Alice
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- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
Why is everyone acting like the user did something to prompt this response, and then lied to the press about it? Obviously Google didn’t create life, but isn’t it more likely that LLMs scrape from the internet, which is full of edgy and rude people? Especially since Google has its partnership with Reddit, which is a haven for cynical assholes.
- Comment on Kermit :) 1 week ago:
In episode 402 of The Muppet Show, the Prairie Dogs steal Kermit’s collar and he laments that he feels naked without it.
Per the wiki. Surely that explains everything.
- Comment on ‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud 1 week ago:
She’s also a stellar example of inequality and the mechanics behind it, imo. Being a trans woman has not made her a champion of queer rights. Belonging to a marginalized group doesn’t automatically make you a good person or even a non-oppressive person.
- Comment on Kermit :) 1 week ago:
Kermit’s froghood baffles me, mainly due to the neck frill. I was down a Muppet history rabbit hole recently and realized that he was originally just named “Kermit”, and didn’t become “Kermit the Frog” for some years. So he was probably designed as a frill-necked lizard of some kind and got retconned into a frog. Mystery solved, right? Well no, because then I realized he got the frill the same time they started calling him a frog.
I was so distraught I turned to Muppet Wiki, which it turns out has an entire section on his collar. It’s an article of clothing. 😐
- Comment on Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I guess it’s because his Discord server was where he leaked them? I feel like someone who doesn’t use Discord could read this headline and assume he worked for the company, though.
- Comment on Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You 2 weeks ago:
This is horrifying for a lot of reasons but it’d be nice if my boss had to see the amount of people who yell at me for masking or tell me I look like a man every day. It wouldn’t help anything I just hate my boss and want her to feel the awkwardness
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 3 weeks ago:
I’ll take any reference that isn’t Wonderland!
- Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users 3 weeks ago:
I really wanted that site to crash and burn. Oh well.
- Comment on TikTok executives know about the harms the app poses for teenagers, lawsuit documents allege 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s more that kids are the ones expected to be protected by the law, whereas adults are allowed to knowingly engage in addictive behavior, like alcohol and cigarettes.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, the backwater slumlord who managed to avoid ever meeting me in person while bleeding me dry for three years isn’t the nicest comparison.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 1 month ago:
GOOD. I can’t think of any other industry where I’m expected to buy broken products and hope someone will come and fix it later.
…OK, I just remembered every apartment I’ve rented and spent the next several days on the phone with maintenance. But other than that
- Comment on Bees 2 months ago:
Not sure about hornets, but I know wasps eat a lot of herbivorous bugs like aphids and caterpillars.
A lot of people see eating caterpillars as one of the “bad” things wasps do, but population control is necessary if we want crops.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Fuck you OP
- Comment on Rip 2 months ago:
Where’s that tweet where an anti-vaxxer used the bubonic plague as an example of a disease that went away on its own.
- Comment on Cucumber 🥒 2 months ago:
People just love to assume that archeologists have no idea what sex or gay people are. Not saying there isn’t a problem with that, but the memes are overblown.
I remember seeing a ton of “archeologists: tHeY’rE jUsT fRiEnDs” comments on an ancient illustration of two Egyptian men, when every single source I could find explained why they seem to have been a gay couple.
- Comment on Investigation uncovers dozens of 'horrific' Instagram accounts depicting bestiality and animal cruelty 2 months ago:
The accounts weren’t against the rules when a random user reported them, but suddenly were when the press asked about them. How mysterious.
- Comment on Disney wants a wrongful death lawsuit thrown out because the plaintiff had Disney+ 3 months ago:
So Disney wants to make it so if you have a Disney+ account, they’re allowed to kill you.
Not a great strategy for retaining customers, gang.
- Comment on Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum 3 months ago:
Unless you’re an American Twitter employee— in which case, my condolences— I don’t see how this is less worthy of celebration.
- Comment on How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk 4 months ago:
Yeah, mainly in the northeast. I’m in the southeast and I basically only hear it from cartoon mobsters.
Surprised it’s not more widespread, actually. It seems like the easiest way to pluralize “you”.
- Comment on How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk 4 months ago:
The one about it raining when the sun is out is a trick question. It’s definitely called “the devil beating his wife”, but I don’t call it that because that’s weird
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 5 months ago:
Oh shit, I didn’t even think about that. What the hell.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 5 months ago:
This sucks for so many. People use timestamps for content warnings or to help viewers avoid spoilers. Commenters use timestamps when talking about the content of the video. It’s insane to change this once it’s so ingrained in how people use the website.
- Comment on Jumblie is a challenging browser-based open-source puzzle game to guess the four words of the day 5 months ago:
TIL how many potato-related words I can think of
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 5 months ago:
Reddit is so useless. I write occasionally, and whenever I hit a wall researching a character’s background, everyone tells me, “ask on Reddit!”
I stopped asking on Reddit five years ago, because I can’t get any feedback besides a handful teenagers making wild guesses. Thank you for trying, kids. I guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Nah, this entire thing is about US control. They’re upset that it’s a different government that’s spying on us this time. No sympathy for TikTok but there’s no good way to spin this.
Btw, you know if TikTok sells to a US company, they’ll be just as rancid, right?
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
Eh fair, to me that’s just severely outweighed by the bloatware and needing third party apps to customize the UI how I used to like. It feels uglier and bulkier and like they took away a ton of good functions.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 7 months ago:
Have Windows users ever wanted a single thing they added since XP? It seems like every time I upgrade they add some cluttery nonsense I can’t get rid of. I moved to Windows 10 for software compatibility, and I still hate it.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 7 months ago:
Paper Mario for the N64 and Super Mario World for the SNES. I think it’s because I found them both at the perfect point in my childhood where they were the first games in their genres I managed to beat.
I had a blast finding every single exit and bonus stage in SMW, and Paper Mario was the first RPG that didn’t make my eyes glaze over (including Super Mario RPG). Plus the characters and aesthetics are still so charming, the whole game gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Man, sometimes I forget how awful that site could actually be. I just miss the crafting subreddits.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I actually didn’t know about Stack Overflow. That’s disappointing.