Generative AI degenerating skills.

Sometimes it feels like the internet is just a giant rat maze and people chase after whatever the algorithm rewards them for chasing.

I see clips of this guy in my recommended videos section on youtube all the time. I never click on them and I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips. Either way, I find it odd how signal-boosted this clown is. The gaming-to-politics pipeline is too strong.

Laying in bed thinking about the problem, “oh, that must be it!” Jump excitedly out of bed to work on the problem, “welp, that wasn’t it.”

People thinking that American politics needs to dominate every single place of conversation is mildly infuriating at least.

The interest rate isn’t at near-zero anymore so instead of growing with insane leverage, they’re trying to keep the juicy profit margins going by cutting while still raising prices as much as they can. Squeeze is a very apt term here because us peasants are getting squeezed every which way. When the fumes run out from the post-covid squeeze, the decline will accelerate. Government and corporate coffers are getting raided by the rich on the way out.

T-that’s just a coincidence…!

Maybe it’s location based, but I had a mcflurry about a year ago and was given a pathetically small amount of the topping poorly mixed in a terrible filler ice cream. Perhaps the ice cream in the mcflurry was always terrible, but I hadn’t noticed it before when I would get a lot more of the topping. Also, their coffee was better for a time but it has reverted to burnt mud.

Apparently quite a few people have a high tolerance for what they value.

Prices have gone up while portions, service, and even quality (as low as it already was) have gone down. When does “the free market” start improving things for customers instead of just shareholders?

A lot of this is on paper. For example, if they’re calculating potential retirement age based on stock market returns then they may be in for a rude awakening if the longest bull run of all time (minus the covid disruption) ends. But what are the odds of that, right? Surely housing prices will also rise forever too.

The political memes community in particular has silly moderation. My post criticizing the billions in dollars being sent in support of genocide got deleted and when I asked for clarification, I got this explanation (and I quote):

You’re blatant accusing political partition being pro genocide.

This is an opinion.

But I know that no one is PRO genocide. Therefore stating it as such is misinformation. It was removed for this reason alone.

What the heck is a chief philanthropy officer?

Hype over fake news like this is one major reason how tesla’s stock price has gotten as high as it has.

C is almost the perfect subset for me, but then I miss templates (almost exclusively for defining generic data structures) and automatic cleanup. That’s why I’m so interested in Zig with its comptime and defer features.

The graph goes up for me when I find my comfortable little subset of C++ but goes back down when I encounter other people’s comfortable little subset of C++ or when I find/remember another footgun I didn’t know/forgot about.

That’s not the reason why they’re doing this, just like how eliminating the super size option wasn’t to have people eat less junk food. It’s not effective in achieving that. This is just to squeeze more profits out of people, on an item that costs them pennies.

Turn the bottle 90 degrees?

I’ve heard people say “data is the new oil” and there’s some flaws in that thinking, but what I find apt, and what was probably not taken into account when that idea was thought up, is that like oil, it’s being drilled, refined, and combusted, polluting the environment. Whether this is AI-generated or just poorly-written slop by a human for the purpose of generating “content” to make money off some dumb algorithm, it’s polluting the environment and making it harder to get a proper answer.

That’s nice, but I’m more interested in prices coming back down. The manufacturers have been pumping up storage prices even though demand has gone down by artificially constricting supply.