[–] 7 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

Fuck AI and all, but to be faaaiiiiir, if you take away most people's computers they would be far less efficient than someone that did the same job without one 50 years ago.

In the profession I recently retired from, if they suddenly went back 50 years in tech the global economy would crash, and even a 20-30 year regression in tech would seriously fuck things up until people adjusted. And even then they wouldn't be able to reach the same levels of efficiency.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Yeah, but then we would've just gotten a regular old run-of-the-mill jerk-off Republican like Romney or Jeb next, and we would have spent the next 4-8 years saying "holy shit, this guy is so awful, how could it be any worse," just blissfully unaware.

    How do I immigrate to that timeline?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    They went through all that trouble and didn't get taxidermied bear claws or something else to approximate what the damage would look like. They used some sort of kitchen tool or something and all the "claw marks" are equally spaced and start and stop at the same place.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    Peter Parker's big friend from the most recent Spider-Man movies was photographed at an event looking dapper in a suit. It led to a lot of memes, one of them calling him "the CEO of sex," which itself led to many spin-off memes. This one (which doesn't include him in the suit) references spawn camping, a video game term where someone "camps" at a place where the opposing team "spawns" after being killed to kill them again before they can get going, and uses it as a metaphor for going after underage girls. It then continues the video game metaphor with Sex 2.

    So, The CEO of sex says Epstein can't participate in the new sex because he rapes underage girls.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Yeah, I don't think that's common knowledge. I never knew it was called that until I got into my profession. And I think it's only called that there because it's been around since before "forward slash" entered the vernacular.

    There are probably some similar circumstances, but almost everyone calls it "forward slash."

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    That's the thing, 45 years later you only ever hear the bangers, not the other 99.9%.

    Is there a term for that? It's not survivorship bias exactly, although I guess you could stretch the definition.

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