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Right.

And what do you know about editorial controls or how journalism has worked in the last 20 years?

Wake up. The decline has already happened. It's now a game of compromise.

You want to complain and whine like these guys are sitting on a beach, sipping mai thais, while telling their AI agents to write an article.

It's ignorant and inflammatory. Just makes y'all look petulant.

My point still stands.

You can argue that EVERY fucking thing in the world is in the beginning , mid, or late stages of enshittification.

But calling Ars an internet rot site, at this stage, is just fucking stupid.

Are they as good as they were a few years ago? I honestly can't say. I do know that there was better news a few years ago.

The people at Ars have a tough job trying to navigate this modern world of oligarchs and autocracy, keeping their identity, while being owned by a corporation whose only job is to make money.

They've done a pretty good fucking job, all things considered, of staying their course.

A much better job than internet assholes who want to act elitist and whine when the world falls apart around them while they blame their fellow class instead of the controlling class.

Weren't you whining about other people making comments like this one to you?

Oh yeah!? Well, we caught up to China in fascism, so we can catch up to them in clean energy too!

No, the issue we are talking about today and calling Ars an "internet rot site" is a huge leap. Yeah, they post shit articles from Wired and such, (they are owned by Conde Nast), but their core writers are still great and have plenty of good articles.

You want credit for what? Over exaggerating an issue then whining about it?

You are throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and then spitting on the baby. It makes no sense.

I am not familiar with them.

Are they a good value brand or more of a luxury brand?

(I just feel that cabinets and furniture are normally wildly overpriced.)

You mean just Terry Pratchett, right? 😢

I agree, Ben probably would have indulged and not cared about using it to his advantage.

Hamilton and Jefferson were absolutely cold blooded in their political pursuits and use of published letters. They would have used any opportunity to cut the other down. Maybe mutually assured destruction would have stayed their hands on that particular indulgence, though Hamilton did famously out his own affair to clear himself of the embezzlement allegation.

Not all. Pretty sure John Adams would not have been.

Hamilton and Jefferson would probably have written most of them though, about each other.

My anecdotal experience.

I was in SERE school, in the US Navy.

We were in the field portion of the training, the low mountains of SoCal.

I would periodically get this weird, almost bitter smell. Fast forward a day and I realized the smell was when there was an ant on me.

I don't know if it was a combo of the environment, the type of ant, the lack of food or showering for a few days, but it was pretty reliable.

After SERE was over, I have never experienced it again.

Not going to watch a video that could have easily just been a list.

Number one better be an Evil Dead installment.

Yeah, this one hurt.

Good Omens too. Can I pretend it was written entirely by Pratchett?