“I’d much rather stumble around in English than witness whatever the fuck you’re about to do to my mother tongue” - the French

But yes, a simple “Parlez vous anglais?” puts most conversations firmly in friendly territory. It’s entitlement that puts most people off.

… then draw a through line to it. Blasting out a sound byte without context isn’t going to win hearts, especially if it’s under something that seems to demonstrate the opposite.

Cool. Maybe we post an article about that and make that comment there, then. Kinda doesn’t make a lot of sense here, does it?

Thinking you’re hating on the wrong people, amigo.

Gross. And sad.

The Hogfather

… is this a deep cut? Only time will tell

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-new-york/eu-explanation-vote-–-un-general-assembly-action-a80l48-declaration-trafficking-enslaved-africans_en

EU voted as a block on this issue.

EU’s stated reason for abstaining is

1, use of superlatives

2, bias in presentation, against UN charter

3, they’re against reparations

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-new-york/eu-explanation-vote-–-un-general-assembly-action-a80l48-declaration-trafficking-enslaved-africans_en

I dunno man, it really just smells like they don’t want to pay up for their crimes against humanity. When your first two points are nit picking and your last one is “and we were told we wouldn’t have to answer for shitty things before we made rules about it”, it’s kinda giving away why you’re against it.

Explain?

Five days, AKA market close for the week

Boomer humor

Get off the counter. Those are litter paws

Yeah, unfortunately the marketing people have made the LLM synonymous to AI. It’s a damn shame.

It’s not the internet, per se. It’s the corpo owned hell pits of engagement time, data-mining, targeted advertising, and metrics that’s to blame. Forums were pretty cool. Had some bad experiences there, but nowhere near as bad as today.

Lazy racism? Comeow on, man

This isn’t “Be Kind, Rewind”

Houthis enter the chat

Yeah, so is ours. It’s basic strategy, gross as it is. This technology exists, refusing to use it (or develop responses to it) just leaves you exposed to bad actors who will. Propaganda just is, it’s not evil nor good.

Attention economy, man. Being recognizable is an asset, this furthers recognizability for that piece of shit.