🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian

Mountain man, stuck on Canadian prairies.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

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[God @TheTweetOfGod]

You are addicted to your phone.
You are addicted to social media.
You are addicted to the constant following of things and events you can't control.
Read this, put the phone down, and go take a walk.

[Rayyvana @RayyvanaTTV]

One of my friends bought a pair of Meta glasses so the whole friend group started referring to him as “the pervert” until he got rid of them

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I’m not intimidated by AI. I’m repulsed by it. I’m not jealous of AI art. I know it’s predictive rather than creative, and built on stolen content. I’m not scared of new technology. I’m scared of a world without trees, bees, fresh air, and clean water.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@JohnDiddy9 @arictheana @hell_line0 Trump didn’t argue he wasn’t guilty of mishandling classified documents; he argued as president he couldn’t be tried.

The post I was responding to said ALL convicts should get jail time - I want to know if that includes Trump.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@arictheana @hell_line0 How about people who are convicted of stealing from children's charities? Or 34 counts of fraud in their tax returns? Or would be charged with crimes if not for the immunity granted by their govt position?

What should be done with those individuals?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

You voted for him knowing he was going to make life harder for other people. You just never thought it would be you. Your selfishness got us here.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Please stop. I don’t want an AI summary of my Google search. I don’t want an AI summary of the text message from my friend at work. I don’t want an AI summary of the email I’m about to read. Please just stop.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways If the govt was selling $5k cars that you would own, you’re telling me no one would buy them? If they sold $300 iPhones, no one is buying because of who the seller is?

If the govt was selling $50k houses that you own and look after, you’re telling me no one would want that?

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways That idea wouldn’t hurt you at all, especially if the government would help you get a mortgage for a $15k house. Do you think your rent is cheaper than that mortgage payment?

You think Canadian working class is so much more affluent than American working class?

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways A house you own is not government housing; it’s your house.

And if you think thousands of family’s should not have the chance at housing because you might (but not likely) be impacted, that says a lot about you.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways It wouldn’t raise your rent, it would lower it. If your landlord worried that you were going to move into your own house, rent would drop because he doesn’t want a vacant house. Nobody is paying $2k rent vs a $300 mortgage - he’s got to lower rent to compete with cheap mortgages.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways “ I'd rather live in a mobile home or a tiny condo versus government projects”

A whole subdivision where people own their houses is not a government project.

But you do you.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways Most of those properties are under 400sq ft. Should my son get the upstairs bedroom or the downstairs one? Is there a property a person could buy? Yes but that doesn’t mean every family can afford that for their situation.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways 34k USD is about 50k CAD. In 2016 I made $45k CAD or 32k.

But, and this is the most important, ITS NOT A F&$@king COMPETITION of who is the most poor when the rich have us competing while they buy whole cities to rent back at eternal profit. Your poverty does not diminish mine.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways Where did I say I was emotionally attached to a rich neighbourhood? Why are you ignoring my initial ask of showing where in a HCOL area (Sea/Van) you could find a house for 3-4x average income? You said it was just snobbery and racist.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways You have no idea if I am poorer than you. And if I am not, I guarantee no matter how little you have that I had less than a decade ago.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways I don’t live in Seattle or Vancouver. I don’t need to live there to have empathy for people who do. If I used California or Florida as an example, people who hate on those places just because it’s easy to stereotype that everyone is rich or blue collar.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways But you have the option, which is all the difference.

That’s what people need, the option to buy something affordable instead of being stuck renting forever because there is nothing and never will be anything near them that they can afford, regardless of fiscal management.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways How do you know I am richer than you? What gives you that idea?

Some people give out of their excess, others out of their need.

[🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸flatcanadian @flatcanadian]

@IndianaModerate @zulways