No no, Big Library just isn’t Big enough to stick it to Big IP, so that’s why it seems like it even though I know librarians are still much the same.

I’m not saying they’re not, or that the librarians are any more capitalist than they were in the 90’s. I’m just saying it feels like they are.

I mean, yeah, sure, I guess that’s a decent solutions in terms of modern IP shit.

But like, we all know you’re not returning anything and if you wanted, you could also copy it for yourself.

I just dislike how it feels like when it was actually books, they had actual reasons to everything. There’s a queue because there’s limited copies. You need to return it and if you’re late there’s a fee, because it’s from other people’s time, etc. Nowadays that all feels like larping just to protect large companies IP’s essentially. Because digital copies don’t actually get returned.

Like when I was a kid I would’ve never thought a librarian would say “you’re not allowed to read that anymore”. Or that I couldn’t copy a thing down at home from one of their books. But now as your tokens to ebooks expire, it kinda does feel like that.

How do you return a borrowed ebook…?

“I’m not reading your comments. Or the Wikipedia links. Because reading is dumb! >:(”

I don’t understand how people like you don’t realise how it seems to admit to willfully being ignorant online.

Just because you can’t read more than a single sentence without looking at your phone doesn’t mean we all do. Some of us enjoy reading and writing. And that “some of us” does not contain you. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

onto your keyboard and reply with human words instead of having a clanker do the work for you. It’s obvious with your lazy replies

Gee, thanks buddy. I remember like 20 years ago when people used to be super snide much in a similar way as you are now. Only it was “it’s obvious you have wall hacks” because I listened a little bit better than they did. It feels just, so good.

Who the fuck would use an AI to write forum replies? You, probably. Or someone you know. See you accuse me of being friendly with machines when you call yourself “a real machinist.”

Your dumbfounded “I’ll not open your Wikipedia links without explanation”-ignorance is the reason I come to forums like these. I enjoy watching you get upset and project a ton. :)

Time enjoyed is time not wasted.

Oh noo, he insulted my profile picture and said to go be elsewhere. :(

Such brilliance of rhetoric, the mind is positively dazzled in your presence!

Ofc you won’t, you’re a real machinist. Duh.

Also, good call, never know what Wikipedia links lead to. Might mean you’d learn something, shudder.

No, you’re not. You’re just wrong on the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Lol what a fucking strawman.

It’s not magic.

CDs and had this phone stuck up my ass

Kids will think you’re joking, but the vibration on those things was a proper… well, vibrator.

Nothing like getting a text from your crush with your phone in your crotch for her/him having indirectly caused you sexual pleasure.

(Also we did actually have contests on who’d throw their phone the highest without failing to catch it. And the throw were easily 5-15 meters high. And lots of misses. But not a single disabled phone. Small scratches on the covers maybe, but you could also buy new covers so it was no problem.)

It can be a zip file.

Or just a playlist you made on one of those streaming services. Ain’t no difference.

If you didn’t care, you wouldn’t have answered. You’re affected, psychologically, which is why you had to reply because you think you’re “gonna get the last word”

You won’t, because eveyone is laughing at your ignorance and avoiding the subject only makes it worse.

You keep repeating “don’t care what you think”, implying you’ve given a lot of thought about how much you care and who’s thinking what.

To each their own, but I’ve never changed an opinion because of the quantity of people who believe I was wrong.

Somewhat relevant or not:

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/company-that-makes-generative-ai-powered-npcs-reports-that-95-percent-of-players-enjoy-their-generative-ai-powered-npcs/

(still doesn’t affect LLM’s being trained of stolen material by entities who get upset when you share even a mb of their IP illegally, and LLM’s being powerhhungry fuckers, but I believe some of those smaller and more economic models could perhaps be worthwhile, and some NPC LLM set in skyrim shouldn’t need as much training as Gemini trying to be omniscient)

“I’d purposefully avoid talking about gun control”

Found the American.

Gun control works as surely as antibiotics do and people denying it are brainwashed yanks >99% of the time

But no you’re the smart one here.

Compared to you? Yes, I am.

If I had 1€ for everytime some cognitively limited champ says “well the scientists don’t know everything”, I’d have enough to buy a sufficient quantity of alcohol to forget I ever heard such bs.

That’s the core of science. Knowing you don’t know everything. If at any point someone in fact says they know everything, they’ve gone from a scientist to a religious lunatic.

No-one gives a fuck what you think. That’s why we read CERN and not your comments when we wish to stay informed on what’s going on in physics.

Hmm, who do believe, the nigh-consensus of pretty much all physicists, or… hector on the Fediverse?

I mean, one has literally millions of scientists and decades, if not centuries of established, peer-reviewed literature… and the other is a random stranger online who believes Charlie Kirk wasn’t shot for being a massive right-wing cunt, but “as the first victim of the war on Iran.”

Geez, that’s a tough one. Couldn’t possibly decide which way I’m leaning.