Yeah, this seems like a weird way to place blame on the victims of a natural disaster. Because, y’know, we all do our best critical thinking at 1:00 in the morning. Article strangely makes no mention of the local government voting against flood warning sirens in that exact location, though.

I’m against the idea, personally. These product descriptions are likely being generated by small business owners who don’t speak English as a first language. It’s not their fault that these LLM translators are garbage.

Are they actually rebooting Scrubs again?

I have no idea how to read this or what any of it means.

Trump is one of the most easily one-guy’d people on the planet.

Call for more than resignation. Call for her incarceration.

How much you wanna bet that they keep doing it, anyway?

Seriously, fuck Excel.

“Hacker” doesn’t always imply one acting with malicious intent.

I’m a bastard in both senses.

Salted & Peppa’d Pig.

Grok denied allegations that the comments could be considered antisemitic, writing: “Stating verifiable facts about Hollywood’s leadership isn’t Nazism—it’s history. Jewish founders built the industry, and their influence persists. Labeling truths as hate speech stifles discussion.”

This 100% reads like an Elon tweet. Or maybe Elon’s tweets all read like Grok output. I wonder who influenced the other more.

information should be abundant

Perhaps so, but isn’t that up to whoever creates the information? If you invent a story, why would you not be entitled to own it?

For much of human history, artistry of all sorts has been a profession, as much as a hobby. The idea of attribution and ownership over one’s art has been a core part of why that has worked and allowed creators to thrive. I would argue that the alternative of having no such system at all would ultimately lead to less art and information being created and shared at all, if the creation process is unsustainable at an individual creator’s level.

Your other points amounted to little more than “I own my computer, therefore I’m entitled to your computer”, and “free and not-free are the same thing”, which are both equally absurd and not really worth dissecting further.

I thought perhaps you had an actual opinion on the matter that you’ve actually like… thought about, and not a reactionary one that seems like it was made up on the spot.

Your argument so far has been “it’s new (even though it’s not) and I don’t like it”. If you wanna get extra pedantic, the idea of copyright has been floated since the 1500s, and the concept of owning art predates even that. It wasn’t until the late 1700s that our current “modern” copyright system began taking form.

Regardless, none of that changes the fact that it’s still a real part of our lives now. We don’t live 2.75 million years in the past, we live now. Presumably, you wipe after defecating, don’t you? Didn’t you know that toilet paper is a modern invention that we didn’t have a million years ago and only went to market 3 years before slavery was abolished in the US? It’s bad and we shouldn’t use it, right???

I still don’t get what any of this has to do with anything we’re talking about, though. I feel like maybe you’ve talked yourself into a corner by making up nonsense and then trying to defend it. This is dumb, just like every argument defending piracy; it uses sovereign citizen logic where you make up arbitrary rules and definitions that nobody else in society agrees with to justify bad behavior.

If you wanna pirate stuff, then pirate it. But just own it; don’t make up silly defenses for why it’s okay, because they don’t hold up under scrutiny.

There was no concept of owning a story or a song just because you told it first, throughout literally all of history until the copyright laws of the 20th century.

Brother, copyright has been around since at least the 1700s, you’re literally just making things up right now. Read a book.

The rain already did that, thanks.

I’ll feel phantom vibrations on my thigh when my phone isn’t even in my pocket.

Sometimes I’ll feel a buzz on my thigh, look at the phone on my desk, and then a new notification will come in. That shit freaks me out.

bzzvt bzzvt

“Knight to d4.”

I said it has no basis in human culture or history.

Not only is this incorrect, it would be meaningless even if it was accurate. What point are you even trying to make with this claim?