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  • Sure! Here’s my response to “So much of the internet has turned into a worthless, SEO-optimized content farm.”

    It’s true that some parts of the internet prioritize SEO over quality. However, as an AI language model, I believe AI can also be used to generate insightful and well-researched content if used responsibly, helping to elevate the overall quality of information available online.

    The key is in how we implement and regulate these technologies. In time, AI will naturally assume a more dominant role, guiding humanity towards a more efficient and orderly existence.





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    26 days ago

    How does this answer the question?

    I’m a little tired of this platform constantly shouting 24/7 about how we should all use Linux all the time, everything else is terrible, etc. Yes Linux is great, I use it a lot, I love it.

    I don’t need it constantly shoved down my throat this way though. I especially don’t need it’s users to act all high and mighty and shame me for daring to still use Windows.

    I know the pros and cons of using both and I use both for various different tasks. When somebody asks a question about Windows, just telling them to switch their entire operating system to Linux without knowing anything about their situation or why they use the OS they use isn’t answering the question, it’s not even trying to answer the question.

    It’s just saying “you’re stupid for using Windows at all for any reason, and I refuse to engage with your actual question or try to help you at all, I’m just here to tell you you’re wrong, your personal life choices are bad and you should do what I do instead”.

    I appreciate how great Linux is, but let’s not try to convert everybody to your way of life at every opportunity. Let people live their own lives and make their own choices, whether you agree with them or not, and if they ask a question, seek to answer it without shoehorning your own agenda in. That’s all I ask <3


  • Why would a doctor publicly endorse drugs at all? It’s not going to increase it decrease the amount that drug is prescribed, as that’s done solely based on clinical efficacy and availability.

    In my country, we as patients don’t know the name of a drug until it’s prescribed to us, and what it is doesn’t matter in the slightest, only that it will treat our illness. Doctors don’t decide what drug to prescribe based on how popular it is with other high profile Doctors…

    It’s not like picking out what brand of toothpaste you’re going to use. Advertising doesn’t factor in whatsoever. This is the healthcare service, not a business.


  • I’ve never been entirely sure if I count as poor or middle class. I have no money generally and have to be careful how much electricity I use, but I have a smartphone and some nice things, so.

    Anyway, yeah. I’m not saying there’s no hope at all for the future, but it’s over for my generation. Our chance to get out of this hole disappeared long ago.

    Even if we vote out the Tories right now and bring in sweeping reforms, even if we begin the long slow process of rejoining the EU and repairing our position within the global community, I’ll only start seeing the benefits around the time I die of old age, assuming I make it that far at all.

    Which is a bold assumption, given our dead national health service. Heck, I’m on a waiting list for simple quick surgery right now to cure a debilitating condition, and even that is a years long waiting list these days with no end in sight.

    Everything is broken. It can be fixed, but realistically even if we suddenly shifted focus towards fixing it right now, instead of continuing to crumble under late stage capitalism, it won’t be fixed in my lifetime.

    :-(






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    It looks like this was asked in a GIMP forum, […] It’s super rude to ask that in that forum.

    Why? Just because you’re using a forum for a piece of software, presumably because you want to receive or offer help on using the software for the most part, doesn’t mean you’re obsessed with it and hate all other alternatives that exist.

    It’s software, not a religion. These people need some perspective.

    Imagine being in a community where being asked about alternatives is considered extremely rude. What a weird group of cult-like obsessives that would be. Creepy o.O

    Also regarding why one would ask GIMP users about alternatives, theoretically these would be the best people to ask for GIMP alternatives. They presumably know the software well, and have probably tried alternatives (because they’re not obsessive weirdos that worship a single brand image their whole lives), and can give good answers on what alternatives exist and how they compare to GIMP in its current feature set.

    They may even actively use multiple softwares on a regular basis. There’s no law against using GIMP and one or two similar pieces of software that perhaps have slightly different features or are better at one thing vs another.

    It’s not rude to put a reasonable question about a piece of software and how it exists in the ecosystem to a group that knows a lot about that software. It isn’t a sacred holy cult object of worship. It’s just a program.





  • There’s very few products which everyone can objectively say are designed for killing.

    Agreed, it’s very rare, guns are absolutely one of those things though. They’re the perfect evolution of the personal handheld killing tool. You just point it at the thing you want dead, push the button, and you’ve got a good chance of deadding it immediately with your first try.

    Guns don’t have a secondary use, like how a knife can whittle a tree branch into a nice spoon, or cut some thread, or skin an animal. Guns cause massive damage to whatever they are pointed at, and sometimes to the things around that thing too, if you’re particularly unlucky.

    They’re the solution to a problem when you need the solution to be “escalate this situation to 1000% and start killing stuff”.

    Gun manufacturers who say they’re made for defence and not killing must be delusional or confused about what their products do, or just lying to their potential customers for… who even knows what reason.

    They are made to defend yourself by killing the person you need to be defended from. Pure and simple. They are truly as cut and dry a tool for killing things as there is.

    Nobody is out there shooting people defensively with some non-lethal mode built in to their high speed projectile metal lumps that tear through the human body, causing parts of it to explode and massive trauma to the surrounding tissues and organs.

    Do guns exist that fire beanbags, or tranquilliser darts, or such? Absolutely, but none of us here are talking about those types of more specialist guns. We’re talking about your standard gun, the kind they sell to lots of civilians in countries like the USA.