The founders of the company won’t get a cent, but the coders and the people who labored to create the game are still there and would benefit from it.

So if you want to be anti-capitalist, pirate it, but if you want to support the people who labored to create it, buy it.

Didn’t he though? He left the plane in the hands of a capable pilot. No one else was injured. No property was lost.

Nolet’s. It’s got a complex flavor I haven’t fully explored yet.

It’s a pretty good bottle of gin for me, but otherwise: same.

So do I pour the drink now or wait until they admit it? Will we know the exact day they pull the plug? Did we already miss the appropriate day?

She’s MTG. She’s not against genocide. She’s against Jews.

Parallel thinking I’m sure, but my kids have an entire book that takes this idea and just runs with it. I think it’s called “Sandcastle”. After the Sandcastle is completed, a bunch of foreign kings and queens show up and start bitching about how they’re getting sand in their clothes.

Honestly when I read that description of AI it just makes me think: we’ve done it. We’ve recreated baseline human intelligence.

I mean do you think every person you interact with is truly understanding and processing everything they hear, or do you think that some of them just react as if on instinct, responding with something that often makes sense but mostly just feels like it makes sense? If you’ve been in the corporate world long enough, it’s hard not to believe it’s the latter. I think it’s just unintuitive how far you can get that way.

People need philosophy. I mean we all have a philosophy, but if you don’t take the time to explicitly define yours, it just defaults to whatever you picked up along the way.

Right? The service in Europe is fine as long as you never need anything.

Last Christmas my daughter kept getting closer to figuring things out until one night she cryptically said, “I can’t wait until I’m an adult so I can learn about grown up secrets.”

“What kind of secrets are those?”

“You know, like if Santa wasn’t real or something.”

“Well if Santa wasn’t real, then we’d definitely want to keep that secret from kids like your little brother, so we’d never ever talk about it.”

“Oh yeah.”

Then she never mentioned it again.

It may have been our fault for doing way too many holiday activities. She must have met four or five different Santas that year.

It’s not really about the evidence. Once they figure it out you can get them to play along a little longer, but they know.

Pygmalion and Galatea, pre-transformation, but they’re squirrels.

12 count? I only see 5.

Why’s that?

He stopped cropping out the artists and, as far as I know, doesn’t ruin them through AI first anymore. At least not in direct posts. Still downvoting every time though.

As far as I know, none. But it does make me hesitant to post any new ones to Lemmy.

In all fairness, he seems to have stopped removing the attributions. Still downvoting him every time though.

Still downvoting beep every time.

In my experience, if someone doesn’t want to be friends anymore, all you can do is move on. Her explanation isn’t an invitation to fix something and try again. It’s just a small attempt at politeness. It may not even be the whole truth. It may even be an attempt at specifically discouraging you from trying again.

Even if you got her to agree to “give you another chance”, what kind of friendship would result from that? You, constantly walking on eggshells to avoid doing something you never realized you were doing? Her, just going through the motions out of guilt for a friendship she tried to end?

Just move on. It’s hard. It’ll stick with you. But just move on.

Does she ever.