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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
I wonder how much of this we can blame on college. 20 years ago, I could get a full meal plus a drink at the student center for under $5. A cheesesteak from a food truck was $3. Subsidized, obviously, but it's not like they tell you that.
Then you graduate and go back to the real world and watch that cheesesteak climb to $15 over a few decades and it feels like the world must have gone crazy.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Sorry, I don't mean they're using the ChatGPT app solely as a form of speech-to-text, I mean that the usual use case is something like rambling at their phone for 30s to find out the business hours of a local store. AFAIKS, the median "AI user" is just treating it like a Siri app that someone said was better. Admittedly, they also use it for image generation, hence the QR code issue I mentioned elsewhere.
All of them stop when the free version rate limits them.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
A computer, especially a handheld one, is a convenient portal to the sum of human knowledge. Some of my friends live in there. Like, do something useful with it.
"Here's the weights. Do something useful! Better yourself! Why are you complaining that they're right next to this table full of drugs, porn and video games? Just git gud and ignore the temptation, scrub."
Willpower likely follows a similar distribution to IQ (albeit, much more trainable). Most people here are also high willpower people, who don't grok that there's a difference. Personally, I plan around my probably-sub-par-for-the-motte Will stat by paying for an app that lockdowns, limits and blocks my biggest time wasters on my phone.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Smartphones themselves were about 6 years to reach 50% of US adults.
HALF of Americans are doing this weekly?
Most normies I see using those apps are doing speech to text on their phone to get approximately the functionality I expected from a basic google search on a desktop 5-10 years ago, back when google would just understand what I was probably looking for and put that info right onto the search results screen.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Ivan is apparently the parallel to John, and is very close to Ian. You could just swap to the closest parallel. Might not even need to bother changing it legally. I know a Bangladeshi guy who just goes by [English name that sounds very close to his Bangladeshi name]. He's in the same boat as you, fully assimilated second-generation.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
From where I stand, it seems like Cambridge wanted a neurodivergent, minority scholar, and they likely got someone who fit the bill on two of three counts.
Excellently turned phrase.
Fourthly, I am grateful that my own discipline (physics) is generally not on the forefront of that level of academic fraud. Sure, we have plenty of shoddy research (and the rare outright fraud), but at the end of the day we are at least not the obvious path towards earning tenure. Presumably, the physics professors at Cambridge are physicists first and on the spectrum second, not the other way round.
Have you tried publishing a paper about how physics makes you feel? Auto-ethno-physics?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
How hard is it to put “please ask any relevant follow-up questions” in your prompt? This isn’t wizardry. We were doing this is 2023. Yes, you have to put in a modicum of effort.
The selling point in the commercials is that you don't. You can just talk to it like a person. Most normies don't quite get that it's sort of like a brutally autistic person you can just talk to, but you have to carefully phrase everything and anticipate mistakes that would normally come up and be dealt with over an actual conversation. In actual practice, it's less effective at anticipating your needs and problems than the 16 year old girl with a tablet standing outside a Chik'Fil'A.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Rephrase it as "defend the principles of civil society and a morally sanctioned opportunity to be hostile to an asshole". Karens work at Aldi, too.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
But these people, and I admit I think they sound a lot more sensible than the tech people online, actually use the technology and go, "meh". They see it as a mildly amusing toy. Maybe it has some uses, in some niche fields, but for the most part it's just not very interesting. If they didn't get access to it, they would not particularly care.
Normies use the ChatGPT app, and from what I see, the results are often worthless garbage. I mean a significant fraction of the time it's literally on the level of "Please design me a rectangle." "Ok, here's that triangle you asked for."
A lot of that is surely user error, but the entire pitch is that it can field natural language requests. There's a minor IRL issue of local flyers with QR codes that don't work because the person just asked for "A flyer with a QR code" and the free version on mobile at least doesn't ask follow-up questions like "Is the QR code supposed to actually do anything?"
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
It's like you live in the third world. Tonight, I had a 16" pepperoni from a local place that was featured by Guy Fieri for $23. 33% bigger, approximately a hundred times tastier, and $3 less.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Well for starters, most fanfiction (or fiction of any kind) consists of more than 4k words stapled together from eight loosely connected vignettes.
