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  1. Comment on Tulsi Gabbard admits she asked AI which US President John F. Kennedy files secrets to reveal in ~society

  2. Comment on Avengers Doomsday and Secret Wars delayed in ~movies

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    Wait, how is it like Oz? That sounds impossible.

    Wait, how is it like Oz? That sounds impossible.

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  4. Comment on Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests in ~humanities.languages

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    Maybe we could go out just as friends? Just kidding! ...unless...?

    Maybe we could go out just as friends?

    Just kidding!

    ...unless...?

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books in ~tech

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    Nah, it was the over-the-top conversational nature that just comes across as disingenuous to me because even when the sentiment is genuine, it's still hammed up and written to accentuate the reaction.

    Nah, it was the over-the-top conversational nature that just comes across as disingenuous to me because even when the sentiment is genuine, it's still hammed up and written to accentuate the reaction.

  6. Comment on Michael Bay will direct the ‘Skibidi Toilet’ movie in ~movies

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    Don't forget Armageddon!!

    Don't forget Armageddon!!

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  7. Comment on Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests in ~humanities.languages

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    I love using semicolons in quotes; it's like I'm showing what they really meant. I've also been much more liberal with my semicolons ever since using one got me a date. That was a long time ago,...

    I love using semicolons in quotes; it's like I'm showing what they really meant.

    I've also been much more liberal with my semicolons ever since using one got me a date. That was a long time ago, now, but I still think about how maybe it will be impress the other person rather than making them think I'm a freak.

    7 votes

  8. Comment on Michael Bay will direct the ‘Skibidi Toilet’ movie in ~movies

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    Also, Michael Bay is really good. He makes a lot of crap, but he makes exactly the crap he wants. That's why he's taught in film school.

    Also, Michael Bay is really good. He makes a lot of crap, but he makes exactly the crap he wants. That's why he's taught in film school.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on 1-1 political conversations to help mend the political divide in ~society

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    So that would mean no virtual devices?

    So that would mean no virtual devices?

  10. Comment on George Wendt, ‘Cheers’ star, dies at 76 in ~tv

  11. Comment on Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books in ~tech

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    Literally everything in this feels AI generated. This is exactly how ChatGPT often talks to me. Maybe I tell it something that bothers me that I want to learn more about, and it goes off in this...

    Right? Like, CLEARLY that's untrue. And that's part of the problem. Sure, let's be generous: maybe he started by using it responsibly, always double-checking, etc... but eventually, you use it so often, get so comfortable with it, you get lax, and loosen up, and then this happens.

    Literally everything in this feels AI generated. This is exactly how ChatGPT often talks to me. Maybe I tell it something that bothers me that I want to learn more about, and it goes off in this exact manner. This even has the same voice my ChatGPT often uses. I immediately thought this when I started reading what you wrote.

    Also, why would I use an AI to write a post about… how depressing and worrisome I find the proliferation of AI in society to be? That just seems self-evidently contradictory to me.

    To drive your point home. Tons of people use AI specifically to discuss AI.

    For example, here's what ChatGPT gave when I asked it to provide an exasperated response on a site like reddit:

    God, same. That quote from Buscaglia is such BS—“I usually check but not this time oops lol”—like no dude, you got caught being lazy and now you’re trying to play it off as a one-time mistake. It’s not even subtle.

    And yeah, this sucks extra hard because it’s the Sun-Times, not some Gannett zombie paper. They're one of the few places that actually should have credibility, and this kind of screw-up is exactly the kind of thing people will point to when arguing to slash public media funding. Like, congrats, you gave all the “why should we fund the libs” people a shiny new headline.

    At least it wasn’t in the main paper, but come on—people don’t make that distinction. The optics are already wrecked.

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  12. Comment on Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books in ~tech

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    Did you use an LLM to write (at least part of) this? The first paragraph especially sounds like ChatGPT and the rest seems like it might be a fusion of human and AI writing.

    Did you use an LLM to write (at least part of) this? The first paragraph especially sounds like ChatGPT and the rest seems like it might be a fusion of human and AI writing.

  13. Comment on Sweden's recycling centres overflowing with clothes after EU-wide ban on throwing away textiles – municipalities eager to have fast fashion giants take responsibility in ~enviro

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    That's pretty absurd. I seem to keep running into situations like that. I don't know how locals manage all sorts of things.

    That's pretty absurd. I seem to keep running into situations like that. I don't know how locals manage all sorts of things.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Sweden's recycling centres overflowing with clothes after EU-wide ban on throwing away textiles – municipalities eager to have fast fashion giants take responsibility in ~enviro

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    I never heard about this law and I've been going through my clothes deciding what to get rid of recently. I was planning to try to find a way to upcycle/downcycle/donate anyway, but I don't know...

    I never heard about this law and I've been going through my clothes deciding what to get rid of recently. I was planning to try to find a way to upcycle/downcycle/donate anyway, but I don't know what I'm supposed to search for to find where and how.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on US President Donald Trump warns big business: Eat my tariffs, or pay the price in ~society

  16. Comment on What historic unsolved mysteries do you want solved? in ~talk

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    I just don't get why that's such a huge mystery though. The same thing goes for pretty much everyone everywhere. It's an island you can see from the mainland. I don't see how that's any crazier...

    I just don't get why that's such a huge mystery though. The same thing goes for pretty much everyone everywhere. It's an island you can see from the mainland. I don't see how that's any crazier than the "mystery" of how people first got to Sicily.

  17. Comment on Edit, new Microsoft CLI editor in ~tech

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    It's funny how I remember being so confused by trying to save and exit vim at first and it's been years since I've used it, but of course I'll always remember how to do it now :)

    Many of you are probably familiar with the “How do I exit vim?” meme. While it is relatively simple to learn the magic exit incantation, it’s certainly not a coincidence that this often turns up as a stumbling block for new and old programmers.

    Because we wanted to avoid this for a built-in default editor, we decided that we wanted a modeless editor for Windows (versus a modal editor where new users would have to remember different modes of operation and how to switch between them).

    This unfortunately limited our choices to a list of editors that either had no first-party support for Windows or were too big to bundle them with every version of the OS. As a result, Edit was born.

    It's funny how I remember being so confused by trying to save and exit vim at first and it's been years since I've used it, but of course I'll always remember how to do it now :)

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Edit, new Microsoft CLI editor in ~tech

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    Modern Notepad is pretty awesome because it autosaves but you don't have to actually save your notes, so you can just throw some stuff in a note in a program that opens in about half a second and...

    Modern Notepad is pretty awesome because it autosaves but you don't have to actually save your notes, so you can just throw some stuff in a note in a program that opens in about half a second and then it's just there until you delete it.

    6 votes

  19. Comment on ‘Sesame Street’ heads to Netflix with streaming deal for PBS children’s series in ~tv

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    How did I know which episode it would be? 🤔

    How did I know which episode it would be? 🤔

    1 vote

  20. Comment on A comfortable life for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use in ~science

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    There's only one way to get more human embryos—perhaps we should get ahead of the bad faith messaging and tell everybody "we want you to have more sex with fewer condoms!"

    There's only one way to get more human embryos—perhaps we should get ahead of the bad faith messaging and tell everybody "we want you to have more sex with fewer condoms!"

    5 votes