This reminds me of another circular argument: Anything the president does can be considered “acting presidential” simply because they’re president. You might’ve thought that shitposting on twitter was unbecoming of a world leader, but once a president does it, it’s okay for a president to do.

An argument to protect a fool from public criticism now doubles as a defense against legal action.

I tried muting the TV and just reading the captions for a little, and it made me a fair bit more confident in Biden. And he did have some good moments after I turned the sound back on. I’m just worried it won’t be enough. Maybe it’s the anxiety of realizing that we’ve actually reached election season.

I keep tuning in and out. I tune out when Trump speaks because everything he says is just such an affront to objective reality. But then I also tune out when Biden speaks because… He just comes off as so old it’s making me cringe. Like, this is the best we could come up with to combat a literal fucking fascist.

Then I wonder, what part of this am I listening to? The questions?

The thing these AI goons need to realize is that we don’t need a robot that can magically summarize everything it reads. We need a robot that can magically read everything, sort out the garbage, and summarize the the good parts.

Hey at least I know it gets the job done

I appreciate this thread’s nuanced discussion of how file deletion works from a technical standpoint depending on storage medium. But as a user, when I delete something, it should go away forever. I don’t care how.

Gboard swiping is okay, but I agree, there are still some annoyances. Random mid-sentence capitalization is a big one for me.

And no matter how hard I try, no matter what the settings are, no matter how slowly and deliberately I motion, it will absolutely never output the word “fuck” when swiping. It will say “fucking”, it will even say “fuckin”, but it will never say “fuck”.

Gucci. Duck. Tick. Duck. Rick. Dick. Gigi. FICO. Guck.

This was barely funny back in 2009, now it’s just embarrassing. WTF even is “guck”.

That’s every fucking day

This implies the existence of “legal invaders”

I’m on board. We all know the only acceptable uses of social media are rating the hotness of college classmates, coordinating hookups, and job searching. Strictly the purview of the 18-24 demographic.

Do normal people openly and candidly characterize their own motivations as “tit for tat”? I thought that was typically pejorative.

I copied the list straight from the article, so excuse the awkward phrasing. But yes, the implication is that you could totally use “password1” on some websites.

Now that’s a pee four dollar sign dollar sign omega zero are dee right there

The article focuses on password requirements that websites implement, not user behaviors. Common bad practices mentioned:

• Permit very short passwords
• Do not block common passwords
• Use outdated requirements like complex characters

when did SMS go out of style?

This is kind of sad. I’ve been using the site a fair amount recently to help get through some depressive episodes and the social withdrawal/isolation that come with them. Granted, about 50% of conversations were bots, and 40% were guys just looking for girls to send them nudes, but the other 10% or so was pretty interesting conversations.

I guess this will be the impetus to get back out and socialize IRL again. Or to find a new chat-with-randos service. Or to keep spiraling deeper into depression. We’ll see.

Edit: It was also kinda nice to be treated like a woman without being treated differently for being trans.

Oh gosh. Did my critique of ads just become an ad?

This seems to follow a progression

• No ads
• Non-intrusive ads
• Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them go away
• Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them less intrusive
• Intrusive ads and you have to pay just to see the content
• Content becomes ads
• Ads pretend to be content (see Dr. Pepper’s “Fansville”)
• Award categories for ads are featured in major award ceremonies
• Award ceremonies just for ads go mainstream

Actually not sure what’s real vs hypothetical at this point.

New DRM tech prevents safe viewing without express written consent from the owner.

“Using imprecise language as an excuse to create plausible ambiguity about whether defendant violated this Court’s unequivocal gag order is not a defense; the subject of Donald Trump’s public statement to the press was unmistakably clear.”