u/OldSchoolPimpleFace

I think we can all agree astroturfing is a thing these days. Eversince AI has gotten better at pretending to be human, you can be pretty sure that there's people out there with a political agenda that have started using bots to push their agendas, instead of using oldschool human troll farms.

If this is a group that has a large budget, then you can assume they are getting pretty good at training AI to be very human like. The data is out there, all you have to do is train it and give it the agenda you want pushed.

I believe that a well trained bot is almost impossible to spot and it's impossible to give it a prompt that will prove beyond any doubt that it's a bot you are talking to.

The only bots we are able to spot, is the poorly trained ones and even then, it's impossible to prove because any human can act like a bot.

Therefore the only thing we humans can do to fight these bots, is just simply not being on social media, so they don't get anymore data...

Just ordered a single item from a non choice seller using coins.

For the hell off it, I checked how much the total is, if I bought 2.

Turns out it's cheaper if you order 2 seperate times, versus both items in one package... What the hell aliexpress.

Apparently over there, you need to take an exam to become a neet.

Seeing all you guys struggling so often, I think that would be a pretty good idea.

What's something you learned as a neet, that should really be an exam question?

There seems to be a lot of right wing propaganda going around, specifically targeting the poor, the sick and the needy. I notice a lot of talk on the internet, claiming that these groups are responsible for the current economic crisis.

Meanwhile people ignore all the money going to the defense and war machine, they don't even look at all the loopholes the ultra rich exploit and all the money spent on subsidising their projects that will make the rich get richer and do nothing at all for the middle class.

People's heads are filled with propaganda and every argument you make that will actually help the middle class get what their hard work deserves, gets countered by some bullshit propaganda they read in the right wing news they consume.

If you have a look at who actually pays for this news and who is funding the political parties that are shouting out this message, you will find that all of this is being paid by the people who will profit from this propaganda. The people who will be far worse off by all this news, have nothing to say about it, because they are unable to get their voice through all this noise, that is created by the people who profit from it.

"In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another." This quote is attributed to Voltaire and I feel it has been valid throughout all of history.

I've got a neighbour that drinks a lot. He's got a PMD bag full of half liter cans of beer (smashed) everytime the garbage man comes.

I'm no fan of the smell of beer and I don't feel for people who drink a lot. So I'm definitely not looking to make friends with this guy.

I let him inside my house 2 times, because he was broke and needed a cigarette. Being a nicotine addict myself, I can understand someone who's desperate enough to go ringing neighbours doorbells.

Well... of course he started doing that again, so third time he did that, I refused.

Since then, he's at my door every week, this week he apparently decided to try three times. I haven't opened the door for him, in over half a year.

Everytime I meet him in the street the next day, I just say hi, he says hi and that's it. He never says anything about why he was at my door the previous day. I live in a street with lot's of apartments, with lot's of neighbours, it's not some rural setting, so it's not like I have lot's to do with any of them, but I am friendly to all my neighbours.

I kinda had it with this behavior, so I'm wondering if I should talk to him about it or if it's better to just keep playing this game and hope he eventually gives up...