Oof! If it's any consolation, a lot of ASL's interpretation also comes from body language and facial expression, so he probably knew what you meant lol.

I definitely feel less awful now, but not sure if I'm gonna make this my thing. 😆

I definitely feel better after sharing and laughing about it LOL.

Same about the "post-covid reintegration into society awkwardness". Definitely struggled there, too.

I mean this constructively (just really wanted to use this GIF):

When it's in the URL field, it pulls and provides metadata which is useful.

That's true (I saw/read the posts). I'm just trying to not bring geopolitical stuff into everything.

Which part(s) of the t-rex do the nuggets come from?

One of my favorite things from 30 Rock - they didn't force any of the main characters together. They even had Kim Jong Il talk directly to the camera at the end of an episode telling the writers not to overthink it and have Jack and Liz get together.

That is one of my favorite jokes as they’re mocking fans who wanted them to get together.

My second point stands.

Just because an outlet that spews made up nonsense and outright lies throws you a factual bone once in a while, it doesn't make them credible. Hence the "low credibility "rating.

That sounds like a local newspaper headline about me but 40 years from now. Does it list the winning lottery numbers anywhere?

I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.

- Randall Munroe

this tech is getting better and will be a major part of how we interact with the world and eachother in the future.

Well that’s bloody terrifying, yeah? The tech is still young and people are already using it to avoid learning new things. It just churns out text that sounds correct but often isn’t and people just take it at its word. It has no more understanding of the text it shits out than a toddler who has learned to swear.

Look, mate, people are fuckin’ lazy and if there’s a shortcut, they’re gonna take it (Example). They’re not gonna fact check the magic bot because that’s work and defeats the purpose of using the magic answer-bot in the first place. I do not look forward to a world where intellectual curiosity dies at the hand of “let me just ask a bot to do it for me”. That’s not even getting into the use of it by malicious actors to influence the gullible or stupid or the massive carbon footprint for all the compute resources it takes to run those models.

Id like Lemmy to still be relevant in a few years. We shouldn’t shy away from new tech.

Agree on the first part, but heavily disagree on the second when it comes to bot-generated crap,

It's not so much the right itself, just the batshit crazy interpretation of it and our collective gun fetish culture. The nutjobs zero in on the "shall not be infringed" part completely ignoring the "well regulated" part that comes before that. *sigh*