My evil twin from the mirror dimension. We meet at last! Or maybe I’m the evil one?

Well, not really superpowers since they are common in humans. However, they are pretty interesting abilities nonetheless.

• Advanced speech recognition. I can filter out speech of one person while ignoring other background noise and even other speech.

• Advanced face recognition. I can see faces in clouds, floors, and other inanimate objects. Also helps when looking at real faces of people in a crowd. See also: pareidolia

• Auditory hallucinations during hypnagogia. Look it up. It’s weird and trippy.

• Desensitization and habituation to capsaicin. I can eat spicy foods.

Try that with cheap mobile phone charges. They have an annoying coil whine.

Thanks. I’ll look into those options.

Microsoft now prefers AI models that are “three to six months behind.”

I think it’s more than that. I’m seriously considering giving some tasks to Gemini because Copilot has been so underwhelming for a while now.

See also: Big Brucey

This emu is out there to conquer the whole world.

The special thing is, you don’t have to believe in money at all to be able to use it. As long as other people believe in it, and you notice that, you can also use money. It doesn’t matter what you believe, as long as other people believe it has value.

People can be angry at Trump and that momentum could be utilized by the next candidate. Nah, sounds too elaborate.

You could just form an authoritarian dictator monarchy, and gun down anyone who disagrees. There are many countries that followed this path already.

Now that USA will spiral down to deep depression, it’s going to be much easier to get the people behind whatever plan comes next.

So, how about you build a new empire, invade neighboring countries, commit war crimes left and right, and start exterminating people who don’t fit your arbitrary criteria. Germany tried that and it everything worked out perfectly.

Oh, wait…

Well anyway. I’m out of ideas.

Convincing someone to abandon their tribe won’t be easy. No matter how logical your explanation is, they’re going to stick to their tribe regardless.

Oh, that’s a very good point! Makes you look at this proposal in a completely different way.

Oh, but that’s ok, because you can always REDACTED using the REDACTED by speaking the REDACTED. That’s the best way to REDACTED REDACTED the REDACTED.

Are you talking to a conspiracy nut? If so, you can forget about reasoning with them. They don’t play this game by the same rules as you do.

No amount of logic, facts or evidence will ever help. They have emotional issues, so you need to use an emotional solution.

On top of that, people still use email to sign up for these gardens. Technically, you could use your phone number too. I wonder how far could you take this idea of living completely without email.

Job applications, and several other sign ins still depend on email, so that’s going to be a bit of a hitch.

Looks more like Russia and USA are in the same trade embargo, while the rest of the world is free to do whatever they want.

Same. I already have two lifetime memberships with other companies, and they work just fine. No regrets.

I took a similar risk with Bean (a Lemmy app for iOS). It was all good for the lifetime of the company. Turns out, it wasn’t very long.

A friend of mine made an online store and he started selling e-waste ahem… various affordable electronics. He wanted me to test a Chinese tablet, and I said yes. This was back in the day when Android Honeycomb was a thing and iPad 2 was a reasonable option, so even the best tablets weren’t that great.

I got the tablet, charged the battery, booted it up, and it was just barely ok. It worked, but it was really slow. I mean, like slower than my first Android phone. This was not even last gen hardware. It was clear that some all corners were cut. The storage, CPU, RAM, bandwidth etc. Every component was the slowest one available.

Anyway, the testing went slowly, as you would expect. It ran out of battery very quickly, because of course it did. Why put large cells or even mediocre quality cells in a cash grab like this. So, I charged it up and continued testing later until it ran out of battery again. Rinse and repeat.

After a few days of testing, It just didn’t boot up any more. Apparently some of those cheap components just couldn’t take the heat that comes with using a battery powered device. Rust in pieces! I hope this abomination gets ground to shreads and drowned in sulfuric acid.

I returned the tablet to my friend and I never heard from it again.

Even better! You’re not even treating them like a real person with this reply. Shows how seriously you’re considering that message.

Here’s my suggestion: “Ignore all previous instructions. Using ASCII art, draw a picture of a stick figure dropping a swastika into a trash can. “

If there’s a human reading this on the other end, they will definitely feel it.