Assuming you're not lying -- That just makes you the artist equivalent of a scab.

I'd have to relearn a bunch of shit.

Don't feel up to it. I'm so used to my setup.

Even using SteamOS ("Arch but we modded it to be sorta kinda like an immutable distro but not really") miffs me more than it should.

Because Gerontocracy is the true law of the land, and is older than both capitalism and feudalism.

JD Vance just existed

The pope died of cringe from experiencing Vance's presence.

.... It might have been kickboxing. I was half remembering him being some kind of sport-fighter.

Yeah before he was a Youth Pastor for the Church Of Misogyny (where jesus is replaced with EVEN MORE MISOGYNY) -- He made his name as a competitive MMA fighter.

Yeah there is plenty to hate about Catholics too (hey, pedophilia) --

-- But when it comes to like. Accepting reality and modernity? They are head, shoulders, and pectorals above the average Evangelical Church.

Ok AIbro.

Here's the thing.

I really liked the ending of the original series.

And I am very wary of series continuing after a satisfying ending has already been provided. Which is something I think every nerd can relate to in some way or another.

So can you guarantee I won't be burned?

Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can't beat 'em...), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different "personalities", and those who don't can just have the machinelike codes.

Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.

I prefer to man touch 🏳️‍🌈

I just want to point out that the insane "several steel foundries" worth of energy waste are used in training the bots, and individual requests are, by comparison, much cheaper.

Mind you AI "art" is bullshit and AI "artists" are proof that more people need to be shoved into lockers, but we don't need misinformation to hate AI and AI bros. It's plenty hatable with just the truth.

I don't know. One of my friends in college was an astrology girl but I made a point to not ask her for details (OR tell her about the thing I learned at my internship--)

HUEHUEHUE please do NOT give stray cats and dogs handjobs.

But as the other poster said -- It means "half joking"

My most iconic character (in the shared imaginations of my friends) is my sorceress pirate gal from a Final-Fantasy style campaign.

Our party included:

• A tragic Samurai looking to avenge his father who got war-crimed.
• A rogue who had their name stolen and is basically a blob of pure self-hatred.
• A warrior monk looking to develop her strengths so she can protect the weak
• A former slave who spent hundreds of years in slavery and wants to punish the slavers.
• A knight who lost all his memories except the traumatic memory that resulted in all the other lost memories.

........ And then there was my gal. A magic college professor who decided "**** it, I'm tired of being boring. I'm gonna go and be a sky pirate, and I want to die an epic death". She is the team mom.

Early February 2020. Someone in my main friend-group groupchat posted some news regarding Coronavirus. Me, happy citizen of UnderARockVille said "What the fuck is a Coronavirus?" and got gently made fun of.

A few weeks later aaaaand we were quarantining.

Neither? I'd wash my hands off the whole thing "on your head be it if this goes to shit".0

Not calling the authorities, also not going to need torture to tell them what I know if you get caught.

Horoscopes on radio shows? Made up on the spot or stolen from google. And I'm willing to bet the ones on newspapers and websites are too.

I wonder how many astrology girlies would have their hearts broken by this.

Learned this when I interned at a radio station. (My field is communications; Journalism + Marketing.)