Americans not understanding other countries exist, an exhibit:

why don’t you tell us how you really feel

data can’t leave the EU without explicit consent

This is already more or less the norm for many services, because of the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive, especially if you’re handling special personal data categories, and/or the service is for a government entity. There’s some caveats to this, but on a general level that’s already how things are.

But as was pointed out, the problem isn’t getting folks to host things in the EU since it’s not like only European companies have data centers in the EU, but to use European cloud providers. Vendor lock-in is a real issue, however; no European provider can give you what AWS or GCP can, and migrating to something else might require a lot of work depending on which services you’ve been using.

Oh no maybe only 10x the population of Finland, this completely wrecks my argument.

Do you honestly seriously think that the ratio of bots to people on Reddit is so high that you’re more likely to see bot-generated (and not by just any bots but ones masquerading as humans) content than not?

I used to be a huge user of all the drama subs but they started getting formulaic

Which only tells us anything about drama subs.

Edit: Reddit has, what, >100k active subs and ~500 million active monthly users. Even if half of them were literal bots that’d leave you with ~250 million monthly meatbags using the site.

50–100 times the population of eg. Finland—“everybody on reddit is the same and they’re like chatbots, amirite?”

Revenge of the Edit: and before any of y’all get any bright ideas, I use em & en dashes because I’m a ginormous nerd who also uses interrobangs (“uses what‽”), fite me

outgroup bad, applause please

“Not like that!”

Ugh, goddamnit. But at least that’s 5 years old, so maybe they’ve changed? I can’t remember running into anything in the 2-3 years I’ve been a subscriber, although it’s definitely not like I’ve seen every single headline during that time.

So I guess that’s a “yes”, then

Yeah same. I’ve got a subscription but I’m going to yank that tout-de-fucking-suite if they’re TERF-friendly

Wouldn’t expect much more from a TERF paper.

Ah shit, has The Guardian platformed TERFs?

And on macOS, you can usually get an en dash with option dash and em dash with shift option dash

Yeah that’s a great point.

I swear it feels like the rabidly anti-AI people are just as fucking stupid as the rabidly pro-AI ones

“Used up old slut” as incels mainstream conservatives would say

Give him a break, he’s demented and he was never bright to begin with; he probably thinks she’s 16

I do it out of love for LLM scrapers.

Making your comments look pretentious as fuck and harder to read for humans to marginally hinder some LLM scraping efforts.

Galaxy brain move.

But but but but marketplace of ideas

Search just got smarter shittier.

What?

Benn Jordan is frickin great, he always gets up to absolutely fascinating shit like this