Crawlers aren’t LLMs; they can do arbitrary computations (whatever the target demands to access resources).

There are; they’re called “stablecoins”.

Even bullshit essays should have a soul.

They saw cents when the songs were sold originally; it’s not like I’m running a music charity.

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Assuming newer versions are derived from code that was licensed GPL in the old version, the newer versions (which include new code) are also licensed GPL, whether the person writing the new code likes it or not.

Kind of is though

I believe that falls under “infrastructure”

How has nobody posted the geology XKCD yet?

Realistically one can come up with any number of axes and still be wrong, because the domain of politics isn’t a metric space.

That’s a political compass, and it’s still missing several political axes.

Oh, companies still commission letters, they’re just mostly slight modifications of some semiold neo-grotesque.

Ooh, nice. That’s a high-quality, multi-layered meme.

As default search engine, yes, in Firefox and chromium browsers. I believe you have to provide a URL fragment template.

Hm, perhaps I should have replied to them, then.

Thank God for the “/s”; I was worried you were serious, and without that I would have had no way to tell.

…what?

I am pretty sure he’s standing behind the fire, but I guess I wouldn’t bet on it.

That and that people used to wear other sorts of garments that weren’t such a pain to make.

you can’t amass that type of wealth without . . .

Sure, but that’s not for being billionaires; that’s for what they did to become billionaires and perhaps for what they are (or are not) doing to maintain their status.

Leftist messaging is plagued by the fact that what what is said literally is often something obviously wrong or stupid which is supposed to stand in (by convention, I suppose) for the point that is “actually” being made.

It makes dismissing leftist messages pretty appealingly mechanical for those who are opposed or just unfamiliar (many people, really) – they need only to point out the obvious way in which the literal meaning of the actual words the leftist has said are wrong or stupid. You can’t fault much the latter sort of person here, because there’s really not any indication that you don’t just wholesale believe the stupid thing you said.

It’s a critical problem that’s had a crippling impact on the acceptance of leftist movements in the United States. So it’s best to say what you mean. It really helps.