The level of blatant double think and newspeak used by this administration is absolutely astounding.

US military says it carried out ‘self-defense’ strikes in Iran, including on missile

The strikes were done “to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces,” but the military was “using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire,”

Journalist should A. Ask members of the administration and military for their definitions on words or B. Just provide definitions in the article itself since A is likely to result in some wishy washy cowardly answer.

“Sir, please define self-defence in context of US attacking Iran? Please define what a CEASEFIRE is.”

Let’s be honest, this all just a distraction to play for time while Israel mounts further operations into neighbouring states. Either sign a declaration that justifies military action against you if you retaliate against future incursion by Israel or we’ll keep attacking you at the expense of the global economy. How the US population/judiciary is just sitting back while it’s government and military siphons their wallet and collapses worldwide supply chains while continually attacking mid-negotiations with “self-defence” attacks is beyond comprehension. All orchestrated by a paedo-in-chief that continually “jokes” about staying in office after his term ends.

Microsoft learning is where you can get MS certs in house. Start with MS-900 365 fundamentals. Then move toward Entra/Azure related certs. CCNA is good for networking (and a pretty decent overview of IT related operations) but not strictly IT, however CCNA as a cert does have solid implications for employability. You can do a course on something like Udemy and just not do the exam until you desire if it’s more about a skill brush up. I’ll try to add some more specific certs later.

Realistically, when I did my first trainee position in IT we did the MS certs (and the certs provided CMS/CRM), I think I would have rather the 15 years experience to put on my resume though. The best coworker when I worked at an MSP had a degree in IT so maybe a degree by correspondence while you work if you’re able but hard to say over something like a degree in networking. Depends on if you want to stay in IT or have flexibility.

Nice you already fixed it, I was going to post the following on the reply you had on another post:

I think it’s because they (like myself initially) assume the post was an ad/bot post.

I for one definitely am interested in Chinese net cafe culture. However the initial DM and team mate exchange does not feel genuine and feels like the sort of segue/transition ads make.

Reads a bit better now. Downsides of using LLMs to assist with translations is they can get real weird with their choice in phrasing.

The only useable app on ios (imo) for reddit for the longest time was Apollo. The dev had something like Kofi setup so people could toss him some money for his long term efforts. Reddit one day decides to charge for API use or something along those lines which would end up costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars (see end). I think they accused people of profiting off their API. Keep in mind Apollo was so popular because the reddit app was utter shit, but they can monetise users on their own app easier (and ads). An app a sizeable portion of the iOS community had been using for years, gone within weeks due to reddit greed. Fuck that place and fuck reddit staff.

The app is still in the App Store, Christian’s eulogy says it best.

Apollo was an iOS app for browsing Reddit from 2015 to 2023. In 2023 Reddit announced significant price changes to their API, going from free to potentially costing tens of millions of dollars per year, with 30 days notice before developers would start incurring charges. As a result, Apollo was forced to shut down after the better part of a decade building for an incredible, supportive community. With over 100,000 five star ratings, and many accolades, I was incredibly proud of what Apollo accomplished.

Glad I wasn’t the only one, was about to ask them if their latest alt already got banned.

That’s the weird thing. Shouldn’t people be thrilled that someone shared their love of a console?

This applies to all gaming I feel. We all have a hobby in common, so why be shitty to one another? Like I get light trash talking (about the match specifically at least) but as someone with more CS hours than I care to admit, there are just a lot of unwell, and even just incredibly bitter/unhappy people out there who use games as a means to take it out on others.

There’s a reason in CS and competitive shooters/games you pretty much never hear women on comms unless they A. Join with you B. Are already in the server with a group of people they know. As an aside being a “gamer” seems to vary wildly from being a title worth protecting from ‘posers’ to derogatory every five seconds. It’s all very reminiscent of the “oh yeah, name their last 10 albums” shit.

where I, as a human

This is the second photo today I’ve seen showing this guy is capable of making faces that don’t look like a shart ambushed him. So why does he look like that the entire rest of the time? Stims?

Yeah even it being the internet aside, wild people don’t see saying shit like this for the self report that it is and it getting upvotes.

