This is the thing I really don’t understand about the AI crowd. I would be so much more supportive of companies like openai if they they were pursuing the automation of the dull tasks nobody wants to do, rather than flagrantly breaking copyright laws (the same ones that have been weaponised against normal folks) to create a pale imitation of human creativity.

Like, shit. I want a machine that will do my taxes and fold my laundry so that I have more time to pursue artistic endeavors.

Counterpoint: Margaret Thatcher

Garden path sentences

Damn what are you doing that’s destroying these controllers? I have controllers from Microsoft and Nintendo that are over a decade old at this point and still work with regular use.

If they kicked out republicans and pedophiles, there wouldn’t be anyone left to give them money

I feel like more implies better treatment. Maybe YDM? ‘You deserved worse’

There are indeed plenty of copies, but I wonder if somewhere the whole playlist was properly archived. I’d love to peruse it again for old time’s sake

Back in the day, it was kept on the sacred ‘important videos’ playlist

That’s fair, I really enjoy my rereads. While I do remember the main story beats and characters across the series, there’s just so much to remember! The depth of the world is easily on par with, if not surpassing, Tolkien’s work.

I wouldn’t worry about lowering yourself, a sealion is already on the ground after all.

How fucking thick are you? I’m pasting the definition so you don’t even have an excuse:

Nazi Bar A space in which bigots or extremists have come to dominate due to a lack of moderation or by moderators wishing to remain neutral or avoid conflict.

Since you lack any reading comprehension skills, let me reiterate: The only people actually interested in engaging in a community without so-called “heavy handed ideological moderation” (your own words) are the ones that have already been kicked out of every other civil space for spewing hate. You are inherently inviting them in through the moderation posture you have adopted.

Buddy if you can’t click a link and read a simple definition, I don’t know what to tell you. I didn’t say you have specific nazi content, I said you are suffering from the nazi bar problem.

So then you’re a nazi bar. Got it

The Malazan Book of the Fallen saga is so long that I tend to forget most of the plot of the earlier books by the time I finish.

The only legitimate takedown I can see is is the non-commercial clause. If YouTube is making money off streams, wouldn’t that be a license violation?

Lol, so much for the instance’s only rule: “Be thoughtful, act responsibly, and treat others with respect.”

Adding a clutch mechanism would likely make oil filters more expensive by introducing new manufacturing challenges depending on the style of clutch mechanism they use. The more economical approach might be a torque wrench with a special socket shaped to grip the filter. That way you can tighten to spec without overdoing it, and most consumers wouldn’t have to bear the increased cost of filters since most folks just go to a shop that will do it for them.