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Yikes.
I had a conversation with Pi which tries for empathy. It was really weird because every now and again it did sound like it was interested in me or cared about me. Reminds me of that Philip K Dick story about the murder bots that look like wounded soldiers or lost children.
Over the years, the “High Chaparral” torrent achieved cult status among a small group of people who likely keep sharing it, simply because it’s the oldest surviving torrent.
Thanks for the suggestion.
At first I thought the notorious kbin thumbnail mismatch bug struck again but no.
Do you mean so I could meet primates? Our zoos don’t let you do that.
Smartest animal I ever met was my indoor/outdoor cat.
Then again she was brindle and looked like a wild cat.
You’re right and I have since read the article properly.
I’m not a coder, just a casual, but it’s interesting, though I still disagree that it’s a good way to go.
@Spotlight7573 thanks for the heads up. I’m an idiot.
Yeah I was being a bit of an oblivious dick in my comment.
I still disagree with him though.
I suppose I can grant papal indulgence
Heh love your wording there. I actually started that train of thought with various “relics” like the vial of Christ’s blood, statues weeping tears etc some of which were eventually debunked iirc.
Ponzi schemes are quite possibly as old as granaries (or the pyramids), but I think a better contender for scope is something like the Mississipi Bubble which was absolute madness…
Kbin really is a work in progress. I’m sticking with it, but I have backup accounts for the times when it’s too buggy.
If it’s a scam then at this point it’s one of history’s biggest and longest-running.
Kind of an overstatement. It hasn’t even been 20 years. If it were a scam it’d be nowhere near the scale and timeframe of, say, Papal Indulgences.
This isn’t anything to do with your wider argument btw, just me nitpicking. Didn’t know you’d relocated to fedia.io, was that during the downtime?
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Onion rings do have a “scavenger” vibe, insofar as I’m handing that to the nearest seagull.
@DeepFriedDresden Kissinger also approved the genocide of Timorese and Chinese in East Timor, helped cover it up, and provided weaponry.
Despite being ethnically Jewish, Kissinger was known to be pretty antisemitic and was sometimes called out for it by Jewish people.
This is just Downpunxx’s latest copypasta though. He has been posting it all over the place since Kissinger died.
I just use HereWeGo or whatever it’s called - used to be Ovi maps. Not quite as good as it was but still way better than google.
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Me too. In my experience even super successful “star” ones are happy to share.
I think you’re right - women are also socialized to seek out social/interpersonal connections more than men; this is a big factor in why the suicide rate for elderly men tends to be significantly higher than for elderly women.
This doesn’t explain the 60 year olds but with the elderly (70+) women in my life, the vulnerability to misinformation is also an artifact of their comparatively poor levels of education. They were schooled with the expectation that they would be SAHMs.