I like vampires in the Pratchett universe, who often see human hunting as a sport and leave religious symbols, stakes, and garlic around the castle to level the playing field. (Not to mention the black ribbon society, the vampire equivalent to AA.)
That’s the crux of it. Republicans almost invariably see life as a zero-sum game. It honestly does not occur to them that everyone could be happy and prosperous.
I forget the details, but the long and short of it was that they were advocating for anyone found sending these prompts to an AI being put on an FBI watch list, along with something along the lines of “you’d want to know if your neighbor was doing this.” Then came at least three edits about how they didn’t care about downvotes.
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See, imo this is the exact kind of thinking that makes pedophilia dangerous. Most people would agree that being attracted to children is a mental illness. Most people would agree that mental illnesses should be treated by a knowledgeable professional. But pedophilia is so stigmatized that someone even admitting they have a problem, one I very much doubt most of them want to have, has people calling for them to be drawn and quartered, regardless of if they’ve ever actually hurt anyone.
Do I like that there’s art and writing of people having fantasies about children? No, of course not. But making it impossible for people to have a safe outlet, to even talk about it with a medical professional for fear of imprisonment, death threats, or worse, makes it so these people can’t even get the help they need. It’s like teaching abstinence only sex ed. You’re trying to get people to stop having fantasies by burying them, but it only exacerbates the issue.
Edit: lol got your downvote less than five minutes in and the whole comment edited to just say “pedophiles bad.” I guess I, as you like to put it, “hit a nerve.”
I mean sure, there are always concessions to be made, but what I had in mind was more the “include this entire 6 GB library so I can use this particular function once” kind of bloat.
I’m not sure it’s exclusive to Western developers, as I don’t know much about software in other parts of the world, but there does seem to be an unfortunate trend of companies forgoing software optimization because modern computers are usually beefy enough to handle it, and it’s cheaper to ship out inefficient slapdash software than it is to take the time and resources to fix it.
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My personal favorite was him responding to a fact check with “I saw it on TV.”
I’ve heard there’s a trope called “Seinfeld’s not funny.” It’s named after the idea that a lot of people who watch Seinfeld today think its jokes are overdone or cliche, not realizing that the reason they’re overdone now is because they were popularized by the show.
More generally, it refers to works that are seen as cliche nowadays by people who didn’t grow up with them, but were actually the ones to start the trend in the first place, when it was new and innovative.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Frankly, setting it on fire would be a better use.
$45 million a month. Jesus fucking Christ, imagine the good that kind of money could do. Instead it’s going straight to Fascists’R’Us.
Great quote, but missing a rather crucial bit at the end:
“And are you?” “No. That’s where it all falls down, of course.” “Pity”, said Arthur. “It sounded like rather a good lifestyle otherwise.”
I’ve just been buying phones a model or two behind the latest generation. Bonus points for a refurbished phone. Saves a ton of money and they’re usually not much less capable than what’s new.
I first heard it as a chain email in the mid 2000s, so I know it’s real
See, I don’t understand acts of god as it pertains to insurance. Acts of god are unforeseen, unavoidable accidents. What is insurance for if not literally that exact situation?