Unfortunately for the species, yes.

Can’t park there, mate.

Also of being a massive arsehole.

I’m thinking it was an autocorrect snafu for ‘fallible’.

Investing trillions in garbage is what makes the world go around.

I personally don’t like it because it’s a combination of unreliable and bland that I just don’t want anything to do with. I have no valid use for it that a search engine can’t do anyway.

Then there’s all the planet-burning/economy-wrecking stuff that I’m not all that keen on either.

It’s not so much the stolen content that’s the problem, it’s them selling it on, or even more egregiously, replacing the people they stole the content from originally.

Thoughts and/or prayers.

It’s only so they can replace her with someone even worse.

I don’t think Bezos is an idiot. It’s just that the motives of billionaires are inscrutable to the likes of us lowly creatures that still have a conscience and empathy.

There’s been more corruption than ever! The Corrupt Sector, of which Trump and his offspring are valued members, is doing quite well.

And he doesn’t even have to! I’m already convinced!

Bush Jnr. did the same reputation-laundering for Reagan.

1.5x is probably my happy medium where I can still take stuff in. 2x is just to fast for me. Age might have something to do with that as well.

They could all quit en masse. That’d be pretty funny.

It was the last egg level I needed to get the key. I never did beat it. The other 4 egg levels were pretty difficult as well.

The Jade Temple level for the final chicken egg in Guacamelee 2. It’s fucking bullshit!

Turn off any autotuned content as well. Problem solved.

John Ralston Saul’s The Doubter’s Companion - The Dictionary Of Aggressive Common Sense sums it up pretty well:

GAMBLING, STATE - RUN When governments raise money by acting as croupiers, the systems they manage are degenerate and are closer to their end than to their beginning.

The Burmese, for example, could always tell when a dynasty was close to falling; it would set up a state lottery. Early in the 1970s, Western governments turned to licensed gambling to provide the funds which TAXATION no longer seemed able to raise. This initiative has been blamed on many specifics: the financial crisis, tax reform which drastically reduced the contribution of the large corporations, the cost of social programs. The combined result was a lack of money which turned into DEBT and that debt into chronic restraint.

From the moment a government encourages its citizenry to finance the state by gambling — which means by idle dreaming — instead of through creativity, work and productivity, that state is in an unacknowledged crisis.

The only nation to have prospered via gambling is Monaco, which is not a nation. It is a corporation specializing in tax avoidance presided over by a croupier prince.

Personally, I think it’s a mug’s game.

Who’s the bigger fool? The one handing over your personal information to Meta/Google, or the one giving it to OpenAI in the first place?

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