I guess there's value in the specificity, but I feel like baseline Mottizan imagination could crank out one of these but better while taking a crap.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Those immigrants could be helping to build enough housing for everyone; the construction industry is heavily Hispanic. They are just not allowed to, because nobody is allowed to solve the problem.
Have you seen what buildings look like in Latin America?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
For the most part you don't have to actually interact. The videos of utterly brazen thieves are the tip of the iceberg. The other 90% will bail to try later or somewhere else if a staffer is just hanging around suspiciously close. "Hey, can I help you with anything?" is the best practical defense.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Yes, the part you underlined is precisely what I was referring to. "There's a plausible enough alternative explanation that we're not going to get a conviction through a DC jury" is actually a different statement from "There was no evidence of the crime at all because we made it all up."
You are reading the first and imagining the second. Or, less charitably, lying.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Yes, all shoplifting is theft from the community. But that's a second order consequence, so it's functionally inscrutable High Arcana to the people who need to hear it.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Plenty of low level employees do care, in the sense of "Fuck you, I have to do this shit to get my stuff. Why should your defectbot ass get it for free?"
The employees who don't have that attitude are usually the ones getting let go within a few months.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
The case was dropped due to lack of evidence
That's actually not what your own cite says.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
If the rate is increasing, then it is not increasing fast enough.
How fast do you expect it to go? Doubling in 10 years isn't enough? Well, it's definitely not when 3 times the total accumulation of new housing is brought into the country in the form of government-subsidized illegal immigrants in just a few years. Imagine if demand for housing were 10-30 million people lower.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
It's all been live corporate zoom calls. I don't have any way to demonstrate a non-doxing example. Just a commonality I've noticed. I figured if it were really a thing, than someone here like Rafa would know what I was talking about and explain.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Yeah, totally random, self-described "concerned citizen" and double-digit ActBlue donor who knew enough about the topic to make a trip because he wanted to check it out for himself while somehow completely missing all the culture war angles, and so stuck his arm into a pool that you're not allowed to touch to feel it and wriggle damaged parts around just out of idle curiosity, but he definitely says that he didn't affect it in any way.
Completely random guy being harassed for literally no reason.
That doesn't explain anything, it's just whataboutism.
Nah, it's just rubbing your nose in your Arctic research station levels of isolated demands.
If you want a more general, real answer, it's because that's the meta. You immediately drop double-barrel, incendiary shells of rhetoric even over minor things, because the other side is going to do the same or worse, and they will never, ever, ever, show a shred of respect or grace for any kind of retiring humility or professionalism. It's not like you'd be granting respect if they'd said something bland and non-committal about "seeing where the process goes". It's not like anyone making a culture war bonfire out of a pool renovation would have chilled down a single degree - they (you) would have just kept heaping wild accusations onto the pyre*. And it's not like there aren't much more egregious examples to throw shade at elsewhere.
You just only ever notice it when you see an opportunity to pounce on the side you dislike.
*Turing Test Writing Challenge: SecureSignals style post blaming the pool issues on Israel. There was a person holding a "First they came for the algae..." sign...
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Maybe when she shares a commiserating drink with all the other people who sold their souls, hurt innocent people through lawfare and wasted government resources, she can at least feel good that she didn't overplay so cartoonishly hard that she helped Trump get re-elected.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
The amount of new housing is going up though, and the rate is actually increasing, from about 890k in 2014 to 1.6m in 2024. Are you sure this is a general problem, and not a "trendy cities misruled by Democrats" problem?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Mostly mid-Atlantic, but some from much further.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1mo ago
Is there a distinctive "corporate girlboss" voice? I have regrettably reached the point in my life where I have to attend a fair number of zoom meetings. I have noticed a kind of common affect for a large number of the women who run them. It sounds like a reformed uptalk, coming from the roof of the mouth in a way that I want to call nasally, but it really isn't.
Is there some kind of vocal training course for corporate women that they might have in common?
Obama launched his political career in Ayers' living room. Ayers was just recently a guest at the opening of his presidential library. Seems like a pretty solid friendship to endure three or so decades.
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