Siri: Buy <insert album name> from <insert premium site that sells the album for $1000>.

They’re not humans, the ones who will inflict this upon us (except of course that AI is bullshit). They’re at best lizards, intellectually speaking (and with about the same moral standing).

So with someone who doesn’t understand how reality works. Got it. 🤣

Commercial/state-enforced AI crawlers overburdening services and forcing admins to increase cost and time spent dealing with these DDoS attacks is much closer to theft than the piracy itself. Piracy doesn’t make people lose money, AI crawlers do.

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Every person who says “piracy makes me lose money” is lying (or at least profoundly confused about how “income” works).

Crawlers take up actual assets (bandwidth and time) that actually take money from your pocket. Piracy may or may not reduce your potential (key word!) income.

One of those two is legitimately a property crime.

I’ve given it a try, but it’s too fiddly for my tastes. Too much to keep track of. (I mean I suck at Chinese Chess already; I just enjoy it anyway.)

Oh, apparently I’ve been misinformed.

If I ever get the opportunity again, then, I’ll give haggis a try. The prospect of kidney just had me not even bother trying because, well, kidney and I don’t get along.

I tried to watch that but I couldn’t figure out at all what was going on. I eventually just turned it off I was so lost.

What did I miss?

The only thing that gets to me in haggis is the presence of kidney. I can’t stand kidney. The rest is fine.

皮蛋 a.k.a. “century egg” or, more boringly, “preserved egg”.

I get it. I really do. Everything about these from the colour to the texture to the aroma to the flavour is highly alien to most people’s tastebuds. (It took me ten years to warm up to them myself!) But now that I pushed through it, they’re one of my favourite things.

Xiangqi.

The only question that remains, is would this lead to a new era of prosperity and free time, or would this just be another tool to further enrich the entrenched capital?

Does anybody seriously ask this question? I mean the answer is a given.

To be fair, it’s shorter and punchier than “play stupid games, win stupid prizes”.

“Toot sweet.”

Learn French toot sweet or stop using what sounds French to your ignorant ears. (Replace French with every other language you don’t know but think you’re using.)

“Burglarize.”

A “burglar” is called such because they “burgle”.

It’s already a verb. You turned it into a noun. Then you turned that noun back into a verb. What the Hell is wrong with you!?

Euphemisms and bowdlerisms. For example, don’t say “heck” or “darn”. Either have the faux-courage it takes to say “Hell” and “damn” or reformulate.

Also, stop eliding words. F__ you if you think somehow invoking a specific word while pretending you didn’t type it fooled anybody.

what the fuck does that even MEAN.

It’s a cop-out phrase most frequently used by people want to deflect consequences for stated opinions (usually hateful or stupid) or to deliver veiled insults without accountability.

The issue is that this second definition is another tragic loss to ignorance that led us to literally have no way to refer to things literally any longer: prolonged misuse (@elbucho@lemmy.world ably explained the proper use) has led to another vague word that used to have a precise meaning.

Because people can be very, very, very ignorant of their own language.

I hate it when people verb their nouns too. It’s egregified when they start participling their already verbed nouns.