you’re pushing the “But on the other hand most hard quality of life indicators are up globally” line but like, the number of negative things you’ve listed is more than the positives.

I mean, it’s almost as if you are manipulating yourself into questioning and rejecting reality*. You should stop doing that

*there is no one word description for this action. Believe me, I looked, and I’d use it if it existed.

fwiw i attribute this to the stop doing x meme (that I believe skillissuer is referencing):

been thinking about making one for (memory) safe c++, but unfortunately I don’t know the topic deep enough to make the meme good

Ugh. Tangentially related: a streamer I follow has been getting lots of people in her chat saying that one of the taters wants to hire her. I’ve started noticing comments like “I love white culture” and weird fantasies about the roman empire. Historically she’s also been asked multiple times what her ethnicity is (she is white), specifically if she is scandanavian, which I am starting to view under some kind of white supremacist lens. I’ve told her to ignore anything mentioning the taters or “top g” as one of them is known.

Honestly, I’m worried that she could get brigaded by these creeps, even if she shows no response whatsoever.

obligatory IBCK.

stop gaslighting yourself

Article is basically this but all the food is made of glass fibres and sawdust

Ah, the highest form of art appreciation: badly designed surveys.

you just need to get more familiar with your AI PC

they haven’t released autoplag sexbots yet

People who struggle to find basic things via web searches. That is, before the somewhat recent ratcheted up enshitification

This is you: LLMs are good, except they are enshittifying search, which follows from the fact that LLMs are bad. But actually, even though they are bad, I know how to use them, so LLMs are good, actually. Normies are dumb and I’m better than them and it doesn’t matter if search is good or bad, normies r dumb and normies will never learn to google good which they can learn from me, a LLM understander who is very smart

I’m pretty fucking tired of seeing all the ads for computers with integrated AI chips. You’re telling me you made an RV for the virtual dumbass and you want me to pay for it? Fuck off!

Filing this away in my “Mao was right, let’s ‘abolish’ the landlords” folder

Strap in and start blasting the Depeche Mode.

https://xcancel.com/booritney/status/1851717036424233437#m

Pokemon Go To The War Crimes

Absolutely no one could have predicted this

Eeps: 90%. I have found something to disagree with:

Everybody loves Puerto Rican music (please get on this, you’re missing out)

I cannot stand reggaeton, so this is a no from me.

note: rust is mentioned 41 times by name in the article

Eepy Status*: about 20% of the way through. This is all I have to share so far:

Bjarne Stroustrup? More like, Blarney Should-Shut-Up.

*yes, short for epistemic status. Don’t like it? Good, mission accomplished.

Edit: Eepyness: 60% of the way through.

This is a masterclass in tea spilling. So many shots fired at fucking everything. I am in awe.

Ah you see, the moment you entered the realm of numbers and estimates, you’ve lost! I activate my trap card: 「Bayesian Reasoning」 to Explain Away those numbers. This lets me draw the「Domain Expert」 card from my deck, which I place in the epistemic status position, which boosts my confidence by 2000 IQ points!