fucking hell, how much are they shelling out for carbon emission reductions (like, say, public tranist)

Possibly because that bus system has no fare, or they were having an exasperating day, or you are so bad at paying a fare that its easier just to have you sit down?

Its basically a template generator, which is really helpful when you’re generating boilerplate. It doesn’t save me much if any time to refactor/fill in that template, but it does save some mental fatigue that I can then spend on much more interesting problems.

It’s a niche tool, but occasionally quite handy. Without leaps forward technically though, it’s never going to become more than that.

It’s hard to admit, but I find myself really hoping their read on the situation is right and that the US won’t absolutely steamroller them get involved in this on Israel’s behalf. Fuck, I just want to not be involved in a mideast war at some point during my life. Stability isn’t worth much when its foundation is laid on the bones of children.

You’re doubling down on the most implausible details, even the ones I fudged in your favor (wpm), and that’s just silly. If that’s truly what a stream of consciousness looks like from you, and if microsoft word really is (despite all of human history serving as a counter example) helpful to you (I loathe that software more than words can convey), then you truly are the Michael Phelps of internet commenting, and I suppose I commend you for that.

Have a good day, and I mean that sincerely, because this is a really stupid hill for me to be trying this hard to die on, and you seem nice.

A reasonable policy. Would that more people were of the same inclination, then maybe there would be less cause to use “TBI” with such frequency in sports reporting

I should have clarified - the practice by which declaring “godwin’s law” would call for an end to a discussion, because it had clearly devolved beyond the point that there was anything worthwhile to continue to extract from it, was explicitly excepted from applying to discussions of fascism, where the comparison was (indeed) frequently apt

If advanced degrees automatically make you a good writer, I think everyone I work with (and myself) have been doing it wrong this whole time.

Listen, maybe I’m wrong here. But I don’t believe you because you penned that comment eight minutes after you wrote another 4 paragraph reply, with a very similar word count, which you wrote in at most eleven minutes. And I’m pretty impressed with your consistent 74wpm typing speed on a laptop (that’s assuming no time to correct mistakes), which is pretty phenomenal. I’m more impressed with the lemmy.world admins for improving the time new comments take to propagate, since as recently as last week it was taking a reliable 4 minutes for them to register across the desktop interface. But hey, I might be wrong, I can’t prove this. You might really be that impressively skilled a wordsmith.

TBI is a commonly seen initialism in US reporting that stands for “Traumatic Brain Injury”. Given the relative amount of education in Tennessee, and their backwards stance on every issue from women’s health to wearing mixed fabrics, identifying as the ‘TBI’ is er… rather unflattering.

Neat, which LLM did you get to write this?

There’s an entire planet worth of difference between “Failing to have a fairly profound realization about yourself” and “being homophobic”. Sometimes people are just clueless. Other times, greentexts are all fake.

Godwins law doesnt apply when discussing fascism, a clause to the rule since godwin first penned it.

The “Tennessee Bureau of Investigation” would probably inspire more confidence if their acronym wasnt TBI.

Rules for thee…

IDF upped the death count to 4 according to CNN.

My apologies, my initial comment was heavy-handed because I was writing with the apparent “lacks reading comprehension” demographic in mind, and I wanted to be sure they’d understand my scorn.

Now onto the “please just stop” portion of this: I think you’re lacking some critical background here. VOA, though obviously incredibly biased from charter to name to office carpet, has a great deal of journalistic integrity. You can be a propaganda outlet and have a commitment to truthful reporting. If you want an example of that look to NPR, another openly biased news outlet, albeit one with a liberal-leaning bias towards the internal American issues it reports on most of the time. Both are propaganda, both do very good work reporting on US news and interests. That you don’t know enough about VOA to be aware of this speaks to the notion that maybe your understanding of the subject is not nearly as comprehensive as you seem to think.

I imagine that, if you sat down and asked people “Is voice of america propaganda” you would get a whole bunch of people saying “is it? I didn’t realize!”. People are dumb about applying specific definitions, and propaganda is largely viewed as the stuff that comes out of leaflet bombs, or that gets played on loudspeakers in dingy german factories that Captain America is about to blow up. But, if you asked “Is VOA Biased” 97% of people will say “well yeah, duh, its called ‘Voice of America’”.

I truly do not believe your premise that there’s huge swathes of people unaware that “Voice of America” is biased towards American interests. People are dumb, but they aren’t so dumb as to be unable to read the damn name.

A successful attempt, too. There’s videos of multiple missiles making it through, though fortunately they seem mostly to have landed in large outdoor spaces.

I don’t know if we know if the missiles were proper guided missiles, or just dumb MLRS-style unguided rockets. I’d imagine it’s both, but that’s the important factor in if Iran was just flexing their capability while minimizing damage, or if this was a serious attack.

Wow you sure saw through our clever deception. What tipped you off, was it when we slipped up and called it “Voice Of America”? I knew people were gonna catch that…

This is either completly sincere or next-level trolling, but regardless of which one it is it’s absolutely magnificent.