I don’t consider a test writer being an insufferable pedantic asshole to be any kind of reflection of my own abilities.

“Oh, you didn’t consciously turn off 3.5 billion years of evolved pattern recognition that functions correctly 99.9% of the time for the purpose of getting my disingenuous gotcha question right, on a rigidly timed test designed to put you under intense time pressure? lol”

I’ll tell you where you can stick your test.

Yes. And many users have many times done exactly that.

But I’ve BEEN there for the bitter, insulting interviews where Shuttleworth STILL moans and complains that Unity was the future and users were too thick to accept his vision. After they realized too many people were switching back to Gnome, they decided to put a stop to that by making Unity the only default installed DE and providing no further support. This is a company run by a man who by all accounts is a petty dictator who still doesn’t get it.

I already left Ubuntu. That doesn’t mean I don’t get to call them out for being heavy handed and pigheaded. Just because something is open source and free does not make it immune to criticism. Just like I am free to go to another distro, Ubuntu’s developers are free to ignore my comments.

Banning all of everything is usually a crazy thing to do.

But it happens when absolute shitnozzles who don’t understand how to do or possess X responsibly expect to be able to have and use X however they want while socializing their personal screw-ups onto other people who never asked for their BS.

When the hype dies and functional and proven AI tools are in the hands of people who can use them responsibly instead of trend-chasers with no discipline, maybe they can start to crack the gate open.

Canonical patronizingly forcing a tool/workflow onto users against their explicit and unequivocal rejection of it?

Conclusion: Everyone in a relationship is stupid.

You have to drink way more Fanta.

The compromise is we let you take your cameras down instead of drawing and quartering you.

Sarah Jessica Parker

No, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a bunch of girls beat you to this.

This is the same level of shocking scandal when they revealed that rich people were paying to have their children admitted to universities.

2 Tits 2 Furious

You don’t have to imagine.

It already happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unearthed:_Trail_of_Ibn_Battuta

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Young adults have to become experts at something to realize that - a prospect that AI makes harder every day.

You mean like every single other game that has the resource chugging always-on home-phoning DRM stripped out?

It’d be more surprising if it DIDN’T run better.

The definition of financial happiness is the difference between how much you make and how much you spend.

While some poor jerk is spending the next 30 years paying 30% of their income on a mortgage, you’ve got everything you need at a 10th the cost and can afford to weather whatever comes at you.

We are extremely aware and super tuned in, but the vast majority of people who buy games do not look this closely.

Irresponsible companies are the result of irresponsible consumers. It sucks, but it’s built into our economic system, and more deeply, our species.

For those of us born before YouTube, we can just leave it.

For those born in the last couple decades, legacy tv and movies are difficult to watch and are only consumed occasionally. It will never, ever occur to YouTube’s primary audience to stop watching.

“Futurism” hits like a religious word now that you need a blind faith that’s contrary to logic to believe there’s a future for us at all.

We got THIS close to being done with nicotine and bullshit in the air in daily life, and then the kids discovered vaping.

At best, the kids are in the aggregate no better or worse than the generations before them. No generation is going to save us from stupid when stupid is part of our species’ DNA.