death

I was happy believing snuff movies were a myth, or extremely rare.

Now I need these bastards dead (extremely painfully if possible, but I’ll take anything that removes them from society).

I already did, of course, but now it’s even more urgent.

Yeah, but long scale unfathomable, or short scale unfathomable?

None of that makes it OK for people (…)

Not people, fascists.

Those need to be put down, as soon as possible, by any means possible, before they cause further harm.

If you write “f*ck this sh!t”, you’ve offended exactly the same number of people you would have with “fuck this shit”.

More people. You’ve also offended the people who are fucking tired of this censorship bullshit, who would’ve been completely fine with the uncensored version.

I mainly browsed on the phone, obviously not with the official malware; greedy little pigboy spez effectively banned third party apps by setting absurdly high API fees, making it impossible to browse on the phone, so I had to find an alternative, and I ended up here.

Greedy little pigboy…

they’re thinking of it like another person’s microwave

This. My parents, quite smart people in general, have become somewhat proficient with computers over the years, to do the specific tasks they use them for, but they seem to have done so by memorising the steps, and are stumped when something doesn’t work as expected or the interface changes.

They seem to lack the ability to read the screen, not for lack of trying or because they don’t know they should do that, but because they seem to get overwhelmed.

They might know what menus and dialogs are, to some extent (not context menus, though, those are beyond them), and how to use them to do the specific tasks they’ve learned to do, but I don’t think they have a generalized concept of a menu or a dialog, they treat each one as a completely independent set of steps, part of the excessively complex set of the steps that is the whole interface.

I think their brains might have been wired to learn specific steps for specific specialised tools, since that’s how it was for most of their youth, and when they had to deal with a general purpose machine they reused that tooling to learn each thing it could do as a separate process, without ever developing the mental tools to deal with the interface as a whole, and now they’re trapped in that model of thinking and learning each new process is an overwhelming chore.

LLMs don’t have the mind of a five year old, though.

They don’t have a mind at all.

They simply string words together according to statistical likelihood, without having any notion of what the words mean, or what words or meaning are; they don’t have any mechanism with which to have a notion.

They aren’t any more intelligent than old Markov chains (or than your average rock), they’re simply better at producing random text that looks like it could have been written by a human.

In a pinch the drive can also double as a flywheel battery.

Yeah, the “!?” wasn’t directed at Sinatra, seduction and adultery are completely in character for him, it was directed at the law making them an arrestable offence, sometimes I forget that the USA were founded by fundamentalist religious fanatics.

Frank Sinatra arrested, apparently, for “seduction and adultery” (!?… I’d have guessed mob related activities, but this also tracks, I guess).

Well, reptiles seem to have split pretty early on between the ancestors of lizards and snakes (and the lonely tuatara), and the ancestors of turtles, crocodiles, and dinosaurs, the main differences seemingly being in the bones of the skull, and specifically for the group with the snakes and lizards in, the ability to self-amputate the tail (though that’s lost in many of their descendants), and the keratinized scales; you won’t see a turtle, crocodile, or dinosaur molting its whole skin in one go like lizards and snakes do, they’ll molt their scales (or feathers, or scutes) one at a time.

Look, all the differences between any form of right wing and left wing come down to one single difference in thougt: right wingers think people are livestock that must be corralled and controlled in order to maximise the profit that can be extracted from them; left wingers think that people are… well, you know, people.

That’s a binary choice. There’s no middle ground between considering people people and considering them product. Don’t come at me with “but some people”, you monstrous bastards. Any so called centrist saying otherwise is either a right winger trying to control you and extract profit from you, or an idiot scammed by one into promoting their bullshit.

People are people. All of us. And if you want them to treat you like you’d want them to treat you, you’d better do the same back, not because of some religious nonsense, but because otherwise society collapses into a brutal free for all, and your chance of coming on top is infinitesimally small, no matter how loaded a hand you were born with. And even if win the bastard lottery and end up on top, so what? You’ll die soon enough like any other of us, shitting and pissing yourself as you go, and you can’t take any of your stolen wealth with you. You’ll just be remembered as that monstrous bastard who took everything and gave back nothing and made life worse for everyone else, may you rest in piss. Might as well use that wealth to help people and make the world better for everyone, but of course you wouldn’t have been able to amass all that stolen wealth to start with if you had even a shade of humanity in your rotten mind.

When the choice is treating people as people, or not, there’s no middle ground, there’s no appeasement, there’s no compromise.

You’re either for humanity, or against it.

Trying to sound reasonable is far from the same as trying to be reasonable.

If they were trying to be reasonable they wouldn’t be centrists, they’d be as far away as possible from conservative, corporatist parasites, fascits, and similar critters, instead of trying to appease them.

But of course “centrists” aren’t trying to be reasonable. “Centrist” is just the label those parasites use when trying to disguise their nature from their victims.

There’s no such thing as a centrist.

“Centrist” is just what conservatives, corporatist parasites, and / or fascists call themselves when they don’t want their victims to realise they’re conservatives, corporatist parasites, and / or fascists.

True, (some) snakes have also evolved specialized fangs.

Several times independently with significantly different designs, it seems.

Anyone who uses duckduckgo, since that’s where it gets its results from.

That one I’m not entirely sure about, but it seems that, in the same way being a mammal (from a bone perspective) is all about the teeth and inner ear, being a dinosaur is all about the hips (dinosaurs have an upright stance, with the legs under their bodies; even with the quadruped ones you can see how they’re really something evolved to walk on its hind legs walking on its hands and feet), and pterosaurs and their non-dinosaur ancestors just don’t have the right kind of hip.

It’s a bit muddy, though. Once you get into archosaurs and before you get into more specialised things like crocodiles, dinosaurs, or pterosaurs it’s mostly “this thing seems to be more closely related to this group than to this other group, so we’ll throw it in with them even if it doesn’t really look anything like them”.

There’s a small bipedal reptile, for instance, scleromuchlus, that’s been bundled up with pterosaurs because it apparently seems more related to them, even though if you look at an artist’s representation you’d assume it must be a dinosaur, but might in fact not fit in either group and be instead just a basal avemetatarsalian (or maybe even lower in the tree) with no other identified close relatives.

It’s basically a gaming laptop.

Taking out the screen, the windows license, and some of the margin since Valve will make it back with game sales, $1,000 was the minimum expectable price before RAM got pulled into the “AI” bubble.

Those are still quite lethal, when used with sufficient malice and / or incompetence.