All of them. It was their founding mandate. It’s simply operating more openly and at unimaginable scale this year.

Toys R Us. No contest.

You ever hear that saying…

• Raylan Givens, Justified

They strike me as more of a “milk steak boiled over hard” kind of person.

Tailscale is Canadian.

…it soon became evident that this net was cast too wide for any private agency. Not merely was my own mail opened, but the mail of all my relatives and friends—people residing in places as far apart as California and Florida. I recall the bland smile of a government official to whom I complained about this matter: “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.”

• Upton Sinclar, The Profits of Religion (1917)_

You just described the last two decades of cooking/recipe websites.

Dr. Ian Malcom: “SEO ruins succinct writing, AI trains on bloated SEO ‘optimized’ text, AI produces bloated SEO-optimized output…”

TIL that following many decades of carefully observed writing best practices makes you an AI.

mainstream media

mainstream liberals

I believe you have proved my point.

It has a negative connotation only for nazis and racists. For everyone else it has a clear, well defined meaning. Anyone who uses it as pejorative is a racist, nazi propagandist.

You conflated the way the website displays content (literal versus paraphrase translations) with the translations themselves (you literally painted the paraphrase translation as “fan fiction”). I clearly explained how the different translations work, that the content itself is the same for all available translations, and why the translations are likely to be displayed differently. Additionally, the website is freely accessible and confirming these things takes seconds.

But you appear to have ignored everything I said and then doubled down on your own bizarre take. And again, this is all easily verifiable in seconds on the website you, yourself, mentioned.

It doesn’t really matter whether you are trying to be deceptive on purpose or whether you are simply clueless and obstinate. Doubling down on a bad take after getting something so wrong makes for some potent fremdschämen.

There is no way. If identity is involved in any way, shape, or form it is a major privacy and security risk. Meta supports it only because it shifts responsibility and liability off themselves. In other words, it benefits them financially. Endangering the public for profit is their whole M.O.

Apple is being sued because they announced and demonstrated all of these AI features and then never delivered. They are actually doing good work in the AI field, including a recent paper that demonstrates that AI/LLM technology is incapable of reasoning, and any apparent logic seen in current approaches is simply an illusion. It’s not that they “aren’t moving fast enough”, it’s that they intentionally lied about their capabilities and timelines.

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

When America sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7764650-when-mexico-sends-its-people-they-re-not-sending-their-best

The 9070 XT is excellent and FSR 4 actually beats DLSS 4 in some important ways, like disocclusion.

I’ll just leave these here. They’re the exact website you mentioned using.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+23&version=MSG

So what you are saying is that it is your own belief that the concept of beliefs encompasses only false beliefs.

Religion is a plague.

You can believe in things, even god(s) and not be “religious.” But as soon as religion kicks in, and the dogmatism and compartmentalization that comes with it, it becomes a tool of authoritarianism, which itself breeds every kind of inhuman horror imaginable.

I can read their minds through the magic of the internet, and a lot of unfortunate personal experience.

They open with long-winded, empty, masturbatory platitudes like this.

“Oh Lord our God, who rules from heaven, glorious is your name, we come to you today in prayer and supplication that you will show your glory and power to this sinful country, Lord. We marvel at your power and wisdom and glory, and we come to you as your servants, so that you can use us as the tools of your holy and glorious and most perfect will, oh God.”

Only then do they get to the meat of their evil demands to their coin-operated god.

“We pray that you would help us to rob the poor, hurt them, kill them, and deprive them of care and basic necessities. We pray that you would help us line our own pockets, and the pockets of our friends and donors, with the wealth stolen en masse from the weakest and least of your children. We pray that you help us capture, torture, and expel the foreigner and the stranger, who we do not want among us. We pray that you would help us separate children from their parents and parents from their children, especially those in need of medical care, and that you would help us deprive them of that care. We pray that you would help us subjugate the masses and make them slaves to our whims and enterprises, and deprive them of their freedom and agency, and to help us force all women, but only those born with pussies, to be the chattel that you have proclaimed them to be in your infinite wisdom. In your holy name, ah-men.”