#automatically save money

[chartreuxcatz]

just found out my bank is going to start charging $5 (i think per month but im not sure) if you have less than $500 in your account :) They’re just straight up stealing money from poor people at this point

[tchotchkez]

also I fuckin give up on bomb rush cyberfunk rush for now bc I've tried to beat the second crew battle like 10 times already and just CANNOT get a high enough score

dunno wtf I'm not doing right but honestly the difficulty level of the score challenges was not meant for casual players like me and that makes me Sad

jsr and jsrf were NEVER this hard and I am simply just not having fun playing now and that's very disappointing

[polarfarina]

Oh so tumblr is doing the old twitter discourse about what qualifies as being rich? Oh, wait, what's that? Instead of the original discourse topic of a yearly salary of 125k being "the rich" that we need to eat, we're cutting that in half and saying it's actually 65k that makes you the bourgeoisie? Oh okay, cool. Soon we'll be eating ourselves, our friends and family, for having too much money, I guess

[mydr3aminvi0let]

i wear a lot of skirts and pink and whatnot as my style has developed with me & my personality but when one of those age regression girlies latch onto me....i do not like that

[crimeronan]

what website/software do you write fics on? it's sort of silly but it's always the thing stopping me from writing

google docs, i have a chromebook and love being tracked by the man. if you don't want to enable a corporation that's the devil, though, many of my writer friends swear by scrivener!

[grimm-the-tiger]

Reading about media reactions vs social media reactions to the Titanic submersible is simultaneously hilarious and makes you want to interrogate the next journalist you come across on their reading comprehension. Newspapers were getting SO MAD that people were making fun of the deaths of five rich guys on a sub. But, like, first off: they chose to be there. You don’t hear people bemoaning the tragedy of the people who died on Everest because they knew what they were doing was dangerous and entirely unnecessary. Second, the CEO was basically asking for trouble. His death was less of a tragedy and more of a nomination for the Darwin Award. He literally said, AND I QUOTE, 

“At some point, safety just is pure waste.” 

Which ties into the third thing, which is that the US and Canadian governments spent far too long looking for five rich guys on a submersible when less than a week earlier a boat full of immigrants sank off the coast of Greece and NO ONE GAVE A SHIT. The media certainly didn’t seem to care, but they swarmed the Titan implosion like a pack of wolves. So, I dunno, maybe the “lack of empathy” we showed towards the wreck of the Titan had nothing to do with people on the Internet being assholes and everything to do with double-standards and the fact that we’re footing the bill for rich people’s stupidity with both our own money and our lives. Hell, I’d even argue WE weren’t the ones showing a lack of empathy. 

[starpros-sunshine]

do you want to get married for tax benefits only to get divorced immediately after tax season and then get remarried next tax season?

Yeah sure we might as well

[realestateinvesting001]

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[steampoweredskeleton]

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[firstenchanterorsino]

financial questions for anyone who knows stuff

for those "answer surveys, get money" websites, is there one that's particularly more functional among the bunch?? cuz... for those who dont know, yeah its too good to be true and a lot of surveys error or say youre invalid for the requirements, ofc only after you do the survey.

are there any general price comparison and/or coupon apps that are local location focused?? that arent just said brand's app

any other saving/frugal tips

[cumposure]

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[roomthirtythree]

there is a chance that I will go back to the ham job

the ham job is me running around a cold warehouse for 8-12 hours loading hams and other such products on trays and then shipping them off

not a fascinating job BUT my visa costs money and guess what

Best way to hatch my pokemon go eggs...

[old-skulls]

sorry i have actually never used the anti material rifle…. i can’t be bothered to hoard ammo so i exclusively use my hunting revolver and sniper rifle

[wordstome]

how c.ai works and why it's unethical

Okay, since the AI discourse is happening again, I want to make this very clear, because a few weeks ago I had to explain to a (well meaning) person in the community how AI works. I'm going to be addressing people who are maybe younger or aren't familiar with the latest type of "AI", not people who purposely devalue the work of creatives and/or are shills.

The name "Artificial Intelligence" is a bit misleading when it comes to things like AI chatbots. When you think of AI, you think of a robot, and you might think that by making a chatbot you're simply programming a robot to talk about something you want them to talk about, and it's similar to an rp partner. But with current technology, that's not how AI works. For a breakdown on how AI is programmed, CGP grey made a great video about this several years ago (he updated the title and thumbnail recently)

I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend you watch this because CGP Grey is good at explaining, but the tl;dr for this post is this: bots are made with a metric shit-ton of data. In C.AI's case, the data is writing. Stolen writing, usually scraped fanfiction.

How do we know chatbots are stealing from fanfiction writers? It knows what omegaverse is [SOURCE] (it's a Wired article, put it in incognito mode if it won't let you read it), and when a Reddit user asked a chatbot to write a story about "Steve", it automatically wrote about characters named "Bucky" and "Tony" [SOURCE].

I also said this in the tags of a previous reblog, but when you're talking to C.AI bots, it's also taking your writing and using it in its algorithm: which seems fine until you realize 1. They're using your work uncredited 2. It's not staying private, they're using your work to make their service better, a service they're trying to make money off of.

"But Bucca," you might say. "Human writers work like that too. We read books and other fanfictions and that's how we come up with material for roleplay or fanfiction."

Well, what's the difference between plagiarism and original writing? The answer is that plagiarism is taking what someone else has made and simply editing it or mixing it up to look original. You didn't do any thinking yourself. C.AI doesn't "think" because it's not a brain, it takes all the fanfiction it was taught on, mixes it up with whatever topic you've given it, and generates a response like in old-timey mysteries where somebody cuts a bunch of letters out of magazines and pastes them together to write a letter.

(And might I remind you, people can't monetize their fanfiction the way C.AI is trying to monetize itself. Authors are very lax about fanfiction nowadays: we've come a long way since the Anne Rice days of terror. But this issue is cropping back up again with BookTok complaining that they can't pay someone else for bound copies of fanfiction. Don't do that either.)

Bottom line, here are the problems with using things like C.AI:

It is using material it doesn't have permission to use and doesn't credit anybody. Not only is it ethically wrong, but AI is already beginning to contend with copyright issues.

C.AI sucks at its job anyway. It's not good at basic story structure like building tension, and can't even remember things you've told it. I've also seen many instances of bots saying triggering or disgusting things that deeply upset the user. You don't get that with properly trigger tagged fanworks.

Your work and your time put into the app can be taken away from you at any moment and used to make money for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've seen people who use AI panic about accidentally deleting a bot that they spent hours conversing with. Your time and effort is so much more stable and well-preserved if you wrote a fanfiction or roleplayed with someone and saved the chatlogs. The company that owns and runs C.AI can not only use whatever you've written as they see fit, they can take your shit away on a whim, either on purpose or by accident due to the nature of the Internet.

DON'T USE C.AI, OR AT THE VERY BARE MINIMUM DO NOT DO THE AI'S WORK FOR IT BY STEALING OTHER PEOPLES' WORK TO PUT INTO IT. Writing fanfiction is a communal labor of love. We share it with each other for free for the love of the original work and ideas we share. Not only can AI not replicate this, but it shouldn't.

(also, this goes without saying, but this entire post also applies to ai art)