I could curl up with that movie and a warm blanket if I had the flu. I wouldn’t necessarily choose it, but I wouldn’t resist it, either.

Many family movies also work. Plus Scooby doo for some reason.

Uh… yeah?

ALL those stories are based on previous stories.

I’m really not sure what your point is.

This doesn’t tell you anything if they were all derived from earlier stories – which, it turns out, is actually the case. We have the earlier stories as proof, in many cases.

Thank you.

Quick tip: going old-school by calling and faxing are more disruptive to their business than emailing. There are free, anonymous, online faxing services, you don’t need to have a machine.

Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.

I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).

I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.

He’s said some incredibly stupid things, but this is next level.

The hamster powering his brain is clearly just a rotting pile of sludge now. How can anyone look at this masterclass in utter ignorance and see anything other than a senile old fool who should be in a nursing home for his own protection?

Nearly 80% of republicans think this is okay? What wouldn’t they think is okay from him? It seems they’d be fine with his actual corpse being wheeled round on a trolley by Vance & co. Astounding.

Oh, some of us know. And some of us are sick of the edging.

We’re going there, inexorably. They’re trying to pretend that’s not what’s happening, and loads of people are happy to go along with it out of… denial? Blissful ignorance?

But some of us just wish they’d drop the fragments of their mask, already, so we can stop debating where we are in the 14 steps and just fucking deal with the problem.

It’s fine, we’re good. Sorry for coming out with the claws, I thought you were a MAGA troll. I also shouldn’t post drunk.

AI is good at some things, but terrible at creative tasks. It can make images and videos if you give it very specific prompts, but it’s awful at creative writing, for instance. It’s like a teenager who just discovered a thesaurus. Its characters are shallow caricatures, its plotting and pacing are weak, and it’s addicted to adjectives and adverbs.

It’s basically useless for anything more than emails and summaries.

It will probably get better, but right now, its writing and editing skills are abysmal. It has no soul, and it shows. And I mean the pro models. The free ones are even worse. And also, it can’t knit.

Fucking do it, pussy. Let’s see the backlash.

Trump humiliates everyone behind closed doors. Most of all, himself. And also with open doors. And stairs, and windows, and on the roof.

Trump is humiliation personified.

Where was my assumption, friend?

Was it not a right wing org, or did they not defraud people? Because both were made pretty clear in the article.

Point to where my comment touched you.

Okay. Sure, my entire life on this planet and all of my lived experience is ‘culture wars’.

Believe what you like, I’ll not stop you.

This isn’t ‘culture wars’ – whatever that even means here. It’s me talking to you. Being reductionist only makes you seem pithy, which is actually rather sad.

We’re probably done here, if you can’t even have a conversation without resorting to catch phrases.

No one gives a fuck that youre a woman.

Bullshit.

You don’t, but you’re not everyone.

A massive part of understanding the world is understanding that you’re not everyone. My entire career has been to understand other people, and step 1 is to realise that you are not everyone. It’s very counterintuitive for most of us, but also very necessary if you hope to understand things.

I am not everyone, and I am not speaking for myself here. If the world were me, I’d 100% say AOC could win. I’d fucking love that.

But I am not the world.

It’s the human way of things.

DNC or not, even if they were as perfect as you’d like them to be, trying to unite people on the left is like herding cats.

Have you tried having discussions with multiple people on the left? I’ll bet you have, and I’ll bet you’ve been frustrated.

The problem with any of left of centre is that we believe in things and aren’t a flock of sheep. That’s good, but also politically very bad for us.

They have their genitals deep in Israel.

I’m not joking, and thanks.

Yeah, in the same way a cut allows you to get a staph infection.

But a hangnail or certain kinds of sex at a bad time can do that, too.

Trump is just the method of delivery. Staph was always there, waiting for an opportunity.

I legitimately do.