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https://youtu.be/1cL9zIo-4ts?si=P8EB9wmaEV-It4qS

The thought that comes to mind for me is that all of the tech companies are in a heavy cycle of stock/investor profit mode. It seems like every major company is just pumping the bottom line for stock gains.

I know that can lead to R&D money and advances, but I'm only really seeing that with M$ buying (I mean partnering) ChatGPT for their CoPilot to be the next big thing for Office/Microsoft 365.

What has Apple done new lately? iPhones just get better specs right?

Google, being the subject of the article, they do seem like they're getting their butts kicked trying to compete with OpenAI.

Broadcom buys VMware (which wasn't really doing anything wildly new IMO lately), openly plans to milk it for profit, and has been pretty honest about not giving a shit about customers, until their latest post where they are trying to speak against the obvious aforementioned 'not-giving-a-shit'

Who else?

Any major innovations lately not coming to my mind, or all just bottom line pumping?

I'd have to agree with you, and appreciate the thought regarding not over generalizing Christians, but I understand why people tend to.

Example: Remember cake lady from Indiana? She was a bigot. It pissed me off when she tried to use the excuse of 'religious beliefs'. Since she specifically claimed Christianity, I call total BS on the grounds that Jesus NEVER treated anyone like shit (aside from the other religious people, which following that thought, means she would have gotten called out). Jesus always gave people grace, and then offered advise (specific to Christianity). I would so much rather people be honest and say they don't like ____, instead of some BS hiding behind their own distorted version of faith. I don't have to agree with their opinion, just don't lie about it.

Also, I've never had any person who's gay try to 'convert' me, ever. You could get a bunch of comedy bits out of that one though. I have had mormons and jo's witnesses come by. They were nice, but if I wanted to waste a bunch of time talking, I would definitely ask them to explain views on dancing, sexuality, etc.

The only pro gay conversion I've ever been exposed to was movies/TV shows advocating for it being a 'normal' thing. I suppose that's because in the US, it's still considered 'weird' or wrong, and writers are trying to back it for what I imagine are civil rights reasons.

I'm not sure why it's so hard to stop caring about stuff that doesn't matter (to me). I have never cared about a person's orientation.

That’s a big strawman

Off topic: I like to put Lemmy posts or comments into the LLMs and see what it comes back with.

The two examples Gemini provided for straw man where around the topics of gun control, and renewable energy.

It's like there's a ton of terrible arguments around the internet for these two topics /s There are.

I had to quickly scroll past Lemmy/reddit porn posts to gaze at this bread...

couldn't do that in a country with privacy laws

Dammit US! Do better...

That was a very good analogy.

Go on...

What are you scared of?

Why would you assume I didn't understand the idea of an anonymous account?

I don't understand why a treatment or jail program wouldn't be desirable.

Cost? Wasn't it potentially offset by cannabis taxes?

Capacity? Didn't addicts already get locked up? Or maybe now there's no capacity because the low level addicts have not been locked up and adjustments were made?

Ha, then it wouldn't be fair 😉

Like everyone on the planet, they're just trying to work more efficiently.

Their purpose is the same as any other business; extract as much profit (or Intel) as possible.

Not sure how you'd stop this.