It’s a shame they haven’t banned the whole shitty Poujadiste party.

So where’s the hate-crimes prosecution?

Never mind, it’s New York, they’ll probably go after the woman instead.

The use of LLMs for ppolicy making is probably an obfuscation technique to complicate later court challenges. If we still have courts by then.

An actual idiom where I live is to say “I feel rougher than a badger’s arse” when hung over.

That might be a motivation not to lick one a second time.

it’s very good at explaining the plots of movies badly

Generally by recapitulating plot points with no understanding of their relative importance.

The Germans have it right, their word for butterfly means something like “little crusher.”

That’s only a partial saying. The whole is “you can’t butter a fly, but you can make a bi flutter.”

Words to live by. Sounds like something from my dream diary.

I hate to break this to you, pal, but that’s not why they called her the village bike.

Yeah, there’s some low-paid guy in Chennai who has a completely absurd job speculating on the meaning of nonsense idioms.

ChatGPT is probably trained on Stackoverflow responses, which in my experience, are often confidently-asserted bollocks, especially the ones that inform you of the impossibility of something.

I had recent experience of that. What was claimed to be impossible took me two short evenings after work. It wasn’t at all esoteric, either, it just took lots of steps and required lots of validation.

It did what any human would do

I’m a human and my response would be “I have no idea what the hell that means. Must be of Southern origin.”

Too bad. The truth is still the truth, even if 99.9% don’t agree with it.

Funny how lying about a problem doesn’t solve it.

The notes in his diary about the native people he met, and what good slaves they’d be, certainly didn’t help.

Trump is weak-minded and repeats whatever someone just told him. That’s why so much power resides with whoever controls access to Trump.

Wow, PigBoy almost showed signs of sentience for a second there.

It’s not a hard requirement, but it’s sure nice to leave the house at a low but non-freezing temp in winter while you’re away for a few days, then use a web app to bring the temperature back up right before you come back in.

Being on the home LAN, though, is a requirement for me. That is extremely convenient.

We have a Tado system, not the current generation but the one before. It was easy to self-install and configure and has never given us any trouble. There are a couple UX quirks, such as not having a confirm dialog after you touch the Shut Down All or Max Out the Heat buttons, but overall it’s one of the rare electronic gadgets that has led to no buyer’s remorse.

So downing a 1.5 litre neck of vodka in a hurry can kill you (if you can keep it down). And of course, if you’re taking something else at the same time, there can be synergistic effects that considerably lower the lethal dosage.