“why does this well known social-and-political figure tend to be a certain way?”

“because of a social-and-political systemic norm” (said social system is older than capitalism and feudalism alike)

“OMG HOW DARE YOU SAY CAPITALISM IS TO BLAME?!??!?”

Bitch can you fucking read?

Because Gerontocracy is the true law of the land, and is older than both capitalism and feudalism.

JD Vance just existed

The pope died of cringe from experiencing Vance’s presence.

… It might have been kickboxing. I was half remembering him being some kind of sport-fighter.

Yeah before he was a Youth Pastor for the Church Of Misogyny (where jesus is replaced with EVEN MORE MISOGYNY) – He made his name as a competitive MMA fighter.

Yeah there is plenty to hate about Catholics too (hey, pedophilia) –

– But when it comes to like. Accepting reality and modernity? They are head, shoulders, and pectorals above the average Evangelical Church.

Ok AIbro.

Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can’t beat 'em…), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different “personalities”, and those who don’t can just have the machinelike codes.

Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.

I prefer to man touch 🏳️‍🌈

I just want to point out that the insane “several steel foundries” worth of energy waste are used in training the bots, and individual requests are, by comparison, much cheaper.

Mind you AI “art” is bullshit and AI “artists” are proof that more people need to be shoved into lockers, but we don’t need misinformation to hate AI and AI bros. It’s plenty hatable with just the truth.

HUEHUEHUE please do NOT give stray cats and dogs handjobs.

But as the other poster said – It means “half joking”

My most iconic character (in the shared imaginations of my friends) is my sorceress pirate gal from a Final-Fantasy style campaign.

Our party included:

• A tragic Samurai looking to avenge his father who got war-crimed.
• A rogue who had their name stolen and is basically a blob of pure self-hatred.
• A warrior monk looking to develop her strengths so she can protect the weak
• A former slave who spent hundreds of years in slavery and wants to punish the slavers.
• A knight who lost all his memories except the traumatic memory that resulted in all the other lost memories.

… And then there was my gal. A magic college professor who decided “**** it, I’m tired of being boring. I’m gonna go and be a sky pirate, and I want to die an epic death”. She is the team mom.

The cats and dogs out in the street are free. You can just bring a friend home. /hj

I must wonder why not. Like, clearly those things are enriching to you, aren’t they? Why wouldn’t you have learned them on your own terms? Assuming nothing was stopping you? You seem not to be an incurious person? Again, information has never been cheaper, you just have to look for it.

Like I’m not trying to make fun of your explanation or even say you’re wrong. Just… Genuinely wondering how come

The Petty One: Optical Media is Bad. It has always been and always will be. We used it for as long as we did because there was no better choice. But when it came to music I went straight from tape to mp3 because I never trusted CD’s, and I will continue not to trust CD’s.

The Serious One That Might Ruffle Feathers: The entire school curriculum of every country should be wiped out – And replaced with fifteen years of nothing but reading comprehension. We live in an era where information is extremely cheap but knowledge is priceless. And to go from information to knowledge, one needs to have a well developed reading ability and bullshit filter. There’s no point memorising a bunch of nonsense when it is easier and faster to use technology – We stopped doing recitations when we invented writing, you know? – What IS important is understanding what you are seeing and recognising lies for what they are.