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If you have to explain downvotes, upvotes should also require an explanation. "Brigading" can go both ways.

No, they're pining for the fjords.

Spaniard here. I'm one of those few weirdos that desperately need daylight in the mornings to properly function, especially in autumn and winter, and couldn't care less if it gets dark earlier in the evening. I might even welcome it, especially in summer. We are rare, but we exist!

Spain is already in the wrong time zone for standard time, and when DST hits, it's two hours off the time we really should have. It's unnatural for daylight to last until 22:00 or nearby in june and july in Spain's latitude. A bit more and we'd end up with some kind of midnight sun, like we were in the Arctic Circle. It's ridiculous.

I mean, it's usually so hot, and getting hotter every year, that you can only go outside somewhat comfortably after nightfall anyway, so I'd actually prefer if it got dark at 20:00 or earlier in the summer, as it should be. On the other hand, it's horribly demoralizing for me when it's almost 8:30 in the morning in mid-october and it's still so dark. Going back to standard time, like we did a few days ago, gives me a brief respite, but unfortunately dark mornings will soon return in a month or so.

"'Beware of first- hand ideas!' exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. 'First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by live and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation."

"The Machine Stops", by E.M. Forster

I never thought I would ever say something like this, but that's the way the world is now. I sincerely hope Adobe's lawyers completely and utterly crush this guy.

"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up" (C.S. Lewis)

Is strong "AI" fanboyism a "psyops"?

But that's not "talking". That's sending commands to a program and then getting the program's output. The truly mentally damaging thing is thinking something like that is "talking" to "someone". I don't need to be "polite" to a glorified REPL. I'm not going to "insult" it either, of course. The whole thing is absurd. It's a computer program.

The autobots won't, but the decepticons might try.

Another funny euphemism for the collection.

It will tell lies more convincingly.

> Winamp will be reborn as a completely new player with its own premium subscription service

This does not whip the llama's ass.

Sorry, but a string of ones and zeroes will never "love you back".

My favorite part of the article:

> The only people who experienced slight increases in negative emotions when exposed to the words were those who scored high on moral elitism and a need for recognition. These specific personality traits reflect a persistent feeling of being a victim in social situations. For everyone else, the words had no measurable negative impact.

"Only" 1 GB of RAM. Man, I'm old.