Count Regal Inkwell @ VinesNFluff @pawb.social

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Kick him in the nuts so hard you remove him from the gene pool permanently.

Leto Atreides II WOULD be a supporter of Batista.

Brazilian here

"Treated tap water" is (theoretically. Most people have a filter at home anyway) drinkable, and you get it from the water company.

"Untreated tap water" can be pulled from a well, or a cistern, or even bought from the water company, but it has no standards for drinkability it's held up to. It is therefore, cheaper. It has its uses in cleaning and such.1

I had ADHD a full 20 years before tiktok was invented

I was fourteen when I first got unlimited internet access.

ADHD is something you're born with.

Eh. There's plenty of cis bigoted dudes in the Furry fandom (and Musk would absolutely be a furry if he'd been given unlimited internet access without also being a public figure).

And on the fediverse for that matter, you just don't run into them as often here because most major instances ban (at least the more egregious) bigoted talk, and are also defederated from all the far-right instances.

Of course, if he wasn’t born wealthy he wouldn’t be who he is,

Musk wasn't always as completely off his hinges as he is right now, and I feel like at least half of the reason he got as bad as he did, is because he is constantly, 24/7/365, surrounded by yes men who do nothing but say how great and smart he is (and he has the money and power to ensure this always remains the case)

Like he was always a bigot and kind of a dumbshit, but he didn't become unhinged until a few years back.

Which is why I think a hypothetical middle-or-lower-class Elon Musk would be just.

.... A mediocre internet user. Holds some bigoted opinions. Gets into fights on webforums and social media. Has a low-level job in tech doing something no one cares about for a company everyone hates.

Becoming an agent of an ancient entity who gives me power and prestige in exchange for aiding with their possibly-evil goals.

Like my Fursona!

(I think they are asking about what level of wealth he'd be born into in your imaginary scenario -- I wrote my post assuming 'my own', which is to say 'comfortably middle-class parents in a rapidly crumbling economy, not poor per-se, but working class nonetheless, and pretty much guaranteed to die poorer than his folks')

Statistically?

Here. Not this very thread, but the fediverse in general.

He's very autistic, but if he weren't a billionaire the material conditions that made him a fascist wouldn't be there. (Although being from South Africa, he'd probably still be a massive Racist)

This means there's a 93.4% chance he'd be a smarmy Linux guy. Nowhere near as intelligent as he thinks he is and honestly pretty obnoxious, but harmless.

"This is called 'maths'. Or 'math' if you're American, as they're only allowed to have one. Due to... I don't know budget cuts or something". — ASHEN, Stuart

Probably something from an anime, like those hyped up japanese songs that play on Digimon when they are powering up.

🥚-xactly.

They keep expecting it to work like Harry Potter, where the heroes don't need to stand for anything and the fascist is defeated by being caught out in a loophole of his own rules which causes him to melt

In Brazilian early aughts urban lingo, "x9" means "snitch"

I will not hear potoo slander in this house young lady. Or man. I don't know your gender.

Point being potoos are cute derps.

Has the idiot in chief of the us already started doing oopsies? This soon?

Slavery 2: It won't matter if you're black or white

If I may be a centrist about this.

OP is being silly wanting a year-cutoff. Geeenerally people who are whole-hog on AI are very proud of that and will yell about it to the four winds. And even if they didn't, reputation is a real thing one can rely on for knowing who are the goodies and the baddies. (.... though if they do feel that's the only way... 2023. That's the date. November 2023 is when ChatGPT became something the public could use, and the floodgates opened for businesspeople wanting to replace all artists with robots. Before that, Generative AI was used mostly either by scientists for research into AI itself... Or by internet dorks like me for shitposting. It wasn't good enough for anything else either way.)

With that said, y'all are being unreasonable to them too: Literature is art, and when it comes to art, "I don't like the way it feels" is more than enough reason to not want to engage with something. If OP says "I don't want to touch anything AI related, I don't care if it is quote-unquote good" then that should be a complete sentence, and require no belaboured justification whatsoever.

That just proves my point though

The down votes are from internet strangers

I'm an internet stranger

Friends would presumably be people who share in your interests and outlooks and so would be willing to help you figure such things out. At least mine are.

You could start by switching from strangers to friends.

Strangers on the internet have always been unreliable. AI just adds to the stench.