People have told me for most of my life to talk and write “more normal” so that they wouldn’t have to use a dictionary or think for more than a second about what they’re reading — this is just the latest instance of them looking for a shortcut to disregard anything they don’t immediately understand.
I didn’t get a lot of what people were talking about for awhile, but mostly it just got me to hide things from my parents from a young age and make my own money so I didn’t have to ask them for things…an attitude that of course created its own problems.
As for the tamagotchi-watching, I could see that feeling humiliating. At the time I think I just felt trusted. Sort of like when the other neighbors would ask me to watch their cat while they were gone. That kid’s parents never did end up ever letting him have a living pet ¯(ツ)_/¯
You’re not alone. My parents regularly determined that anything trendy was clearly an invention of Satan sent to bring children directly to demon-worship. My only experience with one of these was like many of my experiences with technology growing up — the only child across the street with the “rich” parents had one, and he asked me to watch it over a weekend when he was on vacation somewhere.
It was never fun to me. It was a beeping obligation.
Cropping is a lost art that was under appreciated in its time. Oddly, I see it done less even though it’s become substantially easier to do over time, with the tools often built into whatever took the screenshot.
This shouldn’t be an unpopular opinion. It’s absurd to consider Kirk’s death (that’s what we’re talking about, right?) as anything other than a net positive. There are zero reasons that you shouldn’t be allowed to exist without constant fear of people like him.
Yeah, yeah I know we’re all constantly told that violence isn’t the answer…by people with a vested interest in keeping us all docile and unthreatening. I don’t care that he’s dead. I don’t care if fascists are afraid for their lives — who knows, maybe it’ll magically teach them to feel empathy for how you must feel all the time. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal.
They got captured and for the most part released after some unsurprisingly shitty treatment. I think there was one the IDF didn’t release but I can’t remember clearly. It feels like several lifetimes ago.
It’s not practical at scale — any employee working for a cabinet department (and probably more than that, what do I know) takes the oath. If they violate it later it’s easier to store a PDF in the personnel file to provide evidence they agreed to it in the first place.
Odd, I see them used all the time, and I’m neither. So I guess either my experience is an outlier, everyone I talk to is secretly an LLM, or maybe the meme is pushing an easy conclusion because people in general are bad at picking up on LLM responses and want an easy punctuation mark so they don’t have to think.
This is how he responds to everything, including but not limited to librarians, airport security, and answers to questions he has asked someone directly.
The only setting on his conversational style is angry old white man.
A big-budget offshore wind project that would clean up a contaminated California port and turn it into America’s first hub for floating wind turbines is the latest target of an increasingly emboldened national anti-offshore wind movement.
So…if I’m reading this right, they’re against taking a contaminated site and putting something useful and clean in it instead. I do not get the upside of this argument.
People have told me for most of my life to talk and write “more normal” so that they wouldn’t have to use a dictionary or think for more than a second about what they’re reading — this is just the latest instance of them looking for a shortcut to disregard anything they don’t immediately understand.
Fuck ‘em.