srsly though it’s astonishing just how much global geopolitics hinges on whether this is successful. MS Office is the main blocker to the EU migrating off US tech.

wow, I didn’t need any more reasons not to support Oracle but thanks anyway

There is a theory that cats evolved the sound of their miaowing to trigger the same part of the human brain that reacts to a baby’s crying. Manipulative little fucks.

ICE is populated with the sort of people who think soccer is un-American and for girls. Most will consider the idea of fucking about with visitors of an international soccer tournament to be entirely consistent with the “Don’t Come Here” message they want to send.

I find it weird that the US seems to have more interview rounds than most countries, despite it being the place where it’s easiest to fire people for not meeting expectations.

Don’t forget you can block communities that irritate you. I’ve got plenty blocked that aren’t even things I’m opposed to, but just don’t want my feed to be full of.

Oh wait I see, you’re in training for when they add Extreme High Horse Riding to the X-Games. Careful you don’t fall off.

I predict it will be a Chinese skateboarder, on the moon.

I gotta say, I was kind of expecting to get some pushback from people who had their own favourite skaters who turned out to have a billion YouTube views or something, but I wasn’t expecting this number of replies to be people butthurt over some imagined attack on their own identity

The guy compares my post to White supremacist rhetoric and I’m the one clutching pearls? lol

I know he didn’t call me racist. I said he brought racism into it, like as though it was anything like on the same level and not a ludicrous pearl-clutching analogy. Also “accuses every generation of being useless” is a way OTT characterization that you’ve inferred solely so that you can have something to get mad at. It was a lighthearted showerthought about a skateboarder.

It was a toxic garbage heap way before 2016. I remember creating an account to try building karma there back in about 2011 when doing that was seen as a good way to land senior job roles. Gave up very quickly.

The whole point of StackExchange is that it contained everything that isn’t in the docs.

Fuck me, all I said was there’s no culturally significant skateboarders coming up any more and you’re bringing a whole racism thing into it. Chill the fuck out dude

I suspect there’s an algorithm out there on some other platform where boosting is adversely affected by any kind of negative language, and people have figured it out and try to game it with this kind of thing.

The frustrating thing is they genuinely believe they’re the good guys

Weird, the art style doesn’t look like any AI I recognize, and yet everything about it has those classic hallmarks of being slightly weird and nonsensical, like where exactly is this date supposed to be happening? What is that thing on the desk? Is that supposed to be a window? Why does that handle not seem to connect to anything and why is she holding it in front of her in a weirdly unbalanced way like she’s walking a dog? Who shakes hands on a date? And why isn’t there any artist credited?

It’s a fucking chatbot. We should be worried when it can’t be persuaded to say mad things.

I’m willing to bet that at least half of these “look at the mad things Grok said” pieces were planted by Elmo’s own media team.

That might have been a good point, a few short years ago.

I posted a scathing reply to their post, but then lost confidence in it when it occurred to me they might have been joking, like deliberately getting it wrong to join in the joke OP posted.