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  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•All Toy Story movies are basically documentaries
    9 hours

    That’s not what the film is about though… spoilers ahead

    spoiler

    Bonnie is struggling to make friends because she still plays with toys but all the other kids play online games together. So her parents get her a tablet. However, the other kids find out that Bonnie still plays with toys and they start to cyber-bully her

    Eventually the toys realize that the tablet is a toy and they become friends with the tablet and use it to help Bonnie find a long-distance friend that also plays with toys. The two girls become friends and they use the table to play online games when they’re apart and use it as a physical toy when they are together… like using it to play music for their wedding or pretending it’s a UFO abducting the other toys.

    In the end, when the other kids see Bonnie and her friend playing outside they too want to go outside and join in

    The movie straight up starts out with the toys thinking the tablet is bad because the kids aren’t playing like their previous owners did and eventually they realize that the kids are playing, they’re just playing in a different way and that’s OK

    At one point the tablet thinks it’s bad for Bonnie and literally tries to throw itself away and the other toys rescue it.

    The movie doesn’t say, “tablets are bad”, it encourages you to use it as a toy… both as something to play games on but also as a physical toy that you use your imagination with. Use it to put on a light show for your dance party… that kind of thing

  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•trains rule
    9 hours

    I don’t know how to prove I’m a human… cock shit asshole with fucking toejam stuck in my dickhole… is that something AI would say? Does that work for you.

    Anyway,

    https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights/the-state-of-ai

    In 2017 about 20% of companies were using AI. In 2025 that number was at 88%

    “The share of respondents saying their organizations are using AI in at least one business function has increased since our research last year: 88 percent report regular AI use in at least one business function, compared with 78 percent a year ago. At the enterprise level, the majority are still in the experimenting or piloting stages with approximately one-third reporting that their companies have begun to scale their AI programs”

    “The use of AI overall is broadening within organizations. Respondents increasingly report that their organizations are using AI in more business functions. More than two-thirds of respondents now say their organizations are using AI in more than one function, and half report using AI in three of more functions.”

    “By industry, the use of AI agents is most widely reported in the technology, media and telecommunications, and healthcare sectors.”

    “Many companies, particularly smaller ones, have yet to integrate AI deeply across their workflows… Nearly half of respondents from companies with more than $5 billion in revenue have reached the scaling phase, compared with 29 percent of those with less than $100 million in revenues”

  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicineEnglish
    11 hours

    “By the 2020s, conservatives were dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, with the gap concentrated in internal causes (for example, heart disease, cancer and stroke). The divide since 2020 is substantial: while only 0.2% of ‘very liberal’ respondents died of internal causes between 2020 and 2022, the probability for people who identified as ‘very conservative’ was 1.14 percentage points higher (P = 0.021; 95% confidence interval (CI), (0.18, 2.11)). This gap is not limited to deaths from COVID-19 and is not reducible to demographic or geographic differences between the groups, nor is it a pure function of ageing: previous cohorts’ death patterns in older data did not show a similar correlation between health and ideology before 2010.”

  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.worldtoGames@lemmy.world•Some Retailers Are Refusing to Sell GTA 6 Due to the Lack of a DiscEnglish
    4 days

    This is a tough one because on one hand I’m old school I like to own physical things. Going to the music store and looking at, and then buying, CDs was my favorite. I like my CD and BluRay collection

    On the other hand, it’s a waste of money and material to make a physical copy of something you can sell digitally. Plus you got to package it, ship it, etc…

    It’s better for the environment if we don’t make physical products

  • VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•The traditional suburban street design of winding roads and cul-de-sacs is just as responsible for U.S. car dependency as the distances created by sprawl, according to new Yale research.English
    6 days

    Here in my part of the US we do build with shops outside of neighborhoods. The problem is that these shops are rarely prime real estate so the stores that move in are rarely something you want to walk to

    For example, outside my neighborhood now is

    A convenience store, A dry cleaners, a sports bar, a military surplus store, an office for a business that builds floating docks, a tow truck company, some kind of repair shop for hydraulics, a Wendy’s, a burger king, and a bait-and-tackle store

    Except not all of that is on my side of the street. If you left my neighborhood and went north you would run into the stores. Then there is a road, some more stores, and then another neighborhood. But that road between the two lines of stores is a major road. 8 lanes where I am. (8 lanes all-together. 4 east, 4 west)

    So yeah, I could walk to the sports bar because it is close, but also I have to cross 8 lanes of traffic. And the other neighborhood could walk to the convenience store, but they also have to cross 8 lanes of traffic

    On paper it’s ideal. In reality not so much

    Sometimes you luck out and you’ll get a mom-and-pop sandwich shop or a small grocery store or something, but most of the time it’s dance studios or a place to buy used vacuum cleaners. Just random, lower-rent shit.

    If you keep walking you can find more useful things. There’s a Starbucks and a doughnut shop close by. If I wanted to ride my bike there is a grocery store… but that just means crossing more main roads. Not 8 lanes, but still. Not 2 lanes with 25mph traffic either. It’s like 45mph 4-lane roads

    And of course this is more difficult if you have kids. I’m not sure I’d feel safe riding my bike to the store with my young child. So if we need to go to the store, or even the playground, we drive. It’s not that it’s so far we can’t walk, it’s that the walk is sketchy

    If you want to walk and shop, we have places built specifically for that. You drive there, park, get out, and then the next like 4 or 8 blocks or whatever is designed just to be for walking and shopping.

    It’s not an easily fixable problem through. Unless you’re going to tear down a bunch of houses this is just kind of how it is

    Then again, with everything costing $1000, I’m not sure who’s walking to buy anything. I do well for myself but I’m still not going to walk to a sports bar regularly and buy a $9 hamburger and spend $7 on drinks. So really, I don’t even care anymore.