caekislove

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by caekislove 2y ago
>A verification badge used to signal trustworthiness, now it can be bought. They gave those out to Gawker bloggers. The only think the OG blue checkmark stood for was "someone who was friends with a Twitter insider".
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by caekislove 2y ago
I'm old enough to remember when the media tried to astroturf Threads like this.
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by caekislove 2y ago
This. It used to be not that uncommon for kids to arrive in Kindergarten already capable of reading and writing. Now it's not that uncommon to see kids graduating high school unable to read and write. Our education system is a disgrace
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by caekislove 2y ago
Moving the HQ of the gaming and movie business to California was a mistake. Sony needs to return to its roots and base all major decision-making in Japan.
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by caekislove 2y ago
"[X] searches spike after [X] election" Journalism, Ladies and Gentlemen.
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by caekislove 2y ago
I tried thinking about Electron apps but I ran out of RAM.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Here's the chat, for those who are interested: https://archive.is/CXjlp
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by caekislove 2y ago
They are like this literally any time a Republican is in the White House. They were like this when Dubya was President too, even though today they act like he's some sort of elder statesman just because he hates Trump.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Imma let you finish, but since Trump won the popular vote by millions of votes, the word "reasonable" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
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by caekislove 2y ago
I think the poster intended to make a contrast between US postwar vassals versus Soviet postwar vassals.
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by caekislove 2y ago
If "Twitter, but decentralized" was compelling to the average social media user, Mastodon would have eaten the world years ago.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Get real. It's a liberal echo chamber. 90%+ of the posts there are anti-Trump and/or anti-Musk.
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by caekislove 2y ago
A chatbot has no wishes or desires. Any output that isn't responsive to the prompt is, by definition, a "hallucination".
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by caekislove 2y ago
Google has deleted the chat from their site but here is an archive. It's at the end and seemingly out of nowhere. https://archive.is/CXjlp
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by caekislove 2y ago
People are going to have to get real creative to square this with the "One China" policy.
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by caekislove 2y ago
LOL, they write this same article every 4 years.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Yeah we should call this whole thing off and spend the money on solving poverty! /s
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by caekislove 2y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/SQnKA
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by caekislove 2y ago
The China whose economy has been imploding over the last year? good luck to Europe if they want to emulate the Chicoms.*eyeroll emoji*
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by caekislove 2y ago
That's great to hear!
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by caekislove 2y ago
More entertaining Presidential tweets. That's about it.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Because everyone besides Bernie dropped out right before Super Tuesday and endorsed Biden, hoping to get appointments in a future Biden Admin. Many, like Buttigeg were well rewarded for this.
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by caekislove 2y ago
If they did, the police might as well just keep officers stationed there 24/7 since they'll be getting called hourly.
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by caekislove 2y ago
These "You broke our arbitrary rules, therefore we fine you x% of your income" schemes are just a roundabout way for the EU to put an income tax on foreign corporations. It's going to blow up in their faces when companies sta
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by caekislove 2y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/IPS4p
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by caekislove 2y ago
Just go to sleep and find out tomorrow (maybe!) when you wake up.
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by caekislove 2y ago
Low-trust society.
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by caekislove 2y ago
So they don't want to hang out with expats but they also can't be bothered to learn the local language? Not surprising they aren't doing well socially.
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by caekislove 2y ago
It reminds me of the tragic fate of HitchBOT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
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by caekislove 2y ago
It's best to always avoid sending your warships into a war zone. They might get damaged, after all!

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