I too felt the compulsion

Reject tech, return to mechanical Turk

Oh goddddd the dad thinks his kid needs to chase hotter dudessss I’m gonna die

Well, you got me. I’m trying to do better.

How could you forget something that has been happening continuously our whole lives

Didn’t one of the new movies have a whole thing about the mil-industrial complex?

Unless otherwise specified, my assumption is that laborers working for oligarchs made the tech

People aren’t in the habit of thinking of computing as an inherently a political choice, but it is.

Computing is a tool, not a thing you merely consume or use for consumption. Yet the tech industry is very motivated to get us thinking of it that way, while positioning themselves as the middlemen. That’s probably the real reason they’re so excited about AI, it’s a way to turn computing into something you rent.

I heard a positive remark on Lemmy about https://www.languagetransfer.org/ recently and have been meaning to have a look

I will kill Poe’s law or die trying. I hate the idea that we share so little context as a culture that every joke needs a signpost. I fight it my way, but the real war will only be won when global society has enough shared culture for us to make each other laugh without honking a bike horn and giving an exaggerated full-body wink.

Edit: I know I’m being grandiose, you don’t gotta point it out

You got me there. You have to admit though, that Lemmy is a challenge for people like me.

Comedians have been using the written word for eons. Some jokes don’t land when written, and the real solution wasn’t invented this decade.

My personal policy is that if the joke needs a laugh track, a rimshot, or any big sign that says “Joke” being waved, the joke doesn’t work.

Was it fairly clear I was just being funny? I hoped so, I try not to tell jokes that actually need to be /s tagged.

When he dies they’re just gonna make him into an LLM. He already ignores all previous instructions so he’s laid the groundwork

I don’t know half the people you mentioned

Oh interesting. So cops shouldn’t shoot at people in the course of ceasing criminal activity orrrr

Aren’t you the one who knows cool animal facts?

I might have to try this next time. Might just stick to the King Arthur Flour ratios I like to use, but no oil. Trick is probably not to overmix.

No oil in your batter? I wanna know more. Doesn’t that make the pancakes too chewy?

A stainless or carbon steel pan will take to the cold oil method first time. Cast iron will depend on the quality; some come preseasoned, but the quality of that varies a lot too.

I got my first nice CI skillet about five years ago and daily driving it. I talk a good game about steel pans but I just don’t enjoy them as much. You build their seasoning, it works perfectly once, then it’s gone. There’s no relationship, no satisfaction in getting a fried egg to slide freely about the pan.