ZDL @ ZDL @lazysoci.al

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You seem nice.

Well it's a charming change from the usual American talking points like Barbie saying "math is hard".

I don't condone Kirk's murder.¹

But I also don't mourn his loss because there was nothing worth mourning.

Come at me, boss. I fucking dare you.²

¹ He needed to be tried and executed by a revolutionary council using proper legal procedure.

² He, too, needs to be tried and executed by a revolutionary council using proper legal procedure.

I've never had a hangover, so I can't really comment on that side of drinking.

I'd do 99 Luftballons or Leuchtturm for Nena. III is pretty good too, though.

People who drink, can't comprehend how it is even possible to not drink.

This is emphatically not true. Some of us have gone through a period of teetotalling (me for a decade, for example). ALL of us, no exceptions, started off non-drinkers and became drinkers later. We have literal living memories of not drinking.

Congrats on your decade (I teetotalled for about that long myself for complicated reasons), and nothing but support here from this casual drinker.

(Besides, the less you drink, the more there is for me!)

I hate feeling drunk, which is why as I close in on 60 I've been actually drunk a number of times you can count on one hand (most of those when I was in my 20s). But I like the feeling of a drink inside of me. So, to quote @Hildegarde:

Yes please!

No it isn't. The fact you think it is tells me that your opinions on any topic can be safely disregarded.

Torn from the headlines...

So you think, then, that Germany should be opened up to the raping and pillaging of American tech firms, say?

It hallucinates 100% of the time. It just happens that varying fractions of its hallucinations match reality.

It doesn't think. It only regurgitates the output of a horrendously complicated statistical analysis of its training material. It is always hallucinating.

There are oh-so-many "you simply must read this!" books in my trash bins over the years I could likely open the worst bookshop in the world with them as stock.

You are missing the fucking point. (Meaning you are probably one of the techbrodouches.)

Consent is positive, not negative.

Here's an experiment for you. Walk up to a strange woman you find attractive and grab her ass. When, not if, she reacts negatively, tell her it's OK: if she doesn't want her ass grabbed she can just ask you to let go. See how well that goes over as you explain your "opt-out" philosophy to a judge. THAT is the "Brave" model here. Inflict the thing someone doesn't want and say "oh, but it's easy to ask me to stop".

No. That is not the right way to navigate consent.

The right way to navigate it is to ask before grabbing the ass. Do that and you might get scolding, ejected from the club, whatever but you're not going to wind up in jail for sexual assault. Or, in this case, do this before you turn on the AI features. Make the consent positive, not negative.

But you knew that already. You just get your jollies from forcing undesired things on people, right?

In school I was forced practically at gunpoint to stare at poetry and regurgitate the teacher/professor's opinions about what it means. It killed my ability to enjoy poetry for over two decades.

Reading something that doesn't engage with you is not helpful. Ever.

I think you've mistakenly lost yourself on the path to the "c/stridentpolitics" group. This is "c/books". It's an easy mistake to make, seeing as the names are nearly identical.

It appears that they share the complete inability to comprehend "consent" of every other techbrodouche.

I've dived deep into the baijiu rabbit warren.

I haven't tried an Irish yet; hard to get around here without paying stupid amounts.

There's always room for people in this wild world whose opinions are wrong.

Wow! Really? Damn! I needed that permission decades ago! 🤭