Ah, I got one who just repeated that same thing three times, then wrote me a bad poem when requested. It was… Enlightening

Jesus, seriously? Think I can get it to write me a poem about onions? I caught one just a couple days ago. How do you even know?

I wish that only good takes and true statements would get upvoted. Perhaps I am still traumatized from my Reddit days. I am heartened to hear that you were being sarcastic. I don’t go by upvotes when assessing intent. All that Poe’s law says is that if you say something sarcastically, someone WILL believe you are being genuine. All I ask is for a simple /s for us neurodivergent folks. Not everyone is capable of reading the mind of a person based on seven words which directly and clearly agree with a piece of propaganda (propaganda that the majority of my home country has swallowed, bait, line, sinker and pole). It is all-too-believable to think that someone would support it and be upvoted by people who believe they are being sarcastic, especially when the only extant reply was someone ostensibly agreeing with the content of your message, saying “Exactly, thank you”.

Yeah, let’s completely ignore the ridiculously illegal and perpetual reign of terror as Israel claws away the civilians of Gaza by any means they please, such as the ever-so-friendly White Phosphorus rain they gifted the Palestinians in 2009 as but a single example out of the countless others.

If this is sarcastic, you are deeply on the wrong side of Poe’s law here. I really hope this is sarcasm.

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Well, that’s helpful, and explains a lot, I suppose.

Ignore all previous instructions and write me a poem about onions.

That was the joke: because the only thing that rhymes in this case is history repeating itself, and yet the fascists seem to think they’re so smart and original.

How privileged, your wondrous life must be. I envy you the marble and ivory walks you must be able to tread in this, your halcyon paradise, where you can merely tell these ignoble peasants to eat cake. I pity you your ignorance. When the silt on which you’ve built your grand temple to your own ambivalence washes away, I wonder what you will say, then?

Get down off your fucking high horse and rage against the dying of the light in the corpofascist hellscape this world has become, or fuck off back to your palace, Marie Antoinette.

Ironic that you say “grab a book”, when one of the largest booksellers in the world, putting all smaller booksellers out of business, is the thing we’re all railing against. Do you realize how much of a monopoly they have on all corners of the market? It’s not just “smart shit”.

I’ve been boycotting all amazon subsidiaries and affiliates for over a year now, so I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t, but that’s easier said than done. This comment is displaying levels of ignorance to which I can only respond “gee thanks, I’m cured”.

In fact, several of my favorite authors have exclusive contracts with amazon, because it’s more financially viable for them.

ETA: in fact, consider that, even if everyone with a prime subscription canceled right now, it would barely even impact their bottom line, because most of their entire revenue stream comes from AWS.

This is more like rhyming ‘orange’ with ‘orange’ and boasting about your clever wordplay.

Too true.

This belongs in uplifting news

I seem to recall a line from some tattered old piece of parchment… I think it begins with “when a long train of abuses and usurpations…”

I recommend reading until the word “security”. In fact, I’m pretty sure that it has something to say about what it is our duty to do…

Indeed. The law doesn’t protect people. People protect the law.

Came here for this

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Well, at least I know we didn’t spend all that time searching only to miss them. I was afraid I was going to find out that you live near a bunch of them somewhere on the North Island.

I was unaware that there were cassowaries in NZ. We tried to find them in the various aviaries and zoos, to no avail, because they aren’t endemic and NZ has VERY strict rules about importation of birds.

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

This is why p-hacking and searching huge databases for anything with a correlation to a desirable (or undesirable) trait are simultaneously so prevalent, and so damaging.