Mostly people miss it… Unless you were gay. Then you probably have some unhappy memories about that time. Of course there’s nostalgia for other stuff, but civil rights were way worse for lgbtq.

I’m surprised no one brought this up yet. Being gay in the 90s would be about as controversial as being trans now, and it would not be okay to walk around holding hands with your same sex partner unless you were in a known gay area. it might not be illegal, but it would’ve attracted attention, probably people would’ve said slurs at least. The f slur was used in television and movies until around the 90s. People just used it like “nerd” or “dweeb”. Cocksucker was a pretty bad insult, insinuating someone was gay being pretty damn insulting at the time.

Things were significantly worse for lgbtq people, and there was the fear of HIV being basically a death sentence, and it wouldn’t have been long after people called it the “gay disease”. Some people were very uneducated about that stuff. My mom, who believed that gay men were our equals and should have equal rights, told me not to touch my gay teacher or shake his hand or anything because he might have “a disease”. Thankfully my father was more medically knowledgeable and told her it doesn’t spread like that, even if he had it.

It wasn’t until around after the 2000s at least that gay people were proudly saying, “HIV is no longer a death sentence”. It used to be a disease running rampant that no one gave a shit about because of homophobia basically. Fucking Reagan.

140 WPM on the resume

It’s not a tumah

It’s also a fundamental misunderstanding of why people say “there’s no going back”.

Practically anyone with a gaming computer can download Ollama today and run a decent open source model and do stuff locally, download it, take their computer offline, then use AI without touching any billionaire’s SaaS products.

You can get some productivity out of those models. You can use LLM, generate images, use computer vision, get help coding with local offline agents. It might not be as clean as using some of the paid tools and closed source models, but they work.

And that’s what people mean by, “there’s no going back”. What the technology does is going to keep being a thing. It might dissipate a bit as the bubble pops, but it’s not going away just like it’d be weird to try and make the internet technology go away at this point, even after the dot com bust.

It doesn’t mean we can’t regulate data centers and their construction. It means the technology is developed and open source and usable by practically anyone, and the tooling will stay around.

Prompt injection… my ass. I know it’s the going term, but they make it sound like sql injection or cross site scripting when the nature of it is politely asking the person’s computer to delete files.

We shouldn’t even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone’s computer to delete files is effective. It’s a symptom of a much, much bigger problem.

I think it’s more, “fuck… Bad news. Our Newark factory had an operator completely fuck up and use ten times the thickening agent for the ketchup. It came out as a big fucking block, 10 feet cubed of pure ketchup.”

“Sir, I have an idea”

You wouldn’t know if someone was “just lost” at sea if the problem was a lack of compass. You’d just not have heard from them for years, still wondering whether they survived, started a new life, or what.

Drinking rehydrated piss is a sacrifice

It’s the year 2099. Nvidia-Johnson Inc has just announced a new breakthrough years after their merger. Biotech finally found a means to turn human flesh into… RAM

Not sure I have the right adapter but doggo is giving off AC outlet energy

But they need our utilities, all of them. So they want to get ahead of the game and take over that side of government now.

Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.

Less “we are a utility” and more “we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it’s used”

I don’t think the US has strict regulations on the ingredients… I don’t know why, likely lobbyist behavior, but also I think people just accept that if you smoke you don’t give a shit and it’s unhealthy by default, so it’s not a big deal if they add chemicals.

Which becomes more ridiculous with nicotine pouches for this reason. Nicotine isn’t cancerous, so it would be super shitty to add carcinogens in the pouches and then claim it’s a tobacco product so you should expect it.

https://www.healthline.com/health/quit-smoking/does-zyn-cause-mouth-cancer#other-risks-and-side-effects

More research is needed. Nicotine on its own is not cancerous. Tobacco is. Nicotine pouches that aren’t tobacco might carry much lower risks, but there is other stuff in them.

You might tell your DM to look up Sabir, where the term Lingua Franca came from, the “Frankish tongue” which wasn’t really from the Franks.

This is where the idea of a common language comes from. Sabir was a simplified pidgin mix of Mediterranean languages so traders could communicate. They still spoke fine but didn’t conjugate verbs, used Me/you a lot without different forms (myself, I, yourself, them, they, etc).

Sabir was a Mediterranean lingua franca, then Latin for 1500 years throughout Europe. Now it’s English. The idea of Common in D&D comes from Westron or “the Common tongue” in LotR which D&D was heavily inspired from, which was basically written by Tolkien so that his constructed languages had a reason to exist. He was a scholar of languages, and the idea of a common tongue comes from actual history. He wasn’t just making it up. Something like that would likely exist in a Fantasy world with lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

It has real historic roots though. A common tongue isn’t unrealistic. They once used Sabir or “Frankish” where lingua franca came from, then Latin throughout Europe, now English as a global lingua franca.

As much as people think having “Common” as a language is weird, it literally has historical roots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

People have been using a Common language for millenia. Today, the global lingua franca is obviously English. For about 1500 years, the lingua franca of medieval Europe was Latin. And for a while in the Mediterranean it was Sabir, where Lingua Franca the term came from, which was a weird simplified Mediterranean mix of languages (no verb conjugation, etc).

Other areas with multiple languages have had their own Lingua Francas. It’s a common thing to happen if you have big areas with multiple languages and lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

So it’s really not weird to have a Common tongue in games. It came from LotR which came from history since Tolkien was a huge language nerd and wrote a world for his language to exist.

The rich had that shit, and didn’t clean it themselves

The rest shat in a pot then threw the poo out their window targeting the even more poor

I believe it’s debated more whether that was for wiping or just cleaning the toilet area after use. Most these days think they splashed water up there with their hands as many do today.

Look up Olney’s Lesions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney's_lesions

They can result from heavily abusing DXM or PCP. Be careful, don’t overly indulge.