I think “making up a guy to get mad at” is already an idiom as is.

I still read xkcd regularly and think it’s pretty good. I don’t think “we” as a community need to have a particular opinion of Randall Munroe or his work but personally I think he seems alright and I enjoy the things he makes.

Seems like a stretch to assume that comic does anything to recruit rationalists. If you’re not already in the rat pipeline it’s just a pretty good joke about probability and if you are, it’s still a better example of Bayesian reasoning than whatever the rats pretend to do.

When the “criti” for Amazon is just that it’s “boring”, I feel we’re in plain old hype territory.

I figured he’d be a lot better known for his YouTube career than for his bsky posting. I see his stuff all the time in my recommendations, though his style isn’t my cup of tea so I seldom watch any of them.

Oh good. If I ever need to consult a list of top slop shops sorted by fuckability, I’ll try and remember this exists.

Yes, we’re losing a lot of money, but have you considered we will definitely make a lot of money tomorrow?

Thanks man, I love being lumped in with fascists and pedos.

First domino: US government invents peer review

Last domino: Richard Stallman successfully kamikazes his reputation for good after multiple close attempts over the years

Imagine if it turns out that it wasn’t even politically motivated and he just owed a bunch of money or something.

Even in Luigi’s case, it took days to catch a guy who (allegedly, lol) killed a billionaire in the middle of Manhattan. Though very dashing, Mangione hardly seems like a navyseal elite supersoldier ninja hitman 47 either. Whatever Kirk’s killer’s motive, I see little reason to assume it was necessarily a pro job. All this tells us is that overfunding and militarization doesn’t equate to a more competent police force.

Irrationally annoyed at yanks incorrecting each other how this kind of shot could only be pulled off by a trained expert sniper. The Behind the Bastards guy agrees, but the replies are still stuffed with examples.

I know from experience that even mediocre conscripts shooting a gun for the first time in their life usually manage to land hits in a one foot diameter circle from 150 metres with iron sights on an intermediate catridge rifle. It doesn’t take an elite marksman to hit a sitting man from 200 yards away, especially with a scope. Even if nervous and high on adrenaline, an average hunter, target shooter or (ex) military type would be more likely than not to hit a target of that size at that distance, assuming otherwise decent conditions.

Hell, the factory sights on an M16 are supposed to be set for zero elevation at 250 metres and the effective range for most assault rifles and their semi auto civilian variants is around 300 metres. To say you need to be a trained sniper to make this shot is like saying you need to be a professional racing driver to do 80 mph on a highway.

If there’s one thing you’d assume seppos know well, it’s shooting firearms, but some people still can’t help but spout dumb bullshit.

We basically agree, then.

You don’t think there’s a lot of homophobia that follows “castigating someone for what they do” format, or you think its a lot less bad according to some siskinded…

Calm the fuck down. I meant it’s fine (if rude) to call people mean names for doing bad things. Hyping up AI is bad, so it’s alright to call someone a promptfondler for fondling prompt. Calling me a faggot for fucking dudes implies fucking dudes is wrong and something to insult me about.

Doesn’t clanker come from some Star Wars thing where they use it like a racial slur against robots, who are basically sapient things with feelings within its fiction? Being based on “cracker” would be alright, but the way I see it used is mostly white people LARPing a time and place when they could say the N-word with impunity.

I’m seeing a lot of people basically going “I hate naggers, these naggers are ruining the neighborhood, go to the back of the bus nagger, let’s go lynch that nagger” and thinking that’s funny because haha it’s not the bad word technically.

I just think we should recognize the difference between castigating someone for what they do versus acting like replicants are real and being racist against them. There’s a difference between a plain old pejorative and a Slur proper. Like calling someone “asshole” versus “faggot”. I think that’s the difference between “promptfondler” and “clanker”. The latter is clearly inspired by bigoted slurs.

You articulate well why the “clanker” shit rubs me the wrong way. Disdain for the machines and the way they’re being used and sold is perfectly valid, but it would be nice if expressions of that disdain were not modeled after actual bigotry. Calling a computer a piece of junk implies it’s merely an object, but calling one a science fiction version of the N-word grants it animacy. Second class citizens are still, in some way, citizens.

The ones that are clearly riffing on real racial slurs are extra cringe. It’s OK to say w***back if you’re talking about robots, huh? Or is that one specifically for Mexican robots? Is it finally the time that white people get to start practicing how to say the word without the hard r, but only with inanimate objects?

Creator of NaCl publishes something even saltier.

“Am I being detained?” I scream as IETF politely asks me to stop throwing a tantrum over the concept of having moderation policy.

I love it giving the temperature in Europe. Down to a decimal, even.

go birds

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Huh, I gotta scroll down all the way to hell to see these comments. I really really don’t feel like I should have to defend this stupid platform that seems specifically tailored to kill decentralized alternatives, but so far I’ve seen mostly healthy disdain for various fascist bullshit, including our Very Good Friends.