ZDL @ ZDL @lazysoci.al

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Of course!

I know, right? It's an amazing list!

Wow! It's like I didn't know anything about liquor and you just enlightened me! THANK YOU OH SO MUCH KIND SIR!

Oh, and ... buh-bye.

I do love bourbon. I think it's one of the very few genuine contributions to world cuisine from the USA.

And I will never drink another drop of it.

Define "correctly". Who, precisely gets to decide what is "correct" and what is "incorrect" in the bizarre little world you appear to inhabit like one of the weird people the Little Prince visits in his journey?

For example, do you apply the word "bug" only to Hemiptera and vigorously correct anybody who uses "bug" to refer to, say, a ladybug (Coleoptera) or a housefly (Diptera)? Or did you know that, in fact, the word "ladybug" is flatly incorrect (in scientific nomenclature) and rant about the very name when people talk about their gardens on discussion boards?

Me, personally, I think you're full of shit. You flex your so-called "expertise" in the one very narrow, profusely-strewn-with-bullshit you have some knowledge in and try to act all big-brained to bolster a flagging ego (among other flagging bodily parts) while you merrily go through life "incorrectly" calling ants (Hymenoptera) bugs.

All while somehow never managing to answer the very first question I asked: who gets to decide what's "correct" in the first place?

You're a sad, little troll and, worst of all, you're not even good at it. You're just pathetic.

Oh look! Another person who feigns incomprehension of things like "context" and "common parlance" so they can pretend they're smart!

I ... don't have five years of social media for them to look through? My Mastodon is set up to auto-delete after 3 months, for example.

Every time, 100%, no exceptions, I hear someone spout off about what is or is not a "human universal" it takes me less than ten minutes' work to find counterexamples.

Red is not the colour of aggression and anger universally, for example. The "natural" counting system is not base 10. (Note: counting, not numerical representation: that's even more complicated!) Women are not universally the "nurturers" while the men are the "breadwinners/hunters/whatever". Basically ever "human universal" ever named is wrong.

100% agreed, no notes.

Pay me a million dollars and I still wouldn't set foot on your state's soil (nor any other state's). The USA is permanently dead to me.

Does this happen to anyone else?

All. The. Time.

When I was doing marketing for tech companies in Ottawa people would have meetings about projects I HEADED without bothering to invite me. I quit one job over the frequency of this. And then they were all so surprised at my leaving because it "came out of the blue".

Cooking one specific dish to absolute perfection every time.

Good news, comrades! The hated capitalist pigs have just cut the legs off of their military!

I actually agree with you that most of his writing is forgettable. He's venerated in SF circles, but I don't see it. Just not for me, I guess.

For stupid reasons, negative profits aren't called negative profits. They're called losses. So a company that's losing money is showing 0 profit. (And a company that's making money is showing 0 loss.)

I bitched out Baidu's LLMbecile because Baidu has lost all capacity for searching in favour of the slop. It literally told me that Baidu was useless for search and recommended several of its competitors over Baidu.

Oopsie!

Uh... Replacing workers with AI would be the destruction of an economy which is literally the opposite of "money maker".

Economies work by the circulation of some form of currency (whatever form that might take). That means people need to spend. And people with low-paying jobs spend small amounts. People with no jobs spend nothing. (Also people who hoard wealth damage or even destroy economies as well. It's why you want inflationary currency, not static or deflationary.)

Yeah, you go ahead and believe that gold and silver are "real currency".

But by your standard? Iron is a fuck load more valuable as a currency.

See how your idiocy is getting exposed? Wanna quit now while you're ahead or do you want to go full metal idiot?

Uh... ALL currency is "fake". No exceptions.

I believe that if you re-read that and correct a mild grammatical error the intent becomes clearer (correction highlighted):

But it doesn't directly replace people. Even in the case of taking fast food orders, first that's not the whole job, and second, it still needs supervision.