The original AP article so you don’t have to use the slop site it’s syndicated to.

a 400,000% markup on medically-necessary-to-live cancer pills

Every day I pray Brian Thompson’s killer wasn’t the only one (it wasn’t Luigi; he was at my house playing Stardew Valley).

African… Eurasian… American… Oceanian…

Long ago, the four transgenders lived together in harmony.

Maybe my farmer’s market is really lax, but I’ve seen people sell young plants there (also mushroom starters, which I thought was super cool but had no room for).

>try all the OS out there

>person you’re responding to is suggesting they try the other one of the two top DEs for Linux desktop before leading with “Linux Is Already Broken Before You Even Start”

This is a ridiculous strawman. I empathize with them and want to see accessibility improve (it’s something I do in the project I work on even though you wouldn’t conventionally expect that blind people can use it). If you’re going to talk in such broad terms about the Linux desktop, not just your specific distro/DE, the onus is on you to at minimum try GNOME and KDE. Instead they chose GNOME and MATE, the latter of which is barely maintained and has effectively zero relevance outside of users who abandoned GNOME ages ago during GTK3 or people whose hardware makes the Atari 2600 look like a supercomputer (it looks like the former here). It’s not 2017 anymore; Ubuntu with GNOME isn’t some near-universal Linux desktop experience. I’m not telling them “nooooo just try my specific config for NixOS bro I promise Linux isn’t that bad”.

This isn’t even to say that KDE will be better; I don’t know, which is why I wish they covered it. If KDE is also bad, then this is a stronger argument that Linux desktop contributors need more awareness of and focus on accessibility. If it’s just mediocre, KDE devs can see it and learn how to improve. If it’s good, then GNOME and MATE devs have a lesson in how they can improve.

I don’t expect anyone to exhaust every DE on every distro, but when the userbase is so firmly concentrated around GNOME and KDE, I expect you to at minimum include KDE (let alone if you include MATE). You don’t have to, but I’m free to criticize your essay if you have such a massive hole in it. If you don’t want to try KDE, literally just find+replace “Linux” to “GNOME/MATE” and solve the problem that way.

Transvestigators: “Trans X will never be real X!”

Also transvestigators: “Trans X are apparently so functionally indistinguishable from biological X that you can’t tell the difference from thousands of hours of footage (including their voice) from public appearances and paparazzi voyeurism taken at almost every possible angle over dozens of years, including childhood pictures. Instead you need to resort to convoluted, pseudoscientific, irreproducibly arbitrary, per-person diagrams of what you allege is their skeleton. This applies to dozens of celebrities. But they’ll never be a real X tho!”

Transvestigators are scum, but I feel if I were trans that these “investigations” of obviously and openly cis people would make me feel more affirmed than basically any other form of external validation.

Laptop keyboard at 10 o’clock took it from “heavy vibes” to “definitely” for me.

Your brain turns into AI slop?

It’s a job that only exists in capitalism

Not true. Government-sponsored propaganda campaigns need advertisers (“ads” are just corporate propaganda), public works projects need to be advertised for awareness, politicians will need people to advertise their candidacy, political movements will advertise their positions, and unless this is a command-control economy where one thing is delegated to exactly one entity, you’ll probably be advertising some service or product you do or make.

Enshittification continues to prove inevitable for successful proprietary software.

Please see my edit. I was irresponsible and did a misinformation.

Just rewrite curl in Rust so you can immediately close any AI slop reports talking about memory safety issues. /s

>“I don’t read revisionism and lies”

>Quoting the article you fucking linked to and didn’t read past the headline

OP, why are you posting this now? This is from March 2024, and it’s related to the (now dead) bill introduced effort by the New Hampshire GOP to reduce oppose raising the state’s marriage age below to 18. Even the post on /c/politics is that old.

Edit: I misremembered this event and wasn’t responsible enough to properly verify what I was saying. I’m really sorry.

