I’d be excited if I stumbled upon an artist that I like, and they’d accept some private payment method (maybe Monero or something) for their music in a lossless format. Like a digital equivalent to paying cash for a CD at a concert — no exchange of PII, no tracking, no subscriptions, no marketing bs, etc.

I suppose that applies to any digital content format. It’s a shame that privacy has become such a low priority.

I’m not a game dev, so I can’t really answer your question. My comment was only pointing out that this might discourage other studios from disclosing their use of AI during development.

I suppose this is a warning to any companies who were thinking about disclosing their uses of AI for placeholders

Sure, I can imagine the political issues could lead to privacy issues. My question was not about whether or not that’s true^[1]. I was simply wondering why a possible privacy issue would rank higher than the actual issue that has already happened.

🤔 why is the privacy thing not the biggest threat? I would think that the privacy one would be more of a threat to privacy than the political stuff. Is that not the case?

How dare you think critically of anything that is dogmatically accepted as truth on the internet

I just realized something: When I search for something in Lemmy and get zero results, I sometimes go to Reddit and search there.

It would probably be better to make a new post in Lemmy about the thing I’m searching for. It would add content to Lemmy, and the content would be newer and fresher than the Reddit results that are sometimes 10+ years old.

Whoa, I didn’t know Visual Basic is still around. I remember using VB6, many years ago

Yep, it’s “Estadounidenses” in Portuguese as well. The distinction (and occasional confusion/debate across languages/cultures) makes sense, considering how those cultures learn about continents.

In contrast, English-speaking countries teach the seven-continent model, in which there’s not really any place called “America.” So when we omit “The United States of” for brevity, native English speakers still understand where it’s referring to.

“USians” is an interesting shortcut. It may not be proper English, but it still seems understandable enough in text. Hopefully everyone who vocalizes it, pronounces it your way. If I ever hear “Oosian”, I’ll probably assume they meant “Asian”.

Oh this seems like a good idea. Maybe I’ll try that next time

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. This base was huge on every planet.

Neat buzzword ya got there. Anyway, I acknowledge that you’ll continue ignoring 9-9-6. Consider your attempts to dodge it a success. And congrats on your success :)

On a lighter topic: I’m still curious about “USian”. Appending a suffix like “ian” to an acronym is unusual in English, but this is the second time I’ve encountered it on Lemmy. How is it pronounced?

Wow, that looks like a lot of work to avoid the 9-9-6 thing. I like this first one though:

What about unpaid holiday in the USA?

Was that at the top of the list because it was meant to compare to 9-9-6, somehow? I mean sure, unpaid holidays suck, but that’s not even in the same ballpark as working 72 hours per week, every week. At that point, you’re just living to work (as a robot/zombie slave cursed with a depressed human brain and flesh body).

As for the rest of the list: I appreciate the effort, but would it have been much harder to use an unordered list? And do you think it’s not possible to gather a big list about China that isn’t just as bad or worse?

Just out of curiosity: When you say “USians” IRL, how do you pronounce it? “You-ess-ians”? “Yousians”? “Oosians”?

These questions are getting more broad, and the answer to all of them is “it depends on the job”.

Light duty trucks and box trucks are also commonly seen at various job sites. It’s also quite common to see a truck pulling a trailer – and there are lots of different types of trailers. Choosing the right tool for the job just depends on what the job is.

Here’s one example from a job I once had, long ago. If you fill one of these with water, it already exceeds the weight limit of the little truck on the left:

And, depending on the size of the job, some jobs would require more than two people to get the job done. Those crews would get the trucks that have backseats.

Sure, you might be able to find smaller IBC tote tanks and just use more trucks, but that would be pretty inefficient, especially if each truck/crew has to drive hundreds (or even 1k+, in some cases) of miles to reach each job site on its route.

We also used box trucks in some cases. Some job sites required using two IBC totes, which did not fit in any of the company’s pickup truck beds. For those routes, we rented box trucks. But for one IBC tote, a light duty truck is too small, and a box truck is too big.

There are laws that limit it, and 72-hour work weeks are pretty extreme, even in the US. Do they happen? Sure. I’ve known people who have had to do hours like that for a week, maybe even two. But it’s not their normal schedule like 9-9-6 workers.

So you didn’t visit any factories with suicide nets. Great! I’ve also never witnessed a mass murder. Lucky us!

You chose the easier, less common example, but ignored the more common one that I mentioned. So whatabout 9-9-6? I’ve spoken to people in that 9-9-6 life, and exactly zero of them were happy about it.

9-9-6, suicide nets on some factories… Sounds like a happy place to be.

It’s interesting how much pro-China stuff seems to have flooded the Internet lately. They’ve even been inviting (maybe paying?) YouTubers to visit their country, despite not allowing YouTube to be accessed (legally) on their Internet. This campaign seems to be effective though.

I’m not even really anti-China. I used to conduct a lot of business with Chinese factories, and might do it again someday. But let’s not ignore reality and pretend it’s all sunshine and rainbows over there.

She was a child… But what does that have to do with spaghetti anyway?

The weight capacity of the truck on the right is much higher than the light-duty truck on the left. Jobs that require trucks of that capacity tend to require more workers, so it makes sense to seat more passengers.

The truck on the left might be more comparable to something like the Ford Ranger (the older generations). Many of those were single-cab (i.e. no back seats) models, but some of them would have two tiny, uncomfortable “jump seats” as back seats.

You’re not completely wrong though. I have known some workers who would also use their trucks as family cars if it was their only vehicle.

This may sound dumb, but I honestly don’t know how to answer that, lol. The first answer that comes to mind is “for passengers to sit in,” but that just seems too obvious. Is there more to the question?