Sometimes a message doesn’t warrant a response. My wife sends me links to stuff online, I don’t reply to those. Personally I hate communicating with my smartphone so I tend not to reply to people who message me on it

Because it signal to me that the content is low quality and untrustworthy

WinDiv needs to have its top product managers fired and taken over by DevDiv

It’s not medieval but something that feels in the same Genre to me is Townsends on youtube. They do historical videos about 18th/early 19th century America - mostly recipes

Is it self sufficient? From what I understand they’re pretty reliant on imports for a lot of things, including agriculture

I think Russia and China do not want them to - it would threaten their diplomatic power over their Vassel states. If, say, Iran, had a nuke from North Korea, it would reduce Russian influence.

North Korea is severely restricted from flying their own flag on their own ships. North Korean ships are often refused entry to many ports around the world due to UN sanctions and can also be boarded by SK or US forces if they suspect the ship is being used to transport weapons of mass destruction. North Korea often just registers their ships in other countries or outright illegally flies other country’s flags to avoid inspection

Sometimes I’ll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching

I’m no longer a Christian but when people tried to get jesus to weigh in on hot button political issues of his day (probably to entrap him into saying something that would piss off either the zealots or the romans) he told them “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s; render unto god what is God’s”. The meaning, I take it, is that he was there with a spiritual message, not a political one

If you need to send sms to someone not on signal, why not just send them an sms

My dad won’t switch from Facebook messenger so now we have to talk via unencrypted sms

Beyond Good and Evil

Yeah would be sick if LLMs and bots just disappeared overnight

Welcome to Costco. I love you

You can opt out of paying for them. If I ran a business, I’d probably try self hosting before I used slack, but it would probably become very difficult at scale

Well thems the breaks!

They’re meant to prevent bot traffic to sites and protect from DDOS attacks

Why is this bad

Wish someone would dox these pussies

Only because you’re only reading the comment at face value. Humans existentially require roles. Sometimes that role is caregiver, sometimes it’s parent, and sometimes it’s fireman or garbage truck driver. If we live in a world where machines can do everything better than humans, what is the point of a human? If a robot does all the work around the house and cooks and cleans and I get a check for a few thousand every month, what am I contributing to my family? If I’m not a provider, what am I?

And you can say this is some kind of capitalist indoctrination but I sincerely believe this is biology. Men, especially, define themselves by their ability to contribute to their families or to society. Men are impacted more heavily by layoffs than women are, for example. When a man loses his job he’s likely to fall into a depressive malaise of self pity and feelings of uselessness.

That’s not applicable here. A Scotsman is not defined by his behaviors, but his ancestral homeland. Liberalism and socialism are defined by their policy initiatives, otherwise the terms become meaningless when we ascribe any negative american political behavior to them.

All EU countries are liberal democracies. The United States falls far short of its liberal commitments. Just because American democrats abuse Big-L Liberalism doesn’t mean that small-l liberalism is without meaning.