The fucking problem is they stole my damn calculator and now they’re trying to sell me an LLM as a replacement.

LLMs are an interesting if mostly useless toy (an excessively costly one, though; Eliza achieved mostly the same results at a fraction of the cost).
The massive scam bubble that’s been built around them, however, and its absurd contribution to enshittification and global warming, is downright monstrous, and makes anyone defending commercial LLMs worthy of the utmost contempt, just like those who defended cryptocurrencies before LLMs became the latest fad.

Self-driving cars are safer, in general, overall

Self driving cars in general, maybe. Teslas in particular, probably not so much, especially with Musk refusing to use LIDAR…

People who don’t like poetry can’t recognise good poetry, news at eleven.

Seriously, though wake me up when AI can reliably replicate Vogon poetry…!

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturitions are to me, (with big yawning)
As plurdled gabbleblotchits,
On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer. [drowned out by moaning and screaming]
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t!

Source?

I mean… [ gestures broadly at everything ]

They see the world as a zero sum game. They can’t imagine being happy unless someone else is unhappy.

Regardless of how many sides there are, it is an undeniable fact that plenty of people (in the USA in particular, apparently, a majority of the voters) choose to be in (a) side(s) that want(s) to enslave, murder, and rape.

And many others choose to be in (a) side(s) that enable(s) the previous one(s).

No civilised society should accept any of those sides, or those that choose them.

Most people seem to want others not to have a good life, ignoring or disregarding the effects that might have on themselves.

Many if not most would sacrifice their own wellbeing if that guarantees that “the right people” will also suffer. They see the world as a zero sum game, and can’t conceive the possibility of having a good life if others aren’t having a bad one.

Most people suck, often to the point of being monstrous by any decent definition.

Probably trying to hide the evidence.

COVID showed us that when we close the borders it’s already too late.

American avian flu will be global long before enough other governments take it seriously enough to react, because the people who should have raised the alarm (in the USA) will be too busy looking for a job, in jail, dead, or ignoring it and drinking raw milk.

And he was scared of Ungoliant, and we don’t know what she is, besides nasty, and hungry, and shaped like a huge spider (well, spiders are shaped like her, probably).

(He also got his foot almost cut off by an elf in single combat and walked with a limp ever after — well, at least until he got his hands and feet cut off by the rest of the Valar, I suppose —, but elves were mighty back then.)

Yeah, I suspect he’s holding the map upside down intentionally, and that guy was far from his first victim.

Neither the Beast nor the Smiler are ignorant, conspiracy theorists, or foreign assets though (grifters and sex criminals, most definitely, I’ll give you that, especially the Smiler, but most of the City’s population seems to fit in those categories too, so in that sense they do represent their electorate).

They’re both quite competent and intelligent psychopaths.

Now, if we’re talking about the Republican Party Reservation and its associated TV show, or the vat-grown VP…

Nope. It’s cut. There’s fucking to death a couple panels from these. Someone else posted a link elsewhere in the replies.

It’s not the shire that worries me, it’s where the fuck the rces in Worcester is going…

Something like Woostuhshuh, apparently, for some reason. 🤨

Fucking bones. Inside my body. Everywhere. And my brain is trapped inside one of them. Fuck. 😖

But you still have to take steps to do it or your hand will never get better.

As someone else said in another comment a broken foot might be a better metaphor. Or a leg. Two legs even.

You’re telling people with broken feet and legs to just walk to the doctor.

No, it was democracy manifest.

Streaming is bringing unskippable ads and surveillance.

Torrents bring neither and are higher quality and more user friendly.

The internet is making things worse, not better.

No, it’s not. Before the Internet you could only watch what was on, when it was on.

Now you can torrent anything you want to watch, whenever you want to watch it, and in much higher quality than TV used to be. And, again, without ads, which TV has always been riddled with.

That’s infinitely better, on multiple metrics.

They should eat each other. It’s the only ethical choice.