I think the meme is funny too, but it seems like it’s becoming so divorced from its original context that some people actually believe that carcinisation is some kind of ideal endpoint of evolution. Just to clarify: this isn’t true given how few, localized actual examples there are and the tradeoffs involved.

This is true, but it’s undeniably relevant to this community. By 2024, you definitely have to have known this is what Trump wanted, but even disregarding that:

Garcia was last year expelled by the World Boxing Council for using racial slurs during a livestream. He’s also come under fire for anti-LGBTQ remarks.

Absent other evidence, this clown is just mad that the leopards are eating the wrong people’s faces.

🎵 It takes a lot to make a stew 🎵

That wasn’t me you were talking to initially; that was TheLeadenSea. You’ll have to ask them, not me.

Fucking thank you. Yes, experienced editor to add to this: that’s called the lead, and that’s exactly what it exists to do. Readers are not even close to starved for summaries:

• Every single article has one of these. It is at the very beginning, and at most around 600 words for very extensive, multifaceted subjects. 250 to 400 words is generally considered an excellent window to target.
• Even then, the first sentence itself is almost always a definition of the subject, making it a summary unto itself.
• And even then the first paragraph is also its own form of summary in a multi-paragraph lead.
• And even then, the infobox to the right of 99% of articles gives you easily digestible data about the subject in case you only care about raw, important facts (e.g. when a politician was in office, what a country’s flag is, what systems a game was released for, etc.)
• And even then, if you just want a specific subtopic, there’s a table of contents, and we generally try as much as possible (without harming the “linear” reading experience) to make it so that you can intuitively jump straight from the lead to a main section (level 2 header).
• Even then, if you don’t want to click on an article and just instead hover over its wikilink, we provide a summary of fewer than 40 characters so that readers get a broad idea without having to click (e.g. Shoeless Joe Jackson’s is “American baseball player (1887–1951)”).

What’s outrageous here isn’t wanting summaries; it’s that summaries already exist in so many ways, written by the human writers who write the contents of the articles. Not only that, but as a free, editable encyclopedia, these summaries can be changed at any time if editors feel like they no longer do their job somehow.

Okay, but I literally just expressed how they’re fundamentally, pragmatically different while you keep reaching for the word “semantics”. You can still disagree that it’s wrong to copy – that’s not what I’m trying to litigage. To call it only semantically different from stealing is asinine.

Too bad. Because it’s being redistributed through a third party, you aren’t even stealing a negligible amount of electricity, bandwidth, or CPU time from them. Damn, when you think about it, it’s just not “stealing” in any capacity, is it?

on the basis of semantics

It’s not semantics when “stealing” results in the loss of the original by the owner while “copying” just results in a new one being created.

TL;DR: ✨die mad✨

OP, come the fuck on. Have some integrity and don’t post articles from The Economic Times.

Emphasis on “crappy”. Regular Lays potato chips are fucking ass. Kettle cooked is fine, but for the price, I should just get a good brand.

I’m not German and thought “huh, I’m not German; maybe I’m actually wrong, and I’m not going to overstep here”… And then the Germans arrived.

“Let’s nostalgia bait millennials who miss the Aero aesthetic.”

“Are these anti-Nazi protestors holding up a Star of David trying to protect democracy in Germany, or are they just trying to keep their family from being deported?”

🤡

No, they definitely are AI. ChatGPT for example is a generative pretrained transformer (GPT) is a transformer model is a deep learning model is a machine learning model is AI.

It’s just that the general public has no fucking idea what “AI” is due to being swamped in marketing about a field they have zero background in and have been led to believe is some kind of general intellect on the level of a human or smarter. In reality, a perceptron with one weight and one bias is machine learning is AI.

Since the start, what “AI” is has been fairly arbitrary; it’s just the ability for a machine to perform tasks we’d associate with human intelligence. It doesn’t even need to be machine learning; that’s just one branch. The game Video Checkers (1980) for the Atari 2600 running on 128 bytes of RAM has AI that you play against. The bar isn’t high at all.

That’s because every company’s strategy aiming to monopolize is to:

1. Make a product that’s genuinely better than what’s on the market for some role. Sometimes by undercutting competition at a loss, sometimes by making things very convenient, etc.
2. Once you’re big enough, make sure as you keep growing that new competition can’t pop up to challenge you. Kick the ladder down behind you, and make sure to start greasing the palms of lawmakers so they can’t challenge you in step 3.
3. Once you’re so big that you’ve monopolized the market and can’t be challenged no matter what you do (both because of ladder-kicking and because everyone uses you by default), do what you’ve been wanting to this whole time and go from “boiling frog”-pace enshittification to “welp, this sucks, but now I have nowhere else to go” enshittification.

It’s why people who say “Oh, well I wouldn’t mind it if X had a monopoly because they’re way better than those other companies” are so painfully misguided.

I think all of the current rules’ benefits greatly outweigh the (not extremely restrictive) burden they put on the poster:

• Rule 0 is there exclusively to protect posters.
• Rule 1 just says that /c/leopardsatemyface should be “leopards ate my face”. This community would rapidly lose any meaning without it and become a generic “Trump bad [he is]” community; there are still posts that are like “Trump did something bad” or “large cats literally mauled a person” despite it being the first actual rule.
• Rule 2 is more like Rule 1.5, saying that the onus is on you to show that you’ve met Rule 1. This one isn’t often enforced and exists so readers and I don’t have to meticulously research why this is relevant (or, for me, get appeals claiming some convoluted ad hoc chain of logic for why a post actually does fit Rule 1).
• Rule 3 is rarely enforced – only for the worst sources. There are a million other garbage dumps for the Daily Mail or no-name, fly-by-night LLM news mills.
• Rule 4 exists for equitability for visually disabled users, who can report posts so I can then ask the OP to add it to the one reported (instead of removing it) and any posts going forward.
• Rule 5 exists so that multiple posts of the same article don’t clog up the front page (this has happened, and I removed them without realizing there was no rule against it). LAMF is predisposed to it because it’s popular for crossposts. The part about “no top 100” is there to prevent users from lazily recycling what they know works (there’s almost no chance in hell they aren’t doing this if they aren’t breaking the “within 1 year” part). This is the rule most likely to blindside users, but reposts are a cancer for a community.
• Rule 6 exists solely to make it easier for people to post, because they know for sure that non-US and non-contemporary content is allowed.
• Rule 7 exists so I don’t have to duplicate basic things like bigotry, misinformation, etc.

(Didn’t downvote you btw)

OP, would you mind swapping the URL and the body of your post (i.e. putting the article in the URL and the image in the body)? It’s not violating any rules and so won’t be removed, but it’s a lot nicer to have a link to a high-quality article as the main content of the post instead of an image that’s only substantiated if the user bothers to look in the comments. (That is, a user who doesn’t want to interact with the comments and wants to use Lemmy strictly as a link aggregator should still get to read the article.)

Any Republican elected after 1968 can’t govern. All they know is enslavement, ignore they body politic, infight, be armed bullies, tax without representation, and lie.

“Play has no limits, but your credit card does. Let’s aim for that.”

Archive of original WaPo article: https://archive.ph/w0s1b