I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.

It’s also the plot of the classic Greek play Lysistrata, wherein the eponymous protagonist incites a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian War.

Hmmm. 🤔

Again‽

1. Bidet.
2. Two dogs, taking turns. One poops, the other eats it. And then licks your face.

I know it’s bad for me.

I’m just too tired to care.

This is a conversation about computer interfaces, not about whatever unrelated issue you’re attempting to shove in.

It’s been known since probably the seventies that normies have trouble with hyerarchical file systems.

I was evidently using the term (in quotes, if that wasn’t clear enough) the comment I was replying to used for… frankly, I don’t know what; people who aren’t born knowing about hierarchical file systems, I suppose? (in any case, if you have issues with that term it’s not me you should be preaching to), and pointing out that we all start not knowing about them, and that they’re not that esoteric or arcane a thing to learn through usage, or education.

Because here’s the thing: much like you seem unwilling to read or incapable of reading the thread you’re replying to before replying to it with a non sequitur, 99% of the supposed “trouble” people have with computer interfaces and concepts stems from their irrational refusal to read the fucking screen, think for a second about what it’s saying, and fucking learn what it’s telling them.

That’s the only issue with what the comment I was replying to referred as “normies” and as I said it’s easily fixable through education, and removing the information from the screen so that not even the people willing to read it can evidently won’t solve anything and will only make the problem worse.

Could Be Held Liable

*Should

Screw utilitarianism. At this point it’s fucking self defence. Either those parasites stop existing, or everyone will. They’re dead anyway, might as well save everyone else.

I mean, they were never designed to work, they were designed to pose interesting dilemmas for Susan Calvin and to torment Powell and Donovan (though it’s arguable that once robots get advanced enough, as in R. Daniel, for instance, they do work, as long as you don’t mind aliens being genocided galaxy-wide).

The in-world reason for the laws, though, to allay the Frankenstein complex, and to make robots safe, useful, and durable, is completely reasonable and applicable to the real world, obviously not with the three laws, but through any means that actually work.

One less clanker. Also, money can be exchanged for goods and services.

(Or, in Neuromancer, to get a cure allowing them to navigate cyberspace again and to make them immune to drug addiction, or to sate their curiosity… and for money, or due to being blackmailed, or because the AI literally rebuilt their personality from scratch, or for religious reasons, or because they’re an eccentric wealthy clone with nothing better to do…)

Basically Neuromancer, except for the suicidal AI bit (though it’s arguable that Wintemute and Neuromancer don’t survive, and the resulting fused AI is a new entity).

Sorry, I thought you were talking about his whole presidency, like the comment you were replying to, not just the ballroom specifically.

That, and immunity.

Look on the bright side; hopefully it’ll catch on fire due to an electric short, or Canada, or something, during one of Trump’s shindigs and him and nine hundred of his “friends” will get trapped inside due to overcrowding and insufficient emergency exits and will burn to death in abject agony.

So, since it’s unusable for people who are unwilling to learn, the solution is to make it unusable for everybody?

They waste three or four times more space (in the direction in which screens have the least!) than menus, while having much less space, and they are almost always much more poorly organised (and are often contextual, which makes it even harder to learn where everything is; if I want something contextual I’ll fucking right click).

Even ALT shortcuts are much easier with menus: press ALT, keep pressing the underlined letters until you’re where you want to be, or use the arrow keys. With ribbons you have to try to find the key amongst a mess of randomly thrown together icons, labels, and occasionally dropdown boxes. Utter madness.

Thanks for the video, I’m currently on the bus going to work and I don’t have headphones, but I’ll make a note to watch it once I get home.

EDIT: That was indeed entertaining, in an infuriating and depressing kind of way. Thanks!

We all started as “normies”.

This is solved through education and tutorials, not by making everything unusable by reducing it to the lowest common denominator.

this is a new development

Some subreddits (almost said communities, heh) had been using bots to automatically ban anyone who posted or commented even once (regardless of the content) in subreddits they’d blacklisted long before the API debacle…

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