It’s like a Pac-man / Ms Pac-man situation, huh?

A 30min drive to town is perfect. That sounds incredible.

I relate to this a lot. Grew up in a small town, excitedly moved into a big city when I went to college, then bounced around cities for work for a while, and now that I’m married and have kids, I keep dreaming about living further out where we’d have more space and peace.

I worry that it’s only better here right now because we’re small and not a target. The worst we seem to get are the occasional spam bots. How are we realistically going to identify LLMs that have been trained on reddit data?

That story is crazy and very believable. I 100% believe that AI bots are out there astroturfing opinions on reddit and elsewhere.

I’m unsure if that’s better or worse than real people doing it, as has been the case for a while.

Ha, I can definitely see how that could be visual clutter. You should also see it for posts when scrolling through the community.

I help mod a handful of communities, and I suppose it helps sometimes when I’m navigating into random threads from my inbox - just as a reminder.

That shield symbol just means that YOU are a mod in that community and can take mod actions on those comments.

This needs to be marked NSFW. We’re getting reports about it, but I’ll give a moment for OP to edit.

Edit - oh there already is a 2nd post. Removing this one then.

Competition is good for a lot of things, but it also becomes a day-to-day race to the bottom that rewards whoever is willing to sacrifice more of their life for the sake of their job than others.

The logical consequence is exactly this: we back ourselves into an increasingly uncomfortable corner that leaves less room for living than we could easily enjoy with our current technology.

I think it’s all of them, now that you mention it.

Indeed.

Yeah, that AI “shimmer” makes it really obvious, but I have to admit that I’ve been tricked some recently.

Assuming they’re telling us everything that’s happening on Mars, that is.

I was really motivated to get one to play the Demon’s Souls remake, beat it 3 times in a week, and since then I’ve probably spent more time updating the system and collecting the monthly ps+ games than actually playing.

Those eyes are looking for a mating sequence.

I love Bob Ross. The segments where he just pauses the painting show to show you some of his animal friends are among the most wholesome moments on TV.

Impending conflict with Pakistan following a massacre in Kashmir.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/g-s1-62677/india-pakistan-kashmir-line-of-control-firing

Honestly, even without social anxiety, not having to spend the effort to do basic small talk and engage with someone makes it pretty convenient sometimes. The only time I really use the cashier line is when I have a lot of stuff or my kids with me.

Wikipedia says they produced over 50,000 of the Volkswagen Kübelwagen for the war effort between 1940-1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Kübelwagen