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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll not sure I see the parallel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Truth is definitely a bit of a blind spot for LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the former prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Tony Blair. Who are you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Leaving the EU is one of the stupidest self harming things we ever did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In which nation is energy generation not using vast natural resources at huge initial outlay where companies have a boner for monopolising or cartels and exploiting scarcity to drive up prices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Traitors to the constitution, traitors to democracy, traitors to free and fair elections, traitors to the founding fathers, traitors to the people and even traitors to the union and the flag. What were you waiting for them to betray before you call them traitors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You invent so much of my side of the conversation. You argue with what you’d prefer I had said because it’s so easy to disagree with and knock down. You’ve invented this whole nonsense viewpoint and life history for me just so you can come across as more sensible. But it’s insane because it has almost nothing to do with what I said and everything to do with your prejudices and your inability to have some self control over your judgementalism and your condemnatory impulses.

  You’ve gotta be rightwing.

  Bad people who make bad choices deserve all the bad things that come their way and some more flung at them by you just to show them how wrong they are? That’s where you’re coming from here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Uhhh… Um? I don’t get it. Sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations on ignoring literally everything I said and arguing with some fictitious person who is “body positive” about obesity. I mean, I’ve come across straw man arguments before, but this one takes the biscuit.

  You think your hate and contempt can fix other people, but you’re very, very, very wrong.

  Also congrats on completely, utterly and comprehensively falling the self control challenge I set you.

  Turns out your self control in some things is at absolute zero.

  Still really proud of yourself? I bet you really are, because you’re not very introspective so far today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Obesity is literally a self control issue.

  You sound like you don’t believe in ADHD “just finish what you started, have some impulse control!“, or autism “read the room, and stop getting distracted by noise and light, just ignore it”.

  It night be plausible that most people can just avoid the first cigarette or the first spliff or the first anything, but no one can avoid food, and some people’s biology, their hormonal balance, their brain chemistry, mental health, shit, just their metabolic rate can make them have a very, very different order of magnitude of problems with food.

  So it’s easy for you to have self control around food and balance your calorie intake with exercise? Great, good for you, but stop acting all morally superior for not having problems in your life.

  Get lost with that judgemental “it’s simple” shit and try to learn a bit of self control yourself over what kind of nasty judgementalism you’re spouting online without thinking about other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No need. Australians learn to hold their phones upside down from when they’re young teenagers. They’re used to it. It’s better for beating off the dropbears in an emergency too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to thank you for this comment, which I enjoyed a great deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  .ml is blocked in China? Wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you the legendary Poem for your sprog of yore?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They may have come to this decision through experience.

  Having used it a bit, I find it’s like someone a bit stupid with a lot of time on their hands, but no knowledge, saying “I’ll learn everything you need to know from Google and write you an answer”, just speeded up a lot. And just as frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And you have to wade through so much to find the right one. Or type in AI wait a minute and get the answer.

  Uhhh, type in AI, wait a minute and get an answer. How are you checking it? rm - f / isn’t the only filesystem footgun.

  I’m finding AI to be right roughly only 60% of the time, and it’s as bad and hallucinatory about shell scripts as it is about everything else.

  It will happily admit its mistakes and give you another answer when you call it out, but it’s no more likely to be right that time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fair to say that the environmental and ethical concerns are significant and I wouldn’t look down in anyone refusing to use AI for those reasons. I don’t look down on vegetarians or vegans either - I don’t have to agree with someone’s moral stance or choices to respect them.

  But you’re right, LLMs are full of crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s revanced? I’m not especially keen to give Google my money either. They fall into the category of businesses that have way too much money and power already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t pay for music unless I buy the track or album.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube music won’t play in the background though, so it’s a pain whilst driving and navigating traffic or routes. Some of my friends make playlists on there and share them, so I do use it sometimes.

  But absolutely use the service that brings you joy, not the ones that I prefer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Soundcloud lets you play any song you want at any time, even on the free tier, and when you ask it to play a playlist, it only plays songs on the playlist.

  You can have recommendations from an algorithm if you choose, but it’s encouraged rather than enforced.

  There are a lot more independent artists on it, and fewer big labels, or at least it feels that way because it doesn’t seem to prioritise big labels over some person I’ve never heard of.

  Spotify has an annoy-users-until-they-pay model. Soundcloud just has ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even mannequins have itchy butts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Consent is key. And not at the shops, remember.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even mannequins have itchy butts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No need to start a campaign, just remember mannequins have feelings too.

  Be kind to your mannequins. Ask yourself "If it were me stood here all day and all night in public, how would I feel about that outfit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even mannequins have itchy butts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope nope nope! Not like this!

  Of course, educate your mannequin children sensibly and calmly and before they learn it in the playground or online, but absolutely no physical demonstrations whatsoever!

  Can you not see how pissed off little mannequin kid is? -“Stupid horny big brother getting frisky in public again.” Poor mannequin kid is scarred for life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, true, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even mannequins have itchy butts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care how horny you are for butt stuff with your stripey-clothed friend, not in public, not in the store and definitely NOT, in any circumstances, anywhere near mannequin children, FFS!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right of course, but rather than admit that, I want to claim that eventually your prostate, if you have one, will say no to sleeping through the morning.

  More seriously, I think late teenagers have a well-documented hormonal predisposition to staying up late and getting up late. It’s hard for them them to have to live to the typical middle aged schedule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When you reach middle age, you lose the ability to regularly sleep beyond 8am. Schedules are not written by young people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t owning a credit card age gating anyway? I don’t think you can legally own a credit card in the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a fantastic deal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one on the bottom right hand corner of the picture is the ankle smasher.