You replied to “It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely” with the rebuttal that it’s “statistical”. When something has a varying degree of likelihood, that’s exactly what statistical means.

You literally don’t know what the word “statistical” means.

I think we can call them astroturfed garbage.

Fun fact: the word “galaxy” has the root of “milk” in it. It’s dairy all the way down.

Galactic / lactic

8 was designed terribly, but the engineering was unbelievably good. It was more streamlined and stable than it had ever been, it was just skinned by a tablet-obsessed moron.

10 was a huge step back in technical quality, but it undid a lot of the stupid mistakes on the front-end.

There do seem to be some cracks there but he’s still been an incredible purchase for Putin.

My Russian is rusty, but here’s a rough translation: “We invaded Ukraine and have had our asses kicked thoroughly and dramatically, but we would still like to win and take a bunch of their territory.”

I might have missed a conjugation or two.

As I understand it, Onyx Boox/Palma devices are great, but Onyx is a flagrant violator of GPL FWIW. For a full size reader I always recommend/second the Kobo Libra Colour and for a Palma replacement, the Bigme Hibreak is fantastic and also comes in color for a great price.

Now apply this to like, everything else ever.

Machine designed to convincingly fake human internet conversation sucks at ____________!

Amazon: exploits workers to amass inhuman wealth

Coders: apply for jobs at Amazon

Amazon: exploits coders to amass inhuman wealth

Coders: shockedpikachu.jpg

That’s great advice. At least for as long as libraries still exist. 😫

I hear good things about Pimsleur as an alternative.

https://www.pimsleur.com/

Republicans: “Hey, you suggested it, but now that we’re thinking about it…”

“Own the libs”

True enough, but you’d still be playing legal whack-a-mole because by the letter of the law, you could still be legally relatively poor but have access to an insane amount of money in lots of ways.

In principle, yes, but hiding wealth is also like Rich Bastard 101 stuff.

The problem is that the winners don’t share. They exploit the others. That’s exactly what got us here in the first place.

Any economist or data scientist should be able to pretty easily compare the economic course to a forecast of what would have happened with minimal interference.

Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.

I would say the only silver lining here is that the exploitation of labor puts these giants in a precarious position where all of their critical work is being done by unhappy, extrinsically motivated people who are often only still there because they’re relatively immobile (i.e., they aren’t good enough at their job to find another one easily) or they were kept on because their salary is lower and they’re less experienced. It makes these massively complicated technology ecosystems extremely brittle, which is why software has been shit across the board for the past decade or so. It’s possible there will be a pendulum swing if and when quality becomes an attainable and marketable feature again.

I do. It’s not ideal but it still gives me something better to do than social media.

I’ve heard it’s quirky and kinda mid as a phone, but not unusable.