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the actual unpopular opinion: xml was, and continues to be a good choice for a chat protocol

"around the corner," to mean something is nearby but out-of-sight, is a common idiom in the united states

real, but failed, self-coup d'etat

but ai is inevitable! it can't be stopped! it's impossible to regulate!

he has always been like this. god, he's one of the most consistent public figures i can think of. nothing has changed except that now you can see.

more than any other place i've been on the internet, lemmy really feels like the place to go for watching the first draft of a propaganda campaign

it's telling that these things are treated light-heartedly. more telling than the one-size-fits-all translation into "pedophile", even.

i dunno, apple has a real habit of suing for theft and losing

monty python were boomer humor. there's not a lot of air between "honse" and "the fish slapping dance"

nate anderson, so its probably slop that slipped by. at least, that's easier for me to understand than a human being actually writing something like that since 1980.

he could be technically alive. just enough. he might be kept technically alive for a while yet.

it's probably hell in whatever remains of his mind. a nightmare two months long.

yes we did. you got tapes in the mail. there were services for it. there were conventions. it was just a lot smaller than it is now.