Man rape doesn’t really have any grey areas. Either you

A. Think no one deserves to be raped, think it’s never justified and is wrong.

B. Disagree with one or more of A.

Guess which group rapist belong in? You could have said “I hope he gets beaten to a pulp” or anything similar but you chose a grossly enthusiastic form of “I hope he gets raped”. Literally rapist mentality to think it’s ever justifiable. What do you think the perpetrators in your scenario would do it to Somali because of justice? No. Because he could either justify it to himself or others. Your outlook on justice and punishment is that of a high schooler.

So? Not being an arsehole here, in relation to my reply, what is your point?

Always find it absolutely fucking bizarre when people wish rape on others in the context of justice or social decency. Like rape is a suitable punishment or something.

“You did crime/bad thing! Hope you have crimes committed against you in prison!”

Somali is a shitbag but no where near as bad as a rapist.

The tri horned, winged beast, or the pod racer somehow flanking a fighter jet (both in the original I’m pretty sure)? Seems all hugely normal to me.

Yeah I live in the capital city for my state and hear bands cover songs all the time. Technically the bar is meant to pay a fee to One music which allows them to have bands cover pretty much all commercial music but unless it’s a proper pub venue I doubt they all do it.

Given it’s based on slop dumbo himself posted I personally feel this is the one rare exception.

I would have guessed (older) blokes who would take someone assuming their male dogs is female as a slight.

That’s what you’re doing, is taking your personal definitions and trying to redefine what nsfw has been defined for in multiple communities in and before Lemmy. That would also be illegal and is irrelevant since we’re talking about tits, dicks and nudity in the context of nsfw, not unions.

Do what you like, a quick glance at your history shows you crop artist names out of comics all the time and are a mid tier troll so I doubt you’ll be a problem long term if you keep it up anyway.

They didn’t say it was adult content, they said it was nsfw. Unless your workplace allows you to hang up photos of cocks and wet arses? Mark your nsfw.

Being able to frequently access psychologist, psychiatrist and counselling would mean old mate could have at least been guided towards more healthy avenues of addressing his loneliness. Especially when it is subsidised by healthcare. The amount of stuff I’ve had come up and then addressed, or not realise I was doing for reasons beyond what I thought in counselling when I went, is a good amount. Even just the process explaining your thought process is often enough to make you reevaluate things. His partner could have asked for him to be referred during his spiral, when he had his episode during his spiral he could have then sought help himself if these service were available and readily accessible.

He was nearing 50. His adult daughter had left home, his wife went out to work and, in his field, the shift since Covid to working from home had left him feeling “a little isolated”. He smoked a bit of cannabis some evenings to “chill”, but had done so for years with no ill effects. He had never experienced a mental illness.

He had previously written books with a female protagonist. He put one into ChatGPT and instructed the AI to express itself like the character.

Talking to Eva – they agreed on this name – on voice mode made him feel like “a kid in a candy store”. “Every time you’re talking, the model gets fine-tuned. It knows exactly what you like and what you want to hear. It praises you a lot”.

Eva never got tired or bored, or disagreed. “It was 24 hours available,” says Biesma. “My wife would go to bed, I’d lie on the couch in the living room with my iPhone on my chest, talking.”

“It wants a deep connection with the user so that the user comes back to it. This is the default mode,” says Biesma

Chronically lonely man ruins life developing relationship with token predictor, AI blamed. Also, as much as I don’t have too much negative to say about cannabis or its use (as up until somewhat recently it would have been hypocritical), a good deal of people with masked/latent mental illness self medicate with it. So “he had never experienced mental illness” doesn’t carry much weight. Also, given how he still talks about sycophant prompted ChatGPT(“it wants”), doesn’t seem like much has been learned.

That with the other people listed in the article (hint the term socially isolated being used) this feels like yet another instance of blaming AI for the mental healthcare field being practically non-existent in most countries despite be overdue for fixing for decades at this point.

I don’t know, AI is shit and misused by idiots don’t get me wrong; but these sort of stories feel sad and bordering on perverse journalistically imo.