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This is fascinating because due to copyright, generative AI engines often want to argue that they are not violating copyright because they are creating something new from the training data. But creating something new means being responsible for its accuracy and any negative impacts. Can’t have it both ways.

I like to think, Stratt barely gets any such humanizing moments in the book so it could be taken they're differently written characters, but almost nothing that happens in either version (in the whole story) excludes events from the other version. Like, the single most significant divergence in character is movie Grace bringing a pipe wrench to the first contact with Rocky; a little stroke of paranoia. It can be read as rather than differently written, the versions put focus on some different character traits, and taken together they're just more full portraits.

Wait wasn't Prongles an Obvious Plant?

These choices are like 10% "I have no idea what that means, tell me more," 20% things only unpleasant or dangerous individuals say, 5% cool and 65% weirdly specific curiosities I imagine could be offputting to weirdly judgmental people. I'm more interested in the thought process behind the selection than in anything the poll results might indicate. Professional lice breeder? What do people need lice for?, probably science. I'm here on my first date ever, you think I'm going to give up my chance to have a second ate cause she has an unusual job? I'm only intrigued.

Let’s fucking go

Donkey about to get the fuckin drop on father konstaninos - photographer unknown

Prelude to an ass kicking

Lawyer voice: People are entitled to their beliefs, certainly, but a part of that is also that people are entitled to not have your beliefs forced on them so, for legal purposes, God is not real.

"Okay we're putting our front legs on the table I GUESS"

While we’re on the subject, let’s please also remember that historically disenfranchised communities who had to worry about frequently being run out of town often bought expensive jewelry with their limited funds not because they were greedy or tacky or classless, but rather because you can’t sew a real estate investment into the lining of your coat, and the powers that be can’t freeze a diamond necklace the way that they can freeze a bank account.

Before I have to sign an NDA: providing tech support for billionaires sucks exactly as much as you would imagine.

We don't work directly with many billionaires but the ones that we do are uniformly whiny pissbabies who throw tantrums about totally normal tech stuff and try wheedle their way into free services by threatening to fire us if we don't give them free shit.

The problem is that every whiny pissbaby billionaire is perfectly willing to whine to the board members of companies and nonprofits we *do* want to work with, so if you fire the whiny billionaire as a client or get fired by a whiny billionaire as a service provider, it can destroy your business.

This the same with massive multinational corporations. Business owners get excited at the chance to work with them and see a potentially lucrative customer. They demand so much extra special treatment and labor that working with them destroys every business, hemorrhaging money, cutting quality standards to meet absurd demands. They ultimately end up taking cheapest, lowest profit option and receive it a massive discount, and never return or generate any other business down the line. It's fascinating how they all seem to be the worst people to work with on all levels, but company owners blind themselves to the risk, repeatedly. You'll see people walking around hollow eyed and numb, and it's because you did like a one word logo design for an Amazon subsidiary or sold copper wiring to Microsoft or whatever, everyone worked 100 hour work weeks for a month and they paid two shiny nickels for it. And they will not send business your way either, no chance, unless it's like, you're a company specialized in corporate accounting and it's some dude who wants you to print a t-shirt idea he thinks will make a billion dollars.

Make a risk-benefit calculation but assume billionaire customers are going to act decent or honest or even reasonable, it will never fail (for the billionaires)

I know this is kind of a hot take but I think creating a religious ethnostate is bad

I actually think it is still bad even if it is a religious ethnostate for a highly oppressed ethnicity and religion. I just don’t think it’s a good idea

If would be bad even if the place wasn't full of people from a different religion to start with. Like you could reduce casualties, but religious ethnostates don't actually work in the context where it's not 1700 AD anymore. We know now there are better ways to live with a net positive of education, freedom, safety, self-determination and quality of life for everyone.