Blame Putin

I especially like this one

What a clever way to bring natural light indoors.

At least RCV is a single and measurable cause to ralley around. I feel like public pressure tends to be more effective when focused on causes such as these.

It’s like a crazy but organized game of ping pong

I’ve switched my tooth brushing from before I go to bed (it became a mental barrier for going to bed) to doing it after washing my hands when I arrive home.

A bit over a month? This was in the winter and I didn’t feel unclean/like I needed it so I just kinda forgot.

Now I want to try both things on a water bed

Eastern Europe used them tons

Very pretty.

Haha. I think I have seen these with a couple of windows smashed. Although something tells me they’d be quite hard to smash — like a CRT.

You could defo play scrabble on it with one of those liquid chalk pens

And while we’re at it, these yellow-lit interiors with brown tiles were pretty too.

https://lemmy.world/comment/17440269

their “AI” features

Oh :(. Looks like they must have still viewed you as a product rather than a paying customer… It seems they must have calculated that training models on your data and selling those would make them more money than just raising the price of the subscription. I suppose the structural problem then is that selling your data is something a business can always do to make a buck regardless of if you are (or aren’t) already paying them.

(Meme from 2019)

Synthetic biology. This is a hype wave waiting to happen. Can’t wait for crops to get enshittified /s Hopefully we move beyond the Sillicon Valley business model by then.

No no, it got banned by the EU around 2000 and was already banned in many states befpre that

Well it can’t be sold anymore, but if you have it in your house then it’s not illegal in any way

I think there is a growing divide between the most and least intelligent in society, and it has been growing with tech advancement (the gap wouldn’t have been that big in the middle ages). If we ever develop superintelligent AI, I can see that becoming an inflection point in this divide because we (Lemmy dwellers) will become as fallible to that AI as the people you mentioned are today in what is still a human-dominated society. Introducing AGI will vastly exasperate the gap between the most and least intelligent and I can’t see society surviving that in its current form.