then. If your views differ from most other people, then maybe it’s something you should challenge. Either you convince people or you are convinced.

If you realize you said or did something toxic, just apologize.

Just giving up is harmful towards yourself. You deserve happiness.

I don’t get why people support the death penalty in certain cases. It is never fair, moral or ethical.

This man did something absolutely horrible, but not close, not even by a factor of ten, to what the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik did.

In Norway we imprisoned him, probably for life, but we don’t kill him. We make sure he has a life that is reasonably comfortable inside prison. Because we are better than him. All life has value. Even his. We spend the miniscule amount of money is to provide him a decent life within confinement.

Recently a person was found innocent after spending about 20 years in prison for rape and killing two children. He would have been dead if we had capitol punishment in Norway.

Even if he seems lost completely and outside the possibility of rehabilitation, we give everyone a somewhat worthy life.

There are individualistic and collective ways of looking at this. Did society fail these people? Why did they become this way? Or was this destined to happened, because they are in some way inherently evil. If society failed in some way, then they at least deserve the minimum of a reasonably comfortable life in prison.

Because it is always partly a failing of society, true justice is never death.

Haha, wow. Thanks!

As a somewhat Linux noob I just made a folder called ~/Apps and launch them through terminal. Not ideal, but I don’t care enough to fix it.

Your suggestion makes me kinda want to fix it though. Doesn’t seem like to much work

Makes sense, I kinda like it from a distributor standpoint. Flatpak is my favorite though.