• Pratai@piefed.ca
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    7 hours ago

    The bar is so fucking low with this imbecile, I’m surprised there aren’t backwards letters to be honest.

  • Čauky Mňauky@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Is this real? Like, actually real?
    If yes, did they let an AI write the document?
    If yes to both… sorry, Americans, but…

    🤣🤣🤣

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    17 hours ago

    We… we are clearly in the stupidest universe, right? I don’t believe it can get stupider. (Though I said this before in 2016)

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          8 hours ago

          I almost put that and I should’ve. But I didn’t know how many people would get it.

          We don’t have time for a hand job Joe!

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        16 hours ago

        Except the problems are worse and more numerous, and the President isn’t looking for an expert, plus he’s one of the bigger problems.

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          13 hours ago

          Yeah, the problem in Idiocracy is that there was no one intelligent enough to listen to. In reality, there’s plenty of intelligence, but few in power listen to the ones trying to better the planet. Theyre all more concerned about accumulating power and the next election cycle. If it doesnt look good, no matter how many it might help, its not worth doing to them.

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      11 hours ago

      As the Epstein emails proved, being rich and affluent doesn’t preclude someone from also being illiterate. We like to think these real-life supervillains are smart and sophisticated, like in fiction, because at least then the world makes some amount of sense - it’s plausible that a very intelligent person could amass that level of wealth. But the reality is that many of them have the written communication skills of a teenager using MSN Messenger circa 2004.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      Yes, it is, in fact, stupider: Trump replaced a picture of a President Joe Biden in the White House with a picture of an autopen, then showed President Xi with pride, further evidence–if it were needed–that Trump is dishonorable.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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      16 hours ago

      There is one level of Backrooms where there’s a long rollercoaster that never seems to end and get more bizarre as you go. That’s what we’re on.

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            16 hours ago

            Yes. But it was a massive source of humor for me some months ago when I asked AI chatbots to generate metro map diagrams of my city.

            Sometimes the station names they wrote on them somewhat resembled real ones, but were humorously misspelled and in completely incorrect positions and orders. Other times, the overall shape of the network was roughly ok, but the station names were completely nonsensical.

            • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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              15 hours ago

              True, but we figured out how to deal with the epistemiology in a world with Photoshop; I think we can probably figure it out with generative AI, too.

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    16 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure Elon misspelled his own name in his signature, too. It’s obvious that he forgot how to write in cursive and was remembering mid-way through, but he very clearly wrote his name as “Elon Muk”. Like… the last squiggle is just barely a K, but there is a distinct lack of an S, or even a space for an S.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      I don’t know that we can necessarily critique the spelling of an abstract signature. I mean, mine is pretty unrecognizable as my name; if my initials were XYZ, my signature would kind of look like “xY–”, with a little bump at the end that you could kind of interpret as a z.

      And famously, the Disney logo looks distinctly like the signature of “Waly Gisnep.” Elvis Presley’s autograph looks like “Elim rules.” John Lennon’s looks like the autograph of someone named “Sarah Clancy.” Very fittingly, Henry Ford’s signature is “Hemmy Turd.”

      Actually, on that note and in your defense, unreadable signatures kind of seems like a requirement for terrible people. Donald Trump’s signature (“Snnnn Suuuuuuugh”) is up there looking uncomfortably like Benito Mussolini’s “VnnnnnnnWi!,” Zuck’s “Mr Zz” kind of reminds me of Adolf Hitler’s “by Him” signature, and while I can’t read Devanagari or Cyrillic, Sundar Pichai’s signature sure does call to mind Josef Stalin’s.

      But it’s a thing for not-fascists, too. Kurt Vonnegut’s signature is just a line drawing of his head with the letter “t” somewhere in his hair, Emily Dickinson’s is literally just her first name, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s looks like “Puth Badu Jinobung,” and Charles Dickens’ signature looks like it says “Snarls Wickens” (which in hindsight would be a great band name)–and they were some of the most literate people of all time.

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      16 hours ago

      That’s one thing, but like… Can we take a moment to appreciate how shit his signature looks? It’s not just unreadable, it has zero style. Isn’t he supposed to be a CEO or something?

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        I can’t think of a single person in my life under the age of 40 that has a “nice” signature. I’m not even sure they teach cursive in school anymore. We’re basically forced into it because it has legal importance. Mine is trash and varies from one to the next.

      • kinkles@sh.itjust.works
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        16 hours ago

        Of all the things we can criticize him for, we’re nitpicking a signature? Mine looks like absolute dogshit.

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          11 hours ago

          I dunno, if I was the richest man in the world and also was signing documents potentially billions of people could see, I might take 2 minutes to practice first.

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    16 hours ago

    This explains everything! No wonder they decided not to regulate it. The “Pledge” was written by AI.