Ginny [they/she]

What do you call a christian who hates christ?

Evangelical, usually.

If Greta Thunberg is the antichrist and Peter Thiel a true Christian, then I am fully the fuck onboard with the devil’s machinations.

I studied poetry, painting, and music so that my sons could study mathematics and commerce, and their sons could work long hours on the assembly - without having ever studied anything - so that they can consume slop generated by AI that was pushed on everyone by people who studied commerce, created by people who studied mathematics, and trained on the works of those who studied poetry, painting, and music.

Lol, I guess I should have expected that response. 🤦‍♀️

I ask because I feel like your characterisation of The Shawshank Redemption could equally apply to The Godfather (if you replace good guy with protagonist) and I think they are equivalently great films. It’s just that one film is about how a normal (presumably innocent) man descends into evil and cruelty due to his circumstances and unfortunate events, the other is about a normal (textually innocent) man who maintains his inner light despite his circumstances and unfortunate events. While you may or may not find one more compelling than the other, I think they are both equally special in their way.

How do you feel about The Godfather, if I may ask?

The fact that you think both of these people and their viewpoints deserve equal defense and respect says a lot more about you than it does me.

Yes, that’s exactly the point I was making. Bless your heart, my twelve-year-old buddy.

Would you also consider Martin Luther King Jr. to be a whiny limp-dick centrist for believing in nonviolence?

That’s not full circle, that’s half a circle.

Um, why? As a general rule, the point of running a simulation is to find out what happens under some circumstances where you don’t know what happens. If you’re imposing conditions like that, then you aren’t so much running a simulation as you are running some kind of procedural generation.

Scamming a bunch of NFT idiots is an arguably better funding model than promising a bunch of stuff to Kickstarter backers that you aren’t going to deliver on.

I believe the original source for this joke is Frankie Boyle: https://youtu.be/yZOLq82m2Ks

That’s an otterly different name!

Drama in open source land

Redundant sentences are redundant.

I know people who are still calling Snickers bars Marathons. Telling people to let it go isn’t going to do you any good, either.

In general I agree, but I am going to have to ask you for a source on that last one.

Much harder to replace a trained anaesthetist than a retail worker, though.

I’m going to miss the silkposting.

Isn’t ad blocking, as the industry magazine AdAge has called it, “robbery, plain and simple”?

Robbing corporations is based, though, actually.

Well, some are both software developers and furry artists, which I guess frees you up to be some other, hidden, third thing. Which I’m going to guess is either bass guitar player or train driver?

Roughly 50% of transgender and/or non-binary people are software developers and roughly 50% are furry artists, so it makes sense we would be more wary of AI.

I use arch, btw.