How does AI actually improve their financial position? Who pays them to use AI?

Most porn sites do run ads!

And I did support a probably independent creator of erotic audio on Patreon once.

If we compare humanity to other species on earth, the year-round horniness without any specific mating seasons is fairly uncommon. There’s not really a good reason to assume that a sentient alien species works the same way.

For masturbation, mostly.

Humanity is relatively unique compared to earth’s other animals in that the species’ females can conceive all year (minus the time when they have their period) without any kind of mating season, and while it’s very hard to study this, it doesn’t seem like sex is particularly fun in most species, especially for females. This does help humans somewhat with forging long-lasting social bonds, which is definitely something that’s core to the human species, but it’s by no means the only way that a species can be instinctually inclined to form long-lasting social bonds. So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.

Still seems low TBH. Though the EU as a whole isn’t particularly receptive to US refugees, anyway, especially the asylum route.

I’ll take a EU-style “masked autocracy” over an overt autocracy like Russia any day.

European fascists aren’t alone, though, and that’s the issue.

I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).

So why do Norwegians act differently than Germans, Danes etc. when it comes to Tesla? The article doesn’t answer the title question, either.

The article doesn’t actually the answer the title question. It just talks about Norway’s tax incentives for electric cars in general, with not even a half sentence about why they’re buying Tesla specifically. Tesla is hardly the only company that makes electric cars in its price bracket nowadays.

That title is pure clickbait, basically, and the article itself isn’t really in depth enough to be worth reading even if the title was honest.

Gif is just an image format. It supports still images, too, and many if not most other image formats also support animations.

But it is true that with most displays, images are never truly still.

Oh yeah. It sucks trying to search for tips, solutions etc. when you only know the localized terms, and it’s rare that help resources in different languages are even somewhat useful and up-to-date.

Also, localized voice acting tends to be lame. For one reason or another they’re rarely as good as the original ones. Conversely, I found that German voice acting for games that were originally written in German can be quite good - it seems that localization just doesn’t have the same energy as the original.

I suppose I’m relatively spoiled as a German.

FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

I do remember setting my webbrowser to English to avoid YouTube’s absurd automatic title translations, and that was before the LLM hype …

Other countries pass laws that require big majorities all the time. Why are 40+% of senators against it in the first place?

Trying to identify the one issue that prevents sensible laws seems like a fool’s errand to me.

Fairly obvious if you grew up in a non-anglophone country. It’s part of the reason why certain kinds of people set their machines to English even if everything is localized well. And it’s not just error messages, most of the good learning material is in English, too, especially for niche or very recent software.

Makes me wonder what kind of device you’re using in the shower, though.

Seems redundant. Why else would you be in that party in the first place?

Signal had a Linux app for years.

WhatsApp might not have a Linux app, but I don’t use it on my phone, either. Fuck Meta.

When I switched from Windows to Linux, I was already primarily using open source applications, so I wasn’t missing out on much.

Silence, peasant!

Many languages have using the wrong level of honorifics as a personal insult, while e.g. in English this only really exists in the form of royal honorifics, which are very rare for obvious reasons (which is sometimes used mockingly).

tfw you have no empathy