I’ve been to many places where they close the interior and only do drive thru.

Sometimes they will be completely ok with you just walking through the drive thru on foot.

Almost always any other cars that show up will have people inside who will act terrified, like you are completely insane and may at any moment attack them.

Even though they’re the ones that just almost ran you over.

Mostly for memes about beans.

Uh but for real because reddit quite literally sold out and went full corpo.

Nope.

If Trump can get alway with almost all of his bullshit, if the Supreme Court can just hurr durr away a hundred + years of legal precedent, then this whole system is bullshit.

Anybody that is charge of or oversees the systemic application of violence toward great numbers of people, who is legally allowed to do so, in a system where the common person has 0 chance of ever altering this system to police itself and actually enact justice by preventing said person from doing that and prosecuting them for their crimes against the people…

Anyone in such a position should be afraid, should keep suffering consequences until theyfinally figure out that they need to acquiesce to a reformation of the system, need to stop fucking over millions for the grotesque enrichment of thousands.

When the game is rigged against you, play by your own rules, otherwise you guarantee your own defeat.

While the justification for this is primarily based on TikTok being a privacy and data security risk due to it being owned by a Chinese State Organ/Corporation… which is hilarious bullshit because the US does exactly the same thing with all the net data that goes through US corporate social media…

Brainrot is a real thing.

Shortform video platforms are addictive the same way cigarretes or heroin is, extended use ruins your cognitive ability, ruins your attention span, increases depression and anxiety, and fhe format promotes an absurdly fake, narcissistic culture, scams, and mis or disinformation.

Algorithmic profiling is definitely not unique to TikTok, but it is used by the app, and this often pigeonholes the user into content/advertisements that often becomes more and more extreme, manipulative and exploitative of the user.

Though this is being done mostly for stupid reasons, and it isn’t stoping US Corpo brainrot inducing social media platforms, I’ll take what I can get.

Yep, Signal has been the obvious best combination of actual security and ease of use for quite a while now…

But most people that I interact with are still on the level of ‘everyone knows Apple is more secure than Android, so anything on an iPhone is fine’ or ‘wtf undont have a SnapChat? Everyone has a snapchat’.

Go re read my posts and tell me where I denied that homeless people get hit on the highway.

You can’t, because I didn’t.

Go re read my posts and tell me where I said that you said people often camp on highways.

You can’t, because I didn’t.

And now you’ve specified that you are talking about I5, and that

they do, sometimes, camp on the highway. If you are denying that, you are lying. You can see it just by driving down the road. I’m talking about I-5. The only real highway here.

So when you say, on the highway, you actually mean next to, or adjacent to I5, in the greenspaces, not literally on the highway.

You can camp on Aurora/99/Airport because Aurora includes sidewalks.

As I thought I already made clear in my last comment, you cannot camp on I5 for very long because you’d be on the shoulder or the middle of the road and that would get cleared out extremely quickly by SPD, KC Sheriffs, or Highway Patrol, or you might just your whole tent hit by a car.

You can camp adjacent to I5, in the greenspaces, and last … eh, maybe a few months tops, in one location.

Just because you keep seeing tents along I5 doesn’t mean the cops and social services aren’t constantly going around forcing specific people to move and then new tents from new people pop up in basicslly the same spot.

Also, great, you donated to DESC, your dad was homeless, you helped him out, you give money to people.

I am genuienly glad that you do this.

I used to co-lead the entire database management/analysis for Mary’s Place, came up with org wide policies based on the data I gathered, spearheaded new programs, designed new, and maintained and improved upon all the old, non 3rd party liscensed software systems vital to day to day functions of basically the entire org, sans accounting.

And I did outreach, on the streets, doing intake for homeless families, interviewing them, redesigning our intake processes to be more streamlined and less stressful for clients, focusing on the actual most common non English languages we encountered.

Oh and I myself was homeless, don’t have any family or friends that gave a shit.

But uh yeah anyway, I didn’t say I know how you feel about homeless people, I asked you, you didn’t directly answer, so I dropped it.

Guess this whole homeless topic is a bit of a sore spot for you.

