There’s a vast difference between someone getting run over and someone being shot. Being run over can actually be an accident. Opening fire is never an accident.

Also, people get gunned down by the US government all the time. It’s extremely common. China doesn’t resort to that kind of violence nearly as often.

People are being sent to concentration camps.

Cow suckers don’t want to hear it.

smdh she doesn’t even know about eternal recurrence

He also didn’t want the mass unrest this would trigger.

And so people were demobilized.

And your decision to surrender the 2000s to Bush is what got us here, all because you didn’t want to go against the norms.

What you fail to recognize is that there are two forces evolving language. While many of us try to remove “man” because it is gendered, there are misogynists that use “man” because it is gendered.

You’re caught in the cross fire and now you have to pick a side. I see nothing wrong with forcing you to pick my side by pointing out the fact that, if you don’t, you are actively choosing to side with the misogynists.

It’s sus that you’re resisting this so hard. 🤔

The military allowed those other protesters to rush him to a hospital and allowed the hospital to treat him. Why didn’t the military stop them?

Without revolution, things stay the same. Risk death on your feet or live on your knees.

Sometimes you can get lucky and avoid revolution, and we should always strive for those peaceful alternatives, but sometimes there’s no other choice.

Except it didn’t change, it’s still used as a slur to talk about people with actual intellectual disabilities. You can’t avoid that.

The evolution of language isn’t a personal choice, it’s done on a societal level.

But people often lack the prerequisite skills to create the thing they have in their mind.

And they will always lack those skills if they never practice!

Furthermore, art isn’t just functionally putting creations into the world, it’s also the act of creation. There’s a feeling of creation that comes from creating art, it’s about the journey and not just the destination.

Having a chatbot do it for you isn’t the same.

There is still creative satisfaction in that process, like how a movie director tells the actors how to accomplish a scene but doesn’t actually play a role in the film themselves.

Many actors do not want to be directors, many directors do not want to be actors. Those are just different things.

Even if you want to compare prompting LLMs with directing, that still means that people are deprived of acting. They’re missing out on feeling and experiencing the act of artistic expression by outsourcing it to a chatbot.

Okay, so my theory is that it’s all market manipulation and insider trading. If we assume Trump isn’t just fucking stupid, he’s telling his inner circle “sell when I blow the market up” and “buy when I backtrack” to massively enrich them by gaming the stocks.

There’s no way this will keep working, eventually the market will actually crash, but until then they stand to make a lot of money.

Remember: the rich get richer when the market rises and when it falls.

Well languages don’t just evolve spontaneously either. They’re a human project that we’re always tinkering with.

You’re just living through a period of evolution. We change our own choice of words until those are the default, and we encourage other people to do the same, and before you know it “man” has become archaic.

If we had a gendered romantic language, with wifman and werman, then “man” would be a neutral term. We don’t have that language, though, and so “man” is not a neutral term and implies gender. This is just how the language evolved under patriarchy. Now that patriarchy is in decline the language is evolving again, to remove “man” and replace it with a neutral term.

It’s probably too late to go back and re-romanticize the language, but if you want to try you’re welcome to it I guess.

Code and art are just different things.

Art is meant to be an expression of the self and a form of communication. It’s therapeutic, it’s liberating, it’s healthy and good. We make art to make and keep us human. Chatbot art doesn’t help us, and in fact it makes us worse - less human. You’re depriving yourself of enrichment when you use a chatbot for art.

Code is mechanical and functional, not really artistic. I suppose you can make artistic code, but coders aren’t doing that (maybe they should, maybe code should become art, but for now it isn’t and I think that’s a different conversation). They’re just using tools to perform a task. It was always soulless, so nothing is lost.

And I try to choose representatives that will keep their hands off China.

And why can’t it keep evolving? Human-made, humanity, human-eater, etc.

Language evolves.

Also, do we really want a gendered language? Where does that leave people who aren’t wermen or wifmen?

It’s called revolutionary optimism.

Any time we use words in a way that’s different from a conversation it requires learning. That ranges from argumentation to story telling to, in this case, search queries. If it’s different from talking to another human, it’s a different skill.