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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, has died⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Piece of shit lived a life of privilege and luxury and died thinking he was morally righteous. The world is better off with him gone, but that’s only because he made the world much worse by simply being shitty to everyone. There is no justice except what we take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh that drives me crazy. The human eye is a perfect example of observable evolution. Organisms exist with every stage of eye development, from a photosensitive spot to a more advanced convergent evolution of our eye. And the human eye is poorly designed for it’s current use, resulting in a significant percentage of people requiring corrective lenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertisement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, fine, I’ll eat the poop I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertisement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but like… Couldn’t they isolate and identify the bacteria strains and then make them fresh? Maybe 2 or 3 generations removed from direct poop? And like wash your hands between handling the poop and making the pill? Or does that defeat the purpose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨healthy nutrition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this just binge eating? I assumed I had a disorder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Three things seem likely.

  First, Apple said absolutely not. British people would need to import their own Apple products, and the UK isn’t a big enough market by itself to force the change.

  Second, the US intelligence probably shared that we have access already and they can have it too. Even if that’s not true, that’s what it looks like if you read between the lines, and a wink is as good as a nod to a conservative who gets their news from social media. So Apple doesn’t have to compromise their customer privacy, and the UK gets some political cover from the implication that Apple can’t actually protect their customers’ privacy.

  Third, Apple may have simply conceded but won’t admit it publicly. The US administration, in exchange for gold baubles, negotiated a compromise where Apple gives the UK the back door, but the UK does not admit that they have access.

  I don’t know which one happened, but all three seem plausible. It could be a mix of any of them, or maybe something else entirely. I dunno, I haven’t had coffee yet today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably part of it, and all of this is pretty silly.

  But maybe an upside is that if people stop being shitty to chatbots, maybe we can normalize live customer service agents ending interactions when they become abusive. Maybe Claude is monitoring live agent conversations, making and documenting the decision to terminate the call. Humans have a higher threshold for abuse, and will often tolerate shitty behavior because they err on the side of customer service. If it’s an automated process, that protects the agent.

  Of course, all of this is wishful thinking on my part. It would be nice if new tech wasn’t used for evil, but evil is profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of a movie or a tv show where people were sneaking into a compound and disabled the security cameras with a laser pointer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell is short staffed atm⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The torture department has been outsourced and will be delivered via zoom. Please make sure your laptop is plugged in and your camera is working prior to the next millennium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aspergers officinalis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait… How do we know that someone didn’t just buy some and stuck them in the ground to make us think that this is how they grow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Kellogg’s abandoned the promotion with half the camel undiscovered, after a child choked on a metatarsal bone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They don't make 'em like they used to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally cannot imagine the word “bunghole” except in his voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lex would also hurt innocent people to hurt Superman (or benefit himself). Batman only hurts bad people when it is necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then how can you create an artificial divide and pit one generation against another?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The OG German also says “most beautiful in the whole country.”

  Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand,
  Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?

  It was changed to rhyme with the English word for “all” but you could argue that even in English it isn’t a literal inclusion of every person alive.

  The original also puts Snow White’s age in the story at seven years old, so maybe we don’t need to be comparing relative aesthetic qualities of women and children at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does water necessarily seep in your butthole when fully immersed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a disagreement once about whether or not “between the cheeks” counts as “inside.” The final verdict was it depends on the context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone relate? No? Me neither, then.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually a funny story.

  Emilia Clarke is watching Kit Harrington read the GoT finale script with the cast at the table read. Clarke had already read the whole script to prepare for the role, but Harrington wanted to read it for the first time with the rest of the cast. By chance, they were on the same flight to the table read, and she was bursting because she wanted to discuss the direction that the show was going, but Kit refused to budge.

  The result is, because the table read was filmed, we all get to see Kit have an emotional breakdown as he realizes how shitty the final season was going to be, and we simultaneously see Emilia cringe into the floor as she watches Kit fall apart, giving him reassuring nods every time he looks up at her, like “Yes, this is really fucking happening, and it’s every bit as bad as you think it is.”

  That, plus seeing Cersei console The Spider because he cannot hide his disappointment at his character’s fate, made these videos a thousand times better than the actual episodes.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If not for toe, why toe shaped?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [glancing around my office at all the people using jira] Yeah, sure. That’s the intention.

  Seriously, though, I’m an “educated professional” with a liberal arts degree who uses jira every single day. Being an “educated professional” doesn’t mean you have PM skills, or tech troubleshooting skills, or know how to search documentation for your problems. Educated professionals are a cross section of the larger population, and are more or less a representational sample of the whole of humanity. There are proportionally as many people whodon’t know what a Kanban board is, or can’t figure out why they don’t have permission to delete the 350 epics they accidentally created.

