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[–] 111 points 2 weeks ago
[–] 76 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

Is this shit real? He can't die fast enough.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    I spot an em dash. Can't even use his own words to go on an unhinged rant about someone he doesn't like

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago

    The em dash is weird but an LLM would have produced a coherent and clean text, not something like "I never watch his show" followed by three paragraphs of how he watches his show (quick read, I didn't actually read the rant), with digressions, random capitalized nouns and typos like DESPARATELY

    I'm guessing iPhone autocorrect? Maybe if you type two dashes consecutively it writes the em dash?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    You know people, especially olds, used the emdash before ChatGPT ruined it for us all.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Yeah but he's using AI and we all know it

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    To dictate, maybe. But he's not asking Grok "give me an extensive rant with very obscure 1990s entrainment industry name dropping calling Bill Maher a loser."

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago*

    tl;dr: spaces around em-dash tell nothing about text being LLM-generated

    Non-tl;dr ahead:Shouldn't em dash be not surrounded by spacesβ€”like thisβ€”as per grammatical | punctuational | formatting | typography rules? I've always tried to use em-dash as seen fit (at first relying on some websites to turn two consecutive hyphens -- like here -- into one. Though at first I didn't even notice, and now actively despise how it looks like without spaces, so mostly use it like in the post β€” here is an example. LLMs are supposedly good at these writing things, as I've heard.

    Did a little web search and yeeeeeeeeeah. Apparently there exist "styles" which suggest both variants, with the more general rule just being consistent. At least for English. In my language spaces are required (except between dates), so apparently it's not so much about personal preference.

    So yeeeeah, it actually tells nothing about this rambling being AI-generated, LLMs (looked through my usage too) use both variants. Sorry if I wasted your (reader) time, hope you learned a little along the way.

    Still won't read original post.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Wait until the midterms are done. Trump croaking before election day might give the GOP an undeserved boost.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It would also mean that Vance is restricted to being elected to one term after this one. If Vance takes office before January 20 at noon, it counts as a term for him because it will be just over 2 years.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I’m not reading all that. But some time ago, Maher went to the White House, where he had dinner with Trump. Then he went on someone else’s show (maybe Colbert?) to say how nice Trump was in person, and how he was different than at his speeches, because that was all just an act and a character he plays. Now many of Maher fans are left leaning, or consider themselves to be left leaning. I have pointed out to them on many occasions how I’ve given up on Maher decades ago because of his shit takes on pretty much everything. Sometimes he’ll even have a good opinion, but the way he goes about presenting it is garbage. Anyway I can’t see how a lot of his fans could still be liking him after such praise of Trump after that dinner. And if Trump has now turned on him after that, then that’s even funnier leopards. So fuck them both.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 weeks ago

    Huh, wonder what he said.

    I’m never gonna read it so it’s a mystery.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    So weird how the dudes making the most money faster than anyone in history are always the most miserable pieces of shit

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  • Should have posted the Bee Movie script like a normal human being.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I’m not reading this because there is nothing useful.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago

    tldr: dementia rambles, that make every PR person in a 5 mile radius burst out in sweat

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  • [–] 57 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    We can't bust heads like we used to. But we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for m'shoe. So I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    That can't be it. Too cromulent.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I won't even bother reading that word vomit, would probably get brain damage if i tried.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I thought I was terminally online, but the president is on a whole other level.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago

    Looks like the ingredient list for a Big Mac.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    All that stands out is "COMPLETE AND TOTAL LOSER". Since I already know Trump is, there's no need to keep reading.

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    I can't tell if that's real or not. On one hand it's obviously a hilarious parody. On the other hand several news outlets are reporting on it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Took one glance at this TFDR word blob and thought "There's no way this geriatric wrote all of that himself". Clicked on the image and, what do you know, there's an em-dash in the second, rambling, sentence. Cool. I think I hate mecha-Hitler's dementia vomit as much as the original's.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Being able to listen to the unfiltered raw blasts of madness directly from the dome of Azathoth is something I grow tired of

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago

    Seems like a lot to write just to say you're a pedophile and Jeff Epstein's best friend.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I know it’s a shitpost but am I going to be only one to point out its truth social? It’s the red tick, not the blue tick. I saw that and didn’t even need to read it.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Its the premise of the entire post and clearly in the title. You need glasses

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Huh? They say I’m taking the character limit off twitter. No mention of truth social. You need glasses.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    As in, that post would have been on twitter if they did

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    β€œTake the character limit OFF twitter” meaning that there is no longer a character limit on twitter. Meaning this could be posted on twitter since there is no longer a character limit. Thats what I’m reading and think it most likely means.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago
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    I can only imagine this as dictation and speech-to-text, cleaned up by this week's press person.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Money says Natalie takes notes all day, compiles these thing and prints them for Trump's approval.

    In any case, he writes very few of his own posts. Turns out having advancing dementia kinda hurts one's ability to reason and type.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    prints them for Trump's approval

    Bold of you to assume he reads anything that comes across the desk

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Natalie's a special case. She compiles his bullshit day and night, writes a post, gets permission to send it. No, Trump can't effectively read, and he couldn't before the dementia took hold, but at least he was considered "literate", albeit at a low level.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    I'm not reading all that, but from the first few words I did read i'm guessing it's just more of his endless, pissy whining. For someone that thinks of himself as a tough guy mobster type, he sure is a massive crybaby.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Imagine going at Bill Maher and focusing on a lack of success 🀦🏻

    The dude is an insufferable prick with political stances from the 80s and always going for the smugness world record, yet he's had his own show at a ridiculously high wage for decades and is a hectomillionaire.

    I guess Trump can't attack Maher for that, though, since he shares most of those qualities.

    And no, I didn't read on after the first mention of Maher. I very rarely do.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Never seen the hecto- prefix used in the wild before. Definitely going to start using that too, I've always hated the nonspecificity in multi-millionaire.

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  • I've always hated the nonspecificity in multi-millionaire.

    Yeah, me too! A net worth of $3 million technically makes you a multi-millionaire, but I'm pretty sure that's upper middle class money by now.

    Conversely, $100+ millions is much more than any reasonable person can possibly spend in a lifetime. It's only a tenth of a billion, but it's effectively the same category of wealth: dragon's hoard that is harmful to both society and the person with it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    At least it’s not AI

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    TIL the White House is a seductive place.

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    He's DESPARATE

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    This is cultural appropriation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Who is Billy Maher? And what did HBO do to Trump?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yet another leftist wall of text posing as a meme πŸ™„πŸ™„πŸ™„ (/j, obviously)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Entirely too much time on his hands. I think nature’s given him enough

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    I have a feeling next weeks episode will be a lot of fun.

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