Snot Flickerman

Right, because Ice Cube was already in the best alien movie of all time, Ghosts of Mars.

Context?

More contractual gig work less direct employment.

They AI companies are going to Mechanical Turk this shit the whole way.

Like rules have ever stopped these pricks before.

And yet, somehow, he was more reasonable than what we’re dealing with today.

To be clear, I don’t have any dispute with anything you’re saying (and I gave you an upvote because you’re correct), but we’re not in an era of “articulate liars.” We’re in an era of vranyo, where they know that we know that they’re lying and they simply don’t even care to try to make a good lie. These are bumbling, inarticulate liars.

It’s character assassination to point out her legally documented voter registration?

guilt by assumption due to party affiliation

Maybe the real issues is that voting Republican anytime after 2016 shows a lack of any character at all?

Like, genuinely, we’re not living in the era of William F. Buckley Jr. The vast majority of these people literally stand for nothing except winning, power, and control and they’re happy to admit it. Further, it’s not like she lives in some blue state with a handful of reasonable Republicans, she lives in Florida where among the most corrupt and worst of the worst representations of that god-awful party exist.

Nobody is assassinating these voter’s character, they’ve just shown they have none.

She’s from Spokane, grew up in Idaho, lives in Florida, and set up a MAGA-themed birthday party for her mom. It’s not like the signs weren’t there.

Don’t worship celebrities… Especially ones whose main selling point is their beauty not their skill.

The thing is, he’s already experiencing cyberpsychosis without even being chromed up yet…

dd? Data definition? (Apologies for Linux nerd humor)

The Honkler

The problem is no matter how badly we want that to be true, Linux just still is not stable enough or user friendly enough for the average user. Unless you’re ready to be a system admin full-time for someone you’re giving a Linux device to, it’s pointless. Even the simple ones like Mint? It’s too much for my elderly mom, she gets lost too easily. It’s just too demanding of average users, simple as that.

I want people to switch to Linux too, but this is exactly why this comic is dead-accurate, because it’s just not ready for average users and likely won’t be anytime soon. Why? Because Linux gives you control, and giving you control is actually demanding of your time and energy and effort. People like Windows or macOS because they don’t have to expend time, energy, and effort, it just “works” well enough for them to use it passively.

There are worse things in the world than regular people not being able to handle Linux.

Always wear non-descript long-sleeve black shirts. Loose fitting and easily moved in black pants. Non-descript black face-mask. Non-descript black safety sunglasses. Non-descript black gloves. Make sure tattoos or other identifying marks are covered. Never take off your mask. If you can, the best option is to thrift these options and buy them with cash.

Breast… Breast… 1… 2… 3?

“Those young women were my property!” vibes.

He just keeps digging the hole deeper… for anyone with a brain.

Yarrrr mateys, private torrent trackers don’t have an age-gate!

There’s definitely a handful of private porn torrent trackers.

Then you don’t have to hit an age gate anymore because it’s safely stored on your own hard drives.

Interesting talk but the number of times he completely dismisses the entire field of linguistics kind of makes me think he’s being disingenuous about his familiarity with it.

For one, I think he is dismissing holotes, the concept of “wholeness.” That when you cut something apart to it’s individual parts, you lose something about the bigger picture. This deconstruction of language misses the larger picture of the human body as a whole, and how every part of us, from our assemblage of organs down to our DNA, impact how we interact with and understand the world. He may have a great definition of understanding but it still sounds (to me) like it’s potentially missing aspects of human/animal biologically based understanding.

For example, I have cancer, and about six months before I was diagnosed, I had begun to get more chronically depressed than usual. I felt hopeless and I didn’t know why. Surprisingly, that’s actually a symptom of my cancer. What understanding did I have that changed how I felt inside and how I understood the things around me? Suddenly I felt different about words and ideas, but nothing had changed externally, something had change internally. The connections in my neural network had adjusted, the feelings and associations with words and ideas was different, but I hadn’t done anything to make that adjustment. No learning or understanding had happened. I had a mutation in my DNA that made that adjustment for me.

Further, I think he’s deeply misunderstanding (possibly intentionally?) what linguists like Chomsky are saying when they say humans are born with language. They mean that we are born with a genetic blueprint to understand language. Just like animals are born with a genetic blueprint to do things they were never trained to do. Many animals are born and almost immediately stand up to walk. This is the same principle. There are innate biologically ingrained understandings that help us along the path to understanding. It does not mean we are born understanding language as much as we are born with the building blocks of understanding the physical world in which we exist.

Anyway, interesting talk, but I immediately am skeptical of anyone who wholly dismisses an entire field of thought so casually.

For what it’s worth, I didn’t downvote you and I’m sorry people are doing so.

That’s because they aren’t “aware” of anything.

Courts worldwide gotta get their shit together and get faster this is a joke.