Over the past year, TikTok has been cutting trust and safety staff worldwide, often substituting those workers completely with automated systems.

This is the whole reason AI is forced upon everything. AI promises to reduce cost, because workers dont’t need to be paid, because they aren’t needed anymore.

For the same reason McDonalds introduced AI-powered ordering at their drive-throughs, which have failed horribly, and thus, are depreciated for now.

Or car rental companies that use AI to detect damages after returning the vehicle (which also have a high failure rate).

Are they so bad at socialising that they can’t meet new people?

People tend to go the easiest route, and AI gives them the opportunity to do so. That is the problem with AI in general: No effort is needed anymore to archieve anything. You want to create a picture? Just type the prompt instead of learning (and failing) to draw. You want to write a song? Just type the prompt instead of rhyming the lyrics and learning (and be bad at it in the first time) an instrument or two.

Maintaining any social relationship means that you have to put in more or less effort, depending on the quality of the relationship. Having a relationship with an AI model means that you can terminate it and start over, if you feel that the AI model is mean to you (= if it provokes another opinion, or disagrees with you - because arguing and seeing things from a different point of view means putting in effort).

In the long term people will forget how to interact with people in order to maintain meaningful relationships, because they un-learned to put in the effort.

That’s a Spotify Leak /s

This reminds me of the old Apple Macbook chargers where the cable was permanently attached to the charger itself. These cables became brittle and discolored from white to yelloy (they looked like they have been in a heavy smokers’ household when exposed to UV light, which is always). When I tried to fix the brittle cables with tape, it got worse and probably due to a chemical reaction between the material of the cable and the sticky glue of the tape they completely disintegrated.

Your headphones are beyond repair. It looks like they have been exposed to some chemicals. Did you at one point in time clean them with perhaps an aggressive cleaner (toilet/ household cleaner)? It could be possible that some cleaner got inside the cable through a micro-crack in the cables’ insulation and reacted with the copper inside.

You should replace them. The ooze is probably not healthy.

… dann wäre das sein Schiff gewesen

Sinalco Cola. I replaced Coca Cola with it more than ten years ago.

Yosemite

I’ve learned in school quite early that it is pronounced as Yo-semmy-tee, but I deliberately pronounce it Yoh-ze-mite, because it’s funny.

ich glaube das steht für “meine Reaktion, wenn …”

Additional to that, people who attempt to photograph or film fireworks tend to ruin the experience of just enjoying the fireworks for everyone else:

In my city there is an annual fair ground which has a firework show as feature. Just before the fireworks start, all caroussels and rides stop for the duration of the fireworks show and they switch off all the lights in order to get a good look of it. People who attempt to record the fireworks with their phone are blinding everyone else with their phone flashlights as they are looking for their peers in the crowd. Also, many photos of the event are taken with additional flash, because it is dark. Many of these photos will be deleted anyway, as they are out of focus or the picture has been shot right after the firework fades, because there is a delay in processing the picture. I involuntarily had to witness so many bad attempts of taking a photo, as I could see right into their phone displays.

Klingt plausibel. Was aber auch noch als Faktoren dazukommt, ist der um ein Vielfaches erhöhte LKW-Verkehr und generell mehr und vor allem auch schwerere Fahrzeuge. Fur die Menge an unnötig schweren Fahrzeugen sind die Straßen auf Dauer nicht ausgelegt.

Ich vermute, dass auch wegrationalisierte Wartungsintervalle zum Verschleiß der Strßen beitragen. Ich meine mich daran zu erinnern, dass früher auch schon kleinere Straßenschäden rechtzeitig ausgebessert wurden. Heute wartet man damit, bis sich die Leute beschweren, weil die Straße mit einem normalen Auto nicht mehr befahrbar ist.

Ein Auto muss alle zwe Jahre zur Hauptuntersuchung. Mittlerweile wäre es angebracht, anstelle der Autos die Straßen alle zwei Jahre gründlich zu untersuchen.

Jeff Bridges will always be The Dude.

I knew the video before I clicked the link.

So they basically re-invented trees?

Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Auch eine gute Interpretation.

Sind Köttbullar aber nicht vom Pferd? (/s)

Ich verstehe es so: OP zieht in eine neue Wohnung in ein Mehrfamilienhaus. Seine Nachbarn, die bereits dort leben, haben Beef miteinander, vermutlich wegen irgendetwas Trivialem. Beide Nachbarn versuchen nun unabhängig voneinander, OP zu überzeugen, dass sie im Recht sind und erhoffen sich, dass OP für sie Partei ergreift.

Aus sowas sollte man sich nach Möglichkeit komplett raushalten, das endet selten gut.

Tthis setting is not intended to apply to websites. With this setting you can change whether the date is shown as absolute (dd.mm.yyyy) oder relative (today, yesterday,…) for your own files on your computer.

The option is called “relative date” (as opposed to absolute date). On macos you can switch it off:

• open Finder, go to list view
• select very first item in hierarchy
• click on the little triangle next to the (folder-)icon to expand but press the option key wihle doing so
• hit “cmd” + “J” - a settings panel will open
• there is a tick box that says “relative date” that needs to be disabled (unticked)
• if you want to apply this settings as the new default setting for all finder windows, press the “apply as standard”-button at the bottom. All dates will show now the actual date instead of “today”, “yesterday” and such.

I started learning the language in school (5th to 10th grade). I had a teacher who insisted very much on grammar which sucked while being a student, but in hindsight it turned out to be a good foundation.

With upcoming internet English became more and more a part of every day life, as there is more content in English availiabe than in my native language. In order to build up a proper vocabulary and to understand figures of speech and play on words I started to watch cartoons in English - first easy-to-understand-ones, like The Simpsons, because I knew the plot of the episodes already since they were aired dubbed on television. In the beginning I found South Park very hard to understand because they speak rather fast, but meanwhile I understand everything now.

Today I am able to speak fluenty.

Nicht nur das: Wenn man mit dem eingenen Gefährt (Auto) anreist, dann stellt euch nicht in die Garageneinfahrt, sondern, wenn möglich, in den öffentlichen Raum (Straßenrand oder Parkplatz). Nehmt lieber ein paar Minuten Fußweg in Kauf. So werdet ihr nicht von eurem komischen Onkel zugeparkt, der sich dann weigert, euch rauszulassen, weil jetzt alle hier so schön sitzen.

meinen die solche Veteranen?