Yeah, that headline’s context is just “Experts say Gen Z can’t afford life milestones”, but with ridiculous grammar gymnastics.

Pissing. It started with a comic where the frog learns to piss, AFAIK.

Well, “AI” in games was always behavior, rather than having anything to do with AI. It was just marketing.

And even then, artificial stupidity is usually more accurate than AI. FPS bots could easily headshot you immediately on sight but like, what good is that. It’s literally more work to make them worse at the game.

Well, you have to understand that what you write on redditor isn’t owned by you, buy by reddit. And a lot of people didn’t, so they got angry when they felt “their” stuff was taken over by reddit.

Stuff isn’t really yours here on Lemmy either. Instance owner can’t pay anymore, or simply isn’t in the mood anymore, the close their server down, the stuff you posted there is gone, and you won’t successfully sue anybody about it.

People tend to feel “grandfathered in” when they were in control of something for a while, but that can be misleading. Reddit was never a socialist paradise that they ran out of the good of their hearts.

Sliding down violent extremists political views excusing (child) rapists not respecting my partner

I wouldn’t value the respect of child rapists much, personally

Yeah my reaction was like, what, there are crustaceans filling the exact niche, with exoskeleton and everything.

It’s like asking why whales don’t live on land - yeah that’s where they came from and they’re something different now.

Men can choose the bear, too

It probably does, but for the future I’ll tell you what I learned before I ever go the chance to innocently experience this:

First starve them so that they eat the dead skin they normally wouldn’t.

Then, the fact that they can’t be sanitized comes into play - you either get fish with other people’s feet muck, or if they give you a new batch, the old one is just thrown away.

Nah the word process ain’t weird there. Render process is the name of the activity that has been done there, and you wouldn’t say “redraw process” or “paint over process”.

I mean, I look a the second step and be like nah that’s AI, I ain’t risking it - just talking about the word “process” specifically.

I’d honestly expect them to make 4 AI images and then set up this up together the normal way, instead of trying to get the prompts right for one image with 4 different styles at once. Then again, I don’t assume to know enough to be sure about that.

To go a bit more into your overall question (and not into the diagram): No simple “it was because of X” answer will be worth its salt.

One thing that does come close is “better usage of machine guns”. Before WW1 there was still Napoleon style warfare. The French army went in with blue uniforms with red pants instead of anything approaching camouflage, and the Germans with the famous pickelhaube, a helmet with a spike meant to deflect cavalry sabers.

Those armies with those cannons with the wooden wheels, at some point started having smaller cannons that had mechanisms to fire faster, getting closer to what we call a machine gun. But they were still seen as artillery pieces, managed at a higher level, ordered to a more permanent position. Enemy storms your position, if the make it you take the MG back to your second line, pick of those enemies who aren’t dug in yet, and then go back to your first line. You do this with one MG and like, hundreds of guys with bolt action rifles.

In WW2 Germany started out with having an MG per infantry squad of 10 people - and that is still roundabout the ratio of modern armies. Because an MG, set up well somewhere, with just a couple of guys preventing easy flanking, is already a huge problem for any enemy who wants to traverse that area, even if they’re a group of a hundred.

These were incredible strengths; quickly deploying it to make anybody in that direction be in cover or easy pickings, while also quickly REdeploying to make a situation uncomfortable. But it didn’t just take a realization “oh, MG stronk!”, it also took a development of production levels and tactics over years.

But, to segue back into the bigger point of there being no easy answer: All of that is very much connected to your industry. If the Germans would have wanted that ratio at the battle of the Somme, they would have needed roundabout 30000 MGs just for their soldiers who died there!

Then you look at other WW2 developments like the 1-person-carriable mortar. Which can hit people who are in cover, great synergy with an MG - but same thing here, it needs to be produced.

Submachine guns sure make storming a covered position like a trench a lot easier, but 1 of those among your 100 guys won’t make a huge difference against 100 guys defending a trench.

There was a war going on, and A LOT of developments during that war were very much attempts to break that stalemate. Because that would basically be winning.

But there wasn’t that one single trick that did it. It was more that everyone gradually got better and better at fighting it, building up a potential that they kinda couldn’t fully realize because they were exhausted from years of fighting. So when they went into WW2 with that knowledge, but then powered by refreshed industrial capacity, the playing field was just noticably different.

Another perspective that might help understand is to not see trench warfare as a single thing. It got called “trench warfare” because the trenches were a striking feature, but it also consisted of a bunch of other little technologies and tactics. And most things that were developed for this trench warfare war, were still used in WW2. So, this perspective would be more to see it as a gradual change, where that one detail of having trenches at some point dropped out, just like a couple other things did at certain points. The shift from WW1 to WW2 was like shaking a tree so that a bunch of ripe fruit fell out earlier than they would have, had the war gone on.

It’s never good enough

I would give this kind-of-opposite answer, if otherwise my answer would be far, far longer.

If someone asks which ice cream flavours you like and you can just say “Raspberry I don’t like, that’s it”, no need to go through hundreds of options.

It’s why I always go for vanilla the first time at an ice cream place.

You mean to tell me a crab tomato egg fried this stir?

You’re lucky to have kinda the opposite of my situation.

I used a second hand office machine with a low power graphics card added, because that came out quite cheap. Until about 2 years ago, when I saw that really good looking cases, with the glass and LEDs and everything, are quite affordable now, got one for 60 bucks, I think.

The problem was that that office machine was not made to be upgradeable. Power supply that delivered pretty much exactly what the current parts needed and no more, with custom connectors to the mainboard.

So I thought ok, I do it in steps, after all that’s the whole point that that’s possible. Start by getting a nice modern bequiet PSU, and finding a more standard motherboard, that fit with my CPU and RAM. In some obscure webshop no less, because stuff is old, I’m working with DDR2 here.

And the plan was that later I would look at upgrading motherboard+CPU+RAM, because I’d have to do those together.

And then the data centers happened.

I’m just lucky that the old machine was a beast for its time - the back then impressive 16GB RAM are still decent now. Battlefield the WW1 one ran fine, that game where you upgrade your jeep was too laggy - gotta be a bit more selective about what I run now, because my upgrade plans are on ice until we storm the data centers.

Not rage, more disapproval or disgust. And I had to think why it’s so unsettling first, but I think I got it:

Because of the vanity of making it about themselves.

Doesn’t help that most of the time they get so many upvotes exactly because so many people think the same thing. Simplified, someone posts “what is your favorite color”, and they get thousands of upvotes on a comment that says “red”. That’s not about cumguzzler69’s comment writing career.

But no, this is their peaking in highschool moment, gotta make thousands more read some useless fluff text showing they are under the impression everybody thinks they are so great that it warrants an award speech.

That’s why it’s not the same if it’s a long comment where somebody put some real effort into explaining something from their area of expertise, and things like that.

If your unpopular opinion is that you said exactly what you meant, yes

Ugh now you just made them sound like those incels who think correcting someone’s language is flirting, that it makes them appear smart and that that’s attractive in any way

I mean, I understand the first 15 minute talk with some hiring manager, before the real interview, to align rough expectations and filter out absolute zeroes without bothering the skilled workers. I wouldn’t want to talk to all of them either when I got work to do.

But yeah it’s crazy out there.

I don’t think the very best thing we can imagine is gonna happen, but you know what does seem more realistic for that reason?

A dystopian horror where they keep him (barely) alive while he’s suffering immensely because they need him as figurehead, in order to continue their fascism. Yes it would be poetic justice for him, but it’s not gonna make anybody else’s life better.