I read the text behind the link - I just didn't engage with it.

What's worth keeping in mind here is that using an LLM to assist in writing could mean anything from it fixing a few spelling mistakes and adding missing punctuation to a text the author wrote themselves all the way to AI writing the entire thing from scratch. Just because someone spots an em dash doesn't mean an LLM wrote the whole thing.

I don't think LLMs are the issue but poor quality writing is. Generic AI output tends to just make people's eyes glaze over so they stop reading. The same thing happens with poorly written human slop. People are only against AI use when they can detect it. It's the good old toupee fallacy: all toupees look bad - except the ones you didn't recognize as a toupee.

Is this supposed to address something I said?

I love slinging due to how much power the impact carries, but it's frustrating as I don't seem to be able to hit shit with it. I've easily launched thousands of rocks with it and the best I can do is to get it to fly into the general direction of the target - usually. Hats off to the guy who invented it and then had the patience to practise for a decade to demonstrate that you actually can hit something with it if you just stick to it.

What I imagine it to be great for, even if you can't hit shit with it, is medieval warfare when you're being rushed by a bunch of people. If you have hundreds of infantry and everyone has a sling and like 3 projectiles, that's quite the rock storm they're able to inflict on the enemy before they cover the distance to turn it into a sword fight.

And what happens when someone thinks you're an AI?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Either they ignore you or at worst they falsely accuse you of something you know not to be true, so I genuinely don't see why you should care. This seems completely pointless to me. Yet another example of the ways we try to please people who don't need to be pleased. I'd much rather just have them publicly make a fool of themselves so I can block them and move on.

Responding with nothing but a link in a thread about not putting in any effort into one's responses.. What ever point you're trying to convey there is lost in the irony.

I try to leave mondays and fridays empty from job orders when ever possible. I can't really stay a month off work during the summer time when it's the busiest so I try and cover that with longer weekends.

I'm not quite sure who this is even marketed towards.

When people buy a pickup truck with two seats, it's usually because they want a longer bed, but somehow these guys managed to remove the seats and keep the short bed. And it doesn't have a 4WD system. I don't get why anyone planning to get a pickup truck would choose this instead. If anything - this seems like the gateway truck (haha) into real pickup trucks for people who weren't in the market for one to begin with.

Mild solution of pine oil soap and water sprayed onto the leaves will likely kill whatever they are but wont harm the plant or you.

Choosing to filter out content from your social media feed isn’t necessarily about denial or apathy. For many people, it's a conscious decision to preserve their mental clarity and avoid being constantly pulled into emotionally charged, tribal, or manipulative discourse. Being well-informed doesn’t require immersing yourself in an endless stream of outrage, nor does stepping back from that mean you’re turning a blind eye to anything.

There’s a difference between ignoring reality and choosing how and when to engage with it. Most of what passes for "news" online isn’t a sober presentation of facts or ideas - it’s performance, manufactured outrage, and algorithm-driven noise. If someone wants to stay sane and focus on things they can actually influence in their immediate life, I don’t see that as sticking their head in the sand. I see it as setting healhy boundaries in an environment that’s often designed to provoke rather than inform.

People aren’t morally obligated to be constantly exposed to negativity just to prove they care. In fact, thoughtful action tends to come from those who can step back from the noise and think clearly, not from those who are perpetually consumed by it.

If you don't want to climb the capitalist ladder, there's always the option to ditch morals and take the elevator.

I keep trying to come up with a project that would justify renting one for a weekend. I just want to get to operate one.

I left reddit out of principle but I decided I wasn't done causing brain damage to myself just yet.

I don't see much conflict between that and what I said. The point is to make sure we're talking about the same thing rather than talking past each other. If the person you're arguing against can sign off on your "stronger version" of their argument, then that's fine. There you just again run the risk of twisting their words to the point that you're again no longer arguing against what they actually said even if your intentions were good.

No he wasn’t.

Bohemian Grove turned out to be very much a real thing.

You don't need to like or agree with him, but twisting the reality isn't helpful. The question wasn't what you think of him. That's a subjective question. Whether he was right about anything is an objective one.

Nobody here is defending anything he has said or done so I have no clue where that rambling is coming from.

The end result, which may well be the death of our species, is hardly spoken about

There's a good reason for that: no legitimate climate model predicts that outcome. I don't understand where that existential angst is coming from when no credible climate scientist is claiming it'll lead to human extinction. The threat is millions of excess deaths - not the end of the human race. The IPCC reports don't even mention human extinction as a plausible outcome. That terminology is almost entirely absent from actual scientific assessment.

The worst-case scenario is already really bad. Why do we need to pretend it's even worse?

Still waiting for further explanation.

I thought you were being a smartass - sorry about that.

No, there are thing I'd like to be otherwise but broadly speaking I'm satisfied where I am and I wouldn't want to start tweaking anything because I can't know the unforeseen consequences of it. This is good enough.

Yksi paikallinen lohkare on tuota ainakin 2 - 3 kertaa suurempi. Ylivoimasesti isoin jota olen koskaan nähnyt. Jollain tapaa jopa pelottavan näköinen nähdä jotain niin suurta noin vain yksinään nököttämässä metsässä. En löydä mitään tietoa kyseisestä kivestä netistä joten ihmettelen, että kuinka laajasti on ihmisten tiedossa edes. On siellä tosin geokätkö myös ja maastokartassa nimellä Venäjäkivi.

Yes. I'm absolutely flawless.

Anything else?

Please explain.