I developed a system with one person I was dating that if she was ever just unpleasant for no reason at all, I would stop whatever else was going on and make a priority to feed her right away. She figured it out after a few times (while we were redirecting from what had been happening and into getting food), and she was sort of conflicted between being even more angry “how dare you I am not some kind of Skinner box experiment don’t change the subject while I am giving you hell for (whatever)” and admitting that yes okay that is a very good strategy let’s eat and I will probably become happy.

“Don’t worry,” I said. “It’s just because it’s new. The novelty will wear off. And if it doesn’t, we’ll get rid of it.”

I feel like this belongs in a horror movie

First possibility that comes to mind is a backed up federation queue on lemmy.world for some reason.

It could also be some failure on sh.itjust.works, but if I had to guess I would say it’s more likely an issue on the sending end.

If you look at a lot of the weird stuff that LLMs create, and just remember that they’re predicting the next symbol one token at a time without engaging any factual reasoning, it makes perfect sense why they are doing the weird shit that they’re doing.

Yeah, dental issue. Sure.

Part of the point of the Snowden leaks was that they don’t completely give a shit about those limitations. I’m sure the details vary in various parts of the apparatus, but as I understand it they don’t even really bother with the fig leaf anymore (even as of that pretty long ago time at this point).

Not really… “not guilty” can mean, he didn’t do it, or else he was temporarily insane because he was in pain from his medical condition, or even Ed Snowden’s “yeah I did it and it was illegal but at the end of the day I was right to do it and I think I can convince a jury of that.” Or just the OJ Simpson “let’s talk about something else for a while and change the subject” defense. It could be a lot of things.

But I do get it that that might be their defense and they’re just not saying anything about it because they’re waiting for the trial to lay out anything at all about it.

I haven’t heard that his defense team is trying to claim that… I feel like if that was reality they would have. Maybe not, but I feel it.

I 100% assume that the McDonald’s employee who called on him is fake in some way, and they tracked him down through some kind of spy apparatus shit and just don’t want to give away their methods.

I have no evidence and I don’t really know how these things work, it just seems way way more plausible to me.

Ah, that explains it. It didn’t sound like a quote that would come from the real UN. Maybe in some other, superior timeline…

That’s wild, I never knew the origin of that last sentence.

My parents owned a cat who loved to go on walks with them, but would complain loudly if the walk was too long, and demand to return to the house when she was done walking. It was such a problem that they started shutting the cat in the house when they wanted to walk, and so she would hide outside and follow them secretly until they were too far along with the walk to bring her back to the house and continue without her, and then trot up and join them on the walk. Then shortly she would complain that the walk was too long and she wanted to go back now.

We love her

My phrasing was bad. Both the gender-swapped and the current “dancing in the crosswalk” Doctor Who attempts were dogshit. Fern Brady would actually fit the emotional timbre of the classic Doctors while also happening to be modern and female, was my point.