Basically its some PHP that generates very simple/awful web pages with a CSV file as a data source (yeah it should be an SQLite DB or just statically generated data - I know) to act as random bingo cards to play along with the election, cross them off as they lose their seats :)
So if I understand these wearable AIs approach I am supposed to carry a second super cheap phone that is specifically for AI around and that will help me not take out my primary smart phone?
Cool cool got it. One question.
Can I get a third phone with special software for #shitposting to make phone of the second phone so I don’t have to take out the first phone to dunk on them?
@paninid yeah he and Grant made an incredible pair in terms of sharing that mechanistic, determined, rigorous way of thinking about war, which leaned hard into the Union advantages and minimized the few Confederate strengths. You've likely read the Chernow bio of Grant but if not I give it highest marks. Once those two were ascending the command ladder, the only chance the Confederacy had was a Lincoln election loss in '64. In a meaningful sense they invented modern industrial warfare.
@paninid but yes Sherman more than Grant was a classic Bad Bad Man. If he was fighting on your side, you were glad for it, and may your God have mercy on your soul if not.
The "40 acres" subplot in the Civil War endgame attests to how complex a figure he was - racist as he was against blacks, he was the one person to actually seize massive plantations and just give them to the freedmen. He was right, and the same thing should have happened everywhere; this country would be very different.
@mrcompletely
this was a #ShowerThought inspired by the observation that some people are drawn to correcting others in online forums.
Those same people may lean extra hard into it if the incorrect opinion-haver is of the same cultural background.
Tribes of people have origin stories.
Everyone has a cultural origin.
I think mine is sufficiently curious, emergent, and integrative that it enables me to empathize with more than most, including ruthlessly shitposting bad opinion-havers.
@paninid I'm still thinking about this. Part of it is that you're observing a form of (sub)cultural belongness enforcement, yes? A sort of purity testing applied to posting that's more strictly enforced within a self defined community
Based on the famous XKCD "Ten Thousand" (https://xkcd.com/1053/) I am now proposing the inverse idea - every day there are also an unlucky 10,000 - those people who find out about something absolutely fucking cursed that day and their brains are made immeasurably worse by having the knowledge they now possess.
@anthracite thank you, I figure my brain will stop thinking about "what is the cursed knowledge?" in a few days which feels like a merciful blessing in comparison.
