Funny, the thing I believe less and less in as I age is human goodness. Must be a generational thing.

Also, gravity seems to be increasing every morning.

It’s not the insult, it’s who says it. If a MAGAt called me a great guy for example, I’d feel offended.

That’s something I’ve been wondering: I’m lucky enough to never have known any other fascist regime first hand. But I know history, and the one thing that seems to distinguish the Trump regime from previous dictatorships is the sheer mediocrity and stupidity of the regime’s henchmen.

I wonder if those who have known other tyrannies first hand could tell me whether the figures of the regime they got to know were as pathetic as this one’s, and the history books somehow fail to convey the dumbassery of them.

Agreed.

It seems up here. Maybe a targeted local takedown?

Saving now, for future reposting after it’s taken down.

Here’s a photo of the anonymous person who strongly suggested Weiss pull the story:

Here’s the depressing thought of the day: for every byte of Unix v4 archive that’s been lovingly rescued from data storage rot for months, there’s a million more containing important bits of human knowledge that disappear every second.

Probably not: the airlines providing flights for the unconstitutional deportation scheme are making a killing out of their deal with the regime. They won’t make any money flying corpses: they need living deportees to fly to foreign concentration camps.

So no,. The ICE detainees will live to see another day in Trump hell…

I don’t worry about that. There are other markers of AI that are much more reliable:

1. Extreme verbosity.
2. Low S/N - i.e. lots of words to say not much at all.
3. Perfect grammar.
4. If you drill down into the subject, often completely incorrect - but you don’t know without having to read a whole bunch of tedious text.

And here’s how you recognize AI:

• High-schoolers turning a paper on a subject they know nothing about often fluff up their paper - at least when students still wrote their papers themselves - and hit 1. and 2., but rarely 3.

• Good writers always hit 3. They can be terse or verbose, and they may or may not hit 1., but never 2. or 4.

• Internet writers don’t write like journalists. Only journalists writing for a journal that happens to also publish on the internet write like journalists. Internet writers don’t quite hit 3, knowledgeable ones don’t hit 2., and almost none of them ever hit 1. Or said another way, when you read something about Linux networking that looks like an Atlantic op-ed, it’s AI.

Only AI hits 1., 2. and 3. AI almost always writes in a tone and form that doesn’t befit the venue.

As for 4., if you want an example of this, try to search “NFC unlock” on DDG or Bing (same AI-laden Microsoft trash search engine): you will find scores of perfectly-written articles that explain in painful details how you should buy NFC tags (they don’t say which), program them (they don’t say how), then present the tags to your device (they don’t say what devices) to program them to unlock upon presenting the tags.

If you know anything about NFC, you know this is all shades of wrong. But amazingly, each article on the subject is many pages long, perfectly written, and there are countless such articles.

The cynic in me immediately thinks it’s a honeypot to trap privacy-conscious individuals.

I’ll look it up. But I suspect it’ll be just another case of a company pinky-swearing to respect your privacy, like Apple.

This is essentially a thinnly-veiled “Which nationality are the worst people?”, thinnly-veiled racism.

American isn’t a race.

Hey no sweat 🙂 I just happen to be old enough to have known / read about / heard about RMS for decades. Given enough time, if you’re at all interested in the free software movement, his less-than-savory traits naturally end up coming to your attention.

Thanks. Sorry I should have linked to it. I kind of assumed it was common knowledge.

Could we perhaps not drag RMS out of whatever dark place we’re blessed not to hear about him from now?

We have enough pedo shit going on with the POTUS at the moment.

Also, LibreOffice saves in .docx format, if you want to be pragmatic rather than dogmatic.

“The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here’s Trump, limbo dancing with the devil.”

I don’t know where I read that one but I liked it.

Well yeah, but if your argument is that the DoD needed a name that better describes its role, Trump should have renamed it the Department of Pork.

Because that’s mostly what it does: feed the military-industrial complex.

I don’t much like Trump, but for once he’s right: the US Department of Defense is mostly doing war in the world, and very little defense. When was the last time the US armed forces defended the country?

Trump is such an unfunny bore… What a missed opportunity to rename it the Hexagon and troll the hell out of everybody.

This is drivel. Previous generations did have it easier than some recent ones.

Did I claim otherwise?

Of course we gen-Xers had it easier. And our boomer parents before us even more so. This is totally unrelated to what I said, which is that older folks tend to remember the world as better in the past than it truly was.

Also, America sucks and always will.

That is what I said. There is no better America in the past.