Same, ‘join our discord server’ is an instant turnoff.

I barely tolerate it for people whom I actually know and like, a stranger asking it of me as a hoop to jump through is a complete nonstarter.

Yeah this is a neat experiment, but the ‘cleaned up’ versions sound ‘wrong’ to my ears - that high whistle/hiss is ‘missing.’

It’s the install cost that’s in the way, not the electricity cost. A heat pump and a solar array would be great, I’d love to stick that on my house, if I wasn’t buried in debt.

Hasnt natural language always been the highest level language?

Natural language is not the highest level – it is just the highest level that still needs words.

Okay but I can actually use AI, whereas I’ve only seen pictures someone else going to the moon.

Also the US and the Soviet Union raced to get to the moon first, but the whole internet-connected world gets LLMs right now.

Isn’t that just a case of “reality has a well-known liberal bias?”

No, it’s a term for a particular brand of racism -

Like complimenting someone for being ‘articulate,’ or ‘one of the good ones.’ Sounds innocent enough, until you understand the racist underpinnings.

See above, where it is being used as an insult without any evidence to back it up. This is the most common usage, and usage defines the true meaning of the word.

I don’t wanna live in a world where I only get to eat one slice of pizza

I usually solo a medium so yeah.

So close to getting it.

all ads are scams, in the sense that all cops are bastards - not so much that every individual cop is a bastard, more that the institution of advertising enshrines, encourages, and rewards scamming its audience. Do honest ads exist? Sure - but since you’ll never know which is which, you’re better off avoiding them as a rule, the risk is not worth the reward.

Is it possible to change the institution of policing, such that the bastards will be punished and excluded and removed as a general consideration? It’s possible, yes, but there are so many dollars tied up in the advertising industry that it’s pretty hard to imagine.

Copying is not theft!

I do tend to vibe wjth Paley’s views on originality and creativity, though I haven’t kept up with her recently, good reminder!

Follow-up - hmmmm she’s a self professed terf though apparently

Take the good, leave the bad. People are messy, flawed, complex.