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An apostrophe always takes the place of other letters. “It’s” (the contraction) always means “it is”. The possessive form of “it” is always “its”.

Yes, it matters. Yes, I knew what was intended based on context this time, but context isn’t always available or reliable. The only way to be sure you won’t be misunderstood is to follow the same rules as everyone else every time.

The delisted games dealt in subject matter that is difficult to justify.

The problem is who gets to decide what’s “difficult to justify”. That should be up to the individual, not the payment card company.

MasterCard doesn’t need to help anybody buy “games” about incest, rape, or sexual assault of minors.

That might be your opinion, but again, who gets to decide what’s on that list? If you don’t think those games need to be played, then don’t play them. It’s not hurting anyone when someone plays a video game, no matter how icky the game makes you feel. No one is forcing you to play anything.

Stay home all day long, no matter what, on January 3rd, 2022.

We don’t need to get rid of anything. All we need is for billionaires to pay as much taxes as the rest of us.

Dumbells and a bench

Ask New York City. It’s expensive af every time a change needs to be made underground because you have to dig everything up, and once you’re down there, it’s just a nest of wires in conduit so knowing which one you’re supposed to work on can be a challenge.

Underground wires have to be insulated to prevent short circuits to ground. The longer a wire needs to go, and the more power it needs to carry, the thicker it needs to be. Since insulation goes around the outside, this increases exponentially and the cable quickly becomes mostly insulation in many cases, which is expensive and inefficient.

Also, there’s only so much ground you can dig up before you hit bedrock. So, in some cases, power infrastructure expansion is limited because there’s nowhere to bury the wires.

In many places it’s easier to let the damage happen and repair it cheaply.

1984

Animal Farm

The Jungle

Slaughterhouse Five

Brave New World

A Farewell to Arms

Blood Meridian

Guns, Germs, and Steel

To Kill A Mockingbird

Bullshit Jobs

If AI is “just a tool”, then guns are “just a tool”

It would have to be only some. The storage density of printed photos is terrible.

If you make a pillar out of this stuff, then put it in the ground, is that a shit post?

Who?

What exactly do YOU think LLMs are?

Machine Learning is a kind of AI. LLMs are but one kind of Machine Learning Model. All LLMs are Machine Learning models, but not all Machine Learning models are LLMs. LLMs are one kind of AI, but not all AI is an LLM.

They’re different words for a reason. If they were all the same thing, we wouldn’t give them different names. It’s completely possible and understandable that someone would find one acceptable but not the other.

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model

There’s nothing quite so uniquely irritating as someone who holds a strong opinion on something about which they know very little.

“Democracy is government of the people, by the people, and for the people… But the people are retarded.”

Yeah, because you being wrong simply isn’t possible.

multiple eyewitness / victim testimony

All of whom have since either quietly retracted their testimony and/or admitted they lied.

a mountain of corroborating evidence

A false accusation can’t be corroborated

Like Epstein. Or trump.

Are you this mad about them too? Or do you only pick on the easy targets to make yourself feel big?

You’ve been fooled by propaganda.

His image was attacked and destroyed because he wouldn’t sell his music catalog.

I am a burnt out loser who can’t go a day without weed

You’re thinking about it wrong. You’re using the language of the oppressor.

You’re a medicinal marijuana patient. You suffer from an illness you didn’t earn or ask for. Cannabis is the medicine that manages your symptoms. If you don’t take your medicine, your symptoms get worse.

“Good” and “bad” are subjective terms. I accept myself for who I am regardless of anyone else’s opinions. I’m happy with who I am and my opinion is the only one I need to be worried about.

I’m the worst person I know. And because I’m such a bad person, I don’t even care.

Convention. “Back in my day,” memes were made mostly in MS Paint or MS Word. With MS Word, impact was the default font for an out-of-box variety of Word Art. Since it worked well for the task and was easily accessible, it became a common choice, then a ubiquitous component of the “meme” format.