You are looking at this wrong. That is a false dichotomy. You don’t need to make your friends stop using the other apps. Just ask them to have both and use Signal to chat with you. What they do other than that is their own business. Sure, educate them, but don’t tell them what to do. If they downloaded the other app and you can talk to them there then your good to go delete the other one. Are you worried about missing some post of theirs on it or something? Who cares. You don’t need to see peoples lunches.

I’m gonna be super for real with you. If your friends won’t download an extra app to message you on then they’re not really that good of a friend. It’s such a small inconvenience. Omg I have to hit this other button on my touchscreen instead and spend 5 minutes setting it up?

This is how I’d do it. You send a message to your friends on instagram and whatsapp with your signal info and say, “Hey, not gonna be checking [this app] often and won’t have notifs on. Trying to be more responsible about my data, and social media use. If you need me or want to chat hit me up on Signal.”

If their response to that is “Okay well I don’t want to so I won’t talk to you anymore.” Then they’re not a friend worth keeping around anyway. Real friends are the people who will wake up at 3am and come pick you up from the airport when your coming home. Because they actually care about you, and when you actually care about someone you do inconvenient things for them.

Now, if by “friend” you mean some person you’ve never met that you chat with online sometimes and send funny videos to or whatever? That’s not really what I’d call a friend to begin with, and you’ll just have to accept that relationship isn’t very deep and it’s totally normal for them not to want to do something just to talk to you. And in that case you have to decide if you’d rather stop talking to them, or stay on the other apps. That’s entirely a you decision at that point.

One girl? It’s actually a super common thing in myths for gods to go down and make themselves a little demigod. Mary lived in a very hellenised region. So I imagine those type of myths were known to people there via the greeks. She was just following a long tradition.

And the fact it was all caused because some chick get pregnant and her excuse was that god wanted to fuck and like who is gonna say no to that? And her husband believed her.

It’s real. The way they get their money to spend is by taking loans out with the stock as collateral. So when it goes down he has less money to spend fucking with society.

Personally, and idk if there’s a phobia for this, I really don’t like things that are small and fast. If I can’t keep track of something it makes me uncomfortable. So spiders are an ick for me.

Lots of coders on lemmy. Anyone want to make one of those tracker websites for how much money Elon musk has lost based on his stocks decreasing in value? I have a feeling it will be relevant soon.

That’s not how the US works. Some career dude comes up with the big plan and pitches it to the president in pieces. Like “Let’s bomb this thing.” “Let’s sanction this guy.” and so on. That is why who the president is has no effect on US foreign policy. They just sign the papers.

谢谢，对我美国人^_ 我的汉字是拼音。哈哈哈

I saw this in my replies and thought it was a real .world user for a second lol

I’d turn that right back around on you. Why not take lessons from those things? Fossil fuels have done horrible damage to the environment and factory automation has caused major labor relations problems in certain countries. But do you know what they both also have in common with AI? The problems OVERWHELMINGLY come from the top 1% wealthiest people/companies using them. Climate change is not caused by individuals. Individuals using 3D printers/automation are not the ones causing labor issues. And people using AI individually are not the issue. It’s the companies. And in fact in both of those situations as well REFUSING to use the technology at all only harms you and your movement. 3D printing can help individual people deal with a few massive factories monopolizing basic things and wiping out the infrastructure we need to make things locally. Refusing to use fossil fuels at all only leads to personal economic issues because society is so structured around them you can’t avoid it realistically. Then AI is causing these open source projects to be bombarded with new code submissions to the point the only possible way they can keep functioning is to use that very AI to try and sort through it all.

The lessons are that the ones we should be fighting are the rich. Policing the actions of individuals is a losing battle and counter productive.

It’s my personal theory that the US is going to back a bunch of cartel operations to take over the governments of countries in Latam that don’t support them. But first they’ll go in and kill the cartels leaders and get puppets in charge of them. Then they do some coups and put those people in as viceroys over the entire country with the cartel as their power base.

What are you using? Web or some app?

耶！我是没国人 :( 我学习中文。 我的中文不好哈哈哈。你是中国人吗？

then what are all those cameras for?

Because America doesn’t have any security cameras right?

Why is winnie the pooh bad?

This is entirely unserious liberal nonsense. You cannot win arguements on policy or outcome so you create these made up things to be mad about.

why can’t I talk about Tiananmen Square?

Not only can you talk about it you can go there. Since you are referring to “The Tiananmen Square Massacre” I would challenge you to actually learn about it.

Sure does. 中国很好 :)

I mean like even taking all that at face value. Do you not worry about the only way you have to talk to friends being discord? What if your account got banned? You’d have no way to contact anyone? I’d exchange numbers with a few of them atleast. Or emails. Having a backup way to communicate seems pretty important instead of relying entirely on a single service run by an unreliable company.

So here’s how I see it: There is a big difference between “AI generated” code and “AI assisted” code. Or just anything.

To put it in terms most people can more understand let’s say you were writing a book. If you have an LLM generate the book its gonna suck and be slop. But if you write the rough draft, then paste it into an LLM and say, “Look through this and find typos and other mistakes and point them out to me”. Then you go and check the things it finds and fix them yourself, that is fine. It’s just a really good spellcheck at that point. Even if you say “suggest a fix” it’s fine. For coding you could even tell it like “Take this line of code and suggest 5 different ways to do the same thing that might work better” then test them all out and see which one you like best.

I have personally used an LLM to help clean up my dotfiles for example. I don’t want to read through all that shit and find the old junk I need to remove or change. So I just throw them at an LLM and have it point things out to me. Or say you know you have a file but don’t know the exact filename. Go into the folder its in and dump the output of ls into an LLM. Tell it what file you need vaguely. Have it read them and give you the correct filename. Then check it yourself.

The problem comes from people who just generate stuff and don’t do the work of double checking it themselves.

Button is right there man

Do you people not have phone numbers?