[-] ssfckdt 30 points 3 days ago

I predicted a year or two ago that at some point calculators will be referred to as AI.

We're getting ever closer...

[-] ssfckdt 10 points 3 days ago

darwinian selection has nothing to do with aging. that's religious right / 1920s robber baron bullshit.

[-] ssfckdt 7 points 3 days ago

What's next, litter boxes in nursing homes? /s

[-] ssfckdt 10 points 4 days ago

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

[-] ssfckdt 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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?

[-] ssfckdt 1 points 4 days ago

Gee guess I missed "the ATM riots" day in history class

[-] ssfckdt 1 points 4 days ago

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

[-] ssfckdt 1 points 4 days ago

But I'm guessing you're around English speaking people most of the time

[-] ssfckdt 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] ssfckdt 129 points 4 days ago

HPD Detective Kyle Stringer told Choi.... that real officers do not wear ski masks.

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[-] ssfckdt 91 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ssfckdt 61 points 4 months ago

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.

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