darwinian selection has nothing to do with aging. that's religious right / 1920s robber baron bullshit.
What's next, litter boxes in nursing homes? /s
Oh my dude, that second ship sailed decades ago.
Time was there was really just one place (maybe two) where you could find an answer to a question. (Usenet mostly.)
Now there's easily two dozen at least, from SO/SE, Quora, Yahoo Answers, all the way to Reddit subs....
The balkanization of information. It screwed the knowledge of the public, but it made a few people super rich. Whee
I'm not sure what's good about people losing the knowledge of the fundamentals of how things work
How ironic is it to be against individual empowerment on the internet in lieu of dependency on corporate controlled outlets..... on the fucking fediverse?
Gee guess I missed "the ATM riots" day in history class
No, it really has been statistically associated with such things as what kind of media you were exposed to. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/02/health/02real.html
But I'm guessing you're around English speaking people most of the time
My ex told me to stop calling them floaters because it made her think of poop. Thing is, that's literally what they're called.
HPD Detective Kyle Stringer told Choi.... that real officers do not wear ski masks.
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Merriam dgaf. Their job is to figure out what words people are using, and document them. People could invent the word "bumblesausagecock" and if it caught on, they would add it.
Hot take, but I dare say 4chan was the source of as much of what's good in internet culture as it was for much of what's the worst in internet culture.
Rickroll, Caturday, the modern meme format, reaction gifs, "TLDR", Anonymous (well, the good versions of it), spoderman, Rule 34, trollface, rageface, quite a bit of pet abuse justice, ... they may have even successfully set back AI chatbots nearly a full decade with their gaming of Microsoft's Tay chatbot... quite a lot of modern Internet slang such as win, fail, an hero, based, copypasta, creepypasta, "god tier", lulz, moar, sauce...
The thing about anarchy is that it brings out both the best and the worst.
I predicted a year or two ago that at some point calculators will be referred to as AI.
We're getting ever closer...