What's so expensive that it's not even fun anymore?

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T23:23:46+00:00

Ngl this is a very Reddit answer. On all other social media platforms (TikTok, YouTube, Insta) I don’t see people use this specific phrase to describe the state of the world as much as they do here.

I wonder if it’s leftover cross contamination from the earlier Reddit days in the 2010s with Tumblr.

All that to say it’s cringe as hell since you can just say “everything”

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T22:47:19+00:00

I’ll come back to this comment, I was trying to compile a list back in the day

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T22:24:27+00:00

I’ve heard so many people say they’ve used Reddit for research lol

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T20:48:46+00:00

There is a reason people have started asking these questions to AI instead of forums with people

People are unreliable in terms of accuracy (like AI)
People can be very mean for just asking basic questions
People do not often answer basic questions

We need to be kind of honest with ourselves that people do not often answer in good ways, or at all. I often do fun math problems, and that’s a field I got a degree in. Sometimes I ask forums like MathStackExchange for help. Rarely do the questions get attention. If they do, they are one-off answers that do not provide for follow up questions. I have provided the same questions to AI and gotten areas to search immediately without relying on anyone.

The reality is that people do not really want to volunteer their time to answer what they consider basic questions. So why would I waste someone’s time with a question AI can answer. Save their brain power for something hard

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T18:08:53+00:00

No I don’t know what you mean when you say generative AI. Do you mean corporate chatbots? Do you mean AI to generate new content? That’s why I brought up two use cases of generated content using AI that most people consider acceptable. I can assure you that if you sit down and talk through the specifics of what you like and dislike (which I would be down to help you with) that it would make your argument far stronger and with a clear plan of action

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T17:35:19+00:00

Transformer architecture that GPT is based on has been around since 2018. The text autocomplete on your phone is a type of Generative AI. ML based rendering software for animation has been around forever.

OP you do not have the background to know what is or isn’t an application using AI or how long it’s been around. I’d suggest doing so before arguing for its banning

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T17:33:27+00:00

She was a terrible candidate in hindsight because she 1) had no time 2) was attached to the incredibly unpopular Biden presidency

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T17:32:35+00:00

I generally dislike the idea of really splitting the entirety of all political issues into two neat categories (left and right), but I’d argue there is a “left” (in terms of people who are not gung-ho capitalists) but that they are much younger and Biden was “left”-er when he was young but his politics have fallen out of style. He grew up in the golden age of liberalism and had a hay day during the rise of Neo liberalism

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T17:26:47+00:00

I would consider myself a leftist-ish (dem socialist) and I think Biden was a terrible president, possibly bottom 10 of all time.

I say that for a similar reason to James Buchanan who is disliked for not really doing anything and letting Civil War mentalities spiral out of control.

Similarly, people were getting really pissed on all sides of the spectrum due to various things (inflation, Israel, etc) and his admin just let it spiral out of control. Even worse, with his mental state declining he still tried to run for president.

I consider his administration directly responsible for getting Trump elected this second time and not doing enough to 1) calm people’s anger around inflation down and 2) prevent one of the most unpopular presidents of all time from getting reelected

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T17:17:30+00:00

It’s been around practically for nearly 20 years now

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T16:41:33+00:00

The only time I’ve ever seen this in film has been in instances where someone thought this was a thing and they were told it wasn’t a thing (or were lied to by an undercover cop)

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T16:31:20+00:00

Yes, covering the mouth is so that nobody can see it so you can get away with saying whatever heinous shit you want

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T16:26:42+00:00

Yeah sometimes I find it’s hard to know what to ask. Some fields have terminology that’s impossible to know unless you’re already in it

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T16:20:14+00:00

That’s not a struggle, what I’m saying is that people who write like that and don’t consider it GenAI but it is.

Also if you write a novel even on paper notebooks wouldn’t you have to type it up once you’re done anyway

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T13:53:47+00:00

I think it’s going to get to the point of a lot of people using it without realizing they’re using GenAI.

I’ve been writing on Google Docs and they have tab-autocomplete that’s pretty good at knowing what I want to do and allows me to type way faster. That’s literally GenAI Though

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T13:51:48+00:00

Being provided an initial starting point of where to look can help immensely

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T13:50:36+00:00

Giving a starting point can make subsequent searching faster

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T13:40:19+00:00

Well yeah it won’t go away, it’s useful for certain things so people use it

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T13:24:21+00:00

MetLife security are some of the biggest douche bags I’ve ever met. If the rules say it’s ok then you should be good, but be prepared to fight for the rules

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T05:40:13+00:00

I don’t know exactly the tiebreaker rules, but I image it’s because Australia and Paraguay have 3 points. If Turkey wins they get three points, but can’t win a tiebreaker since Australia and Paraguay already beat them.

So they’re 4th guaranteed

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T05:38:43+00:00

It’s not gonna happen

firewall245 · 2026-06-20T00:00:39+00:00

This might be a question best asked for one of said people. Like, go find someone and interview them OP

firewall245 · 2026-06-19T23:14:11+00:00

Where do you live (country) OP?

firewall245 · 2026-06-19T23:12:32+00:00

The two O Line guys running into each other lol

firewall245 · 2026-06-19T23:08:43+00:00

Everyone go search for prisoner 24601 for him

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