Sunsofold

Firstly, yes.

But your username and question have created the mental image in my head of 'zalgoplumbing.' I'm imagining twisted runs of sort-of-still-functional pipes with dendritic arrays of smaller piping reaching through the floors, walls, and ceilings, wrapping around the joists and cabling, trailing off with drains from no source to no outlet.

That must have taken a while.

LLMs do not 'believe' anything. They are very big, very expensive autocomplete. They don't know any information. They don't think about your prompts and propose an answer. They are a system that takes what you put in, assumes what you have entered is the first X words of a document that already exists, and then makes a probabilistic prediction what the next word will be.

No thought. Only probability.

If you volunteer for mummification as a way to get a targetted waistline, there wasn't much in there to begin with.

Doesn't Marge famously have bad mental health?

I got Slime Rancher as similar. Much of steam's 'similarity' system is broken by the popularity of games tying together things that have nothing to do with one another.

Aw, poo. CWA doesn't stand for Coastal Wizards of America.

It's very weird. There's even a difference between different parts of the leftmost alien.

The trick is you're doing it backward. For a lot of tools, the cheap tools aren't much worse than the expensive ones unless you are at the level where they are in constant/heavy use, hours of driving from the store, and you desperately need the extra durability, but the reliability of the batteries is where it's actually worth the cash. Good batteries can hold a charge while not being used and last longer while in use. Cheap batteries can be e-waste after a week of use, or even before you open the box if they're really bad.

As for ethical? The question is absurd. They're your tools. It's unethical for companies to even sell tools with proprietary connectors because it effectively acts as them telling you what you are allowed to do with your tools. There is no ethical problem in bypassing corporate B.S.

What about dommenetting?

It is a lot less worrying once you remember that basically every AI company is subsidizing their customers with investor money and when the customers have to start paying what it actually costs to do anything, the usage will plummet.

So, you're saying you do not consent to being ruled by criminals, but your primary objective is to focus on the people who you are claiming do consent rather than on either your own actions, with which you could demonstrate a lack of consent, or the people who you believe have committed crimes, who you ostensibly want to see held accountable? You going to call out the victims of domestic abuse for not leaving their homes to escape their abusers next? Or maybe you'd like to blame rape victims for not fighting back hard enough? This is disingenuous pot-stirring, virtue signal purity testing, or just foolish misprioritization. It serves no purpose except to make you feel good. Work toward getting them to withdraw consent if you like, or maybe toward getting the criminals out of power, but going to the space where you expect people to agree with you just to talk about the people who don't behind their back is useless, at best.

Reality? Last time I tried that Reality fucked me so hard I grew cat ears. I'm off to the fantasy land of investor confidence.

their own spaces

You're making the same conflation as several other people here. A private space can exclude through non-invitation without specific/class exclusion. A conference is not a private space. It is public. By rendering the space public, it creates an equality of people as possible attendants as members of the public. By excluding a generalized group, it discriminates through stereotype, which brings things to the meat of your point.If you take the whole matter into amorality, there is nothing wrong with ANYTHING the powerful do, and render any argument about dignity of the oppressed meaningless. You have no place left to stand and you lose. If you argue the powerful are somehow different from other people, you establish a belief in inherent inequality. You have no place from which to claim injustice, and you lose. If you fight against the powerful without some semblance of reason, you cannot form a cohesive collective, so you will have no power with which to fight them, and you will lose.

Can you name a single historical instance where a dominant group stopped a practice of exclusion because they realized they no longer had the 'transitive legitimacy' to continue it?

Feminism. If each generation of feminists had never made claims to human dignity, there would be no liberation or justice. If they had only focused on stripping the dignity of powerful men, they never would have gotten the support of the rest of their society. Action disrupts the old system but the moral argument is what transforms society into something new. The 'dominant group' isn't the 1% crowd. It's the 90% who they trick into supporting them. The 'powerful' shit themselves at the idea of seeing the majority turned against them. If early feminists hadn't convinced the people around them of the capability and equality of women, it wouldn't have mattered how hard they tried, they would just have been ignored by the majority and snuffed out by the powerful minority. If they hadn't fought to establish a moral norm of equality, all their screams would have been noise fading into the void. Acting like you actually believe in your principles isn't 'disarming' yourself. It's letting the enemy take your rifle so you can take the fort. It's planting the tree so your children can sit in its shade. It's how you get justice rather than get yours.

Again, if you are suggesting it is legitimate for one, it becomes transitively legitimate for the other, regardless of whether you think it should. If you are saying it is a legitimate tactic, everyone can use it, even the people you don't like, and you are just diving into a multigenerational, essentialist, retributive justice death spiral.

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Should I redo my bathroom plumbing?

I drilled a hole through an old bank vault.

Is Grok the dumbest AI?

Devils Panties 4/29/2026

eah I’d risk the curse

Mental Health Marge

Upcoming AAAA game: MAGA Simulator 2077 (sarcasm)

Wizards of the Coast Developers Form Union with CWA

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is it unethical to buy off brand but compatible batteries for power tools?

Electricity explained

In the light of recent news regarding DLSS5...

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Class Notes

This isn't going to go well

Until it affects me

And toxic in large amounts!

[Twonks] Hosé

[Twonks] Hosé

Until it affects me

The Ground Was Never There | Brooks of the Quarantine Collective

Out of all the obvious answers, which scene/event will never be included in a live action Crossed movie/show, and which somehow would be?

Beksinski

TIL about Napple Tale: Arsia in Daydream

Grausame Töchter - Get Your Kinky Overdose

Parcel Simulator

Is there a city clearing zombie game?

Not specific, just want to know if this even exists: a city clearing zombie game

Cutters and catchers and crushers

Any software good for making this kind of mechanical animation/simulation?

Ancient marks upon ancient stone

Held most dear to ones heart

Repulsive, physically or morally

Which is more important to you in a language, feature richness or documentation quality?

Their ragged voices rose and fell like some horrid, discordant choir, bellowing in praise, shrieking an alarum,

Message came in

Travel

[2019ish?]a game in a ship being overgrown by flesh.