According to the mom, if he pulled up in a Ferrari with a pringle can, her virginity as a concept would be relevant again.

Hate to break the news to you. But you opened up a thread for discussion, and inside it, you found discussion. You did actually ask for it.

Eh. Good message wrapped up in weird body shaming, class shaming, vaguely misandrist ‘rhetoric’.

This aint it. It’s close to it. They’re the same aisle. But it aint it.

I had this interaction once.

1. Friend 1 politely danced around “Yeah years ago I kinda thought you were bit of a jerk”
2. Me “Oh I don’t blame you I was kind of an ass & had some maturing to do”
3. The entire rest of the group, at once, “Oh yeah you were a major asshole” / “That’s why I didn’t talk to you for a while” / “Yeah no shit” / etc.

Anyways I started declining their invitations from then on.

It’s more like the Sphere of Knowledge. The more you know about Linux (or pretty much any subject) that more you become aware of subjects you don’t understand. Whereas when you don’t know that much, there are fewer categories for which you are aware of your lack of understanding. Know unknowns vs unknown unknowns.

If they spent 5 minutes stating all the issues they’re having and then asked about my relationship - I wouldn’t look at them like an alien and start talking about great my partner is.

I would probably mention something inoffensive that annoyed me or talk about something going to happen (“We’re headed to LA in a few weeks”) just to change the subject. I certainly wouldn’t start stating all the great things about my partner because that’s just social incompetence in that context.

I’m getting this vibe too.

She’s not. She’s saying something positive about a man. But more broadly saying men are incompetent & acknowledging the exceptions.

Idk why this is being downvoted.

Like her comics or not - that’s on you - the reality is that people that criticize them are called incel misogynists, and god forbid you make state that on any of the comic subs (they’ll nuke your account).

Does it count as a punchline when it’s a fairly played out trope at this point?

I think it would benefit from growing - the volume of content & discussion it just too small to support niche topics. If you want to talk about things other than the top ~30 topics, you will be waiting days for any form of response.

Oh and for some reason shoehorning in games? A product that tries to be everything becomes nothing.

Reddit is killing itself. It really didn’t have to do anything but let X & Insta & TikTok feed into it. It has a better structure for daily use that isn’t quite so toxic.

But instead they are letting Mods go crazy, Admin-bots that blow up your account with no explanation, user-bots that spam rage bait & other low effort LLM slop, and so on. It’s a dying platform that should be thriving. The first place people find after searching “Less toxic Reddit” is fediverse, so of course it’s growing.

Fortunately I have media literacy and know that the existence of someone marketing a scary narrative doesn’t actually provide any credibility. I can read scary headlines and pass it through the “does the make sense?” filter before getting worried.

I agree the friction + manipulation that LLMs introduce is troubling, but “knowledge collapse” is the extreme end of that concern.

Related, an untrustworthy source that already has a cover for giving wrong information being controlled by a few entities who already lobby like crazy just being “trusted” to not use the platform for propaganda & misinformation.

Have the same phone for 6 years now, bring it into the shower most days, and have not had any issues.

Maybe steam has a non-zero effect but it’s pretty damn close to zero…

There are a lot of reasons to hate AI, I don’t really buy into this one. “New technology only captures a subset of knowledge” is just not a new issue, and fearmongering around it is not new either.

I would be concerned about language collapse (i.e. models incrementally forget vocabulary + fail to adapt to new terms leading to language becoming incrementally worse) before I would worry about knowledge collapse, and I’m not that worries about language collapse.

The sitcom format in general just doesn’t work for modern audiences. The format needed entirely self contained narratives which could be watched with a whole family - that isn’t what the market demands these days.

I think Seinfield sucked but I think all sitcom sucks, mostly because I didn’t grow up in a house that watched them + moved to streaming before I had my own place.