Ohhh i’m adding that

Is that before or after covid?

Programs. They are called programs . We are talking about desktop machines, not mobile devices

Why if? It happened and it was a fucking drop in the bucket to their profits.

And they’ll do it again

Does the US realise Europe is farkin massive group of countries and they’re a rapidly diminishing batshit fiefdom of suck?

No shit. They taught the animals that nothing they could do would stop the situation, then dangled another thing to do.

The fact they called this ‘learned helplessness’ rather than despair calls for a ball punch

You want one of these

The more i hear about johnson the more i wanna punch him in the balls.

Replace your sacrificial anode before that time and you’ll be good.

Burn George Brummel at the stake

I’ve considered it, but times is hard

Have you considered the fact this may have occurred outside the US.

Your museum suuuuuuuucks, i got a wall carving of Quetzacoatl and a hand woven lama poncho at mine.

We all thought it was the birth certificate embarrassment that started trumps beef. But lo, it was the anger of a gobbler denied

no shit buddy, but the whole idea that “Hurrr if you don’t love LLMs you’re an idiot” is a reductive statement reducing a complex matter to stupid tribalism.

current AI and its applications? It absolutely is a nothingburger, and that is entirely due to the way it’s being marketed and applied. I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember the dotcom crash, but this is literally history repeating itself. An idea with the capacity to revolutionise the world being rushed through by dickheads who just want moneymoneymoney that applied it in the stupidest ways possible, churning vaporware and moon farts as concepts then when reality came knocking the whole thing fell over.

Much much later when it was allowed to develop properly we ended up with ecommerce and the modern internet. Well ok, pre-capitalism seizure.

Hahahah scripting in my HA atm, feeling this so hard.

I keep saying it but it’s true: this is dotcom mkIi.

Inchoate tech had coked up mba monkeys blow it up and now we’re gonna lose about 20 years of useful shit to their stupidity as we blob through the trough of disillusionment

Grow up? I’m pushing fifty with 30 years specifically working in IT.