You seem nice.

Well it’s a charming change from the usual American talking points like Barbie saying “math is hard”.

I don’t condone Kirk’s murder.¹

But I also don’t mourn his loss because there was nothing worth mourning.

Come at me, boss. I fucking dare you.²

¹ He needed to be tried and executed by a revolutionary council using proper legal procedure.

² He, too, needs to be tried and executed by a revolutionary council using proper legal procedure.

No it isn’t. The fact you think it is tells me that your opinions on any topic can be safely disregarded.

Torn from the headlines…

So you think, then, that Germany should be opened up to the raping and pillaging of American tech firms, say?

It hallucinates 100% of the time. It just happens that varying fractions of its hallucinations match reality.

It doesn’t think. It only regurgitates the output of a horrendously complicated statistical analysis of its training material. It is always hallucinating.

You are missing the fucking point. (Meaning you are probably one of the techbrodouches.)

Consent is positive, not negative.

Here’s an experiment for you. Walk up to a strange woman you find attractive and grab her ass. When, not if, she reacts negatively, tell her it’s OK: if she doesn’t want her ass grabbed she can just ask you to let go. See how well that goes over as you explain your “opt-out” philosophy to a judge. THAT is the “Brave” model here. Inflict the thing someone doesn’t want and say “oh, but it’s easy to ask me to stop”.

No. That is not the right way to navigate consent.

The right way to navigate it is to ask before grabbing the ass. Do that and you might get scolding, ejected from the club, whatever but you’re not going to wind up in jail for sexual assault. Or, in this case, do this before you turn on the AI features. Make the consent positive, not negative.

But you knew that already. You just get your jollies from forcing undesired things on people, right?

It appears that they share the complete inability to comprehend “consent” of every other techbrodouche.

I’d guess the part that’s plummeting is the distillation phase.

I’ve dived deep into the baijiu rabbit warren.

I haven’t tried an Irish yet; hard to get around here without paying stupid amounts.

Wow! It’s like I didn’t know anything about liquor and you just enlightened me! THANK YOU OH SO MUCH KIND SIR!

Oh, and … buh-bye.

I do love bourbon. I think it’s one of the very few genuine contributions to world cuisine from the USA.

And I will never drink another drop of it.

Define “correctly”. Who, precisely gets to decide what is “correct” and what is “incorrect” in the bizarre little world you appear to inhabit like one of the weird people the Little Prince visits in his journey?

For example, do you apply the word “bug” only to Hemiptera and vigorously correct anybody who uses “bug” to refer to, say, a ladybug (Coleoptera) or a housefly (Diptera)? Or did you know that, in fact, the word “ladybug” is flatly incorrect (in scientific nomenclature) and rant about the very name when people talk about their gardens on discussion boards?

Me, personally, I think you’re full of shit. You flex your so-called “expertise” in the one very narrow, profusely-strewn-with-bullshit you have some knowledge in and try to act all big-brained to bolster a flagging ego (among other flagging bodily parts) while you merrily go through life “incorrectly” calling ants (Hymenoptera) bugs.

All while somehow never managing to answer the very first question I asked: who gets to decide what’s “correct” in the first place?

You’re a sad, little troll and, worst of all, you’re not even good at it. You’re just pathetic.

Oh look! Another person who feigns incomprehension of things like “context” and “common parlance” so they can pretend they’re smart!

I … don’t have five years of social media for them to look through? My Mastodon is set up to auto-delete after 3 months, for example.

My dude, you understand that this is a channel primarily aimed at NON-USANALS talking about boycotting the USA and the reasons to do so, right? You get this, right? 'Cause it’s kind of in the group name (Boycott US) and in the title of the the post you’re rampaging through with your stupidity, complete with CANADIAN flags.

So, get this, most of the people here DID NOT VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP. Nor did they vote for Kamala Harris. BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT AMERICAN CITIZENS AND THUS CANNOT VOTE FOR FUCKING ANYBODY!

Is that clear to you yet? Have you considered the possibility of maybe reading the fucking room before you babble your bullshit?

Pay me a million dollars and I still wouldn’t set foot on your state’s soil (nor any other state’s). The USA is permanently dead to me.

Good news, comrades! The hated capitalist pigs have just cut the legs off of their military!

I actually agree with you that most of his writing is forgettable. He’s venerated in SF circles, but I don’t see it. Just not for me, I guess.