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by the_af 4mo ago
> Nobody's asking you to force them If you're not forcing them, and you want to keep in touch with them, aren't we back where we started? "It's not so easy". > It took no haranguing on my part, I just
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by the_af 4mo ago
> Why do they have to be "willing to move out"? They're free to continue to use whatever they want, but how they get in touch with you might be different. Also, what's up with using "nerd" as a pejorative?
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by the_af 4mo ago
Ah, yes, "truly value". The measure of how much one is valued is whether people are willing to move out of a chat app due to some sort of nerd principle. Needless to say, I disagree. I value my (various groups of) friends more tha
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by the_af 4mo ago
Email is not chat and it's certainly not Instagram. Your suggestion will only work for people who are not really users of WhatsApp or Instagram.
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by the_af 4mo ago
Interesting. There are no ads for messaging. I only use WhatsApp for messages (individual and groups). I've never used status updates or any other nonsense (I don't even understand why one would want to do status updates, but some
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by the_af 4mo ago
It must be country/region specific. Other people are mentioning that in the US there are two tiers of Premium, "Full" and "Lite", but I only see one tier in my country (fully ad-free, allows downloads).
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by the_af 4mo ago
> Tell your school board to use a dedicated messaging platform built for schools. Cite privacy laws. That's what I did, and it worked. My daughter's school uses a clunky proprietary platform that is way, way worse than WhatsA
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by the_af 4mo ago
> Just stop using Meta products. It's really not as hard as it seems. Nobody needs FB to communicate with friends and family. Send texts or emails or use your phone. I'm in WhatsApp groups with friends who live abroad, SMS is
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by the_af 4mo ago
From a formal logic standpoint, you're correct. But the context of the parent's and grandparent's comments was (paraphrased) "if you don't pay, you're the product, therefore it makes sense to pay in this case&q
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by the_af 5mo ago
I'm sorry you feel this is a "strategy". Nothing was intended as personal. Something you said made me react with a reflection on AI and the productivity threadmill, but I wasn't criticizing your personal experience, much
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by the_af 5mo ago
> You’re now part of the journey of this novel. They will thank you in the acknowledgements section. It’s this foundation upon which our lives, communities, culture and societies are built. Beautifully said. I think this is what the po
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by the_af 5mo ago
You seem very defensive and angry, I have zero interest in discussing anything in that tone.
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by the_af 5mo ago
"Autofac" is one of my favorite PKD short stories, though it's very depressing and somewhat different from the "Electric Dreams" episode, which (if I remember correctly) started similarly but had a very different im
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by the_af 5mo ago
> You've just demonstrated a lack of reading comprehension Why are you escalating this? I didn't personally attack you or question your comprehension, I'm challenging some of what you said. Not even all. > Are you ha
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by the_af 5mo ago
> The AI is available when humans aren't Why do you need it to be available now (for varying values of "now")? Why the urgency? What did you do before AI existed? And why did you decide the AI makes you a better speake
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by the_af 5mo ago
> Why is this time different? I mean, this is a very long article about why, this time, it's qualitatively different...
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by the_af 5mo ago
> So do not let AI write your speeches. But do use it to push yourself harder. Isn't the point of the poem that you should, instead, ask a human? You'll get sidetracked and drawn into unrelated conversations, sure, but that&#
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by the_af 5mo ago
Are you familiar with Molleindustria? [1] (Oiligarchy, Unmanned, Every Day The Same Dream) I think your game would fit quite well in that collection of "political" indie games. Which, in my opinion, is high praise. -- [1] https:&
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by the_af 5mo ago
The author explains his opinion in a blog post, and it's not that: https://www.jasonwu.ink/signals/2026-05-27-permanent-upper-c... It's simply: saving yourself (by getting rich or whatever) before AI puts us
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by the_af 5mo ago
> Are we the Baddies? Yes, and how interesting. I could vibe a game about that. The author's actual take is way less cynical. It seems he wanted to point out that a world where you try to save yourself at all costs while the major
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by the_af 5mo ago
We know what the intended takeaway is because the author helpfully explained it in a blog post [1], and it's way less cynical than what you guessed: > A world where a majority of the population is suffering is not a world good for
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by the_af 5mo ago
> Save money. Skip the top hat. That's kinda the lesson of the game, how pointless it is, right?
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by the_af 5mo ago
Thanks, I caught the WarGames reference. Is there anyone not familiar with it? It's one of those pieces of widespread internet lore (though, of course, I actually watched the movie too, back in my youth). I very intentionally meant tha
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by the_af 5mo ago
Your reply reminded me of the free game Oiligarchy by Molleindustria (which made quite a few indie hits in my opinion). In that game, if you played "well" you ended up destroying the world. The only winning move was, indeed, not t
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by the_af 5mo ago
> Careful, as those are not universal. Placing too much emphasis on physical appearance can have the opposite effect and make other people preemptively judge you negatively. Yup. To me, a muscled/fitness-type guy who seems to care
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by the_af 5mo ago
Haha, I like your take. But Labubus still give me the creeps. Those teeth are not for smiling!
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You must be the only person in the world who thinks the "strategy is clear". Not even other Republicans agree with you. Your claims are not what Trump said. He has claimed it was about regime change, then about an uprising, then a
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by the_af 5mo ago
Everyone is lost about what exactly was the US strategy here. Everybody understands Iran wasn't a threat to the US that warranted immediate action. Mostly everyone understands the aftermath of this war looks to be worse than the previo
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by the_af 5mo ago
I couldn't suspend disbelief after the author called Labubu "cute". My daughter owns one. It's not cute. It's terrifying. It has a monster's grin. It looks like something out of "Child's Play". Y
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by the_af 5mo ago
Partially yes, but I think there's a substantial difference: LLMs are like always-on Yes Men that also roleplay as very competent engineers. So if your assistant Joe Sycophant always tells you how great you are, you might become inured

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