“Pie fights”

Sorry, I thought the joke was implicit in your question, but the analog to “Lemmites” is “Piefites” which I think is just fine because say it out loud.

To be honest, the poster is “SPU,” so this is probably 90% to promote the site. (Not that I really care that much in this case, I like South Park and think episodes that have Muhammad in them should still be available despite religious extremists being upset.)

Well, I just nouned your verb right back to the way it was, checkmate.

You’ve just justified another $100 million in salary to David Zaslov.

This is pretty much a Black Mirror episode or Ted Chiang short story.

I could imagine a plausible dystopian future in which “AI agents” are commonplace and so dating apps are basically one person’s AI talking to another person’s AI and that is the “getting to know you” phase.

And once the AIs respectively decide they are right for each other, then the people just follow along, because the AI agents are making all the decisions otherwise for them as well.

This was meant to be a snarky comment that some people prefer seeing the sausage. But actually, that’s a reasonable benefit as well for romancing your local LLM, since many people would like the, er, benefits of a non-corporate-restricted model.

All the people talking wonders about the “warmth”, “tone”, and other supposedly desirable qualities are very mistaken. What they are fawning over is noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition, and so on. Vinyl records are shit. They make sound by literally scratching something.

I moved to all-digital music-making and -listening in the 90s, and agree that a lot of the “analog” benefits are imagined or the result of misunderstandings how technology works.

But I think you’re missing the point. Don’t forget that noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition are all legitimate effects often intentionally applied to make music sound a certain way.

A cassette is objectively lower quality by sampling rate, reproducibility, etc, but you agree that it affects the sound. At that point, I think you have to admit that a contrary personal preference for cassette or vinyl is valid. It’s not objectively “worse” because many people actually and validly find those “bugs” to be “features.”

It’s fine to like the digital revolution, but I’m just identifying you’re making a value judgement, and others can rightly value differently.

You may think the kid is a pupil and it’s a contradiction he wasn’t replaced by AI, but he’s actually the school superintendent.

Or more specifically, we are ashamed when we can’t afford things we need. We are saturated by right-wing propaganda that says if you don’t succeed, it’s your fault. So, like abuse victims, we internalize the shame of what is done to us.

It’s a message tailored so we don’t question the rich, and as an added benefit to them, trains the poor to not seek government systemic solutions to the inequality that creates their poverty.

I’ve seen this sentiment expressed multiple times, but you explained it beautifully. Our parents got to be people. We’re just resources.