Riker: “Eject the warp core!”

La Forge: “I just did.”

Maybe they can hold their ground for long enough to get something accomplished. Like last time, remembe… oh, right. Shit.

This is why there is a meme about “won’t someone think of the children,” which is most often aimed at right-wing actions. They use the idea of helping to further causes that do the opposite.

It’s not just the right. Look way back to the Tipper Gore push for censorship of rock music. The advocates of free speech came out then to show why blocking speech doesn’t work and ends up hurting more than it could ever help. For those too young to remember or who haven’t heard about it, you ought to look into the Congressional hearings videos. Especially where they asked John Denver to speak on behalf of the censorship move, and were shocked when he was fully against it.

Urine is already diluted by water, so you’re most of the way there.

Minor adjustment. Not enough.

What spoke the loudest was her silence after some of the questions. Wheels spinning. Knowing there’s no good answers.

If not illegal, probably should be. But without enforcement, legality is just a concept.

Words are fun. A related word would be lieutenant. There was some scifi detective series about a time traveler who came from the Revolutionary period into modern times and helped a woman cop. Mid 2000s? Anyway, they tried to be somewhat accurate and used the word as it’s pronounced for centuries before being Americanized, “leftenent”. And in looking it up, the history and arguments over when and why are themselves interesting.

So, canon.

Realistic C-64 users: “It’s a misspelling in an early Commodore document that just carried over.”

Rabid C-64 users: “It’s not a word, it’s an ACRONYM!”

Me: I didn’t even realize it was wrong or knew it was a thing, then or now. TIL I think I saw “kernel” in my mind.

So this should be posted on a subLemmy? Reddit has a large history of terminology. People have adjusted to saying communities fine.

I was using the “room” concept on Q-Link (Quantum Link) 40 years ago. You know, when we had to connect on slow lines. Uphill, both ways.

“Nobody knew!” - some U.S. President

One large video that has evidence to convict anyone who did criminal activity is fine. How much there is isn’t the point; it’s getting the facts and prosecuting based on those facts. But it is a lot more than one video and one victim.

That we don’t know many of the criminals yet but know a huge amount of the victims, shows the cover-up. And common people don’t usually get their crimes covered up, so the set of likely criminals gets much smaller.

Either I’ve seen this type of thing before when he first went public, or it’s been some other famous person needing to do similar. Could be both, honestly. Leads to the same problem. Even money can’t save you in this kind of crooked system.

The mindless paperclip scenario is far more likely, and if looked at the right way, it’s not only happening metaphorically, most humans are helping it.

The negative side has Kool-Aid? I assume you just refer to the fringe that make outrageous claims and not the “ordinary” doomers that realize if we’ve thrown out safety for profit with “just” LLMs, we’re absolutely going to go in full throttle with anything more.

I haven’t run across anyone involved in the safety aspects of AI in any form who is very happy or comfortable right now. There is a reason for that.

The act of saying it has three sides is a proof.

Shorter: You are used as a product for someone else’s profit. If you’re okay with that, don’t worry about privacy and security.

The original Borg, to me back then when first introduced, felt like an organic version of the Doomsday Machine. Something designed for a purpose that either got out of control or morphed into a paperclip-making machine, with the goal of assimilation and no set boundaries. That’s pure horror. Then they got a bit downgraded and became the latest enemy to fight.

Whataboutism is pure cope. Deal with the now.

There is no reason to not have backwards compatibility in cases like this. Oh, yes there is. Someone is getting rich from it.