You said I cannot deny reality, that reality being that homeless people get hit on the highway.

I never did that.

I never said they do not get hit on the highway.

But you said I was denying this.

I was denying that homeless people often camp directly on or alongside ‘the highway’, a thing you said homeless people do, which is so vague that I can only interperet it as I 5, which has no sidewalks, and where any tents that pop up there get taken down within 48 hrs max, usually closer to 3 hrs, because they’d be obstructing the shoulder lanes, and because most homeless people are not that directly suicidal.

Are you trying to describe 99 / Marignal through SoDo and Georgetown, or Airport Way?

With Airport Way being right up against the forested hill that the elevated section of I5 goes over, which is actually the oldest and most popular spot for encampments?

Yep, homeless people get hit on the highway.

I never said they don’t.

Almost no one camps there, as you said.

I live here, you can’t deny reality.

Yeah.

And so did I. For over a decade.

…Are you normally this gaslighty with people, putting words in their mouth and then calling them liars, upon being called out on your own lies?

Or do you just reserve that level of disrespect for people who’ve been homeless?

He’s more conventionally attractive, confident, charismatic, muscular, well dressed, and less of a drama king/queen than most other leftist influencers his age, and he speaks in more Gen Z lingo/vocabulary than other left wing influencers (who are often older) with similar knowledge levels and political stances.

Oh, and he is already popular, on a platform where people love to exist in one-sided, parasocial relationships.

… Sorry if this bursts your bubble, but even most self described leftists basically operate by the same fundamental popularity / favorability dynamics that middle or high schoolers do, whether concsiously or subconsciously.

No, it absolutely does not.

I was homeless in Seattle for over a year.

And practically nobody camps on the highway, if you mean I5. They camp under it.

If you mean Aurora / Highway 99… sure, lots of people camp right on the sidewalk because its not really a highway within Seattle city limits.

But anyway, yeah, I personally knew a lot of other homeless people that got hit by cars, no media kerfuffle over them.

If you get hit and run, which happens all the time, and you can limp away, basically never gets reported compared to how often that happens.

Try being homeless in a major city.

When you live on the street, you are never away from idiotic, distracted, drunk, high, pissed off drivers.

Encounters like what you describe become something that happens every few days, even multiple times a day.

You’re extremely lucky if none of them hit you.

You come to hate them.

How dare your existence inconvenience them, even though you are using a crosswalk or crossing legally.

You come to view them as basically natural predators.

You sound like a gender/sex swapped version of me, 15 years ago.

I was a hopeless romantic as well, would have crushes on girls, do my best to be as respectful and cordial as possible while hanging out, asking out, or going out on dates with them… falling in love with a fantasy idea of them, huge emotional highs from any attention, massive lows from rejection, lack of contact, or them acting wildly unlike my wistful idea of them.

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Sorry to tell you, but this guy likely just was/is not really that interested in you, or anyone, as a serious relationship partner.

If he was, he would have made time, would not have ghosted you.

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He said he’s never been in an ‘official relationship’ before, asks you if you are single.

He makes sexual jokes when its just you and a few other people.

He enjoys seeing you in person, reciprocates hugs when you meet… but is always asking what you’re doing that night, that weekend, tries to get you over to his place…

He’s most likely the kind of guy that is not interested in serious relationships, and is really just looking for convenient flings.

Doesn’t make him evil. Doesn’t make him a saint.

Unless theres more to this story where you’ve already told him directly how much he means to you, how you really feel, where you directly said ‘Hey do you want to go on a date / be my boyfriend’…

… he probably has no idea that you are basically in unrequited love with him.

He probably doesn’t hate you, he probably just likes you as a friend and finds you attractive, a potentially bangable friend.

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As for what to do next?

Well, first come to terms with the idea that he enjoys your company as a friend, and potential friend with benefits, but currently is not interested in a serious relationship with you, despite your efforts thus far.

Then, you could accept this, continue to be a more casual friend with him.

Or you could maybe write him an email that explains … hey you know I am actually pretty seriously enamored with you as a potential serious, long term relationship, and I’d like to know if you’d be interested in that.

