dariusj18 @ dariusj18 @lemmy.world

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I was more referring to the unfortunately naive hope that came from the early Internet. I am reminded of this quote by Charles Babbage,

On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

I was also hopeful, but I now realize how silly that was.

Trash in, trash out

Well, they did fuck around and find out. Now they are facing an existential threat of their own and suddenly reasonable?

Well, I'm sure they are worried about their new deal with IBM that they've obviously been working on for a while.

Gonna assume controlled burns in difficult terrain.

Just the same person that a few years ago would have been convinced by phrenology.

Just give me a magnet, a needle and an hd platter

It would be easier to ask which animes are better than the manga. I'd say FLCL, and maybe Ghost in the Shell plus SAC.

Nice, def picking that up. You know what would also be amazing? A series of audio episodes, like BBC style radio comedies. The voice cast is sooo good. I'm just imagining how amazing a collab with John Finnemore would be.

I'd read a comic series. Hell I'd even pay for it.

if the AI fails at art then there's no problem. Nobody would care.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/art-6

The funniest part is that privileged people get pissy about being called by their title all the time, it does sometimes materialize in jokes, but that's still punching up.

As a fun experiment I misgender bigots until they got mad about it. It doesn't take long.

Yes however, though I enjoyed the movies, and though I am not a stickler for canon, I do dislike how they don't really contain the hopeful futurism that Trek was created to portray.

It's funny the way this thread went. I don't think people paid attention to how much the Democratic party changed after 2016 after the Bernie peeps found out about how the party is actually structured. But there ended up being 3 types of new grassroots activists.

1. The ones that quickly found out that the DNC isn't some authoritarian regime who instead pulled up their seat at the table and effected change.
2. The ones that quickly found out that the DNC isn't some authoritarian regime and who wouldn't compromise with anyone and quickly became irrelevant but still cried that the system was still rigged (while their compatriots looked on in disgust lamenting the extra power to affect change they would have if they would vote as a block).
3. Those who got in and then tried to pull the ladder up to prevent themselves from losing their position the same way they accused others of doing.

The DNC is a national political party organization. Every four years the entire party is reorganized from the ground up. It's actually a pretty well created organizational system, the only people who really bitch about it are they keyboard warriors who have no understanding of it or the crazies who cannot fathom why they need other people to agree with them.

I just war game it, disincentive aid, create famine, after everyone is starving the only people not starving are Hamas.

Often called "gap moe"

This was my first thought. Or just referring to women as "birds".

Does this mean you haven't encountered people who are evangelical about bacon? This surprises me, I have run across it far more than evangelical vegans, but not more than people who make fun of vegans

P.s. why such an antisocial comment?

A term I just coined for people who put bacon on everything.