Well, he was a billionaire because he sold his successful business to Hewlett-Packard, who then wrecked it and strong-armed a case through the DoJ to claim he’d somehow misconstrued the value of his company, and then he spent 13 months in prison awaiting trial and was acquitted because the judge said HP just fucked it, so if we’re making up theories about who’s the villain in this story about an unexplained sinking… Maybe it’s more complex than a cursory reading of a single news article?

Not only is the word fag used by a lot of people, because there are a lot of hateful bigots out there, but even when you don’t mean the nasty implications, it still reminds gay people around you how much the world hates them and leads hateful bigots who overhear you to believe that their views are more widely held and acceptable to share in public. Shocking though it may seem, South Park is not a moral authority on these matters.

Aside from that, if you know a word is commonly used a slur against a disprivileged group, someone advises you to stop using it, and your response is that you’d rather say it, hurt someone and apologise if they complain about it than just stop using that word, what does that say about your priorities?

Yeah, a light meal taken at 11am, usually including a hot beverage and a bakery product

That post was so compelling until I got to the part where they were cheerily explaining how the future was AI assistants that you could bias towards your own political leanings. Can anyone just not try and cram LLMs into every single goddamn thing? I want search that takes me to websites made by people, not a summary by a piece of software pretending to be my friend which has been instructed to give sarcastic responses to make it feel more #relatable