Stadia was great for what it was. As a hardcore PC gamer who went more casual it was the answer to my gaming needs. Being able to play anywhere on any device was amazing.

They refunded all my purchases and I got to keep a bunch of free hardware I had gotten with Stadia bundles.

Business has spoken, consumers have spoken. No one wants AI right now. Large companies trying to out compete each other on LLM is stupid. Time for the bubble to pop before more people get hurt.

It is a cold dark night at Microsoft Headquarters. The moon is blacked out by the clouds and rain and thunder beat relentlessly against the office windows.

The head UX engineer stares at the prompt nervously. He hesitates, his whole life has been building up to this point. He is going to control where windows is going and shape the lives of billions of people.

“You got this,” He mumbles to himself, “you know what to do.”

He grabs a screenshot of his desktop and types the fateful words. Make this desktop make more money

The AI says processing…

That texting would be so popular. Coming from pagers to actual cell phones and being able to hear people talk anywhere was amazing. Going back to text messages seemed counterintuitive.

Grok AI Teacher is coming to a school near you! With amazing lesson plans like “Was the Holocaust even real?”

I didn’t down vote you, and I wouldn’t take it personally.

I was just offering the typical anecdotal experience challenging misconception. This is probably worth less than good research.

This is bullshit honestly. I have been married for almost 30 years. For 27 years we had sex pretty much everyday. Then my wife had to get her ladybits rearranged by a doctor due to a bladder prolapse and went through early menopause.

We still have regular sex, but not everyday anymore.

I was watching this reality TV show about teen parents. There was a couple that was having sex, but they hadn’t kissed yet because kissing was much more intimate!?

Oh sure, they have used commercial artist’s work without compensation so many times. It is clear they never wanted to pay for it to begin with.

99% of art is made without the intention of selling it. I think it is bizarre that capitalists are so desperate to make art = money when that was never the point to begin with for the majority of it. It is just another perversion from our greedy culture.

Okay, your understanding of this is clearly elementary much like your comments.

You offered no solidarity, give me a break. You were dissing on a word to the wise under the assumption it was a personal attack due to your poor streaming choices. You are just overreacting at this point and likely every point.

Why you flail about with wild accusations is beyond me. It is probably because I am dead right that you are acting like a little bootlicker corporate clown. Solidarity, lol.

It is gross and I am stuck participating in it. We don’t need a world full of weapons. It is such a disservice to future generations.

You personalized this beyond all reason. There was no malicious reading just someone trying to understand what you where trying to say.

Apparently, I was dead on. You are trying to say someone that is commenting your subscriptions are going to get enshitified is somehow a personal attack rather than a statement of fact.

Clearly you are some kind of person who acts like an extremely sensitive bootlicker rather than a rational actor who is here to discuss. I would not suggest taking it personally or acting like a bootlicker in the future if you can avoid it.

If the platform formerly known as Twitter didn’t die when it killed itself, it ain’t going to die from this. Zombie Twitter will live on.

Studying the revolutionary war reveals a bunch of rich propagandists using lies and violence to manipulate the people into forming a country for the wealthy by the wealthy.

The first President of the US was well on his way to becoming the first billionaire adjusted for inflation. All the things they said were pretty much lies as no one was ever equal in our classist society and our first major moves were to genocide an entire race of people.

The cracks and rot were present in our founding slaveholding abusive fucking illegitimate “fathers” who sold the people a lie just like our current reps do.

The US won’t go quietly into the night. A desperate US is a scary prospect with a military several orders larger and better equipped than the rest of the world combined.

Until the US eliminates it’s military budget the rest of the world would be wise to watch their backs.

Like I said, I thought like you many years ago and I have grown so much since then.

Christianity is a bad copy of other religions that came before it. Christ himself was a cultist preaching resurrection on Earth. The end of his story was just his fellow cultists trying to make his lies a reality.

It is a strange tale for sure and I study it out of morbid curiosity rather than seeking a higher truth like I once did long ago.

I wish you luck on your journey.

Religion is a superficial decoration in modern times. My ancestors true religion was taken from them by sword point. Convert or die, so pardon me if I view modern religion through the lense of conquerors and manipulators.

Argue, I have been married for almost thirty years. I was in your frame of mind back when I was a teenager. I spent decades studying all religions and I still do to this day. I am under no more false illusions or pretenses and have spent a long time deprogramming myself.

I am very satisfied where I have landed and I will not give credence where it does not belong.

You have a community here which is probably more real and fulfilling than going to a church service. Here we are having a discussion you would never get in a typical church. We are both thinking together, discussing, without any authority to tell us otherwise.

Our sense of right and wrong simply don’t come from religion. It initially comes from our familial bounds but is reinforced through our many interactions with our social groups.

You can see this in gangsters that believe in God, but also will deal drugs and shoot each other. Their morality is determined by their social group, not their belief in religion.

As I said. I used to believe like you that religion is needed by some people, but I have begun to doubt this premise.