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@KimPerales Can someone block him from exercising any more executive authority, please, since he has clearly (and intentionally) violated his oath of office. I mean, there's got to be some kind of penalty for that, right?
[insert Anakin/Amadala meme] ...right?
Don't give TFG too much credit; he provided the charisma (...apparently? I never found him appealing) but The Heritage Foundation provided the game-plan (P2025).
@BigShellEvent Huh, I haven't had any problems with them -- I even bought a phone there just a few months ago. I guess I should be prepared... (I figure it's better ethically than buying anything from Amazon, at least.)
@riley Not knowing if "interview" meant "job" or "media", I now find myself imagining a job-interview being done like a talk-show interview.
"We have to take a break now, but we'll be back in a few minutes to find out what our candidate's most recent successes have been. Stay tuned!"
@anubis2814 Ha! We're a bit like that too -- own a nice house in a nice neighborhood, but couldn't even afford to take care of it properly until quite recently.
It really puts you in a different headspace which makes it difficult to feel comfortable around the others who (the evidence strongly suggests) are here because they have the level of income that allows them to not only maintain their houses but actually buy them in the first place. (My partner inherited this one -- but not the wealth to go with it.)
@BigShellEvent My inner intuition about that says your inner oppositionally-defiant-self is angry about something, and that figuring out what it's angry about might help. Or might not. (Random-thots-R-us, no extra charge.)
When I stop eating, fwiw, it's more along the lines of "I don't deserve to eat" or "I'm too far behind on Important Things to have time for eating" or "I don't feel like going to the trouble; eating is kinda boring and not worth the effort".
Anyway: [sympathy]
@riley Tr#mp doesn't need AI -- he's entirely capable of hallucinating a conversation all by himself.
:blobcatthink: If "genderqueer" kind of means "not having a totally standard gender", maybe "brainqueer" can be another term for "neurodivergent"?
I just figured out a lovely little #ADHD brainmine / self-gaslighting that I've been doing.
You know how in order to get yourself to do something difficult, ADHD means you have to find a way to feel enthusiastic about it, right?
Extensive childhood training, however, will always remind me that if I feel like I want to do something, it's "playing", and I really should be doing my work (i.e. something else).
Therefore: by the time I psych myself into doing something I don't really want to do, I feel guilty and anxious about it because I should really be doing something else.
@cstross "I don't understand it and I find it threatening, so I'm going to diss it so that people will stop talking about it."
@AlSweigart Someone needs to make (and widely distribute) signs that say "AN LLM IS LIKE AN EXTREMELY BRIGHT AUTISTIC 5-YEAR-OLD. Consider usage-scenarios accordingly." ...or similar. :oslt:
@futurebird This is what happens when the computing cloud goes down (and reaches ground level).
@n3tcat I think you can also use it to determine the chemical composition of distant stars -- and also their relative velocities, by looking at the gender-shift.
@artemis Oh, the second part of that: it should, however, take place within the ostensible ideals of the system ( mainly, in my view, consent of the governed and the preamble to the Constitution) that were the reason we might have thought it worth saving in the first place.
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money for muffins...
and your chips for free...
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(What, you thought it was something different? Why else did you think they had to install microwave ovens, custom kitchens, and refrigeratoratorayyys??)
@JennyFluff I used to make this metaphor but haven't thought of it in awhile: they're like that orange energy-being in the Star Trek: TOS episode "Day of the Dove" that feeds off anger, and thrives by engineering conflict (in this case, between the Enterprise crew and the crew of a Klingon ship) while also making sure neither side can win (...and, for that matter, planting a false memory which gives one Enterprise crew member personal cause for revenge against the Klingons... internet #disinfo, anyone?).
@JennyFluff All they care about is, like, the root-mean-square of feeling; they don't care if it's positive or negative.
(See also: for-profit news media, for-profit social networks, etc.)