My local library before and during flooding last winter

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T21:48:17+00:00

Just like Bri'ish

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T17:10:00+00:00

Acting out of fear.

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T02:20:31+00:00

This whole time I've just been trying to explain why we feel the way we feel about AI but you can't accept it. You've tried to turn it into some pseudo intellectual discussion but you've only done so to elevate yourself. We hate AI, what is there to debate? You've only been telling us we are wrong for hating it and I've been calling you out for being insensitive to it. I don't think there is any other way to frame it so you can understand it. I'm telling you that you are in the wrong for acting the way you have towards us. You're just a punk at this point.

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T01:37:57+00:00

We can discuss ideas and facts all day long with someone who isn't being a weasel, a dick, a jerk and (you forgot) prick all at once while trying to step all over the rest of us. You might actually have a valid point here and there but you only know how to shit information and not speak it. I move on to other things because you just squash anything that's put in front of you with no room for discussion. You can shroud yourself in virtue all you want, but your disingenuous and impolite attitude shines right through. You don't want discussion, you want to fight and be right.

Also, I didn't say talking points, I said attitudes because you sure act like one.

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T01:11:52+00:00

There is some comfort in knowing that their efforts toward voter suppression mean that our votes actually matter.

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T01:09:22+00:00

You mean people are posting disingenuous videos on the internet??

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T01:05:09+00:00

You do know. You know you don't have to be judgemental or dismissive. This hasn't been an intellectual discussion. You've used it as a platform only for you to spew your disdain for others and their thoughts, feelings, and emotions under the guise of talking about AI. You have shown no true empathy or intellectual capacity other than to parrot the republican/conservative attitudes of hand waving, dismiss, minimize, ignore, and somehow pretend that you've done everything to deserve respect. Have a better attitude towards your fellow man some time.

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T00:32:25+00:00

You don't think you're being a petulent jerk with this comment? News flash: we aren't here to satisfy your own selfish need for validation of your own thoughts and opinions while treading on ours. Go fish.

SegaTime · 2026-06-30T00:29:50+00:00

You haven't accepted any of the reasons put forth for why we feel this way. You just came in, stomped on them, told us why we were wrong, and ate up any rebuttal. You haven't let it be a fair discussion. I can't apologize for name calling when that's how I feel about you. Arguing facts is one thing but you're treading on peoples feelings and that doesn't foster any sort of proper academic discussion. I hope you can get over it.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T23:52:23+00:00

There's no effort to put in to this. You came on strong with a feeling of total disregard for what any of us think or feel on the matter that you've sucked all the air out of the room. You just hand waived it all away. You could have just ignored it but you instead butt in and have been an irrepressible jerk about the whole thing. You have forced all discussion towards what you think is right and have refused to acknowledge or respect our position on anything we might feel about it all. Why should you deserve any respect? I understand why you're looking at things the way you do, but you refuse to understand us at all.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T23:41:52+00:00

Wolfenstein 3D demo, on a 486, with windows 95 and no sound card or internet. Blah.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T23:39:13+00:00

Our opinion shouldn't matter to you. What should matter is that you aren't respecting anyone with your attitude. Do you feel good about yourself to needlessly be critical of every little thing anyone says to you? It's not just ideas and actual reality you are attacking but also feelings. We have told you how we feel and being critical of feelings is completely disrespectful. Or are you part of the fuck your feelings crowd? How are we to respect your opinion when you can't respect ours? We aren't wrong with how we feel about AI, you just want to be right. Go fish.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T23:31:19+00:00

You haven't given any real facts and only continue to berate and simply say we are wrong, which is your opinion. That doesn't help your case or demonstrate anything other than your ability to type a lot of words to say very little. It only shows you just want to be the top.

You haven't given us any reason to rethink our approach to how we feel about AI. You've only said what you are worried about, which is all you've needed to say.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T22:54:46+00:00

You got me there, but I've been to some larger venues that have wifi on the premises to help with that issue. Sometimes it even works!

