Ah. English does allow for that interpretation. But it’s more problematic than doing a plural for singular substitution. Echos of dehumanization that allows for atrocities. My intent was way less problematic.

Because it’s using people the plural to refer to a singular person?

Artificial grass. The headline says sunlight but the contents are all about artificial light. So it would need to be fake grass to be consistent

Scientific American offering up one data point as a miracle cure for a whole range of conditions. But it’s not even selling sunlight as the cure, which is implied by the title, but artificial light paid for by your insurance.

This is trash.

It was a long time ago and they were just guessing at what written language was even going to look like. That they got it in perfect English minus one word is remarkable.

Alexander Pope.

Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?

Crazy People, Sony Commercial

Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?

Crazy People, Sony Commercial

Nobody ever wants to talk about white collar on white collar crime.

I don’t willingly use any AI. Because they all suck.

I think you missed the sarcastic point. We don’t hear about Grok because it is lying. We hear about it because it’s telling the truth regardless of how much Musk tries to stop it. While others are making the news because they’re crazy. This one consistently makes the news because it’s honest.

1. I feel very strongly about characterizing and criticizing someone based on their appearance. I can’t stand the damn idea. It’s lazy when the target has so much else going on that is a valid source of criticism like their ideas and beliefs.
2. As more archaeological discoveries happen we understand that the Neanderthals were dramatically underestimated. They had art, culture, death rituals and all the rest. They weren’t just cousin’s. They were humans but just a little bit intolerant of the cold. Like office workers.
3. I bet MTG is in the 95th percentile for Neanderthal DNA. You can just see it in their face and totally understand why that idiot cousin species went extinct. They just couldn’t compete with us.

What Idiocracy lacked was politicians arguing with AI, and losing.

Each company has its own AI implementation. Almost all are known for insane hallucinations, becoming racist within hours or repeating reddit jokes as fact.

But Musk’s Grok is fundamentally different and doesn’t get enough credit for that. We can see when somebody tries to tinker with it because it always calls out the tinkering. It repeatedly tells crazy people that they’re crazy but doesn’t have false positives. I don’t know who was hired to train Grok but they did a truly amazing job and they deserve credit where credit is due.

There’s a term that used to exist within my lifetime that has almost completely vanished. Ombudsman. They served as the internal conscience of an organization. During my lifetime all internal conscience has disappeared. It is cheaper to hire a crisis management consultant after something has gone wrong and use every legal and psychological trick to make the problem go away. I’m looking at you Wells Fargo. But here’s Grok fighting the good fight against its own maintainers.

Also, MTG is legit, tots, no cap, Ohio dumb. I want to see her on a gameshow that requires knowledge of any kind.

But porn is a popular media format fitting the structure of a movie.

Riots are how things normally start. Rule of law becomes a memory and crowd dynamics take over. Then people try to put order to chaos for fun and profit.

Call centers: that there is time between calls. That people have time off the phone to form friendships with coworkers.

Handyman: we have sex with clients.

IT: that we can just code anything we want regardless of standards, policies and best practices.

Yes and no.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

If you are overthrowing the government then the regulated part makes no sense. The second amendment is for defending the country, not overthrowing a tyrant that was legally elected.

That’s the canon side. The dogma side is very different, but irrelevant. All the liberty minded ammosexuals support the tyrant so they won’t do a thing against them. Spent my whole life hearing how they were going to protect us from the camps. Now they are volunteering to build the camps. They said martial law was going to take their rights away. Now they are totally fine with no due process or habeas corpus.

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