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I'm on the fence about people buying things like this, because there are things far worse than their sense of humour.

American apologia is really fucking strong and I don't care much for the ongoing grieving period of the 2001 WTC attacks. Hell, 20 years ago the repeated vigils for '9/11' started to become a dark joke.
Reason 1: Bad shit happens frequently, and often far worse than that.
Reason 2: The US Government creates terrorists and enemies by bombing the fuck out of other countries, and this particular group is one example. The US gov and military is well known globally as tyrannical, violent and unreasonable. Which leads to
Reason 3: The US Government is responsible for terrorising and murdering millions of civilians across many countries. The death toll of 2,977 is dwarfed by any number of atrocities committed by the US government, not including the war immediately instigated in which they murdered around 200,000 civilians.

Another note is that Al Qaeda were one of the only organisations to successfully retaliate against America. And when they did, they chose vital infrastructure. Not civilian-specific locations. Not a single children's school. This makes Al Qaeda more civilised than any leader of northern America in the current century at least.

The sheer audacity and naïveté of anyone still crying about the dead while the rest of the world (including Americans) mourns millions of victims of the US leadership's evil acts irks me. So a few trinkets in poor taste are comparatively nothing.

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    Yes I know using a search or companion AI let alone generative AI is stupid, and what's a war without a few spies.

    I just discovered that, even though explicitly disabling all options for extras like access to location, history, apps etc., it was able to query which apps were installed on my device. I guess "By the way, allow app access to unlock full functionality" will no longer show. And it got my general location as well since a couple of months ago, unfortunately. If anyone's still on the fence about using any AI or LLM that isn't local or adept at code generation, and cares about their metrics not being forcibly extracted for the purpose of advertisement and monitoring behaviour, I recommend against it.

     

    Add “being forced to find a job that doesn't suit or fulfil you, because the employment system is flawed and a capitalist economy means people don't get a choice.” Life itself is beautiful. But right now, everything claimed and monetised by beaurocrats and corporations, people having to indenture themselves in order to (pay money to a bunch of official bodies that demand they deserve it) to live, let alone live comfortably, is fucking wrong.

    Side note, this meme should really say "someone else's boss" or something because it's against having one

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