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That is a fascinating rumor, but not at all true. Good on you for being skeptical. Otherwise, I personally know all FDA employees plus a mysterious eleventh.

As bad as Trump is, being not-Trump does not equal good. Politics in the US is not a bad/good, Trump/not-Trump binary. Even if the two political parties in power would like the masses to believe it.

HP printers and their ink cartridges. They managed to make an even more horrifying offering with their subscription model based on pages printed per month.

Remember me? No one after a full generation turns over. My name is on reports and records and patents that will last until the collapse of the US and probably longer, so my name will be found occasionally. But no reason to remember it specifically from among the other 8.2 billion people alive at the same time.

As for how much data will be collected and saved. I wouldn’t count on anything lasting for long that doesn’t have a specific retention policy.

Not too bad for AI slop. Several minor inaccuracies and three major ones. Plus the glaring absence of certain elements.

C- for the bot; I think you can do better, little buddy. Would not publish for consumption by humans.

I don’t even have TV and was still inundated with the NYC ball drop. It’s still named after Dick Clark, for goodness sake. How did you not find it and settle for a Texas copycat? What fascinating little silos we find ourselves in online.

How very post 2001 / Windows XP SP2 of you.

Someone DM’d me my home address on a pseudonymous account I thought had no ties to my IRL identity.

I can’t remember the last time I had to print something out on dead trees. Pass.

I already carry a mouse with me when I travel because I hate laptop touchpads. So double pass on an even smaller area of integrated touchpad/spacebar.

If an author used AI as a tool and ended up with a good book, I have no issues with that. There is more to writing a book than spitting out one draft.

I don’t believe LLM AI in its current state is capable of writing a good book without heavy guidance and editing by a human, not to mention the world building, research, and story boarding that isn’t a part of putting final word on paper, so I’m not worried about it.

Book review sites have already been manipulated for years (Goodreads, owned by Amazon) so I moved elsewhere (Storygraph, Bookwyrm) before generative AI became a concern.

At best: they need to experience more of the world. At worst: they’re racist.

Static Shock, Kim Possible, Darkwing Duck

Archerfish. They spit at bugs to knock them down into the water so they can eat them.

… you want to tell me how awesome and life-changing Useless Product NX900 is?

Well shucks, please send me your black queer mom affiliate link so I can get in on this.

Edit: what a minute, this looks like a hetero white guy affiliate link. Dang it, tricked me again.

It screams white person lying about their identity to justify some whackadoo comment. “I can say this racist/homophobic thing bc I’m a black queer momma of 2. If you can’t handle me, you’re bigoted”.

… sure they are …

You’re starting with a faulty assumption that everyone wants to participate in DMs.

Why on earth would I want to exchange DMs with random strangers? On reddit, I never got a single DM that wasn’t a bot/scam or a creep asking for nudes or offering to be my foot-worshipping sub or telling me I should shut my woman mouth. Being a man on the internet must be so wild, seeing DMs on a pseudonymous platform as anything but a hidden channel to be sexually harassed.

Feels like Fight Club to me where there is a subset of young men who like it, not recognizing it’s a parody. Then there’s people who get it and like it as a comedy. And the obviousness of which is which is not always clear, so you will never see me talking about whether I like it or not because it invites the first type.

most of the time companies go bankrupt because development is expensive

Any research or sources to back such a claim before continuing on to the question? Cursory websearching about top causes of bankruptcy and R&D costs doesn’t come up.

Why the ever-loving eff would you talk about this during a job interview?

Is this a recent diagnosis? You need to slow way down and educate yourself on the condition and your employment rights. And I don’t mean by asking people on internet forums. Get real resources recommended by the doctor who gave you the diagnosis.

US, similar to others, I had to ask permission and it was always granted.

I can recall once I ran to the bathroom for an emergency without permission. My teacher checked in with me later and discretely to make sure I was ok. Most of my teachers over the years were reasonable people who saw their students as human beings, so I wasn’t worried about getting into trouble.

There was a student in my class one year who had to get an escort if he needed to go anywhere during class because he had a history of doing dangerous things. He tried running away, he wandered into a janitor closet and started randomly mixing chemicals together, he went into the teacher lounge and started eating their lunches, he went into the girls locker room and was found rifling through their gym bags. So yeah, from simple liability and the protection of other students, he wasn’t allowed to leave the classroom whenever he asked.