Me too, haha. This is what happens when you treat arguments like chess pieces and not, you know, reason. I don’t believe this guy has any idea what he just said. I also don’t think he cares.

I’d have to actually search his name then, right?
I don’t know who this person is.

True, but I often feel like people use Poe’s law as an excuse not to engage mentally. It’s really uncharitable, actually.

Like, I can hold the view “is sincere” and “is sarcastic” in my mind simultaneously until something confirms or denies one.

And it’s not like it matters that much. If he’s sincere, I’ll say "wow, that’s crazy, " and if he’s not, I’ll say “wow, that would be crazy.”

[e] Just to clarify, I see now he’s a Fox news contrib. So, he’s paid to be nuts.

One thing they can do for me is get out of my news feed.
Because I don’t want to see this shit.

If there is no plan to take down capitalism, why would I waste any time being upset about it when LLMs are already ruining my news feed.

Maybe I would listen to you if you actually cared about anything you were saying.

That’s great! What’s your plan exactly to take down capitalism? I have a month, I bet we could knock this out.

Doctors do shit for money.

Yeah, it’s all fucked, man.

Doctors do stuff like appendectomies—literally cutting out a part of you.

Doctors made my grandpa go through chemo. That was before he co-in-ci-dentally lost all his hair.

Doctors will literally take out all of your blood and give you someone else’s blood. For why? They’re not keeping it. It’s not like they’re vampires. Literally, for what reason?

I know the reason.

It’s MONEY.

You don’t gotta do all that shit. I drink my own urine and I’ve never been healthier.

They can do whatever they want at that point.

What else do you imagine they’re doing, though?

I mean, Uber has constructed a model where “waiting for your next fare” and “going home to your partner” look the same in a spreadsheet, and that then becomes the justification for not paying them. It’s sleight of hand.

None of those things replace that content, though.

Look, I dunno if this is legally a copyrights issue, but as a society, I think a lot of people have decided they’re willing to yield to social media and search engine indexers, but not to AI training, you know? The same way I might consent to eating a mango but not a banana.

Wow. That sure is a comment.

On average, we respond solely to voice pitch, tonality, body language and facial expressions, like a still developing toddler… Or a dog.

And so knowing that, the DNC should have put somebody up who appeals to those… dogs.

Like, obviously the smart decision is to vote for Biden anyway, but fuck me if they aren’t making this November win, what should be a slam dunk against a fascist, the most difficult in recent history.

If Trump wins, the DNC owes us blood.

I’m proud of this guy! I’m trying to click follow, but it’s not working.

Exactly! I’m always complaining about the illiterate. I like to write them letters because I know it makes them sad.

I think the point, though, is there should be a redundant system to handle failures, like a mechanical-only door handle.

Another example: your dashboard touchscreen fails, there should still be a button to turn on the AC. Or off. Whatever makes this analogous to the safety concern about doors.

I will let myself bleed out in a Safeway parking lot before installing McDonald’s stupid fucking app to get a 1.99 boiling hot coffee to cauterize the wound with.

How do you feel about negotiating the price of a new car down?

Personally, I think it’s really cool that people without social skills are charged more. It’s like “take that! ya fuckin loser.”

I read the first bullet point and immediately had a prophetic, future-sight vision of the comments before even scrolling down. I’m so sorry, man, haha.

Eating a donut? Or eating the ice cream?

Oh, for sure. I don’t imagine bears have the same cultural understanding of sex, however complex that may be, that people do.

bear in the woods isn’t thinking “Since I am a heterosexual bear, I am not going to rub my penis on that other bears ass because I see it’s a boy bear and that would be gay. […]”

I do think this might be overly simplistic, though. The tendency for a bear to “be gay” by our standards might manifest differently, but it would still be an observable behavior, no?

This isn’t “a few people glued to a road,” this is a threat. “Fix society, or tensions will escalate.”

The way you keep minimizing these efforts tell me you either don’t really understand protests or are actively trying to make them seem trivial.

I saw you complaining earlier about them “shoving moral superiority down your throat,” which is curious. It’s like your biggest problem with them is just that you have to hear about it.

I’m sure your shed is nice. We need other people to build nice sheds.