a shifter on the ceiling
I still can’t get over the design, engineering, and basic reasoning failures that must have gone into the decision to put supposedly the main way to change gears on the same type of mount that secures your rear-view mirror; a notably inconvenient and fragile place to put anything (and just like a rear-view mirror that got fucked with too intensely, a bunch of these shifters have already detached)
human oversigh :(
and daiquiri nominations :)
Never change (meaning this sincerely, thanks for the good mod work).
anytime!
Investigating a user for a sus body shaming post, banning them for a programming drama post.
see, I don’t know Lena’s work well enough to know if maybe “she has ballooned” is a multi-layered reference that only looks like shallow, shitty body shaming if you don’t get the in-joke
but I’m online enough to know exactly where they got that Godot dogwhistle from, and it’s not even close to being an innocent mistake
I opened your post history to see if this was the lazy unfunny fatphobia I thought it was and found an additional awful fucking take right away:
That seems like a better system than say, Godot, who picks and chooses who is allowed to contribute.
so off you fuck
it’s so practiced too — “so I guess you could read Wikipedia but also! this tracingwoodgrains guy might have some points worth considering!” and from there you’re meant to ping-pong off the Wikipedia article into trace’s long-winded literal horseshit and the rest of the inane crap that’s linked after that, til you can no longer remember the non-rationalist sources you’ve read because your mind’s overwhelmed with the worst shit ever written, but you feel like you thoroughly researched both sides (and that’s only part of why centrism is a fucking trap)
how do I know? because this:
finally, i'm going to link to some posts from slatestarcodex and astral codex ten, its sucessor blog, some classic ones just to give you a feel for what people appreciate about it at its best
is exactly how Joe Rogan fans get you listening to his stupid shit daily, til you’re no longer listening to his podcast (supposedly) “at its best” and instead you’re just listening to an overwhelming volume of right-wing horseshit with an occasional nod to both sides centrism so you don’t feel your world get smaller and darker as you embrace fascism
The Home Office scrapped a previous machine-learning visa review tool in 2020 after it was caught being insanely racist. That tool had been in place since 2015.
oh my god. just accidentally running the racism machine for 5 years during a rise in global fascism
no we won’t let you examine how the racism machine 2.0 now with LLMs works
no thanks fucko
for them, certainly. I can guarantee that everything we do qualifies as harm.
still counting the days til red hat uses their position to insinuate an “open source” (but in no ways that actually matter) LLM model into every Linux distro
admin note: this is a very early access version of our WriteFreely instance — I’m finishing out a couple of features as we roll it out to our instance regulars. thank you to @[email protected] for publishing our first non-test post!
I’m always surprised that’s not a factor, given how fervent the posts are
I am a firm realist. There are two sides: the anti-corpo leftists of Blade II, and the hyper “where do we sign” neo liberals of Battlefield Earth.
Blade II Leftists are sure nighttime is literally just yellow color grading except when it’s blue or they forget to do it at all, and the neo liberals are sure that you tilt the camera and the more you tilt the camera the better the movie is.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. John Travolta literally cannot evaporate, and he is also probably struggling to improve his filmmaking. He will probably find ways to do both fucked up color grading and what he thinks are Dutch angles, but in a more subtle way.
And then Del Toro will probably send him a box of shit or live bees for Christmas.