LLMs aren’t capable of doing any better. The only reason you or anyone might think they are is because of aggressive marketinggrifting by the very few people in a position to profit by convincing the world LLMs are basically the main ship computer from Star Trek when in fact they’re more like ELIZA.

Username checks out.

If we come up with something in this thread, I’ll be here to corrupt its meaning by misusing it.

Why? Does fungus need a reason to give you jock itch?

Because Democrats are less petty?

Copyright is bullshit, but the only thing worse is assholes like Zuck getting away with what’s illegal for everyone else.

And even if the lawsuit wins, you know the fines are a) going to be paltry b) mostly not going to go to those affected… which is everybody, basically.

Just respond to everything they say with “sorry, I’m not into Pokemon.”

I can’t see your private or personal messages.

Same reason why The Matrix 4 is the best Matrix movie.

It’s downright laudable to “steal” from major corpos. Whether it’s ethical to steal from a mom and pop shop is an “it depends” kind of situation. (I definitely know of small local businesses in my area that are run by absolute shit-bags.) And punishment isn’t the right way for society to deal with antisocial behaviors among its inhabitants. (Not that stealing (particularly by a pro-capitalist’s definition) is necessarily “antisocial”.)

Pardon me while I go change my name to “Starbuck Washburne Atreides”.

There are definitely gas stations out there selling rotisserie chickens. I’ve never seen it. Never specifically heard of that being a thing. But there’s no way there aren’t any gas stations out there somewhere that are.

• The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
• Someone else mentioned ranked choice and/or STAR voting. That’s a good one too for sure.
• Maybe Democratic candidates not being dogshit-levels of unappealing to Democrats. Supporting Israel’s actions and telling anti-genocide protesters “excuse me I’m listening.” Being old as shit and swapping candidates after the primary. Trying so hard to pander to the center that they end up as far right as Republicans. It should have been pretty hard for Democrats to lose in 2024, but Democrats bent over backwards in every possible way to do so.
• Impeaching and convicting Trump would go a long way toward improving Democrats’ relationship with their base too.

I make considerably less than 200k (USD) per year and I’m fortunate to be able to say I’m decidedly not poor by any stretch.

Gatekeep much?

What’s your threshold for “fan”?

• What makes you think it’s ending? Can you link to a particular news article in particular? I’ve seen nothing to that effect. Even the ceasefire collapsed immediately after it was announced.
• What disruptions do you think Trump got? Again, I’ve heard nothing indicating that.
• I don’t think Trump is exceedingly unintelligent per se. He’s pretty talented at manipulating people. He’s more like… extremely immature emotionally and short-sighted. And definitely not book-smart and doesn’t care to be. Maybe even illiterate. Think -1 INT, -4 WIS. (Compared to, say, W. who was more -2 INT, -1 WIS. Or Palin who is -4 INT, -3 WIS. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.)

I think you’re getting downvotes because you’re saying the war is ending and Trump’s getting what he wanted out of it and nobody knows where you could possibly have gotten those impressions. Unless you’ve got newer news than I’ve been able to find with a minute or so of searching.

Are you the same person as the account “Grim Reaper” from a while ago?

Infinity Stones are like Tether (the Cryptocurrency). Whenever they want to make more money, they can just make more of them.

You can contribute that way. (Or with money, for instance.) And good on you if you do. (If you contribute in a way that’s actually beneficial, at least. I don’t mean to accuse you or anyone in particular, but of course there are low-effort PRs and such.) But it would be pretty antithetical to the spirit of FOSS to deny you the use of the software or access to the source code if you don’t. Which is part of the beauty.

You think they give even one single fuck how much customer satisfaction you have?

Remember how folks used to say “if you’re not paying, you’re the product”? (That, of course, was never actually true. There’s tons of, for instance, FOSS software out there that legitimately has no ulterior motives or strings attached, potentially aside from copyleft obligations that you don’t try to turn FOSS into proprietary software. But it was true to a certain point.)

Well now that’s true even if you are paying. To them you’re just a revenue source to be milked. They don’t care if you’re happy. Switching to a competitor probably won’t help any, because all their competitors probably have similar problems. You might get lucky and find a provider whose issues aren’t as much of an issue for you specifically. But the headache of switching is stressful enough that shopping around may well not be worth it.

#enshittification #latestagecapitalism

As someone who downvoted, yes, what @surewhynotlem said is exactly why I downvoted.

And given that OP is unwilling to elaborate any, this whole thread seems like just a frustrating waste of time.