ZDL

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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this necessarily a bad thing?

Yes.

Yes it is.

Being a poseur has always been a bad thing and always will be a bad thing.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 8 points 2 weeks ago

Those ridiculous, unserious human (presumably) beings?

They probably honestly didn't think it was a threat. It is a common delusion in the USA that everybody wants to be American.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure the boycott will soften somewhat after Trump leaves (presuming he isn't made President for Life and heralding a new era in American governance) because people have short memories and will forget that almost all American officials at every level were either directly working for his platform or just sitting ineffectually at the side pretending to do anything but not really stopping it.

But it will only soften. It will not be over. Not for most Canadians alive today. The USA poisoned its brand but good and by the time Trump has stopped raging like a bull in a china shop, Canadians will have found new favourite brands and suppliers and such and American brands will be dead anyway.

Because once I find something I like, why would I go back just because the old brand says "but we've chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanged!"

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean what we called LUGs when I was in school?

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A man who can't read rule #1?

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 16 points 2 weeks ago

I understood about one word in five of that article.

Which means I'm about one word in five ahead of that highlighted idiot. He's acting as if the Spicy Autocorrect understands things. As if it knows what a database is, what code is, what rules are, etc.

I'm not just technically declined, I'm a borderline technophobe and even I know this is bullshit.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ursula K. LeGuin's Always Coming Home is an intriguing approach to novel writing. Some can't get into it because it looks more like an ethnologist's report, but there is a story there (and I don't mean the segments with Stone Telling: the entire novel has a story that rewards those who pay attention).

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 weeks ago

Tesla simps are just so draining to watch.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think of the major awards the one that matches my tastes best (and still only at an about 25% hit rate) is the Nobel Prize. After the various scandals and fiascos of Worldcon (especially the Chengdu fiasco) I will not ever trust the Hugos ever again (and even before that they maybe had a hit rate of about 10%).

I'm with some of the other posters I've read here, though. In general I think industry awards are essentially self-love in the grotty sense of the term.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 weeks ago

De Santis Dachau?

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 weeks ago

People have said alarmist things like this with every new thing introduced in history. Even Chess was derided as harmful to its players!

LLMbeciles are terrible technology capable of all kinds of harm. This is not one of them in any meaningful way. People get addicted to, get psychotic over, and stories get told of people going overboard with, literally every new thing that has been introduced to society in all of history.

Including. Chess.

[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 3 points 3 weeks ago

What is "the normal UTF-8 space"?

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