I swear these people are fucking bots and their whole purpose is to drive a wedge. I’m actually seeing a bit of a turn recently on the “America Bad” front, evidenced by an approaching 50/50 split of ups and downs. And I think bot is the best case, because then it’s just some keyboard warrior who clearly doesn’t understand the situation and parrots some other comments on an article from a biased source that they didn’t even bother to read.

Like you, my Congressman is useless. His name is Tom Kean Jr. He’s a nepo politician, and as that goes he doesn’t deserve to stand in his father’s shadow. He’s a moderate Republican who is almost impossible to find and takes no stance on anything. We never hear from him. But this district was drawn to mix communities like mine in with communities that vote for him and so here I am.

That more ignorant suggestions (which I don’t want to besmirch the OC here, I’m sure they’d go down this path eventually) would have us take up arms against … whatever. Storm the Capitol, maybe. Any mention of that being stupid is called weak.

So yeah, I’m with you.

Yeah, I work for your biggest social media comoetitor, why would I not just go post slop all over your platform with the intent of getting you fined?

I dunno, someone just throws this up on social media, and you’re the person in the position to say hey, halt the trains, don’t you do just that out of an abundance of caution?

You son of a bitch.

Jesus Christ you said the exact words I was going to. Am I robot?

I’ve been turning off smoothing for at least 15, years at this point. Not every terrible tech is AI.

Appreciate that, thank you.

I don’t know what those things are!

Even a working clock is wrong twice a day.

I have only ever built my own PCs. My i9, 4020 is sitting in my detached garage right now. And because I’m too lazy to brave the elements to walk out there in the evenings, I game far less than I used to. So I’m thinking about grabbing a steambox to hook up to the basement TV, because it’ll be simple. I will plug it in and it will (ostensibly) just work. No farting around.

Crazy, but it’s almost like parenting can make the environment safer!

Lemmy likes to portray Roblox the same way the 10pm news portrayed the Internet when I was in my preteens and teen years, like it was the wild west, everyone was a predator, etc. I let my kids hop on. Their friends include me, their mom (who has an account for some reason), each other, and the kids who live across the street. They like to play the platformers, and they invite me sometimes and we play them.

They’ll get older and they’ll go explore the internet the same way I did. I spent my adolescence and teen years eventually in AIM chat rooms, then forums, and thn Skyping random people, and somehow didn’t become a terrorist, didn’t get predated. I also am of the school of thought that you need to learn things on your own, rather than have no exposure to things that could potentially be bad.

They said “people,” not left handed.

That’s what OP said, Lemmy users.

Just grill me.

Good old liquid lunch is how I lost 15lbs for my wedding!

A 40 ounce to freedom is the only chance I have to feel good, even though I feel bad

But if you switch to Linux you can come here and proselytize to the userbase in just a out anything thread, regardless of topic. Doesn’t that sound better than using your software?

Microsoft Word had auto summarize as far back as the early 2000s (and probably before then, I only found it my junior or senior year of high school). Plop a wall of text into a word docume, click auto summarize, limit the number of direct quotes to three words max, hit enter. I was clever af (except that one paper on Gorbachev where the paragraph entirely composed of wingdings exposed my strategy a bit), or so I’d have thought.

Lo and behold my cheating somehow didn’t prepare me for regular life, and so I had to learn lessons in college (the one year that I went), and early on in my career, in my early 20s, that I should’ve learned in school. The lesson was that you sometimes need to just do the fucking work. Hopefully the kids in this experiment learned that, but more than likely they learned to cheat better.

Wow, this is something I’ve noticed for my whole life but never talked about or anything, just assumed it was some odd quirk of mine. But yes, I have a specific recollection of touching some kind of paper that had like a velour side to it, and just catching my breath for some reason, and it’s happened a handful of times in the last 30+ years since then.

Sweet, give me that propofol nap.