this is bullshit I was an early adopter then lemm.ee shut down and now I look like I just showed up
theyre not always a giveaway. llm’s are trained to use them because their use by humans has been so common.
recently ive curtailed my use of them so I dont get mistaken for an llm, but Im not normal and an 80 year old guy isnt gonna change how we writes so some person on the internet doesnt think he used chat gpt to write a tweet
I cannot believe how quickly its transpired that people can’t pick up on very, very obvious sarcasm. I genuinely can’t.
The number of homeless children has increased by 50% n 6 months.
“We should grind them up and feed them to the Rottweilers guarding the multi-billionaire’s properties so they can save money on dog food and help create more jobs!”
“You WHAT?!!? These are CHILDREN!!”
the /s wasn’t a thing pre covid. I dont get it,
agreed. people will believe anything thats written dating back to, oh I don’t know, hieroglyphs and shit
having said that, someone hopped into the thread with a couple pieces of internet sleuthing that seems to show that at the very least some seemingly consistent org that tries to tie stories to real people through internet photojournalism posted this story. the parking lot seems to be near an ICE detention facility according to dude. its not exactly forensic but it appears to be a bit closer to verifiable than an gen ai post on facebook
can you believe them
yeah fair enough, false dichotomy.
well I’ll be damned… I was unable to see the IG post but that’s just my app etc.
based on everything you dug up it seems pretty likely that its for real. Not sure how solid it is for the org to publish something like this with the source of the story being “community member” ya know? seems plausible.
I still stand by my original point that internet literacy is a huge problem for older and uneducated people. I remain in the “not a fan” camp of posts such as this with a little blurb about the event without any concrete foundation regarding legitimacy. this could have been utter bullshit and its fuckin embarassing for people to outrage dogpile on something based on a screencap of a tweet. I believe everyone’s first thought should be “can I trust that this is real?”
pretty impressed with your internet sluthing though I gotta say. do you have any training or do you just go for it?
just to acknowledge it, I gotta say I feel a little shitty with us having this type of conversation with this seemingly being legitimate; this is a real person’s real life and whats going on is abhorrent.
no for real. this is a tweet. with a smiling w/ tears in eyes emoji, followed by streaming tears emoji and a pointing emoji.
this IS a photo of a guy crying in a parking lot.
no context how the tweeter knew anything about this or anything substantiating of any kind, at all.
first reply here on lemmy: whats wrong with you, america?!
im NOT saying shit like this isn’t happening left and right. I AM saying reading a post like this and just believing what is written puts people on the same level as right wingers who see a facebook photo of a drag queen and believe the block of text that this person spit in the face of a social worker when they didnt get their welfare benefits from the window of their penthouse during an orgy next to an elementary school and writes a comment about how lgbt+ people are monsters
yeah, I was gonna say that but I live in europe where the whole drive thru scene has never been as fast as how it used to be in the states. I do recall mcdonalds drive through being so quick you were scared of holding up the line. here, you are told to go park in one of the waiting bays 1:3 times, or you just wait 3-4 mins sitting at the window at a minimum.
I was in the states in summer 2021 and things definitely took longer than they once did, but I was so grateful to the kids working those shit jobs when covid was still prominent that I was tipping them $10 in cash at the window, not complaining.
I’ll be back over in a few months and will 100% get both Arby’s and Wendy’s as you cant get those over here, so I guess I’ll see what the pace is like.
Just to say though, prices have definitely gone down at the bigger chains, I dont think we’re the only two people who feel this way and the companies realized they went past their ceiling in terms of how much they could charge for their mediocre food
the whole good, fast and cheap, you can only have two at once is true. when this formula is violated things fall apart. fast food is now only fast (it was never good but it used to be cheap).
the tower is actually actually!! about paradigm shifts. the thing you hold dear out of here 👉 and something new will take shape in its place. not necessarily bad, but very uncomfortable
ok good job
uh oh, now you two are stuck together
I hate reddit like any warm blooded fediverse fan but I cannot deny that if you wanna talk about, say, some obscure punk band’s third record released in 2003 thats where you gotta go
this will sound far reaching, but what would you think about holding internet literacy talks with your (chronological age) peers?
careful, this is a borderline thought crime
okie doke :)
hmm
i really remember not having to do that like maybe 3 or 4 years ago but maybe people just always felt I was hopelessly ignorant
im kidding guy damn folks on lemmy really need the /s eh?
seeing as that the last one was prolly the last mass shooting of 2025, every day that average will increase until its less than one a day
I mean maybe, I dont think youre definitely wrong, im just not confident enough in the assertion to say id be certain either way