Soon there won’t be settings at all! You’ll just have to ask Copilot to change what you want.

For a moment there I thought it said, “toddlers are happier giving threats to others” and thought of Trump.

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Meh. For a control I need to see a comparison of the lies in the search results. I bet Gemini is doing a better job than the limitless bullshit that people are expected to click on.

Let us not forget that Gemini is often pointing out basic facts like, “vaccines actually work” when people search for information about them. This angers a lot of complete idiots and results in anger-inducing clickbait articles… Like this one.

The fact that a machine can get 90% of everything correct is fucking amazing. And the pace of improvement in AI in general is astounding. Try to keep that in perspective when reading stories like this.

Anything over 50% is probably better than a random sampling of humans could do, based on our current state of education and “knowledge upkeep” (which is something most humans fail at, utterly and completely).

Ah, the good old days when your “dumb” refrigerator would kill children playing hide and seek because the latch wouldn’t open from the inside. When it was lined with asbestos because that’s literally the best insulation that exists excepting aerogel. When the mercury thermostat would fail—leaking mercury on to your food (and aerosolizing some which would be breathed in as soon as you opened it)—and it would freeze everything inside, complete with an interior wall of snow that could take days to defrost. It used old school freon, destroying the ozone layer. Or before then, fun highly toxic gasses like methyl chloride!

Those were the days! When a breeze through the house on a day with wonderful weather could blow out the pilot light in your oven, slowly leaking gas into your house, exploding and destroying the entire home late at night while everyone is asleep.

Then the wonders of electricity came along to produce ovens that were hooked up to 220V lines without a grounding wire, and wiring that would slowly fail over time, eventually making contact with the metal frame, electrocuting anyone who touched the device—or anyone that touched the person touching it.

Ovens were built different “back in the day”! They didn’t have anti-tip brackets, resulting in loads of children sitting on the oven door, spilling boiling liquids down upon them.

The best were those old washing machines, though! You could lift up the lid and look inside to see your laundry spinning at high speeds! Just don’t reach your hand in, or you could find out what the term “degloving” means.

Ah yes, the good old days of appliances.

I’m sure that’s the plan but I don’t think it’ll work out. Because the people who want such a thing aren’t competent enough to pull it off. If they were, they wouldn’t want or need such a thing.

“Did the road just get darker?”

“Yeah, man. What’s up with that?”

“I dunno, man, but I now have zero faith in this road.”

“It wasn’t me! It was the one-armed proxy!”

FBI’s New Political Pre-Crime Time Wasting Center

FTFY.

Just like every law enforcement attempt at trying to stop crime before it happens, this one will also be a useless waste of time. Even if they’re not actually trying to prevent crime but halt political dissent!

Oh please. There’s nothing wrong with a bunch of girls horsing around.

would it be awkward for one of them to misgender the other’s dog?

Story time!

I was on my way into PetSmart to pick up my dogs from a routine vet appointment when I saw a man standing on the sidewalk right in front of where I parked. He had a dog with him of a breed I’d never seen before (probably a mix of many). This dog looked super neat with a mostly white head with a cool black stripe over one eye.

“She’s a pretty dog!”

Him, looking actually angry: “He’s a male.” (Or something like that)

I then looked up at him and noticed he was wearing a MAGA cap. I didn’t notice before because his dog was so striking.

Without skipping a beat, I replied…

“It sucks being misgendered, don’t it?”

I don’t know if he was a bigoted, anti-trans asshole but he was wearing the uniform.

The look on his face was… Dumbfounded. Honestly, I was hoping for shock and horror but it was good enough 👍

Supreme Court opinion, the majority’s decision “permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants one without fear of liability and without lifting a finger to prevent infringement.”

Yes. That’s how that works. That’s how it’s supposed to work. We do not want ISPs to be liable for what happens on the Internet because they run the roads.

I’d be willing to accept an argument that ISPs are providing critical infrastructure and therefore should be nationalized in a similar way to Switzerland, but until that happens, they shouldn’t have any say whatsoever in who or what content gets to be online. The moment you require that of them is the moment that everyone’s traffic will be inspected and judged according to someone else’s sense of morality.

Want some proof of how this can go horribly wrong? Put me in charge of DNS at one of the big ISPs for a month. They don’t get to overrule my decisions! I’ll make sure every conservative website, every politician that supports legislation like this, and every big company that supports it will fail to resolve.

In fact, I might go even further and redirect Netflix, Hulu, and all other streaming sites to pirate equivalents just to make the point. Hopefully, forever.

What would be wrong with that? Clearly, my moral decisions are the right ones! Don’t like it? Take it up with the legal framework bills like this have put into place to protect victims of such abuse: Spend a few million litigating for your rights!

Well, part of a military service is knowing where people are, right?

Yep! If you’re in the military.

If you’re not, what the fuck‽

No. It’s not normal for a state’s military to keep track of men like that.

Also, it’s super sexist! Women serve in the military too. Why do they get to travel for as long as they want without having to register?

I want to know how this could even be practical. Are there that many German men spending 3+ months abroad that it’s actually important to know where they are at all times?

“Oh shit! We need more men, specifically, in our military right the fuck now! Good thing we’re keeping a weirdly detailed travel record of these (some stupidly small number in a nation of ~84 million), not-even-in-the-military dudes because… ???”

American, here. I’m with them! Sort of…

Far too many American parents insist their kids use “please and thank you” for too many things. A classic example:

Kid: “Can you pass the butter?” (this is the natural state of American children… Probably all children, actually)

Parent, semi-scolding: “Can you please pass the butter!”

…or the worse, passive-aggressive form: “Please and thank you, (child)!”

I had this happen to me when I was a kid and my friends had it happen to them. I’ve witnessed it so many times—even as an adult—yet… It always felt wrong.

Normal people—equals in butter rights—don’t communicate like that.

Adult: “Can you pass the butter?”

Adult nearest the butter: “Here…”

There’s another, more efficient form that seems to be most common in the Northeastern US, especially with men: (just passes the butter without saying anything at all)

Truly efficient men—who may have never met before that moment—can communicate a butter request and reply to another man without even speaking. A look, with an upward nod and a follow-up downward nod from the guy closest to the butter is all these truly efficient communicators need.

The most efficient families—when it’s only adults present, performing their secret, adults-only rituals—tend to shorten it to the tiniest of requests, “Butter?” (points at butter)

Excessive politeness always feels fake and rotten to me. “Please”—from children—should be reserved for actual begging, damnit! With wide eyes and maybe some tears! Anything less feels like bad acting or an unnecessary, inauthentic ritual.

Politeness shouldn’t be ritual! It should be something you do because you’re paying attention and you’re genuinely invested in the concept of feeling sorry about inconveniencing another person with your request. If there’s no inconvenience—such as passing the butter—what’s the point?

Please and thank you for reading my rant.

Isn’t that just… Vinegar?

It’s the secret code that tells the other billionaires to hurry into their bunkers.

There’s a Waffle House across the street. Gregg Phillips might teleport there (if we’re lucky) and certain other Republican politicians are banned.

Plott Hound? I look to my left to my own barky barkster: