Oh? What else have they said? I didn’t know there was a reputation for fibbing.

Yeah, but they were talking about building out WhatsApp third party compatibility on top of it.

There already was Element One, which bridged to a bunch of things for a small subscription fee, although it had to break E2EE to do so. I’m just finding a lot of broken links now, though.

If it’s the part I’m guessing it is, it was an accidentally successful interview, too, haha.

I’m not sure what you mean. Try again in a week or two?

I did detect that this was about the whole “LLMs ruin everything” jerk. The thing is, they’re new, and misinfo has been around in other forms for a long time. It doesn’t negate the things you do now - like talking to me, despite the fact we’re probably in different countries - that would have been very hard in the 20th century, and impossible much before then. Relevant XKCD.

Okay, to be a bit glib, why don’t you ask someone in real life? After all, it’s all disinformation on here.

Sure, the information age comes with problems, but do consider what the world was like before. There were a lot of things people just didn’t know and couldn’t ever look up or ask about - unless they were motivated enough to dig through a library.

Wow, I’m surprised they got it up that high in a practical application.

They let OpenWhisper do the underlying protocol, so it’s solid. Beats the shit out of a plain text message anyway, and people IRL might actually have it.

Wasn’t Element going to integrate into it as well?

First few ideas: Talk about how I’m not really big on the whole “working hard” thing, immediately bring up and start ranting about weird political ideas, “I’m worth X, take it or leave it”

Lol, what is that from?

There are people who can do this, I’ve known some. It’s probably genetic, and some people vary in the other direction.

Wat?

Or maybe that was his plan, but he chickened out once it got too real? You’d expect it would still change things if he was at all homophobic, though. As it is, he acted like it didn’t happen until he thought he was being lied to and decided to pull it back out.

Yes, therapists actually seem to love it when you tell them about your feelings about therapy.

(But then again, I can’t help but notice that I was socially conditioned to expect shame, punishment, and destructive guidance if I ask for help.)

This.

They’re always gentle in my experience, even when they’re trying to get you to question something you’ve assumed. Maybe they will say you should give people more of a chance, once they get to know your situation. But, if you just say no, worst case scenario they won’t have any other ideas. And I can’t imagine they’d tell you to deliberately hang around a narcissist.

Alternately, a lot of the most useful things they told me are things I hadn’t even considered, so maybe you’ll be surprised.

Even in conservative households, that’s weird. If your dad had blown up right there about the sinful things happining in the room, I’d get it more. What he actually did was inexplicable. And the older brother thing is just awful.

Since it was two incidents total, I won’t go straight for hell, though. Like maybe it was but I’d need more information.

No. OP got the premise a bit wrong, for one thing. And usually it was other poor people that did the sanctioned killing, anyway - it’s dirty unpleasant work that a king would have avoided in the Early Modern period.

Except “thou” in “thou shalt not kill” is the singular pronoun, while “you” would be the plural…

I have no idea what number was implied in the original Hebrew.

I’m certain there is no situation like that. It’s just a dead part of the language. Most native speakers don’t even know how to use it properly when imitating old-timey speech.

Quakers use “thee/thou” sometimes, but only because the movement has been around since just before the end of the shift to “you” for everything, and it’s fossilised in as a result. There’s a few weird British Isles dialects that preserve it too, but they’re not widespread.

“Slop” feels like a weird description when it’s something widely loved and appreciated. Like, either you mean it in the snobby “most people don’t understand real art” sense, or what’s not slop?

Compare to when it’s used to describe, like, one of those SEO clickbait sites, which are full of hallucinated answers to whatever you were looking for. Nobody likes that, but it’s hard to shut down.