... however only paying Google Workspace customers will be able to access it for the time being.

So the way to escape it is to not pay Google. I'm not sure they thought through their business model yet.

Enough to block the instance now. (I'm so glad Lemmy provides that to users now!)

It's sliced bread that has been browned by radiant heat, triggering the Maillard reaction, making the surface firmer, crispy, and altering its flavour profile with caramelized sugars.

Ah, yes. I remember when I was young enough to believe that being polite gets you attention instead of the brush-off.

These ridiculous mice with a dedicated AI button are showing up all over now. 😠 I mean … how can you fuck up something as simple as a mouse!?

Well, there's a reason why I said "perhaps". That's as far as I'm willing to compromise. Anybody using a bullshitting digital parrot needs to have their laziness highlighted.

I'm not sure that it's unfair to say "made with AI" when a photo is AI-altered.

Perhaps I'd have two labels: "Primarily Generated with AI" and "Edited with AI".

The genie is not out of the bottle. It's stuck in the neck as people realize how limited and useless the "AI" really is. The seeming ubiquity of it is a concerted marketing campaign pushed by people trying desperately to cash out before the bubble bursts.

It's following the hype curve of cryptocurrency, then NFTs, only in fast-forward. For a while the "true believers" (just like with crypto and NFTs) will keep it going forward as they delude themselves into thinking that it will turn around "any time now" ... but in reality AI is already collapsing.

See the problem is that while crypto and NFTs were wrapped in a whole metric fuckton of complicated jargon and terminology that laypeople couldn't understand, the various "AI" projects had free, public-facing services that were easy enough for even technophobes like me to be able to use ...

... and find out what utter shit they are.

They just have to hire sociopaths. Fortunately for them, the world of techbrodudes is mostly sociopaths!

This is one of those times when even having it explained doesn't make things any more comprehensible.

This is true. the technology itself is mostly useless. The problem is the grifters behind it pushing it.

Say it ain't so! Techbrodudes have a problem with consent!? THIS IS UNPOSSIBLE!!!!

Not owning a personal vehicle is only okay if you live in the heart of a city …

Like most people in the western world (and indeed likely in most of the world) do.

… and don’t go outside of that little bubble.

Because rental of smaller vehicle services (like taxis, etc.) is totally not a thing.

The problem here is that you have the American disease (even if you're not American). You're so infused with the cultural insistence that there's only one way to do things … the way things are done now … that you literally cannot conceive of a life without cars (or guns, or with public health care). Despite this being, you know, the norm for most of the world.

Switching to an electric car is a 100% reduction in carbon usage for my commute.

Is it really? Are you positive?

How is your electricity generated. Coal, natural gas, or oil? Congratulations, your carbon usage is HIGHER with an EV than with an ICE! Is it hydro? Go look at the methane produced by those huge reservoirs. I haven't seen the calculations, but it's not neutral.

Oh, I know. You use solar and/or wind. Now look up the environmental costs of producing those. And of mining the special metals needed for the batteries. Or if you're nuked, the costs of mining uranium.

Switching to an EV is not the simple "zero carbon" solution you seem to imagine it to be.

No new car, of any kind, is cheaper than a car you already own.

Except that EVs don't do shit to save the planet. Personal vehicles are the problem. Making a slightly different version of them is worthless.

Let's not forget that EVs are heavier than their ICE equivalent classes of vehicle, meaning they use more energy. Which is a problem because a) they store ever so much less energy, and b) they're ever so much less energy-efficient. So you need more energy to move them, and charging inefficiency mounts on top of that, but hey, at least you have shorter range!

EVs are not what is going to save the environment. Indeed depending on your source of electricity (most of the world still uses fossil fuels to generate electricity, recall!) you could well be making things worse by switching to an EV.

You know what will save the environment? Ending personal automobile ownership and instead beefing up public transportation.

Spoken like someone who's never been creative once in her fucking life.

Personally I'll embrace the technology by putting tire puncturing strips all over the place.

OK, I'm punching out of the conversation here. I think that:

1. It's pretty clear from the votes and from the general confusion expressed that your expression was poor generally, not just to me.
2. You're not interested in improving your ability to communicate.

Should you ever find the desire to improve your ability to express your thoughts so that you can actually partake of the conversations you seem to want, well, I've given you the advice to get there. I am, however, out.

(P.S. Yes, I'm aware that there is a tension between "Concise" and "Complete". You seem to think you're a smart guy. You'll figure out how that's a) possible, and b) resolvable. After you get over sulking, I mean.)