Yeah they’re doing it backwards. AI is on by default unless you specifically go to noai.duckduckgo.com

Copying a comment I made from another thread:

If you select “No” it gives you an option to go to an alternate DDG homepage “noai.duckduckgo.com”. But it looks like if you just go to their normal homepage, they’ve got a link to DuckAI at the top, searching for images defaults to including AI images, and they have a Search Assist that uses AI as well.

So even though the overwhelming majority of their users have responded “No AI”, they’re still defaulting everyone to the “Yes AI” experience unless you use an alternate URL. That’s kind of shitty. I mean at least they have a “no” option, but seems like it should be the default.

You warned me, but I didn’t listen. Why didn’t I listen?!

Crazy how repeating a false narrative allows it to stick. That’s why these ass clowns are always so quick to get in the first word and say shit like Renee Nicole Good was a domestic terrorist. Spouting bullshit is powerful.

I saw an article somewhere that pointed out the Hallmark movie formula is targeted at empty nester moms with daughters. It’s their fantasy that their daughter, who has left home to find fulfillment in a career will come back home and fall in love with a local boy, realize that moving to the city was a mistake, and settle down in their home town (near their mother).

Kinda sad when you realize that’s why they’re so successful.

Damn that looked like a nuclear bomb went off

Renoir’s battle theme is the best song I have ever heard in a video game before. For a while, my YouTube algorithm was taken over by streamer reactions to hearing that song for the first time in game, because universally people were just stunned like “holy shit this is amazing”.

Yeah the game is just straight up amazing. I laughed because I saw an article about the streamer, Shroud, complaining about how Expedition 33 shouldn’t have won because Arc Raiders was so great - but then admitted he hasn’t played Expedition 33.

Damn that sounds like much needed legislation. Zero chance of that happening in the US.

I also found that if you really want to be understood in French, you have to force yourself into an over the top, bordering on ridiculous French accent.

So the key to speaking good French is to default to the most sexist position possible and intentionally speak like an asshole.

Not just sizes, but ingredients too. I used to drink those Naked Juice smoothies, which were originally just blended fruit with a little bit of apple juice added for liquid. They would write something on the back that said something like “this bottle contains 13 strawberries and 2 bananas”.

Then one day I noticed the drinks were much more runny that usual. I had to search for older pictures people had taken of their bottles, but sure enough all the numbers had changed - and apple juice was no longer a minor ingredient, it was the main one.

2022-Present: The Butthole Era

Not just in logos, but also in enshitification in general.

Truly magical

Any sort of normal life while working 60 hours a week isn’t going to be easy. I don’t think being a family man is the problem here. Maybe consider looking for another job that isn’t as demanding?

Lol dammit, I just realized I did the same thing with The Expanse. And I also read the first book but not the others. And I did the same thing with the video game too!

I think it’s something I want to enjoy, but wasn’t enjoying as much as I felt I should be.

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"Look just because we control all three branches of government, have replaced compent government workers with loyal ones, tried to overturn the last election we lost and are working to ensure we’ll never be able to lose another (assuming our plan to incite riots doesn’t work so we can just declare a national emergency so we don’t have another election), have created a secret police to snatch people off the streets, are prosecuting our political opponents or anyone that we deem to be not loyal enough, are removing press credentials of journalists and trying to force news outlets to sign agreements to what that can report, are using the FCC to silence voices of dissent, have sent in the military to occupy our own cities, have had friendly oligarchs purchase traditional and social media companies to silence critics and push our own propaganda, are using government resources to push partisan messages, have declared anyone that disagrees with us as anti-American, are using our military to sink civilian boats and murder the people inside, are ignoring orders of judges who don’t rule in our favor, let our oligarchs choose which government programs to axe, created our own cryptocurrency to facilitate bribery by foreign nations, have declared anti-fascism to be terrorism…

doesn’t mean we’re fascist!"

Instead of inching your way into the cold water until the testicles crawl up and you finally give up, you’re much better off if you just put the top of your head into the water first.

Which head are you talking about here?

I browse exclusively on my phone, so deleting reddit apps and installing Lemmy apps was the biggest step for me.

I primarily browsed All, so setting my default sorting to All Top 12 Hours was key.

Finally, I made a point to comment and post more. This is where Lemmy beats Reddit hands down in my opinion. You can comment on posts that are hours old on All and still have meaningful discussions. Trying that on Reddit is like screaming into the void.

Edit: I also forgot to mention that I upvote almost everything. If you made a post that I read and it’s not complete trash, you’re getting an upvote. Same with comments. I upvote almost every comment I read - especially ones in response to my posts or comments. I feel like it let’s people know they’re being seen.