  AI assistance is like an interactive FAQ. It can do a little more than a static list of questions and answers, but the answers should also be validated by a human with the knowledge and understanding of the underlying systems. AI agents hallucinate and make up answers all the time. LLMs are essentially pattern recognition, and novel problems often break patterns. A human would go “huh, that’s weird.” An AI will classify a platypus as a duck and tell you with confidence how to pluck it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I agree with you, and I am the same way. But you and me, we represent like a fifth of support callers. AI could deflect an alarming number of daily support cases. Just finding information in the documentation often requires a deep and thorough understanding of the product, and it’s really difficult in documentation to separate “this is a common problem everyone has” from “this weird thing has never happened before and you need to talk to the dev who coded the fucker.” AI is fairly good at that level of pattern recognition.

  The problem is that you still need the people to take the hand off, and deflection doesn’t mean they got the right answer, it just means they left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one that gets out of bed last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has learned enough⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Statistically, the most popular restaurant in America is Wendy’s (excluding dessert and donut shops). Wendy’s is pretty good for fast food, but it’s objectively not high quality food. That’s not to say people shouldn’t enjoy it, but if you’re learning to be a chef, you’re probably not aspiring to mass produce baconators.

  I’ve read two Dan Brown books (Angels and Demons and DaVinci Code). I’ve read 8 Rowling books.

  My criticism of Dan Brown would be that he wrote one book and then wrote it again. It’s not great literature, but it’s easy to read and doesn’t strain the mind with complexity. I understand that he’s written four more novels, but I haven’t read them. I have heard people say that it’s the same formula, and if you enjoy it, there’s no judgement here. Reading should be fun and exactly as challenging as you want it to be.

  Dan Brown also made absurd amounts of money. Do you know what he thinks about trans rights? No, you don’t, because he doesn’t use his position of relative privilege to be a shitbag to minorities. Maybe he’s a bigot, but I wouldn’t assume that of anyone without evidence. Dan Brown created a series of popular books and then fucked off to cheat on his wife. That’s all we know about him.

  Rowling, by contrast, is a garbage human being. She’s actively awful, and goes out of her way to stir shit up and make life miserable for people she doesn’t know and will never meet. She is a bigot, and isn’t shy about spreading hateful propaganda or punching down. Being a bad writer is the very least of her flaws, but it is among her flaws. When people compare her to other artists who have created masterpieces but had “problematic” personal lives, the comparison is distorted by both the lack of quality to her art and the magnitude of her shittiness as a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has learned enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s a terrible writer. She has no original or clever ideas, her imagery is boring and vague, and her characters are one dimensional at most. The Robert Galbraith book that I read was really bad, too, and the television offer came after she revealed that it was hers. Fucking Cormoran Strike? What the fuck kind of hacky bullshit name is that? She’s a dipshit, which is nothing compared to the fact that she’s a hateful bigot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has learned enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never read Divergent, but I’m sure there are worse books. And I enjoy plenty of books that aren’t well written. I enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series, the same way I enjoy a fast food burger and milkshake. It always bugged me that everyone kept praising Rowling for what an amazing writer she was, but I never cared to criticize her because kids were reading and she seemed to be a genuinely decent person.

  Now we know she’s a hateful bigot, and her shitty writing is providing the funding for her to attempt to oppress people and generally be horrible. So no reason to keep pretending she’s not a hack writer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has learned enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My general complaint is that there really isn’t any nuance to any of the characters in the books. If you’re thinking of complexity, you’re probably thinking about the performances created by various excellent actors in the movies.

  Also, none of the twists are executed well, as they are either deus ex rectum or they are telegraphed to the point where you don’t even realize they were supposed to be twists.

  There’s no internal consistency within or between books. Macguffins come and go to serve the story, and every story is just repackaged public domain mythology.

  Actually, the fan theory that all of it is the delusion of a mistreated orphan boy does tie several things together. The entire arc reads like the fantasies of a sad, lonely kid playing with a stick in his room by himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has learned enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always like to include the addendum that she’s also a bad writer. It’s great when people are excited to read, but success is not an indicator of quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Casein is the primary protein in milk, and it has a ton of uses. Humans have been consuming animal milks for a very long time, and milk is a key ingredient in a lot of food. Baking, emulsifying, cooking, fermenting, it’s the casein that makes the milk magic.

  Some people can be allergic to casein, but far more lack the digestive enzyme to break down lactose. Lactose is what the yeast and bacteria ferment with in cheese and yogurt, but casein is the protein that holds it all together. Conceivably, you could use a different sugar and still get something that sort of resembles cheese and yogurt, but you have a much harder time replacing the casein.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They used to pay someone to do it.