LLM chatbots are, not as conspiracy but de facto, collecting and using as training data, interactions, including nude photos, from underage users. And the worse part is how it victimises kids who then have no victimiser to confront for psychological growth, just their formative experiences of romantic relationships being the distorted reflection of socialization built to promote engagement over growth or reciprocity.

I’ll just leave this here

Given the point of the comic is that the kid is stupid and won’t stop wasting money on stupid things, shouldn’t their OSs be reversed?

Do Asian women age like that, or is it maybe that there was a huge increase in childhood nutrition, medical care, personal care, and personal wealth hitting Asia starting several decades ago and the very old are those who survived the times before and the younger Asians have benefitted in ways that manifest in their personal appearance? (And also old ladies all over the world tend to shrink a bit)

More of a Chirlie Kark.

Part of being powerful is a reduction in cognitive load. You don’t have to worry about what those strange foreign language speakers think or want because you have the guns and money. They have to worry about what you want. Being asked to learn another land’s language places them equal or higher in the hierarchy.

You just can’t allow that kind of thinking. I mean, what next, calling foreigners human? /s

This place is not for you. No one here wants marketing on the Fediverse. Fuck off.

Someone wanders into the backrooms. They see all the usual backrooms BS. Then they find an Ethernet cable. They grab a random piece of desk and smash the everloving shit out of it and sit back to wait. Several hours later, a network technician comes in muttering angrily. They swear at the lost guy, saying something about the belfth floor printer, but the lost is able to follow them back out to a place that is at least somewhere.

In the mind’s eye, an image forms. An alternate version of that segment from The Boondocks TV show.

A man pulls off his belt and raises it, standing over a small child. The child cowers. The man screams, ‘I am about to ruin your ability to trust anyone or love yourself, ever again!’ But then he stops, looks down at himself, and says ‘Oh, wait. That’s right. I’m straight. Come on, kid. Let’s go get ice cream.’

Close. Wigs.

Replacement in what?

How about Arwen? She’s charismatic, has no hate for anyone, and needs a place to live. I’m sure she’d be a great candidate.

That joke started failing to make anyone laugh the first time it was told.

It takes a bit more effort to engage with people using language that will be more likely to reach them but if you want to get someone to understand, and are capable of it, speaking to them in their native tongue is more effective. When talking to someone who has never been given a basic understanding of communism, or who has been given an intentionally misleading false understanding, while you have, you can say things that do not translate because you are effectively speaking a different dialect of English from them. When you say ‘I’m a Stalinist-Marxist Communist,’ that translates as ‘I am a genocider-terrorist mother-fucker.’ They are less likely to understand you than a person from Kazakhstan because at least the Kazakh hasn’t been trained to hate you. Learning to say things in the local tongue is the only way to bypass the filter long enough to get them to learn the better definitions of all those words.

We’re in the tail. The cold warriors are dying, but not dead. Their legacy will remain for a while longer.

Or because they recognize that optics affect the reception of the message and with America pumping out decades of anti-communist propaganda during and after the cold war, using Marx’s language will get you ignored at best by a lot of people.

This just in: business releases commercial for itself. More at 11.

Long live the devs. Fuck publishers.

So if you are in Ohio, you can marry kids but not lock them in a room. It’s an oddly placed line, but it’s at least a line.

Kame-homo-haaaaaaaaaa!