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  It was not really about the machinery, or the quality of the work. It was about the rights of the common person, their livelihood, and their very lives. The reason the Luddites are viewed disparagingly is purely because they lost, and history always favours the victors. You have to remember that this all took place in a time where workers like you and I had no real rights of our own. There was no universal suffrage, only those with capital had a say in matters of government. So when machines w...

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  I enjoyed it as a kid. As an adult, the flaws are really hard to look past. From the goblins with massive noses that run the wizarding worlds economy, and is in kahoots with wizard Hitler, to the eugenics related hereditarianism views, etc. etc. Every single woman character in her books are ridiculed, or plain evil, if they take up space at all. There are like three non-white women, two are basically clones. And every single character is good or evil based on genes. Harry is a mix of both his...

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  I want Donald Trump’s neck in a guillotine. It’s psychologically important to me.

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  They’re doing this again, pushing to be a kind of market place and data gathering tool for games.

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  Yes, finally! I’m ready for this shitty platform to fucking die already.

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  I only found out because a colleague spent an entire day maintaining the server we host it on. The notion of having to *pay* to do all the BS operative work around using that shitty platform is so silly to me. If anything it feels like Microsoft should pay us.

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  Aww, but I wanted to see their penis.

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  Wow, the bare minimum. Bravo. I bet everyone clapped when they paid their workers, too.

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  Don’t know if they do LLMs but they’ve had machine learning features for years. They added the ability to extract subjects from images and turning them into stickers back in 2023.

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  Oh, I have seen those but never given them much thought. Thanks!