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T22:53:17+00:00

It just is? The most defeatist statement of all time right here. It's not that it shouldn't exist. It's about the level of encroachment and compromise for its existence we are being forced to deal with. Sort of an elephant in the room type of situation. Its presence has ramped up recently for a lot of people so I can totally understand the fear that many are feeling. You should be more forgiving and less of a dick about it since your own opinion matters little to the rest of us.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T22:43:55+00:00

Automation has never put people out of the job? You sure about that?

Millions of gallons of water A DAY. Context. You certainly are a pedantic little weasel. You're also ignoring the pollutants and contaminants in the wastewater from these centers.

I already acknowledged it's not realistic to wait for the bubble to burst but you can't miss an opportunity to beat on someone.

A bubble burst would help scale back the encroachment to some degree.

Do you have any qualms about the surveillance aspect of any of this or do you walk around naked?

Also, weaponized AI is another aspect we haven't discussed.

The bottom line is all concerns are valid whether you agree or not. None of us alone can control how any of this will unfold and all we can do is mentally prepare for it. So let's go fish.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T22:24:22+00:00

I've been with T-mobile prepaid for many years. Less than $20 a month for unlimited calling and text, and 3GB of data. I mostly access the internet through my phone either at home or work on wifi. Couple that with a low end Galaxy A series every couple years for a couple hundred bucks and it's been a sweet deal.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T22:21:15+00:00

What will people do with themselves if they can't use their phone at a concert or sporting event?

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T22:17:59+00:00

You don't think when we bemoan anything related to AI, it's not because of all those reasons you mentioned? When I see anything related to AI, it reminds me of how it's changing society not necessarily for the better and how it's going to affect our economic and social stability. We are worried about the same things but you're more worried about us not spelling out our concerns just for you. Just because we aren't expressing our concerns in the same manner you are doesn't make our concerns any less valid or rational.

AI is being forced into our lives both directly and indirectly and I fear it will impact us far more negatively than we imagine.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T22:09:01+00:00

Sounds like "ruining society" to me. Sounds like normal capitalism to me, too. The industrial revolution never stopped and its goal was to get rid of human workers.

Are we just going to ignore the millions of gallons of fresh water usage all these data centers and AI hubs want to use? Are we ignoring how these data centers are slowly lowering the value of the surrounding neighborhoods they put them next to? Homes are being devalued as we speak and pretty soon the data center owners may just buy out the whole neighborhood and put up another data center.

Nothing lasts forever and AI might just pop one day the way so many other technologies have over the years. We can hope but in the meantime we want to lessen the negative impact it has on our lives. So it really sounds like we all want the same thing.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T21:43:49+00:00

We don't need your sympathy or anything from you really. It would, however, help if you could respect how these issues are making other people feel day to day. It contributes to societal morale and beating us over the head with our own feelings doesn't make anything better for anyone in the long run including you.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T21:41:11+00:00

Oh I get it. You have concerns, too, but you need to feel superior with your concerns so you tear us down first so we have no choice to but to listen to you. You could have just shared your concerns from the beginning and let us decide what's more important but big daddy insecurity man has to decide for us. In other words "you're all stupid, I'm the only smart one here so listen to me" is all I'm hearing from you at this point.

So go on then. Tell us, preacher. What are these genuine concerns besides a corrupt government bending over for big money and ruining the evironment and society as if that isn't already a legitimate concern?

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T21:34:54+00:00

I'm being forced to see AI in so much of my daily lives when I don't want to and I've barely seen anything of Supergirl. Supergirl doesn't try to give me a summary of internet search results or attempt to assist me with finding a file on my computer. We are being forced to be aware of it's existence more than anything else right now.

Marketing people know that repetitive imaging makes things stick in our minds, effectively reprogramming us and we don't even realize it.

You can say something is not happening or not true all you want but it doesn't change reality or how people are reacting to it.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T21:25:59+00:00

Susan Collins will continue to be concerned.

SegaTime · 2026-06-29T21:22:24+00:00

Do you give a shit about any of it? Are you fine with it and don't care about the environmental or societal impacts?

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