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“Legal” doesn’t mean shit if no one enforces it.

Alas, nothing has been enforced yet.

Will it? Will judicial orders ever be enforced? I don’t know.

What will it take for it to happen? Something ugly?

Well, no shit.

I unironically love Latinisation (and Greekification).

“Crabification” would have worked just fine to express this idea, but “carcinisation” sounds so scientific and erudite.

People dog on English, but I think it’s really cool how we have other ancient source languages to pull from to coin “smart” words when needed. And when you dig into the etymology of the “fancy” word, it adds texture, layers, history, and extra context to the whole thing.

Ok, that was a tangent. Carry on.

That’s one (of many) reasons I don’t want to give up remote work.

Bosses say that remote work misses “the human element” and “face to face” time.

Yes, and I couldn’t be more happy about it.

Fair. I am old though.

I had an Intellivision as a kid, and my neighbors all had Atari 2600s, if that tells you anything.

COD WWII is my favorite multiplayer ever.

It’s easy to hop on to. The scoreboard is legible and relatively simple. The players in the lobbies have always been a little bit on the older side compared to other Call of Duty games, and they’re just there to have fun. When they use their mics, they’re riffing and teasing without taking it too seriously, or getting too nasty.

The lobbies are far less crowded nowadays, but they’re still active.

I don’t want to play any other multiplayer game anymore. This is the one. I’m locked in.

Yes I’m old.

My comment was deleted for being too hardcore I guess (even though it got upvotes, so at least someone agrees with me). But I spoke zero lies and I 100% stand by what I said.

Regardless, I’ll rephrase in a gentler way: empathy is wasted on these people. They are effectively irredeemable.

I say we dispense with empathy. Casting pearls before swine, and all that.

If we wish to defeat Fascism, we cannot be gentle.

Our grandfathers who defeated Fascism in Europe didn’t do it by being understanding and forgiving. Allied soldiers dragged German citizens to the concentration camps and made them look at it.

Sometimes shaming is exactly what you need to do.

100% we need to switch back to entirely paper ballots, even if it takes months to determine a winner.

Well, they’re certainly not “conservatives.” I see no conserving going on.

So, what do we do?

No, which is why many of us opposed the Patriot Act during the Bush era.

The question “what about a future administration that could abuse this level of access” wasn’t just a rhetorical one, it was prescient and timely.

The party of small government at it again.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

They will be, when it affects them personally.

In other words, typical Republican thinking.

Protestors are adults who understand and accept the risks.

People are going to die defending democracy. And the jackboots will most likely shoot first. We all know this.

War is coming, let’s stop pretending it’s not gonna happen.

Automation is going to chew up jobs faster than new ones are created, too.

Reduce the value of white collar labor, and white collar workers will flood to the blue collar trades, drastically reducing pay there as well.

Not a suitable environment for growing large families.

But the general public (myself included) doesn’t really understand how our own reasoning happens.

Does anyone, really? i.e., am I merely a meat computer that takes in massive amounts of input over a lifetime, builds internal models of the world, tests said models through trial-and-error, and outputs novel combinations of data when said combinations are useful for me in a given context in said world?

Is what I do when I “reason” really all that different from what an LLM does, fundamentally? Do I do more than language prediction when I “think”? And if so, what is it?

Jesus Christ software’s about to get far, far worse innit?

They’ve been trying to start something for awhile now. I think they’ve been genuinely surprised by the lack of eagerness on the part of most Americans to get involved in civil unrest (because we’re normal people who don’t want to do that shit unless there really is no other recourse).