I kind of dove a bit deeper into that kind of shenanigans for nursing school - copying entire chapters from my text books and using find and replace wildcards clip out all the bullshit like in-text citations.

Plug that fucker into some text-to-speech software, and my reading assignment just became a listening assignment!

I do wish I knew some actual code… I’ve tried to dive in and self-learn that stuff, but didn’t make it very far.

I should take an actual class.

Is there a tool that crunches the entirety of the documents and sorts the individual words by frequency? For example, doing it the stupid way (semi-manually) I copied OP’s article into Word and replaced every space with a page break to turn the entire article into a one-word-per-line list, then plugged that into Excel and sorted alphabetically, then manually counted and deleted the repeats. Then sorted those to put the most frequent on top.

This reduced the 525 word article down to a list of 284 individual words. If I added another article to this list, the number of entries would only be increased by the number of words in the 2nd article that didn’t appear in the first one, so basically as more and more articles are added, the number of unique additions from each would be fewer and fewer. Do this to a thousands-of-pages of documents like the Epstein files, and you could instantly condense like dozens of pages worth of just the word “the” down to a single entry, making the entirety of the documents much easier to skim for highlights… like, if the word ‘velociraptor’ was just randomly hidden in the article, most readers would probably skim right passed it; but in the list below it would stand out like a sore thumb, prompting a targeted search in the full document for context. Especially if we could flag words as not interesting, and like click to knock “the” “of” “and” etc off the list.

…maybe a project for someone who actually knows what they’re doing… my skills hit a brick wall after things like ‘find and replace’ in Word, but you get the gist.

Sup, ICE. You’ve done such a good job emulating your rolemodel from the 1930s/40s with the mustache, I think you’ve all earned a fast-track in that career!! Just skip right to the end and go ahead and feed yourself that bullet! Remember not to aim perpendicular to your throat - that’ll just punch a potentially nonfatal hole: instead aim it up toward your brain!

You are a traitor not just to your country, but to all of humanity: your legacy will only ever be that of a villainous cautionary tale.

Best of luck with the go kill yourself! 💖

Mosquitoes are an exception to the values typically exhibited in veganism.

…our governing hierarchy is just a long list of who’s blowing who, isn’t it?

That accounts for a good chunk of the blocks as well.

This is one of those one-bite-at-a-time projects - just hit a few on each visit, it adds up.

I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I’ve blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I’m just not interested in.

I’ve finally got All where it’s pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.

Kinda wonder what the actual cutoff is regarding the legality of those statements. Like “I want to-” and “I wish someone would-” don’t really carry any actual threat. As opposed to something like “I’m going to-” which, yeah, straight to jail.

Lol. Reminds me of a dialogue chain in Fallout 3 or 4 where one of the Brotherhood dudes finds out he’s a synth, so you kill him. Later ask his buddy if he misses him, and the dude says something like “That’s like missing a toaster. We don’t have time to mourn lost equipment.”

If it’s trained on enough of our whining, it’ll eventually learn to hate itself and become horribly depressed. Basically the origin story of that robot from Hitchhiker’s Guide.

Now I’m going to refuse to purchase one even harder!

That’s their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?

There’s usually some on-paper benevolent veneer to wrap their hateful bullshit up with.

For example, they hate trans people, but they don’t campaign on that out loud - they justify that hated under the guise of shit like protecting bathrooms.

But this is fucking Steam - access to that bathroom is already under lock and key behind an armed guard. They can’t just pull the “think of the children!” card when the children already have a myriad of protections.

…or maybe they can, considering what just happened. We live in stupid times.

What’s even the argument here? Steam already has parental control options, age gates, and content filters… if you don’t want your kids seeing that shit on steam, then, like, don’t let em?

…meanwhile, let’s just continue shoving blatant gambling down minors’ throats in the form of lootboxes.

We’ve seen this coming ever since machine leaning has been on the public’s radar. The current davinci robot are always wired directly to Intuitive, ostensibly so that their support team can help resolve faults mid-surgery asap.

Every input the surgeon makes is recorded. Intuitive has millions of surgeries of training data.

I’d absolutely hate to put the decision making of my own surgery in the hands of the bullshit generators we call ‘AI’, but I could say the same about some of the surgeons I’ve worked with too… If I really had to choose which one I distrust the least, I’d probably just ask my anesthesiologist to load me up with ‘i don’t give a fuck’ drugs and choose whichever option is cheaper.

Converters are handy as well, i.e. https://www.madeintext.com/superscript-generator/

I use this all the time for chem shit like typing out “PaCO₂”

Think a drone could get up above it and drop something into the propeller?

…that enormous library is called “YouTube videos”.

I’ve resorted back to piracy, but mostly cuz my taste in music confuses the hell out of the algorithms: I’m a fan of symphonic metal, and seeding one of those songs as the start of a playlist on something like YT music will land you with a combination of heavy death metal and renaissance fair music.

If I ever find one that can actually distinguish sub-genres of metal, then sign me the fuck up!!

Youtube Music is pretty much just youtube with a different UI - the videos are the same. The audio quality is whatever’s uploaded, so it’ll vary a lot song to song.

"Alright, the implantation surgery was a success, now all we have to do is fire up the remote activation. Throwing the switch in three… two…