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I think what you’re not getting is that dogs are neurologically wired different from humans, and so experience the world differently.

So a dog’s sense of self is different from a human’s, its sensory inputs are different, and its language processing is different.

It’s kind of like those AI models a decade or so back that were really good at identifying where a picture was taken — and then it turned out they’d mapped the relationship between the geolocation numbers in the EXIF data and weren’t looking at the image data at all.

The president isn’t a teenager, and as a sociopath wouldn’t have been representative of teenagers even when he was one.

If that AI companion isn’t on your own hardware, it will likely require a subscription eventually. And running an AI agent yourself isn’t cheap.

There’s also plenty of discussion of public libraries, but since they’re all independent of each other, it’s not a unified discussion. Nobody online is going to recommend their local library to a random person from who knows where.

Or, he’ll appoint lawyers to defend him, billing the US for their time, AND ignore the court’s proceedings.

As a counter example, all the free/pd stuff on archive.org gets discussed pretty regularly, as does Wikipedia.

Maybe it’s that when it’s free, people just use it or they don’t. You don’t get people saying “Hey, did you see this awesome free article on Wikipedia?” because everyone already knows that Wikipedia is CC; instead, they just mention Wikipedia without mentioning it’s free.

Is it really a surge when it goes up and stays there? It’s not like it has ebbed. There’s no reason to engage with it anymore.

Probably means you know somebody mildly racist.

An English nose I could understand, but Britain already implies a whole melting pot of lineages tied to location and not ethnicity.

Speaking the truth and being fired for it is a good way to leave; it beats having to work against your conscience or quit with a whimper.

And protecting those friends from the blatant gaslighting that’s coming.

Persian Gulf or Gulf of Iran?

They’re the ones silently benefiting?

Wordblur; I like that one.

Instead of the Underground Railroad, this generation may have the Trans National Pipeline.

Cute. DOGE staff are for the most part listed as employees of the organization they’re tasked with dismantling.

That’s odd; my Apple Maps says “Gulf of Mexico” and searching for “Gulf of America” shows 0 results.

Unlike Google Maps/Earth….

Also town town, mountain mountain, and my favourite, river hill mountain town town.

Youtube Tom Scott, and then lose a few weeks of your life.

Implicit in that question is “and is young” - but I bet there’s lots of us attractive older people in here :)