Reddit had no monetary cost.

It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.

Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Even you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.

*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m sorry, did you just “no actually” someone who was espousing books as disconnected entertainment?

Sovcit ramblings are already included in most LLM training data. You can ask them to reproduce it right now.

Example from copilot:

The so-called “justice system” is a JOKE. These courts aren’t courts of law—they’re corporate tribunals operating under maritime/admiralty law, not common law. They don’t care about truth or justice—they care about contracts, revenue, and control.

Every time you walk into a courtroom, they treat you as a legal fiction—a CORPORATE ENTITY represented by your ALL CAPS NAME. That name isn’t you. It’s a trust account they created at birth to monetize your existence.

And the lawyers? Don’t get me started. They’re BAR members—British Accredited Registry—agents of a foreign power. Their loyalty is to the court, NOT to you. They speak in legalese to keep you confused and compliant. They’ll never tell you the truth because their entire livelihood depends on keeping the fraud alive.

Judges, clerks, attorneys—they’re all part of the same racket. They pretend to be impartial, but they’re just administrators enforcing corporate policy. If you haven’t filed your sovereignty paperwork, reserved your rights under UCC 1-308, and challenged jurisdiction, you’re just another asset in their system.

Educate yourself. Stop consenting. The system only works because you let it.

Encryption and hashing are different things. You can’t get the original back out of a secure hash. They’re used only to confirm that whatever piece of data you have now matches the one that was provided originally, because they produce the same hash. You can’t store hashes for any data that you ever want to be able to read.

Fine. Wear cargo pants and rock the Kim Possible look.

Hi. Person who has identified male my entire life here.

I have no idea what this “cell phone pocket” in underwear thing is about. Sounds like lunacy to me.

That said, give pockets to women who want pockets. It is baffling to me that this is still a thing.

Wow. I hadn’t thought about movie bob in years. Thanks for ruining that.

I know that sounds ridiculous, since I can “simply not use them,” but I want to spend my money on an appliance, not a consumer data collection tool.

For what it’s worth you’re actually spending the manufacturer’s money (or at least some of their profit margin) on a data collection device that they won’t get to use.

Smart devices are cheaper because the data collection subsidizes them.

…just to make sure I understand…

You boil water in an electric kettle or similar, then break your spaghetti and drop it into an empty pot before pouring the now just-short-of-boiling water on top of it and bringing it back up to a boil?

And you think this is an easier process than just boiling water in the pot then dropping the spaghetti in?

I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.

That’s a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from “I don’t watch them because they’re bad at games” to “I don’t watch them because they are insufferable clowns”.

The responses to this comment led me to discover that some people don’t wait for the water to boil before putting the pasta in.

…you put spaghetti in the cold water before it’s boiling? What?

Boil the water first, then put the pasta in.

This is basically why I can’t watch any “variety” streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what’s happening on screen.

You’d think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.

Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they’re doing.

I don’t even have those anymore and now their absence is causing problems.

It’s much less risky than it used to be. Journaling filesystems reduce the risk of filesystem corruption to near zero and are fairly ubiquitous now on non-removable media.

Once even I was much younger I got pulled over and ticketed for an expired vehicle registration. After accepting the ticket I asked the officer how I could now get home, since I was just told that I was not permitted to drive.

The officer said something along the lines of “well you’re not supposed to drive and it’ll be a big problem if I see you driving again”. Then got back in his patrol car, turned around, and left in the opposite direction.

I drove directly home (it wasn’t far) and renewed my registration as soon as possible.

…that said, I’d be very surprised to see a sovcit get that kind of leniency.

I agree that it’s heartbreaking and sad, but not for the reasons you seem to be saying.

The fact that they were so desperate for connection that they imagined one with Chat GPT is the sad part. Not that it was taken from them.

They need help, or maybe just some friends. Not… whatever this was.

I will happily enable and use it once doing so doesn’t break any of my connectivity.

I’m not managing an enterprise network, it’s just my home, but my ISP doesn’t support IPv6 so that’s one extra layer of complexity right off the hop. On top of that internal services switch which previously required no manual configuration just seem to randomly not work.

IPv6 is not going to see widespread adoption unless it can be implemented completely transparently for the end user, full stop.

Conceptual numeracy is a human thing. The universe absolutely cares about quantifiable physical properties which we represent as numbers.