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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely.

  • AI can write boilerplate code and test cases with a failure rate so low that it saves a significant amount of time. It's also good summarizing text, like a 1 month old back and forth support ticket. Probably other uses too, but those are the ones I use a lot.
  • Cloud is a huge accelerator for any company that doesn't want or can't afford to hire dedicated experts. Plus for workloads with big peaks and valleys it is actually much cheaper.
  • Screens show navigation, provide entertainment and allow changing complex setting much more easily than other UIs. (turning volume down is not a complex setting)
  • Teslas have incredible performance per dollar (in a straight line) and are very fun to drive daily. Also their software and charging network are great. And are cheap to maintain (and to buy used).
  • Ads allow content to be consumed without monetary exchange while still paying the workers creating that content in money instead of exposure.
  • same for paywalls, journalism is very important for society and good journalists deserve a good paycheck. Paywalls allow to have well paid journalists without billionaires sponsoring (manipulating) and allowing people who don't like ads to still have access to their work.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Get out of here with your nuance, don't you realize you're on the Internet?!

In all seriousness, thanks. I think what a lot of people tend to forget is none of these things are inherently bad. They're just often misused and/or overused, typically due to the insatiable capitalist profit motive.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 4 points 1 day ago

The main issue with these is their proponents have a lack of nuance.