It could be that it just did not occur to him that that’s what you’d like, and maybe he’d be willing to try!

Or… maybe not, and then hopefully you two can still be friends.

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A lot of guys (myself included) are pretty dense when it comes to determining ‘hints’ from women.

And I say ‘hints’ because you never described yourself asking him out on a date, asking him to go steady with you, telling him how interested in him you are, doing or saying anything that would specifically indicate you want a serious relationship with him.

You often have to be pretty direct with a lot of guys, with how you feel and what you want, otherwise, they’ll miss them entirely.

Derp, you’re correct.

Ah!

I did not know that, as I have always despised, and never used Twitter.

Added a correction in, thanks =D

Autistic elder gamer (I’m 35 rofl) at your service lol.

I reformatted my post and added a bit to it.

But yeah… its not that the newer terms / usage of terms is like, objectively incorrect.

It is that language is actually nowhere near as objective and unchanging as most people seem to think, and words have a whole bunch of connotations and implied meanings that most people don’t even realize they are taking for granted.

Net terminology just changed over time.

It used to be, both in games and on forums, that a ‘ban’ typically implied that it was permanent, or for a considerable amount of time, like multiple weeks or a month or more, or until removed from a banlist.

If a ban was temporary, it would be qualified by clarifying that it was a temporary ban.

Otherwise, just using ‘ban’ almost always meant a permanent ban.

A ‘kick’, on the other hand, usually meant direct ejection from a game in the moment, and maybe 15 or 30 minutes of inability to rejoin, or an inability to rejoin that temporary session… though the terminology varied more from forum to forum.

This was just the common lingo used by many earlier games and forums in their own code, in their own technical documentation for server administration.

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Likewise, ‘pm’ (private message) became ‘dm’ (direct message).

I’m pretty sure Discord is entirely responsible for that.

They started calling private chats ‘direct messages’ even though basically every forum or what have you up till Discord called them ‘private chats’ or ‘private messages’.

EDIT: Evidently Twitter actually started this trend 2 years before Discord, I did not know this as I have hated the concept of Twitter since its inception and never used it =P

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‘Mods’ / ‘Modding’ / ‘Modder’, as in game mods, used to exclusively mean that you (and others, in a multiplayer game) were using or creating additional community content that altered game mechanics, almost always in a constructive way that added to the game experience for everyone.

‘Warez’ / ‘Cheats’ / ‘Hacks’ used to specifically refer to … things that are arguably, technically ‘Mods’, but manipulate your experience of the game to give you a (theoretically) covert series of advantages over the game such that competiton is now blatantly unfair.

Those terms are still used to mean that… but, as less and less games support modding, and more and more switched away from having server browsers to just having a ‘find match’ button… with a whole lot of those kinds of games, ‘Modding’ now just means cheating or hacking.

If you got to a GTA V game or community and say ‘I’m a modder’ they will interperet that as ‘I am a cheater’, not ‘I make and have made mods for one or many PC games.’

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All of these newer uses of the terms are still ‘correct’ in the sense that you can justify the meanings of the newer terms, its not like they’re misnomers…

… but a lot of zoomers / casuals have little to no understanding of how the terminology changes are confusing to an older gamer who finds themselves in a community of younger folks.

It is not that it responded “Sorry, I cannot find anything like what you described, here are some things that are pretty close.”

It affirmatively said “No, no such things as you describe exist, here are some things that are pretty close.”

There’s a huge difference between a coworker saying “Dang man, I dunno, I can’t find a thing like that.” and “No, nothing like that exists, closest to it is x y z,”

The former is honest. The latter is confidently incorrect.

Combine that with “Wait what about gamma?”

And the former is still honest, and the latter, who now describes gamma in great detail and how it meets my requirements, is now an obvious liar, after telling me that nothing like that exists.

If I now know I am dealing with a dishonest interlocutor, now I am forced to consider tricking it into being homest.

Or, if I am less informed or more naive, I might just, you know, believe it the first time.

A standard search engine that is not formatted to resemble talking to a person does not prompt a user to expect it to act like a person, and thus does not suffer from this problem.

If you don’t find what you’re looking for, all that means is you did not find it.

