I’ve seen even people in their 40s using them. I don’t think that it’s a big deal, or that it’s too late for that.

Neither, but if I must choose it’s probably slightly more like muscle than like cartilage. If prepared properly it’s really soft and a bit chewy, distantly reminding me meat from stews.

(That reminds me a local pub that prepares some fucking amazing breaded and deep-fried tripe. Definitively not doing it at home - it spills and bubbles the oil like crazy.)

A compiler does it “good enough”, but AI = god in a bottle, thus it’ll do it “perfectly”. And for perfection you need to edit the raw metal using butterflies and cosmic rays, it’ll be the only real programmer to ever appear. Pressures like time and focus will stop existing. Why? Because AI = god, QED.

…or at least that’s the sort of crap that those Silicon Valley muppets believe in. The content itself doesn’t make sense, but why that pile of nonsense is uttered does - a fringe religious-like belief increasingly common among them.

Websearch “transhumanism silicon valley”, and it starts making sense: Musk has faith that artificial general intelligence is coming, Soon®, and that it’ll replace grunt labour like programming.

Musk being an assumer (note how he’s vomiting certainty on future events) doesn’t surprise me a tiny bit.

One potential regression that I see is that the current generative models are abandoned, after being ruled as “infringing copyrights” by multiple countries. The tech itself won’t disappear but it’ll be considerably harder to train newer ones.

The most problematic part is however if one of them survives; likely Google. That would lead to a situation as in your second paragraph.

I’m proposing to check their texts out because it’s a good way to get theoretical background to back up your beliefs, if you believe in a peaceful transition. (Here’s a link to a good one, by the way.)

It’s also useful for Marxists, given that Marxism always interacted with other left-wing trains of thought. So by reading this stuff you get a better historical context on why Marxism defends some policies instead of other policies.

This will probably not help OP, as he’s asking for an Android client.

Desktop users: install Firefox, uBlock Origin, then add reddit.com to your personal user filters. This way you can still access Reddit if you really want to, but it’ll make you think twice before proceeding.

So why isn’t my glass of Campari drifting randomly across the table, under Brownian movement??? [/shitty drunkard joke]

Serious now. On economic matters I think that you’re right.

You probably know it, but just in case that you (or anyone reading this, who might agree with you) don’t: give the texts of The Fabian Society a check. They’re rather close to what you’re proposing with a peaceful transition; I have my criticisms against it as a Marxist strictu sensu, but I bet that you’ll have a blast with it.

Applying the concept from the micro (enshittification of the platforms) to the macro (enshittification of the economic system) is brilliant.

Misleading name, on the same level as calling water “non-explosive hydrogen”. That said the material looks promising, as a glass replacement for some applications (the text mentions a few of them, like armoured windows).

(It is not a metal; it’s a ceramic, mostly oxygen with bits and bobs of aluminium and nitrogen. Interesting nonetheless, even if I’m picking on the name.)

I’d probably look for an instance that does not federate with instances that federate with Reddit. Yes, two levels of separation.

Because only a small part of my hate against Reddit is about the stupid, backstabbing, obnoxious and disingenuous administration. Most of it is about the userbase. I do not want to deal with 90% of the Reddit userbase and its stupidity.

It reaches the point that I don’t know if “I dun unrurrstand, u think dat 50 is not 100? than u think dat 50 is zero? dats dumb lol lmao [insert same emoji 10x] EDIT: WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER!” exaggerates or accurately represents their [lack of] reasoning.

Probably mayo, but I need to know on what.

I believe that there is at least some learning/cultivation; I’ve seen plenty people becoming nicer over time, and some nice people becoming arseholes. However that is not enough to rule out a potential innate component.

In the context of the OP: yes, Great Britain is part of the socio-political, economical and cultural area referred to as “Europe”.

In a strictly topographical context: no, Great Britain is not part of the peninsula referred to as “Europe”. It is simply not in a continent, just like Honshu and Sri Lanka aren’t either.

(Relevant detail: I’m focusing on GB alone, but UK also controls Gibraltar. The later is a topographical part of Europe, as it borders the territory controlled by Spain in Iberia.)

Pay 10 gold to the local priest. Problem solved.
Not enough gold? Sell some old items that I’ve been hoarding.
No hoarded items? Then how the hell was I cursed on first place, if not by trying every piece of equipment in the way???

This might be a major life moment for you.

Nah. ElderWendigo@shitjustworks is clearly a witch hunter, and witch hunters don’t usually learn. Five minutes later they get another major life moment: misread something, point hooves and screech, get called out, then delete the comment while downvoting people calling them out, as they run away with tail between legs.

[I kind of wanted them to point out historical falsehoods in my comment though. If there’s something false there I’d gladly fix it.]

Your whole comment is just so much racist whitewashing and ignorance it is painful to read.

In no moment I whitewashed rock, denying its black origins. I didn’t even mention the origins of rock. So don’t be a liar - or worse, assumptive trash.

The anti-rock movement is deeply rooted in racism.

That does not contradict what I said given that I was talking about that specific claim, not about the anti-rock movement as a whole.

Long before there was any hint of witchcraft in Rock and Roll, it’s greatest threat to christian fundamentalism was in brining black music to white audiences.

I believe this to be correct but it does not contradict what I said.

Your whole comment is just so much racist whitewashing and ignorance it is painful to read.

No, it is not. Learn to read.

This kind of bullshit is how conservatives today get away with claiming racism doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m neither what would be considered “conservative” where I live, nor in USA (where rock is from). And I am not responsible for what your intellectual peers claim. (You might not be a conservative but you bloody behave like one!)

Nota bene: if two were to play this “I’m an illiterate so I make shit up lol” game, you’d be screwed, as it would be really easy for me to label you as an Islamophobic and a nationalist, on the exact same grounds that you’re claiming that I’m [ipsis ungulis] “a racist” and “whitewashing rock”. Think on why.

Or alternatively you might go back to Reddit. Given that you lack basic reading comprehension, you’d be doing everyone a big favour.

[some are] convinced that rock music is evil and will lead people to engage in witchcraft and draw pentagrams all over their home.

I think that it’s pretty safe to say that at least some people around you are stone-cold fundamentalists. This sort of discourse doesn’t come from non-fundamentalists.

That said as stupid as “rock is [from the d]evil” claim is, I don’t think that it’s rooted in racism. Instead I think that it’s because some values often followed by rock bands, singers and fans clash directly with some values of Christianity.

Note that some sort of percussion pops up in almost every musical style, across the eras.

Slaves. They created the guitar

This was already addressed, but… come on, acoustic guitars are from Middle Ages Iberia, and they backtrack all the way into the lutes of the Ancient Egypt and Anatolia. (Probably. It’s so old that the origins are hard to determine.)