Yeah, manual searching is definitely better in that case. AI could be use as a last resort if you can’t find something or just a quick answer, and even in that, it isn’t reliable much since depending on what AI is trained on and the company behind it. I.e save electricity, your time and use manual searching…

Not a fan of AI but i did use Duck.ai a couple of times and when i asked, it usually put the source under its answer.

Mostly Imageboards, at least the ones i see. I think the word maxxing was used first in incel communities.

Socialist society, where humans collectively own production, cannot be dictated by a single or small group. It requires mass participation.

Do you really think this could work in a city for example where many people live together, not knowing each other? What you say could be possible in a small village where only a hundred people live together but when it exceeds more than 500, it’d impossible IMO and it would always turn into what we have right now.

I am not sure but i read something like that before, probably the reason. Although it’s possible to use newer chrome on Windows 7 by using Vxkex - when it was being developed - or using Supermium, even Steam worked for sometime with Vxkex.

Forsake Electron, Chrome-based Steam client and return to the old ways, was it pre-2020 or 2019? Or at least bring back the old small mode which used to be able to run Steam without web features.

What I’m talking about is human nature. Those democratically elected would eventually accumulate wealth and pass things such as laws that benefit them. I am sorry to say that but the working class can sometimes become gullible that any cheap slogans and promises might dupe them into supporting a charlatan or group of them which in turn those people become the new elite of that society. And the other thing is that even if that happened, the new authoritarian would be the society itself and in this case which would dictate what the individual should do, what to wear,buy, how to behave etc…

Humans are generally self-interest, and please don’t misunderstand this word because it has many different shades. Most people assume that self-interest is being selfish which is only half-true. For example, I like nature and forests, and it’s in my interest that i protect them from trash and pollution and thus i might become invested into protecting it and become an activist. People would think i am being altruistic but in truth it’s serving my interest.

I just finished reading Donald D. Hoffman - The Case Against Reality. I skipped some pages when it got into physics because i am not that bright when it came to that stuff; otherwise it’s a good book and i do agree with how each species have their own interface, i.e we don’t see reality as it is, rather what benefits us for our survival and procreation. It’s a bit wordy too. Right now, I am reading Joseph Conrad short story The Idiots just for the sake of improving vocabulary and English, and probably will read his other ones as well. BTW am i the only one who sees his writing a bit hard to grasp, his description are always wordy.

A few months ago, I finished Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. While i did resort to dictionary for some words, but i didn’t experience any difficulty understanding there, unlike Joseph’s stuff, so my English isn’t that bad i think.

Wouldn’t they become the new dictators, elites, dictating what others should do? The cycle would just go on changing from one master to another with same bullshit. You underestimate how power changes people when they reach it.

True about Javascript since almost all webpages nowadays use it and all use cloudflare as well. But since when does the Cloudflare verification need you to disable adblocker? It never happens with me. I am using Ublock Origins.

But it’s the same thing. You keep the account but don’t use unless for the things you already used it because they already have that data anyway and like i said i doubt they delete it, not just google but most popular services are like that; you’re just deleted from the public records but in their servers all your data is probably still there and who knows, profiting from it. Instead of deleting and never being able to access your account, you can just keep it.

You can’t anymore and even if you did, you will get shadowbanned instantly. There’s no way unless you use the well known ones, i guess proton works but not the aliases though.

Eh, they already have your data and i doubt they actually delete it. it’s better to just keep it and use it for things that you already used it for.

https://www.freac.org/ is a nice program if you’re going to do that.

Btw Piefed has a feature where you could blur posts by bots. Does that exist on Lemmy or the one you have?

Anyway, I usually browse for the ones i subscribed to but i do check out from all fediverse to see if there’s any new ones to subscribe to. I don’t see any recommendations or algorithms here.

I am not native English speaker but the first two sound pretty nice, almost close to native? The last one gives off the slavic accent at the very beginning. All of them sound okay and don’t have the ridiculous accent of slavs you see in movies and films.

I wouldn’t call it scary but Embrace of Thorns - Praying for Absolution has a strange atmosphere and vocals to me.

Yea I do remember the donald, they weren’t really incel though, just a political sub if i am not wrong. Incels had their own subs as well that got purged at the time along with many ones as well. What was good about Reddit back then was that the platform allowed freedom to a large extent, didn’t bother as long as it wasn’t something in your face that violated the rules, either that, or they didn’t care back then.

True. For me, the quality there pretty much degraded around 2015-6 or at least that was when i started to notice the increase of bot use and such, but some would say it was even before that when one of its founder died. Even after that period it was still tolerable compared to what we have now.

Maybe it will get updated later. Btw, old Reddit still works with accounts. There’s something in settings that tells it to switch to new Reddit and it’s usually enabled by default.