If you are told that no such thing exists, a lot of people are going to believe that no such thing exists.

That is typically called spreading disinformation, when the actor knows what they are claiming is false.

Its worse than unhelpful, it actively spreads lies.

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Anyway, I’m sorry that you don’t see humor in multi billion dollar technology failing at achieving its purported abilities, I laugh all the time at poorly designed products, systems, things.

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Finally, I did not use the phrase in contention in my original post.

I used it in my response to you, specifically and only within a single sentence which revolved around incompetent executives.

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It appears that reading comprehension is not your strong suit, maybe you can ask Gemini about how to improve it.

Err, well, maybe don’t do that.

You original comment is posted under mine.

I am going to assume you are responding to that.

… I wasn’t trying to trick it.

I was trying to use it.

This is relevant to my more recent reply to you… because it is an anecdotal example of how broadly useless this technology is.

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I wasn’t aware the purpose of this joke meme thread was to act as a policy workshop to determine an actionable media campaign aimed at generating mass awareness of the economic downsides of LLMs, which wouldn’t fucking work anyway because LLMs are being pushed by a class of wealthy people who do not fucking care what the masses think, and have essentially zero reason at all to change their course of action.

What, we’re going to boycott the entire tech industry?

Vote them out of office?

These people are on video, on record saying basically, ‘eh, we’re not gonna save the climate, not happening, might as well burn it all down even harder, even faster, for a tiny percentage chance our overcomplicated autocomplete algorithm magically figures out how to fix everything afterward’.

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And yes, I very intentionally used the phrase ‘understand how computers actually work’ to infantilize and demean corporate executives.

Because they are narcissistic priveleged sociopaths who are almost never qualified, almost always make idiotic decisions that will only benefit themselves and an increasingly shrinking number of people at the expense of the vast majority of people who know more and work harder than they do, and who often respond like children having temper tantrums when they are justly criticized.

Again, in the context of a joke meme thread.

Please get off your high horse, or at least ride it over to a trough of water if you want a reasonable place to try to convince it to drink in the manner in which you prefer.

Probably it keeps getting rehashed because people who actually understand how computers work are extremely angry and horrified that basically every idiot executive believes the hype and then asks their underlings to inplement it, and will then blame them for doing what they asked them to do when it turns out their idea was really, unimaginably stupid, but idiot executive gets golden parachute and software person gets fired.

That, and/or the widespread proliferation of this bullshit is making stupid people more stupid, and just making more people stupid in general.

Or how like all the money and energy spent on this is actively murdering the environment and dooming the vast majority of our species, when it could be put toward building affordable housing or renovating crumbling infrastructure.

Don’t worry, if we keep throwing exponential increasing amounts of effort at the thing with exponentially diminishing returns, eventually it’ll become God!

I just tried out Gemini.

I asked it several questions in the form of ‘are there any things of category x which also are in category y?’ type questions.

It would often confidently reply ‘No, here’s a summary of things that meet all your conditions to fall into category x, but sadly none also fall into category y’.

Then I would reply, ‘wait, you don’t know about thing gamma, which does fall into both x and y?’

To which it would reply ‘Wow, you’re right! It turns out gamma does fall into x and y’ and then give a bit of a description of how/why that is the case.

After that, I would say ‘… so you… lied to me. ok. well anyway, please further describe thing gamma that you previously said you did not know about, but now say that you do know about.’

And that is where it gets … fun?

It always starts with an apology template.

Then, if its some kind of topic that has almost certainly been manually dissuaded from talking about, it then lies again and says ‘actually, I do not know about thing gamma, even though I just told you I did’.

If it is not a topic that it has been manually dissuaded from talking about, it does the apology template and then also further summarizes thing gamma.

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I asked it ‘do you write code?’ and it gave a moderately lengthy explanation of how it is comprised of code, but does not write its own code.

Cool, not really what I asked. Then command ‘write an implementation of bogo sort in python 3.’

… and then it does that.

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Awesome. Hooray. Billions and billions of dollars for a shitty way to reform web search results into a coversational form, which is very often confidently wrong and misleading.