Came here to say this. It holds up really well and remains relevant.

AI does not have motivation, sentient thought, or any awareness of what it’s doing. It is a program using a computational principle to predict text in response to an input. It’s no more capable of thought than a program like GTA V.

Any apparent motivation attributed to AI is actually the motivation of the people invoking it. When individuals claim that AI is compelling them toward a certain action, they are, in reality, using AI as a vehicle to launder their own selfish desires and making those desires appear more objective, rational, or socially acceptable than they truly are. In other words, AI is propaganda. It provides a convenient mask for human agendas, as you say.

You squeeze the lime in the coconut.

MY hero!

I interpreted it more like saying the first place people learn to code, especially if you’re not self taught, is in a text editor like vim or emacs.

In cheaper and more fun to get parts from the junk yard.

Here’s a cool book about it related to the meme (and it’s got an appropriate title).

Endless Holocausts

Oh man, to test this, just go somewhere and defend women. You’ll be destroyed.

Depends on what kind of radiation. Alpha radiation? You can hold the banana forever, but you better not eat it. Gamma radiation? Kinda fucked either way.

“When do I start feeling like an adult?”

That’s the neat part! You don’t!

Call off the war, boys. China’s clearly won.

An artifact from the past. Even if it’s a rebranding, it’s pretty obvious to me that leftism needs to move on. Right wing ideology has evolved while left wing ideology, online at least, stays arguing over the same tired shit from 100 years ago.

It’s not a hard pill to swallow. You’re ignoring that not everyone learns by reading a book. Some people learn be performing actions, some learn by observing instructors. Just because the way that works for you is free doesn’t mean that everyone has access to that.

George Carlin said it best.

I have a brother laser printer for black and white stuff and an Epson EcoTank for high quality color printing. I replace the toner on my brother printer maybe once every 2 to 3 years under heavy use. The EcoTank doesn’t use printer cartridges, just straight up bottles of ink that you use to fill reservoirs. It lasts quite a while, but I use this printer considerably less than the brother.

Brother is by and far the best choice for laser printers imo.

Ah so everything was chill in the USSR then? Stalin didn’t have any secret police or totalitarian access to power?

When you ignore established agricultural science because it’s too capitalist, and your crops fail, starving a significant portion of your country, yeah that’s kinda the governments fault.

Minivans are basically spaceships now, and everyone sleeps on them.

I love me a good Odyssey.

I really like the souped up versions of mom cars that they make before there’s a model year redesign.

My dream car is Mercedes R 63 AMG.

Also a big fan of Station Wagons, but that’s not that rare among enthusiasts.

Idk if it’s just me, but it’s insane to bring up Uhygur genocide, which has not been in the news or mentioned at all for years, while we watch US funded Israel blowing up starving children on a daily basis.