The change is coming for you guys as well. I’ve travelled to Colombia on a regular basis over the past 20 years or so, and transmisión mecánica has gone from nearly ubiquitous to almost exclusively an econobox option. Maybe performance cars as well I guess? Wouldn’t know about those

Never heard of Horsey Sauce before. Is it, ummmmm. Is it, y’know, white and viscous?

No contest.

That was a new one for me, thank you kindly. It’s Bradbury through and through, felt like a companion work to Fahrenheit 451. Can’t decide whether to think of it as a prequel or a sequel…

Sounds quite similar to Nick Cave’s letter on the topic, read here by Stephen Fry. (anyone feel free to reply with a piped link, for some reason it’s never worked for me)

Read this as “sharter edition” and I think it still works

Well fuck that

Where is the MIT study in question? The link in the article, apparently to a PDF, redirects elsewhere

aka enshittification

You know, I think I’m overdue for a donation to Wikipedia. They honestly might end up being the last bastion of sanity

Point of terminology. Do crackheads “tweak”? I thought that was a meth-specific concept

Gentlemen, this is plutocracy manifest!

unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon

If only that were literally true

Bear baiting is legal in Michigan, but the hole on a barrel lid typically must be large enough to avoid what happened to this bear.

What the almighty fuck, Michigan?

Yeah, it could be rephrased a little as well, like “guess I stood up too fast again”

I was actually wondering about that but was too lazy to check. Thanks for the correction

It pains me to argue this point, but are you sure there isn’t a legitimate use case just this once? The text says that this was aimed at making Wikipedia more accessible to less advanced readers, like (I assume) people whose first language is not English. Judging by the screenshot they’re also being fully transparent about it. I don’t know if this is actually a good idea but it seems the least objectionable use of generative AI I’ve seen so far.

It doesn’t scan. But it’s not bothering me. Nope not at all. Not in any way annoyed by the fact that there’s one too many syllables in the second verse line. Only a complete pedant would get HUNG UP ON THAT RIGHT HAHAHAHAHA

'Cause your friends don’t dance

And if they don’t dance

That’s a personal choice and I suppose we could be friends anyways, I mean dancing isn’t really a fundamental criterion as far as choosing friends is concerned, but right this moment we’re going dancing so I don’t think your friends would enjoy it being as they don’t dance unless I guess they just want to enjoy the music that would be perfectly fine

Rhyming “do ya” and “hallelujah” has got to be one of the ballsiest plays in music history