Post says: “communists killed”. Not “communism killed”. The USSR were communists. The Finns were innocent when the USSR invaded them. Communists killed tens of thousands of innocents in that invasion. The entire aim of this post is to disingenuously suggest that anytime someone brings up the innocent victims of the USSR, they’re actually defending the Nazis killed in WWII.

It’s less that the arguments “aren’t that great” (they’re actually quite compelling) and more that vegans are constantly presented with the same bad-faith or grossly misinformed arguments over and over again. I think the idea of having pre-baked responses is fucking stupid and don’t use them, but as 99% of non-vegans use the same pre-baked arguments that have been factually debunked millions of times, I don’t blame anyone who chooses to do use the same tactic (except of course that these pre-baked responses actually make sense). “The non-vegans started it”, so to speak.

The idea of “ChatTFA” sickens me to my core, though, to a point where I considered removing this post before deciding it’s not technically misinformation; it’s just recommending misinformation. It’s really gross to suggest that people use it and only hurts veganism by making people who practice it mis/underinformed and making the people who might come to better understand it turned off when they realize the “person” they’re talking to is a shitty LLM.

Have you ever – even once – thought that if:

• The USSR hadn’t started the Winter War under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact it signed on friendly terms with Nazi Germany to grab more land while the rest of Europe wasn’t in a position to help, killing and wounding tens of thousands of Finns
• The USSR hadn’t stolen 10% of Finland’s land in exchange for what can generously be described as a “promise” of peace
• The USSR hadn’t scuttled Finland’s attempts afterward to develop a defensive pact with Norway and Sweden
• The USSR hadn’t invaded and absorbed the Baltic states as part of the same pact with Nazi Germany
• The USSR hadn’t demanded mineral rights already given to the UK and then instigated riots in Finland when they didn’t get what they wanted
• The USSR hadn’t interfered with the December 1940 Finnish election
• The USSR had offered to return Finland’s land when it realized “oh no, the consequences of my own actions: Finland is allied militarily with Nazi Germany now.”
• The USSR had been on friendly terms with Finland instead of giving them what every serious historian describes as no realistic opportunity not to ally with Germany

That maybe they wouldn’t have been forced to ally with Germany in the Continuation War? That Finland might have remained neutral or even joined in with the Allies which the Soviets were a part of? You can even look in the article you’re linking to:

As a part of the pact, Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler insisted that the Finns dispatch [1408] soldiers to the SS Wiking division similar to the volunteers it demanded from Nazi-occupied Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and elsewhere.

Reluctantly, Finns complied and covertly recruited the first group of 400 SS volunteers to be sent for training.

The leading Finnish military historians who undertook the probe into the country’s wartime role wrote that those Finnish troops likely witnessed shootings and other atrocities against Jews and other civilians by advancing Nazi troops.

This was all done reluctantly. The Finns had no ideological alignment with the Nazis; it was done purely out of necessity because of the USSR’s – again – nakedly imperialist actions. You have zero intellectual integrity. None. Your rhetoric relies not on a convincing argument but on the reader’s ignorance. And I’m not even a little surprised to see you sticking up for Putin’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine elsewhere.

Edit: Also, where the hell did “only doing it to fight communism” come from? I said the exact opposite: that they were doing it in self-defense against Soviet imperialist aggression. What?

When you know even a little about how a transformer model works under the hood, the amount of blind trust people put in LLMs is genuinely horrifying.

Also, LLM means “large language model”, not “language-learning model” or “learning language model”. People get this wrong very often.

The Daily Dot, to clarify, is an Internet culture website. So basically their job is to talk about how things related to the Internet. They’re a pretty good source for giving context to a new viral meme or whatever, but I’d caution OP that there’s a time and a place for different sources. This one slipped through the cracks for me, otherwise I probably would’ve found a better source and asked them to substitute it.

TL;DR: Article’s pretty shit; The Daily Dot went out of bounds.

You cut off the part where they say “the production of the”, implying that the production is what’s located in Huntsville, Alabama. I don’t see anything factually wrong with it on its face.