Something something don’t negotiate with terrorists…

The look to which my response is “Oh… I’m sorry I didn’t know about your disability”.

This kind of whining and pearl clutching HAS to be funded by the shitty pretender platforms who can’t fucking hack it with their alternative business models. The market will tell, as these types love to fall back on as an argument, and the reason Steam does so well is because it’s consistent, accessible, and minimally invasive in the face of any complaints I’ve ever seen levied against it. When Epic stops shitting its pants, and Luna offers something original and competitive, we’ll see a change in this ‘monopoly’ status, but crying about it isn’t going to change the fact that Steam remains a quality product running at high efficiency. It’s Gabe’s game to lose, if he decides to exclude more producers and increase fees and profits for the company, that’ll hurt it, but this stinky rag article isn’t doing shit but telling on itself.

Look I KNOW the point of it, stated and unstated, laregly it’s a mechanic to avoid liability in, well liable; It’s sold to us as some convenient buddy to make our lives easier, I’m not new, I’m just cynically rejecting it. It would be just as easy for the makers to include in the contract that your own consequential fuckups are exclusively yours and using the app assumes that condition. I turned it off wherever applicable long ago and never looked back. I am also the type to review my message before hitting send to see if I made mistakes and correct them manually anyway. I think it’s better to stay mindful than to get complacent and just let the app pilot your conversations, it really gives that added authenticity to the swearing too ;].

I can’t forget. Wage theft is the most common crime today, and the same criminals have the gall to point at poor people stealing diapers for their children who are hungry cause the wages aren’t livable IF they even get paid. It’s sick and it has to change.

Amazing how they’ll spend all that money to protect their comfort and exploitation but NOT just PAY THEIR TAXES at a reasonable rate?? They cannot see how this is a brain sickness and their money has made them disordered hoarders and a drain on society. People would like them if they just put the money back into the system that enabled them to extract it in the first place, but they don’t understand the concept of enough. Frankly, they need to be saved from their money just as much as we need to be saved from their greed.

I decide where my fucks belong, not my app. We can talk about implicit bias here because I just don’t trust giant corporations anymore, but the app telling me I didn’t mean what I did, whether we want to assert innocence and good will on behalf of the designer, is still censorious. That’s my point.

It’s intentional, and it’s censorship. Someone ought to make a comms app with inbuilt autocorrect that does the opposite and makes all your typos offensive instead.

“Not trying to defend AI art” The fuck you’re not. Just be honest about it.

My actual answer to this wall of strawmen and thready arguments is that LLMs and generative AI were trained on incomprehensibly large pools of human produced content, much of which is copyrighted, without paying anything for it; Conversely, when people make memes they are manually altering or adding to the original content and it’s an exception when there’s misappropriation becasue it’s socially enforced. AI simply merges data, there is nothing new conceptually or materially being added, just recombination. I’m not saying all memes are good, and I’m also not saying meme people who make that their life aren’t assholes sometimes either.

All of this exercise you’ve taken upon yourself is a poorly executed attempt to distract from the scale of theft AI NEEDS in order to exist, and that’s something Sam Altman, Zuckerberg, and other industry heads have openly acknowledged. If not for copyright violations it simply could not be feasible as a product, and even when there are instances of people stealing memes without attribution, that’s not the standard or a necessity for the practice. This is on top of the other peripheral issues like IMMENSE resource consumption, and destruction of human livelihoods. Even if we grant your false equivalencies with single user offenses regarding meme theft, and I personally do not, these things are not comparable, and the later certainly doesn’t justify or excuse the former.

Honestly, this is lazy and unfunny.

Arrest him, there’s an ICC warrant out for him. Performative gestures don’t have any impact in an uncivil setting.

Adblockers are the only reason people can still tolerate watching content on the ad-riddled shitscape.

What are you talking about? The force was used on the drones, which should always be regarded as weaponry since they can be equipped with it easily. The message WAS the destruction, and it’s on unambiguous terms the Russians will understand, even if it’s not a full deterrent it’s still better than complete inaction: Russian propagandists can USE inaction to speculate and assert all kinds of narratives both internally and internationally, so my point stands. As for NATO I’m sure they’re watching, and at least for now allowing Poland to handle it domestically as they’re well capable of doing, clearly. If Russia sends drones that actually execute a violent attack, then you’ll see NATO get more involved, but as far as this incursion goes you’re just speculating. This is the OTHER part of why Russia does this, they are not just testing Poland’s resolve and readiness but the alliance too; I assure you there is no question here as to what’s going on, so you don’t have to act so mystified or ominous.

Actually that’s factually incorrect. The clear message is ‘we will use force’, a nothing burger would be just allowing them to move freely, which is exactly what Russia forces are testing. At most, and this is a LOT of charity to afford them, they are using cheap drone tech to deplete more expensive countermeasures, but regardless just allowing their incursions will ONLY lead to more incursions, a physical response is the only option. This also applies to any Russian negotiations militarily or politically across history, really using ‘diplomacy’ to create future opportunities when they violate terms on their own schedule. The answer is do not negotiate, or you expose yourself to future violence. Russia has created this reality themselves, regardless of how loudly they declare victimhood.

Make Putin explain wtf his shit was doing in your space if he’s gonna get assmad over his toys meeting their fates. This is far from new behaviour from Russia, they constantly test boundaries, drones are just the newest and cheapest method, much better than near-miss fly-bys, and ‘buzzing’ with their jets.

That’s frankly embarrassing for the most populated province, and is also a huge spotlight on the ‘leadership’ refusing to invest in the growth of the industry. I hope we make it past businessmen politicians and make it to science-based leaders.

I’m not going to continue to feed your fatherless attention seeking behaviour you pathetic whelp, there is no good faith in your molecules, so don’t presume to lecture me FROM the internet about getting off it.

How about no, and also stuff your holes up to the elbow, turdheap.

The WHOLE POINT is that it was NOT justified in this or any case! Someone broke the law AND all strictly developed regulatory practices! You should be focusing on the individual who committed the offense and tortured animals, not attacking science in Canada, and I’d argue you don’t even care about research at all and are just reacting to an emotional headline for clout.

This was a particular research group that was flaunting the laws, it’s far from the standard. You’re embellishing it into some kind of trend when you have no understanding how scientific research is conducted or enforced in this country, it’s absolutely not that, and if you want to pearl clutch you should be looking toward Ford’s constant attacks on municipalities and environmental standards to get his cut from developer friends, full stop.