I think it’s more like TEH BLOKKCHAYNE. It has no viable use cases so grifters are throwing it against the wall in the hope that somewhere, someone will pick it up and give them the money they need to escape the inevitable collapse that is coming.

So … you’re comfortable with fascists in your bar?

Congrats! You’ve got a fascist bar!

I mean, you do you and all that shit, but you’ll find that over time all you’re going to get is fascists as normal people bail out on you.

Perplexity is a front-end to several Grand Theft Autocorrect engines and it primes itself with searches as well, it seems, to the point of linking what it says to search results, but it seems also to have VERY narrow blinders in its processing so that you can ask for something that is flatly impossible and it will not notice it.

I asked for a holiday in Jasper. And it seems to have laser-focused on just that without any general information on Jasper so it missed information it potentially had at hand to build me a (decent, even!) suggested holiday. And the evidence that it has the information potentially at hand is just mentioning the Jasper fire suddenly changes its tune correctly.

That’s the only realistic part of it! 😜

Cool! So they’re training AI on the worst humanity has to offer: Young Nazis for Freedom, “No Means Try Again Later” Techbrodudes, and Old Nazis who Don’t Care About Freedom.

Cool cool cool!

I’m a user, not an admin.

Hmmm… I have hilariouschaos.com blocked in my settings, but I keep seeing posts from the site owner’s sock puppets.

Is there a way to block ALL USERS from a site, not just the communities?

He explained the etymology as background information before pointing out what “apologists” means. He was correcting your misunderstanding of a word (the one you didn’t bother to look up and instead chose to react based on not knowing the word) and explaining why the false cognate existed. The main point wasn’t the linguistic history lesson. It was that “apologists” doesn’t mean “people apologizing”.

Just suck it up and learn, buttercup. You were wrong and are now doing a really bad rearguard action.

What? Are you saying techbrodudes aren’t serious about their claims to be concerned about piddling little things like the environment?

Don’t you know that Elon is going to fly them all to Mars so they don’t have to worry about being parboiled here?

Yes. An advocate and ally of LGBTQ+ groups is definitely onside with Xi.

You fucking idiot.

Who said anything about etymology? Your problem was not knowing the current definition.

“Liberal” means “the left” almost exclusively in North America (specifically the USA and Canada). In most of the world the term “liberal” means what Americans call “libertarians” (read: capitalist assholes).

“No, you’re wrong, and should suffer for it”.

How very Abrahamic of you. Indeed if you didn’t continually and loudly bleat your politics from talk like this I’d assume you were a fundamentalist Christian.

Liberals decisions are based on marginal benefit and rational decision making based on a combination of large and small scale unbiased data and historical outcomes.

[citation needed]

Liberals have their own idiotic biases and foolishness. Biases and foolishness that have led to the “disappearing” of many LGBTQ+ activists in China, incidentally, which is why so many such groups in China are distancing themselves from their western counterparts.

WTF is “ammenmend” supposed to communicate? I have genuinely no idea what you’re on about.

This would be your straw leftist, I assume? 'Cause I’ve never seen a single leftist anywhere who says that.

I find it equal parts of entertaining and disturbing that you’re trying to drum up hatred just so you can feel less lonely. Here’s a genuine question, but don’t answer it. Well, don’t answer it to me (or anybody else here). Answer it for yourself.

Why are you so fucking dead set on hatred?

The answer to that question is for you and your therapist to work out. (If you don’t have a therapist FUCKING GET ONE STAT!)

Say “I’ve never read history” without, you know, saying it.

To amplify from the other side of the world:

善為士者，不武；善戰者，不怒；善勝敵者，不與；善用人者，為之下。是謂不爭之德，是謂用人之力，是謂配天古之極。 —老子

A good scholar is not a warrior; A good fighter is not angry; Those who are good at defeating enemies will not compete with them; Those who make good use of people are inferior. It is called the virtue of not competing, the power of using people, and the extreme of matching heaven and ancient times. —Laozi

Another way to learn is to look up words you don’t know instead of a) guessing, and then b) reacting based on guesswork.