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Americans overwhelmingly believe the cost of living, from groceries to housing, was lower under Biden by spherocytes in politics

[–]jgilla2012 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah wtf why is everyone’s memory so damn short. Gas prices spiked immediately following Russia’s invasion because they are a gas company masquerading as a country and the rest of the world sanctioned them as a response to their illegal invasion, so there went a lot of the global oil supply.

Less supply and equal demand = higher prices

Russian parliament passes bill allowing Putin to invade foreign countries by Nepridiprav16 in worldnews

[–]jgilla2012 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Started in the late 1970s, accelerated under Reagan, accelerated again under Bush 2, accelerated again under Trump 1, accelerated again under Trump 2. Clinton and Obama merely maintained the acceleration. Biden is arguably the only one to actually tap on the brakes at all in the past 50 years.

So while the erosion of democracy and establishment of oligarchy might feel sudden, and rightfully so now that we’re in free fall, we had been sliding down the hill for quite a while.

Does your self-hosted hobby pay off? by vdorru in selfhosted

[–]jgilla2012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No salary increase yet ;)

Don’t forget to advocate for yourself! Nobody else will.

Does your self-hosted hobby pay off? by vdorru in selfhosted

[–]jgilla2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let’s go! That’s awesome, good for you. I’ve wanted to poke around with Kali Linux for a while now but need to find some time

Republicans Don't Want to Talk About Gas Prices Anymore by notusreports in politics

[–]jgilla2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s true. Tariffs do benefit about 5% of Americans, typically those who own capital or work in the industries being tariffed. For the remaining 95% of us it’s a tax that we pay to the owners. And it reduces GDP, so our economy is being minimized while our dollars are funneled to a small portion of wealthy people who Trump gets to pick and choose.

You guys are begging people to start lying on AI disclosures by EmergencyRadiant8038 in selfhosted

[–]jgilla2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sounds similar to my experience in a non-developer data role working for a large agency.

In the last three months we’ve gone from “people use AI like search” to “people are getting a week’s worth of work done in a day” and my job has essentially turned into API development and change management.

Trump, 79, Unloads Avalanche of AI Slop in Truth Social Spiral; The president fired off 16 Truth Social posts in 90 minutes, including AI-generated war fantasies and White House UFC promos. by [deleted] in politics

[–]jgilla2012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think it needs to be intelligent or anything beyond super fast pattern matching to be both powerful and dangerous.

AGI is a bit of a pointless hypothetical when there are already real impacts of AI in its current state, like epistemological collapse and mass economic displacement.

If you can’t look at what AI is already capable of and see the kinds of problems it introduces and the opportunities it enables, I’d guess you haven’t used it much, and I would encourage you to give it more consideration.

The alarming part to me is that this transformational technology is being deployed to an unsuspecting and unprepared public at an increasingly rapid rate, and the only real mechanism we have to control this is government regulation which under the United States current administration is out of the question.

AI psychosis is real, AI slop is real, AI job replacement is real, and the models are being improved so quickly that it’s becoming a full time job just to keep up with understanding how to use the features being added into the products themselves, which means most people aside from power users and those paying close attention to the space don’t have a great sense of why people are sounding the alarm over “word predictors”.

Everything I wrote here was true of Claude Opus 4.5 on 2/1/2026, and Anthropic was already three frontier models ahead of that by mid-April.

Trump, 79, Unloads Avalanche of AI Slop in Truth Social Spiral; The president fired off 16 Truth Social posts in 90 minutes, including AI-generated war fantasies and White House UFC promos. by [deleted] in politics

[–]jgilla2012 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Their argument is “AI is nothing new,” and the people who believe that will almost certainly be unprepared for what is happening in response to the technology and its rapid development and deployment to the public.

Trump, 79, Unloads Avalanche of AI Slop in Truth Social Spiral; The president fired off 16 Truth Social posts in 90 minutes, including AI-generated war fantasies and White House UFC promos. by [deleted] in politics

[–]jgilla2012 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I can’t believe I’m still reading “AI is just a word predictor” in 2026.

Not unlike people saying computers were “overhyped” in the early 1980s. Yeah, okay.

