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  • That’s wrong on both counts.

    The complaints about NFTs were also that they were unethical - consumed a shitton of electricity for no reason, sustained themselves mostly by scams and rugpulls. The chief use case of crypto has always been crime and money laundering.

    The complaints about AI are that it fucking sucks and results in a truly insane waste of resources towards something that doesn’t solve literally any problems, like NFTs squared. The unethical aspect of it all is just a cherry on top that makes using LLMs a no-go even if it happened to kinda work for your problem.






  • It’s a stupid thing that

    • exists only in English as far as I know, every other language puts it after the number,
    • is not used consistently (since you still write 25Ā¢ and not Ā¢25),
    • doesn’t follow the way you read it (it’s ā€œfive dollarsā€ not ā€œdollar fiveā€).

    It’s one of those places where yes, the spelling rules say otherwise, but the rule is fucking stupid so anarchy it is.

    I’m more irked by ā€œlessā€, the noun there is dollars so it should be ā€œfewerā€ā€¦


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    I saw glimpses of someone playing some weird shit on a mobile phone, so I texted my bff group chat that it looks like someone’s playing a pokemon game but it’s anime girls racing around a track or something, but it was 18:30 in public transit, hard day at work, really hot, so I was like probably I’m hallucinating something

    Then the responses I got were like ā€œye it’s probably this very popular Umami Horny Derby game where you date horse waifus, everyone’s been playing it for weeksā€ and I haven’t been more depressed in ages













  • This article is wild already, on the first page there’s this quote

    ā€˜Do not use the passive voice when such use makes a statement clumsy and wordy. . . Do not, by using the passive voice, leave the agent of the verb vaguely indicated, when the agent should be clearly identified.’ [Edwin Woolley, Handbook of Composition, 1907, p. 20]

    Emphasis mine on… a clear usage of the passive! In active this would have to be ā€œwhen you should clearly identify the agentā€ or something of the like, the fuck, how hard is it to not expose your whole ass like this mate