I think that it is worth pointing out that the state of Israel has executed a successful campaign to "totally destroy" (their recent words) Gaza by fire. In English, we have a word that literally means "to totally destroy by fire": and that word is fucking "holocaust".

This war is a holocaust of Gaza, and a one-sided genocide.

The person to whom you were responding was trying to make this artifact of the Before-Times relatable to modern Homo Cephalosepses, which cannot comprehend anything from outside its natural environment of TikTok. Unfortunately, speciation has not yet led to a visible difference between the two extant species of the genus Homo, and behavioral differences are currently the only way to differentiate this new species from H. Sapiens, so this person was trying to bridge the species divide, in case the original commenter was on the other side of it.

ETA: I suppose that I will also grant the possibility that the person to whom you replied was an H. Cephalosepses individual trying to translate to others of their kind.

I agree that it isn't actually necessary. I put that in because, at the current moment, government will to regulate simply isn't there, because most governments are fully under the control of special interest groups and corps. As such, the necessity is there unless and until such a bill of rights is enacted. I personally think we should be getting our proteins from lentils.

And I suppose you have personal knowledge that they never cook, since they are constantly pulling your shitty food off the grocery shelves?

There is a reason why the cooks and bussers are different people. Not everyone wants to get dishwater in their food from whatever tool they use to clean, nor do I have time while things are cooking and requiring near-constant attention to properly wash my hands 10 times as i go back and forth while cooking a single meal.

I try.

1. Biased Jury: It seems like the ability to give biased choices is going to be a serious hang-up. Many of the options available in the current question bank show this, where the author has qualified a statement erroneously, forcing you to choose between two awful options, or biasing you towards one or the other based on wording.
2. AI Jury: I understand the perceived necessity to pad the responses with AI simulations, but when I put in my response and it responded with "These responses were generated with AI", that SERIOUSLY put me off. Since there is an easy way to just sign up with a dummy email, why not just remove the email bit, and make people sign up to write questions. Then, they could just have a "dashboard" for each question that unlocks when they complete their jury duty for that question.
3. 3 Minute Promise: don't make a promise you can't keep. Rather than promising 3-minute waits, just make it that you have to answer 12 questions in order to see the current vote counts for your question, and then the votes come in when they come in.
4. Dropped Question: before my first question, I did a bunch of jury duty. I hadn't signed up yet, and when I put in a question about whether animals deserved an international bill of rights, it sent me to the next screen to wait, but never returned any results. I refreshed the page, and it took me back to the home landing page. Did the question even get submitted to the bank?
5. Double Jeopardy: After I signed up, I went through another bout of jury duty, but I got the same questions, and I'm pretty sure they were in the same order. I was forced to vote a second time. Is this because there is currently such a limited question bank? Either way, I shouldn't have been able to vote on the same question twice.

Done

I would argue that at least 15% of the blame lies with the racist expectation in the US that all names need be anglicized, when we have fucking Unicode. If someone whose second language is English can be expected to be able to pronounce "Rayleigh Monaghan McTavish", then the least that the anglophone people of the US could do is learn to pronounce things in a few other common languages. There is, quite simply, no excuse for the government of the united States, in which there is no official language (even though a traitor, invalidated by the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment, had some fuckwit draft a document trying to declare it without congressional approval), to mandate the use of a single language.

I would like to provide a counterexample. There are plenty of these people in the US intermountain west, but there are at least some cases where there is no one at fault. Next time you see one of these names without context (though we clearly have the context in this case), before judging, consider Nariaw:

I am a teacher, and one year I found that my roster included a student named "Nariaw". As a public school, we register your student based on what's on the birth certificate. I ask all of my students to pronounce their names for me when I first meet them, for the reason we see in the OP and with shit like "abcde". However, when this girl came to my class, she said her name was pronounced "Miriam". I spent a good twenty seconds looking at my roster, and had to ask her to spell it for me. I didn't ask any rude and impertinent questions at that point, so it wasn't until a few months later that I got the full story:

Her mother, an immigrant from Ethiopia, was still unfamiliar with Latin script when her daughter was born here in the US. So when she attempted to write out the name, which she wanted to transliterate as "Mariam", she ended up writing only half of the first M, and wrote the second one upside-down. Whoever did the data entry for the government records dutifully recorded the child's name as "Nariaw". Was the mother at fault for being expected to write a name which, while she knew how to represent it in Amharic, she was forced to write in a language in which she was illiterate?

Thanks for your input, Chef Boyardee. I always make sure to put great store in ad-hominems from fictionalized canned MRE mascots. Take your shitty ravioli high horse and go ride off into the sunset with the Sunkist tuna.

Edit: "fictional" to "fictionalized"

That one is a real picture. They're saying to compare it to the AI massacre that dares call itself a mountain in the original post

just regular spoiled and power-mad shmucks

FTFY. To call them "regular" belies the fact that suffusion of money and the power over the wellbeing of others has, universally, rotted their humanity from the inside out, making it impossible for them to even imagine --- let alone successfully predict --- what a "regular" shmuck would consider a reasonable use-case for AI.

ADHDinos has been around since around the beginning of the pandemic. It seems pretty clear that they haven't been using AI to generate their content this whole time.

Let's be honest, why would they believe it was real? Literally the only piece of evidence any of them might have even heard of from Voyager would be the Pale Blue Dot, and they would just say "wow, someone poked some holes in a blanket with some lens flare". All of the planet pictures can be explained away as artists' renditions.

ETA: Also, if you haven't seen it by now, I recommend watching the film "behind the curve" to understand the level of willful self-delusion in which this sort of person engages, all to feel like they belong and their perspicacity is recognized by their chosen in-group.

Thank you for the context. Excellent reference.

Who said anything about training?

You seriously think Hannibal Lecter would ever, even under penalty of torture, throw his support behind anyone as stupid as Drumpf? The only thing he respects is perspicacity and intellect. Even if (and oh what a ridiculous "if" this would be) Lecter deigned to believe in Fascism, the thought that he'd spend his last words on some other fucker? Laughable. Lecter's last words would be him basking in his own superiority, listing off personal information and private details, showing just how much he knew about the people in the execution room, and picking at all of their insecurities, then he'd just smile and wait.

Asking the real questions

I can, explicitly and unequivocally, state that I derive intense joy from having the privilege of seeing this.