Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.

I read that as opting into the early access, not as opting in to having AI in Firefox. Hope it is the way you read it.

Is no chatbot a choice?

I got some parachute pants when I was around 11 or 12 because I thought they were cool, and were the only fad I actually got excited about. Those were some comfy pants!

In high school grunge got popular, which worked out for since I was already wearing worn out jeans, tshirts, and flannel shirts due to living in a rural area. Not sure if trends catching up with me counts as being part of the fad, but I did like the music.

I know it sounds crazy, but I swear the emotion there was like the first cow was trying to wake up the hit cow

That isn’t crazy. Tons of social mammals do that, including cows.

A picture of a dog’s head resting in someone’s lap doesn’t mean they would act the same around a stranger. Same for cows.

Benefitting from being social with others doesn’t make you a social vampire. Almost everyone benefits from socializing, to the point that it is assumed to be a shared human trait.

A social vampire is someone who preys on others socially, frequently by forcing others into social situations they don’t want to be in. Forcing someone to work in the office so there is someone to be social with is a sign of someone being a social vampire.

This is why they are being downvoted.

I wish one time someone who hates all the newer stuff would give a real reason why and not some lame blanket statement about it.

Plenty of people have given real reasons that aren’t blanket statements. Some people have soent way more time than the movies deserve pointing out the issues with the new movies.

Heck, I spent a few minutes making a comment as a reply to theirs covering the basic issues that is far more than a blanket statement, and that was just the objectively bad stuff that I remembered off the top of my head.

The movies are not the moneymakers for Star Wars, and never have been. Lucas didn’t get 4 billion dollars for the movie rights.

The money is in toys and licensing, and Disney has most likely made their money back already.

That stare as he pulls the lever is fantastic!

I am so intruiged by the fact that the mass of good accumulated at the one spot. The mystery of what pressures were at play for it to flow to that one spot.

I assumed they associated reading and using the toilet and the volume of books just triggered the association in their mind, and wasn’t surprised to see it as one of the hypothesis.

Most of the people I know in person that spoke highly of it when it first started up referred to it as an alternate to cabs because it was totally different. The fact that people still refer to it as ‘ride sharing’ is a sign that people do think it is something different than taxis.

A lot of us saw it, but I don’t think the majority of people saw it.

The thing being forced on everyone else in this context is a requirement to work in an office instead of work from home. In that context, someone saying high quality human contact is important, implying that is a benefit of being forced into the office and forcing everyone else into the office makes them happy.

The wealthy being able to use the appreciated, estimated value of things they own to secure low interest loans to purchase even more things without needing the money to be considered income for tax purposes is a primary driver of wealth in equity.

Or look at student loans

In the US, student loans were a problem that was created starting in the 90s by cutting government funding of state colleges and legislating a way to dump a ton of dept onto students under the pretense of access. Biden’s actions are temporary bandages on the open, gaping wound that will not heal until we address the actual underlying cause.

Triage in the form of student debt forgiveness, while necessary, is not progress towards a solution.

This was an excellent example!

Huh, I thought cats were a liquid.

It used the AI to destroy the AI.

The making money back, contracts, and music applies to sales too.

The reason they don’t have it for sale is because they like money.