FinishingDutch

I absolutely loooooove that. I have worked with a fair few autistic people over the years, and am probably undiagnosed myself.

I always love hearing about someone’s niche interest, whether it’s trains, games, weird music taste or whatever. One guy was into Roman Legion reenactment. He and his girlfriend would spend two weeks every year at a fully immersed reenactment campsite. He’d be a solder, she’d play a slave girl (yes, really).

It’s always a treat to find someone who doesn’t mind endless followup questions and they in turn love being talk in depth about it.

Ugh, absolutely fucking annoying. I’ve been online since 1994. Back then, proper spelling and grammar were enforced by ‘grammar nazi’s’. If you wanted your post to be taken seriously, you had to write it properly. Because of that, I tend to write longer posts with proper grammar.

Unfortunately, not writing like a drunk koala means you now MUST be an AI.

I’ve pretty mych resorted to inserting a random typo somewhere in the comment or post so at least it looks like a human typed.

Sometimes it’s just not worth arguing with people. Certainly not if it’s the fifth time that week or something. That shit gets exhausting.

Also, you’re allowed to simply not give a ahit on some things. We’ve all got our own shit do deal with without needing to form an informed opinion on every other thing that might be happening somewhwre in the world.

Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.

Yeah, we noticed. This week in the Netherlands we had the first day where the entire country’s daytime max temp was below 20 celsius, since june 14th. That means it’s been warm for 86 days straight. And we had some scorchers.

I’m just glad we have airconditioning at home.

He only bummed that cigarette on Air Force One for a friend! I heard that from a reliable source.

Well I don’t think they did that many specific ‘map bits’. Besides the ‘you absolutely can’t hang that map anywhere NEAR the Oval Office’ episode.

https://youtu.be/5TmfSygkeO8?is=qGnC9u7F3ZLFLz93

Yay, i get to post my favorite West Wing bit again!

https://youtu.be/vVX-PrBRtTY?is=cFki2MNzddEem2bn

Yeah ‘serving size: three jelly beans’ or ‘one Oreo cookie’ are not realistic even for people who don’t actually binge them.

This shit reminds me of that helicopter gunner scene in Full Metal Jacket:

“Everyone who doesn’t show their face is an AI. Everyone who does show their face is a well-disciplined AI.”

Problem is that most people and automated systems are downright terrible at figuring out what’s actually AI. Even AI itself can’t always tell if it’s AI.

I’ve had people accuse my posts on social media as AI, just because I can write more than two sentences without spelling errors. Since they can’t, they think nobody can…

So now I tend to leave the occasional delibarete spelling mistake just so people don’t think this was written by ChatGPT. Unless I put that in my prompt, obviously 😂

YouTube’s bullshit is having some interesting effects for sure. Have you noticed how more and more channels are now including short clips of them doing the actual voiceover? It’s usually not even that long, like a second or two or sometimes even less. But apparently that’s now needed to prove that there’s an actual human behind the channel.

I do find it a bit distracting, but I’d rather not lose those channels either…

In the wake of the Luigi Mangione shooting, bans went into overdrive. Even using the name Luigi in any context could get you banned. I’ve seen people get their account nuked for posting Luigi’s Mansion gameplay footage.

That place is an utter clown show at the best of times.