notoriously throwing money at something doesn’t change its fundamental nature
to wildly abword a phrase I've seen elsewhere: "idiocy can remain solvent longer than you can"
froztbyte
joined 2 years ago
this argument
I agree, you're quite right, and I thank you for taking the time and putting in the effort on such a wonderfully thorough portrayal of why your argument is total horseshit
oh man. I knew the guy was an idiot but hooooo damn he dumb
also the most of his content I've ever taken in, and that was some of the hardest I've laughed in a good while
DANGER WILL ROBINSON, godposting detected
A Good Inkwell is definitely possible, I even possess one!
remember remember, eternal september
(not that I much agree with the classist overtones of the original, but fuck me does it come to mind often)
it makes me feel fucking ancient to find that this dipshit didn't seem to get the remark, and it wasn't even that long ago
“Are you sure you’re holding it correctly?”
christ, every damn time
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who stepped down as Microsoft CEO 24 years ago, will appear on the show to explore the “AI revolution coming in science, health, and education,” ABC says, and warn of “the once-in-a-century type of impact AI may have on the job market.”
christ
billy g's been going for years with bad takes on those three things (to the point that the gates foundation have actually been a problem, gatekeeping financing unless recipients acquiesce to using those funds the way the foundation wants it to be used (yeah, aid funds with instructions and limitations..)), but now there can be "AI" to assist with the issue
maybe the "revolution" can help by paying the people that are currently doing dataset curation for them a living wage? I'm sure that's what billy g meant, right? right?
less charitably, it seems he might mean to say "their job is to do their job, not to get rewarded because of position", i.e. pushing the view that he thinks parliamentary bodies are just there for the high life and rewards
and while I understand that this is the type of "what did he actually mean?" that you might get from highschool poetry analyses, it is also the kind of thing that eliyuzza NotEvenWrong yud[0] seems to do pretty frequently in his portrayals
[0] - meant to be read in the thickest uk-chav accent of your choice