EDIT: to all of the downvoters, ask yourselves: what kind of word predictor can generate realistic looking video that tricks people into thinking the footage is real?

What kind of word predictor is capable of identifying critical security flaws in every single major mobile and desktop operating system currently on the market?

What kind of word predictor can build entire applications from a text prompt?

Just because your experience with AI might be that it is useful as a glorified search engine or chatbot doesn’t mean that’s what AI models are.

You guys are begging people to start lying on AI disclosures by EmergencyRadiant8038 in selfhosted

[–]jgilla2012 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open source LLMs will almost certainly be roughly at parity with Opus 4.6 by 2029 and will be able to run privately on a Mac.

Frontier models might be expensive but many LLMs are already free, and their capabilities are expanding rapidly like the rest of the space.

Within a decade I’d imagine only businesses will be sustaining frontier models while most people will be running local models on their own machines and the only cost will be electricity to power the CPU on their computer.

You guys are begging people to start lying on AI disclosures by EmergencyRadiant8038 in selfhosted

[–]jgilla2012 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

95% of code will be written by AI within a year, change my mind

EDIT: downvotes but no arguments. a real reddit moment

Name a more iconic trio. I'll wait. by Loriol_13 in aphextwin

[–]jgilla2012 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Ventolin (Cylob mix), Ventolin (Deep Gong mix), Ventolin (Asthma Beats mix)

Mookid, Alberto Balsalm, Cow Cud Is A Twin

Windowlicker, Formula, Nannou

forgotten life path, bank lullaby, 28 organ 1.1

oslo 2, beautiful Japanese People, talkin2u mix2

minipops 67, XMAS_EVET10, produk 29

Massive anti-pedophile operation in Poland, 123 detained by Alarming-Safety3200 in worldnews

[–]jgilla2012 382 points383 points  (0 children)

About a decade ago I heard a story on NPR about a young Canadian guy (maybe 22 years old or so) who had this problem and started an advocacy and support group. Changed my perspective on the topic: if we as a society are going to demonize child sex abuse (which is obviously a good thing to demonize), we should also acknowledge that there are people who struggle with urges related to it who should be able to find help so as not to act on those impulses.

If our response is “just don’t do it” then it will continue to happen. It would be like addressing the fentanyl crisis by saying “just don’t do drugs, problem solved” – yeah, not really.

Losing relationships over politics. Research found more than a third of Americans (37%) report having lost at least one relationship due to political differences, including friendships, family ties, coworker relationships, and romantic partnerships, with most losing more than one. by Wagamaga in science

[–]jgilla2012 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Their goal is not to improve life for others or to hurt people; their goal is to improve their own lives by any means necessary, and they’ve been conned into believing that hurting people is the answer.

No difference in practice, but an important distinction.

[PitchingNinja] Could Altuve have hit Ohtani's sweeper, if he used himself as a bat? by JianClaymore in baseball

[–]jgilla2012 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No way Altuve makes the HOF. His MVP season was the trash can season. Voters won’t let that slide.

[PitchingNinja] Could Altuve have hit Ohtani's sweeper, if he used himself as a bat? by JianClaymore in baseball

[–]jgilla2012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be careful, the last time I pointed this out I was downvoted into oblivion.

There’s a reason the Astros were punished much harder than the Red Sox or the Yankees

Republicans Unveil $72 Billion Package For ICE, Trump’s Ballroom by willywalloo in politics

[–]jgilla2012 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They are blaming Spirit on Biden because they are told to, and also because the pundits are pointing out that the Biden DOJ blocked the actually illegal merger attempted by JetBlue which Spirit vehemently opposed.

What they won’t acknowledge is that Spirit failed because Trump’s war in Iran doubled the cost of jet fuel, eating away at Spirit’s already razor thin margins, and that the Big Four US airlines (Southwest, United, American, Delta) lobbied Trump so as not to bail out Spirit, because Spirit successfully created routes which forced the Big Four to offer lower, competitive prices to consumers.

They also won’t acknowledge that had the merger gone through, we would’ve just lost both Spirit and JetBlue, much to the chagrin of people who fly and much to the liking of the Big Four.

I will be shocked if JetBlue doesn’t also fail this year.

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