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^ this is what I get when I try to load Connect today (posting this from Voyager)

I won’t be able to see replies to this until lemmynsfw comes back up

Does this Scahill bloke just repeat perfectly understandable phrases with a question mark for visibility and plausible deniability?

Pitch. There weren’t countertenor parts we needed to fill, the teacher was just determining everyone’s native range and that’s where she fell.

You’re right, I got confused because I went to high school with a girl who sang countertenor, but it’s usually guys

Lead vocalist sings somewhere in the soprano-countertenor range

Since aqua sounds a bit like alco, the implication is that the boat owner likes both water and booze

But but don’t you understand, AI will allow them to reduce spending, if you only look at wages paid to humans and ignore the material costs of all the infrastructure and propaganda about how great it is

Of course if you focus on the highest-budget titles you will see buggy, overpriced delays. Shift your perspective to smaller titles by smaller studios. Bigger doesn’t mean better.

Spin and propaganda have already been said, and those are good. Rhetoric, from your title, is also good for this.

Framing, reframing, recontextualizing

I’m posting this here because the lemmynsfw server seems to be down, and thus I can’t load that profile, but thanks for handling my request about keeping posts visible after blocking the user/community so we can take further action.

The point is that people generally have trouble seeing others’ struggles they themselves don’t face.

Crossposting a typo is so funny. Ok, so I know proofreading is old-fashioned, but even in a title?

Corporate middle managers don’t use semicolons. They don’t even know when to use colons or apostrophes.

They taught AI to talk like HR reps.

In real life it’s much smaller than in the picture

It’s a copypasta from before he died, with whatever controversy swapped out

You’re assuming I didn’t because… ?

If you thought before posting, you could have deduced that blocking happened and wasn’t enough.

She lost because the average voter votes for whatever name they’ve heard before.

“If I’m winning, you are wrong. If I’m losing, it’s just a joke” you are what we call a narcissist

I guess you haven’t been around a lot of “professionals.” Doctors are often shockingly inept at computers.