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@algernon @ariadne I also had a 386SX and so badly wanted a co-processor. Eventually I saved up and upgraded all the way to an AMD 586-133. That was such a huge upgrade heh.

@praveen Plagiarism is a massive problem. Big corporations are using massive amounts of public data and processing it and presenting it as something that their LLMs have generated, but in fact it's a fancy form of autocomplete of other people's work.

The 'Woke Agenda' is actually just Human Rights. Every time someone says 'woke agenda', mentally substitute 'human rights' and the conversation will become clearer.

@LucasWerkmeister I played Civ6 for the first time last month, and just saw that a friend is playing it too, suddenly feels like everyone is playing it :)

@luckytran I remember back when I was only 10 years old and disagreeing with adults and they told me "Your views will change as you get older". They're right that it changed, but only more towards the humanist/libertarian side, not away from it.

@Quinnypig TIL Dropbox is still a thing

@lanodan It's a pretty decent list, although I'd rank most of them above lynx since I *think* it's the only one among them that is completely unaware of css.

It's just amazing how unhinged people are. All of them. perhaps I should let loose a bit too. I wonder what that would even mean? I'm not sure I know how to be crazy. Or maybe I'm crazy and just don't know it. Maybe I should jump into a bathtub filled with cheese puffs. This requires some additional thought.

@LALegault Do you have a moment to hear about the good news about Cheesus Crust?

@olasd Ah so this is why phones keep getting taller and taller.

@mementomaori It's not anymore? Damn I didn't get the memo.

@LALegault I think she could have done a lot better if she had more coaching from marketing people and other popular polititians, even Sanders and Warren could've probably helped her shape her language to be a lot more palatable.

@LALegault You know, a good politician can usually put a good spin on something without even changing anything in reality. When her supporters chanted pro-palestine slogans at her rallies, she could've easily said something like "I'm not going to say something against the policies of my president, but under me things will get better" which isn't any kind of commitment at all, but it's a lot better than the effective "F U" that her supporters got from her.

@LALegault I'll license it for who wants to marry a Capetonian, because property prices here are already skyrocketing due to the influx of Americans and Europeans who are fleeing.

@magicalgirlsabrina I won't be smug about it because I hoped she would win. I wouldn't have been particularly happy about it, but besides her poor foreign policy the democratic campaign set forth one of the progressive campaigns ever, and a democratic win would've been a lot better for the US, for individual rights for people in the US, medicare, workers rights, and for climate change. This *should* have been a slam-dunk, but unfortunately she chose to be dismissive to voters.

@magicalgirlsabrina Nothing wrong with having hope, and if anything, hope is more important now than ever. Probably not the best time to say this, but hope, for all the good that it is, is not a strategy. For months I've seen people ignore huge issues with the democrats affecting their voting base in the hopes that it just won't be an issue, and Kamala turning against a big part of her voting base ended up costing her dearly.

@virtualbri Like the whole world has already been doing for multiple decades? Like founding new economic blocks that doesn't depend on the USD? The EU needs a wake-up call though.

@inanimatecarbongod It wasn't just her policy that put people off, but her attitude towards people on this issue. Sadly she made this in a red line for many, and if she was a better politician she could've (and for goodness sake she should have) put a better spin on it when confronted on this issue.

@LALegault Maybe he's new here... oh wait.

Wow it's like 5 minutes and already want to puke at this "piece of work".

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