Only an American would assume that when someone says people they mean companies instead of, you know, people. 🤦‍♂️

The government parties do.

The government parties who approved these regulations…?

In general the default for cats and dogs is the male form, though it can be ambiguous between male and don’t know / don’t care.

For instance if you saw a random unidentified cat you could say you saw “un gat / gato / chat”, and it would be impossible to tell whether you were referring to a male cat or a cat of unknown gender (while if you used the female form it’d be unambiguous).

Romance languages really could use a neutral form, but “gat@”, “gat*”, or “gatx” just don’t work when you try to figure out how to say them out loud, and using the female form for neutral just moves the problem to the other side.

About 80% of orange cats are male; not as clear as one in three thousand for calicos, but stilll.

The problem is that what sounds good in German doesn’t necessarily sound good in other gendered languages (romance languages, for instance), so if you know both you need to know multiple mutually incompatible lists of arbitrarily gendered words.

Many romance languages have both; for instance, in Catalan “gos” / “gossa”, “gat” / “gata”, in Spanish, “perro” / “perra”, “gato” / “gata”, or in French “chien” / “chienne”, “chat” / “chatte”.

And if I did, you deserved it

Didn’t he sort of skip all the way to this point back in 2006 at Howard Stern’s when he set his minimum age for girls to have sex with at zero, sorry, thirteen…?

“Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds,” Stern asked in the 2006 interview.

“Oh, absolutely,” Trump responded “I have no trouble.”

“Would you do it” Stern clarified.

“I have no problem,” the future president said.

Stern’s co-host Robin Quivers then asked, “do you have an age limit or would you…”

“If I- No, no, I have no age–. I mean, I have an age li…” Trump replied.

Then, when asked to provide his “upper bracket,” Trump said, “I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”

I remember that guy who did some minor parts in Hollywood (and also did some side work as a camera operator), was told he had no future in the business, became a carpenter to pay his bills, did some carpentry work for a minor producer who got him a minor role in some fledgling director’s second (and first successful) film, said director liked him enough to hire him to read lines for his third film’s castings, and since he turned out to be more charismatic than the guys who were actually auditioning ended giving him one of the main roles in said film… which turned on to be one of the most successful films of all time (mostly thanks to said director realising the power of merchandising). That carpenter went on to have a pretty good acting career in Hollywood after that, it turns out; he’s still working now at over eighty years old.

That probably wouldn’t happen these days, and Hollywood is the poorer for it.

These colours were chosen specifically so we wouldn’t notice the nicotine coating everything.

that makes things almost filmic

His early books literally started with a visual description of the reader’s imagination “camera” gradually focusing on Great A’Tuin, the Disc, whatever region the action was going to happen in, and so on.

Filmic is exactly what he was going for.

Help! Help! We’re being repressed!

Well, some of it might manage to go out the window.

Most of that will probably hit another building, or a tree, or the ground, or something, and get absorbed (and permitted), but some of it might not hit anything solid and carry on into the atmosphere… where a good part of it will end up hitting a cloud, or a nitrogen atom, or a pigeon… but some might end up in space. And carry on for aeons, into the cosmos.

Same here (I was never one of the cool kids, though).

Meh, just upload a dick pic.

Dude, spoilers.

That’s stupidly dangerous. People a) lie, b) are idiots, and c) continuously forget the most obvious things, like where we placed the glasses we’re currently wearing. Often all at the same time.

Especially when stressed, for instance when about to get an MRI and being asked embarrassing questions, possibly while being high on whatever drugs they’ve got you on.

I’d expect them to at least use metal detectors.

Wouldn’t want a doctor or nurse to get a prince Albert to the eye just because the patient was too embarrassed to mention it.

As long as they pass regular competency tests to prove they’re not a danger to society (e.g., intending to run for president or some nonsense like that), yeah, sure, why not.

Otherwise, though, it’s Soylent Green time.

I wouldn’t trust people to tell the truth. People are idiots. I hope they also use metal detectors.

Wouldn’t want a doctor or nurse getting a prince Albert to the eye because the patient was too embarrassed to mention it.

why isn’t it an electronic lock that prevents operation of the machine if it’s not locked?

Why not make it simpler and make it a magnetic lock that simply locks the door by being pulled towards the machine? (With a mechanical override so you can get in if you really want to and have the key.)

LLMs are obligate yes-men.

They’ll support and reinforce whatever rambling or delusion you talk to them about, and provide “evidence” to support it (made up evidence, of course, but if you’re already down the rabbit hole you’ll buy it).

And they’ll keep doing that as long as you let them, since they’re designed to keep you engaged (and paying).

They’re extremely dangerous for anyone with the slightest addictive, delusional, suggestible, or paranoid tendencies, and should be regulated as such (but won’t).