The future: “Why didn’t we fight harder to stop Chinese Imperialism?”

“Because every said to do so was American Imperialism.”

Lol, I’m not sure what’s worse. Using an LLM to summarize and article for you, or not even reading the article and assuming you know the contents by the title. Fucking people…

So, just because I’m unaffected I should be OK with it continuing?

We should really give this a while. Take a few months and make sure the fix is set before we bring them back in. Maybe even a full year.

I’m sure it doesn’t hold up, especially the treatment of mental health issues, but damn, I loved that movie as a kid.

Edit: So, I went to go look it up to watch it, and what do you know, the movie I’m thinking of isn’t The Wiz, it’s The Wizard… And so, I, in fact, have not seen The Wiz.

I mean… good? Don’t be a government and give money to a church? S E P A R A T E.

Because I want more things in my life that bring me joy? Seeing something I love from a new perspective sounds like a fun experience?

I don’t know. Trump’s actions against the Pope recently might actually embolden him to take credit for it.

It’s actually much worse (for us, not them). From the NBC article.

Live Nation said the jury’s award of $1.72 per ticket "applies to a limited number of tickets—those sold at 257 venues, which represent about 20% of total tickets—and only to purchases by fans (excluding brokers) in certain states over the past five years.”

“Based on that scope, we believe the aggregate single damages figure would be below $150 million, which would be trebled,” the company said. “In connection with the DOJ settlement, Live Nation has already accrued $280 million toward state damages and civil penalty claims. Injunctive relief will be determined by the Court after the states make a remedy proposal, which we expect in the coming weeks.”

So, even though $4.3 billion is pretty paltry against their annual revenue of $25 billion, it’s potentially MUCH less because the scope is so limited.

The jury found Ticketmaster had overcharged customers by $1.72 (£1.27) on each ticket sold over a period of several years. That figure is set to be used as the basis for calculating damages.

So… this was a waste of time, then… No one was complaining because Taylor Swift tickets were a buck and some change more expensive…

As much as I want this to be good, I have a strong feeling it’s gonna be mid at best. Not a great director, screenwriters aren’t hitting, they have only released two actors names, and the producer is a mixed bag. I’m really hoping they can pull it out… but I’m definitely gonna keep my expectations low.

So you can see how many years long a bar is.

Doing all wrong. You have to start with the penthouses and corporations. If their life is easier, then everyone below them gets it easier, too. If you make it too easy for the workers they’ll just get lazy.

The sum of all human endeavor can be summed up in a fun little madlib:

My (god, penis, wealth) will (kill, fuck, buy) your (genetics, wife, life).

Feel free to swap things around as needed.

Same for me. The only thing that’s awkward is when I try to explain something I saw “on the Reddit alternative I use.” I still can’t get my friends to understand Lemmy.

In that situation, I kinda have to say the priest is the architect of their own awkward judgement. They would be labeled a hypocrite because they aren’t practicing what they preach. If I’m in Willie Jane’s Dildo Emporium and I see my buddy Steve, I’m just gonna be like, “Bro, what’d you get? I’m tired of the Ass-assin 2000, and I was thinking of going to the Hole Shebang Turbo EX Plus Alpha. Any thoughts?”

The world would be a lot more fun without the clergy.

The agency reported that the number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age declined from 53.8 in 2024 to 53.1 last year

You know, I bet if we didn’t just call them “women of childbearing age”, we might have a few more kids out there… C’mon NCHS, put some romance in your stats.

Neither have I, lady, but you don’t hear me holding press conferences about it.

And people have been launching products without thought to the ramifications since the dawn of time. I don’t think that will change, either. What we need to do is educate ourselves better when it comes to identifying potential fraud. Taking anything at face value, regardless of it’s source, is dumb. If it’s worth knowing, it’s worth verifying.

That isn’t a fault in the LLM, though, that is a fault in the general make-up of human skepticism, or lack their of. We didn’t invent the word ‘Propaganda’ without having a sentence to use it in. Those that don’t practice skepticism, critical thinking, and even mild reasoning are the ones that will get led astray. That didn’t just start happening when LLMs came around, it’s been here since we first started talking to each other. It’s only more visible now because everything is more visible now. The world is much more connected than it ever has been, and that grows with every literal day. All these fucking idiots that don’t double check what they are being told are the problem, regardless of if it came from an LLM or a human, because I guarantee you they are being led astray by both. They don’t trust the machine because it’s a machine, they trust what they are told because they are lazy. That isn’t the LLMs fault.