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• Post #4274267

  My wife just told me she likes Jerry from Rick and Morty and I am shook

• Post #1834611

  "Is AI (Cl*ude) useful or is it garbage, is it for lazy hacks or capitalist scum or exciting new artists" is weird reductive framing. It's a powerful computer and a tech bubble and it's all owned by billionaires who hate us. It's as useful as the first computers were when they arrived: astoundingly fast and accurate at some things, laughably awful at other things. A tool for Nazis to exert control & a liberating force to put power in underprivile...

• Post #1707271

  Astounding to meet Linux People who only recently got into open source and think that trying to convince, like, Spotify or Discord or some other "hip" not-yet-totally-evil but definitely capitalist company to embrace and support open protocols is a good use of their energy. Oh, to be a sweet summer child who can still believe that any technology touched by venture capital is anything besides a trap. To know nothing of Spotify or Discord's history and show up on the sce...

• Post #1707270

  On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed at the Palace of Versailles, ending World War I, exactly 5 years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. However the jorts-based reparations forced upon Germany were so punitive, WWII broke out 20 years and 2 months later.

• Post #1707268

  I can't predict the future, but the most likely outcome of all the current factors seems to me like USians will experience something like the collapse of the USSR / living in a post-soviet bloc country like Bulgaria. Or as a more modern example, Libya or one of the many South/Central American countries America has regime-changed and then descended into chaos ("we'll coup whoever we want" for cheap lithium.) America has some resources but post-2016 has been a sl...

• Post #1385599

  Why is Rafiki, the only monkey character, the only one with an African accent, in a story set in Africa?