True, though it’s not a very funny shitpost, if that’s the case. I’m failing to see any irony there, unless the sheer childishness is meant to be a giveaway.

Tf does db0 even have to do with this? Are you ok?

Also OP:

Where can I call women sl*ts and wh#res when they disagree with me on opinion?

Where can I call men bitch*s, when they try to correct me?

Where do femcels, Andrew Tates and wizards talk here?

Strong “14-year-old discovers /b/” vibes there.

Hmm, you’re still marked as a bot on my end. Maybe it takes a while to update.

My impression is that for ordinary non-power users it was supported from the start (i.e. the commonplace image viewers and editors could open it - at least I personally had no issues), it just felt annoying at first because it seemed forced upon the user.

This sort of advice would be more useful 200 pages ago… but anyway it’s always good to search for an annotated edition. I read Norton critical edition,* it was really good, had diagrams showing what the different parts of the boat are called, a glossary, supplementary essays, and throughout the text all sorts of footnotes (some of them maybe too explicitly interpretative, but oh well). But I believe even the slightly more modest but still seriously prepared editions such as Oxford World Classics would do the job.

* a critical edition means the editors didn’t just reproduce an existing text, but worked off the most “original” materials available, such as the first edition or the author’s own manuscripts

Writing? Queequeg-Ishmael yaoi shows up on Google Images, this stuff is way beyond just dark corners.

Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,—Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

Yes. It’s probably my favourite book ever. No need for it to be a page-turner if each page is interesting by itself.

Unsurprisingly, it’s crap.

Ok, this is making things more clear, although I get the impression I’d have to know way more about the Fr. Revolution, and maybe the following period in France to actually understand it. Was it really politically commonplace already in early 19th c. to demand abolishment of property?

Who’s Maréchal?

leftism is defined by opposition to the status quo

You’ve just introduced a whole other definition of leftism. Also it seems to mean that no leftist society could exist in practice.

the french monarchy was capitalist

From what I can figure out, it was still in principle feudal but moving towards capitalism due to the growth of the bourgeois class. Is that correct?

The political terms “right” and “left” have meant the same thing since the French Revolution.

the weakening or abolishment of capitalism - the traditional dividing line of left and right

Wasn’t the French revolution just abolishing feudalism and the monarchy?

Stealing, as in replacing/faking who the author was?

Lemmy itself is a good example of this. Most of the userbase heavily disagrees with the main developers’ political opinions, yet the software works well for everyone.

He also gave the example of a German Wiki community member who wrote a program to verify the ISBN numbers of books cited, and was able to trace notable mistakes to one person. That person ultimately confessed they had used ChatGPT to find citations for text references and the LLM “just very happily makes up books for you,” Wales said.

Well this won’t be a problem with Grokipedia, because it only uses sources that are available online as pure text (I’m pretty sure not even PDFs are used by it).

Wales thinks the public and the media often give Wikipedia too much credit. In its early days, he says, the site was never as bad as the jokes made about it. But now, he says, “We are not as good as they think we are. Of course, we are a lot better than we used to be, but there is still so much work to do.”

Amen, it’s nice to see the level-headedness.

Here’s a very horny variant of this idea (no idea how it counts as SFW by Youtube standards)

Ain’t is just a shifted dialectal pronunciation of aren’t

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ain't

Also relevant to the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster’s_Third_New_International_Dictionary#Treatment_of_the_contraction_'Ain’t’

You’re proving the point, though. People’s ability to write by hand has indeed deteriorated. Literacy has indeed reduced the need for and intensity of memorisation - and having stuff memorised is useful. What skill will AI cause to atrophy? Is that skill merely like handwriting, or something more?

As a Wikipedia editor I can comfirm - we regularly say that napalm sticking to objects in water is POV. I do it at least twice a week. I’ll try making a bot to do it automatically so I’ll have more time for holocaust denial.