ExtremeDullard

Oh for crying out loud… It’s been 30 years.

Something tells me the royal family is desperate for any distraction from Andrew and whether he’ll be invited by his inbred relatives for Christmas, and if it takes digging up Diana’s corpse, they’re not above doing it.

I think it’s not the first doomed generation. The previous one already had pretty high chances of being worse off than their parents (i.e. us). But sad - and quite frankly scared - though I am to recognize it, this one is in even more dire straights.

And the reason I’m scared is, desperate people are rightfully driven to do radical things. I’m fairly sure the desperate kids of today is the generation that will eventually drive the world off the cliff and into WW3. And I won’t even blame them.

I’m so glad my kids have long been out of the house and have well-established job situations at this point, because I genuinely wouldn’t know what to tell a teenager about career opportunities that wouldn’t cause them to fall into a deep depression. All I can foresee in the near future is mass unemployment and war. And goodness knows I’m normally an optimist.

I’m pretty sure just being a good, respectful president working for true world peace would get him there. But he’s incapable of that: the man is rotten to the core.

Here’s an idea: grant Trump the Nobel Peace Prize he so desperately wants and ban him from the country too.

“He was screaming out, ‘I want my mom, I want my mom. I’m dying, I want mom. I’m dying, I want mom,’” Billy recalls.

Aiden’s mom listened helplessly as he hadn’t hung up the phone yet.

I pity the poor woman who has to live with that moment in her memory for the rest of her life.

he grows frustrated with authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro’s reluctance to relinquish power.

Pot, meet kettle.

Yeah for sure, but there’s always something off that screams fake.

I find it interesting that AI writes very high level, which is a trait that seems to be valued by upper management (VP, CEO level).

I think at some point someone will figure out that AI would sound more natural if it didn’t write so perfectly, and they’ll try to make AI sound hip and casual, and I’m almost certain AI will still fail to be convincingly casual.

I don’t worry about that. There are other markers of AI that are much more reliable:

1. Extreme verbosity.
2. Low S/N - i.e. lots of words to say not much at all.
3. Perfect grammar.
4. If you drill down into the subject, often completely incorrect - but you don’t know without having to read a whole bunch of tedious text.

And here’s how you recognize AI:

• High-schoolers turning a paper on a subject they know nothing about often fluff up their paper - at least when students still wrote their papers themselves - and hit 1. and 2., but rarely 3.

• Good writers always hit 3. They can be terse or verbose, and they may or may not hit 1., but never 2. or 4.

• Internet writers don’t write like journalists. Only journalists writing for a journal that happens to also publish on the internet write like journalists. Internet writers don’t quite hit 3, knowledgeable ones don’t hit 2., and almost none of them ever hit 1. Or said another way, when you read something about Linux networking that looks like an Atlantic op-ed, it’s AI.

Only AI hits 1., 2. and 3. AI almost always writes in a tone and form that doesn’t befit the venue.

As for 4., if you want an example of this, try to search “NFC unlock” on DDG or Bing (same AI-laden Microsoft trash search engine): you will find scores of perfectly-written articles that explain in painful details how you should buy NFC tags (they don’t say which), program them (they don’t say how), then present the tags to your device (they don’t say what devices) to program them to unlock upon presenting the tags.

If you know anything about NFC, you know this is all shades of wrong. But amazingly, each article on the subject is many pages long, perfectly written, and there are countless such articles.

(no consumer is going to pay for extended) begins to really push people to Windows 11

Consumers aren’t exactly ecstatic about throwing away perfectly serviceable computers just so Microsoft can push their spyware-cum-advertising platform down their throats either.

I’d say this is a great push towards Linux for anybody who knows anything about computers and isn’t a corporation with a dumbass MCSE jockey as an “IT” guy.

As long as sideloading is a thing, I don’t use the Google app store. And I don’t install malware like Instagram - not that it’s very likely to work on my deGoogled Android cellphone.

Of course, now that fucking Google has declared war on deGoogled ROMs, what I’m saying here is pretty much a dead-end. But as of today, it’s still an option.

Fuck Google.

Also, in case it bore repeating: fuck Google.

And finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Google can go fuck itself.

Yeah well, Finland has a tradition of shamelessly using unsavory regimes to keep the Russians at bay.

Talk about a poisoned gift…

Nobody wants gifts from Israel, but Ukraine desperately needs the hardware.
Damned if they do, damned if they don’t…

Newsflash: unlike traditional America, it seems like fascist America suddenly cares about soccer.

Here’s my take: fuck fascism and fuck soccer.

Would that they had been this astute when they cast their Brexit votes…

Whoever buys one of those signals they’re an official collaborator of the fascist regime that issued it, and will have to answer for their actions when the regime is finally toppled in whatever Nuremberg-style court will be set up to hold the MAGAts and their accomplices accountable.

Stop telling me I’m easily offended! It’s triggering!

Trump finally gets to meet the brother of that guy he partied with aboard the Lolita Express.

DPRK is short for the North’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

It’s quite amazing that out of the 5 words making up this country’s official name, 3 are lies (“Democratic”, “People’s”, and “Republic”), one is only half-true (“Korea”) and the only one that’s accurate is a preposition.