Not quite. It's that he was flying a plane and being shot at 6 days a week, and yet still didn't need to jump up to a new bad word. Whatever he already knew is the language he used.
GreenShimada
No apologies necessary - thanks for this. We can't ever be in each other's heads to experience how each other thinks, so this is amazing.
Have you ever heard of the mnemonic device of a "memory palace"? Can you do this? Or would it not work for you?
Caffeine habits are very real, and holy shit, that's like 6-7 coffees a day. If he went cold turkey, it would be a week of hell at home, vomiting from the migranes.
Sorry, I mean just for the UK, US, and apparently China also.
Fortunately, the EU isn't going down the same path, and has Estonia, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands as guides. And to just do this in the right order and do step 1: sensible digital ID system.
I've read this comment about 30 times, trying to talk myself out of paying some kids to re-package Mint for me. But with all the grifting, I could do this and charge $47 a pop and raaaake it in. And it's not a REAL scam, right?
No, I need bitcoin scammer money up front to bother with this. And I don't have that.
Same. I genuinely don't understand what life is like without this. If I need to remember that there's a specific thing in the basement, I'm visualizing what's in the basement and looking at each thing. Do these people just like have an actual list in their head for this?
if I'm not at home and need to walk my spouse through something like checking for a tripped breaker, I'm visualizing the whole process so I can explain it in detail. How does the other side do this? No judgement, I'm genuinely curious how it works.
So this whole list is actually
ChatGPT
How to ask ChatGPT how to:
Coding
Computer Science ....
What's interesting is, traditionally in language, once forbidden words got ran out, there were still other bad words left to enter the lexicon. "Damn" used to be a genuine curse. My grandfather survived WWII and proudly told be people of all the bombs he dropped, he never dropped the F-bomb.
What's next? There's no new forbidden words. Nothing left in the back of the store. Our ability to run through words outpaced our ability to make bad ones.
Yeah, WTF is up with this? The people that will drink 3 or 4 cans of Monster a day? JFC, that shit'll kill you, man!
At some point they get large enough that the whims of users cease to affect their decision-making. If Google, Meta, and MS tomorrow rolled out a social credit system that made the Chinese version look generous, 95+% of their users would not change a THING to avoid it. Maybe 98% of their users.
Users are the commodity to be traded. They have what they see as a business model that's too big to fail. And the users agree!
"Look, guys, I vibecoded a wall!"