Possible recovery technique:

“Whoo, too much coffee, I was apparently a bit too eager for this meeting!”

Cheesy as fuck, but at least you are attempting a recovery, and acknowledging what happened.

The strategy to fuck with a class action lawsuit is to fuck with the lawyers leading the class action lawsuit.

… This is how you get another class action lawsuit, which is comprised entirely of lawyers.

Jesus Fucking Christ, these people are idiots.

When you live in a police/surveillance state, you’re a fool to fear criminals more than the government.

My comment got more updoots, but you deserve just as many.

Unrecognized fetal alcohol syndrome.

Her: Please, don’t get testie with me again.

Yeah, it is assinine.

Because really what this all boils down to is an excercise in vanity, in self-validation essentially by force.

You can see this everywhere in society… fucking, Trump is threatening the genocide of a civilization, ultimately, to avoid having to ever admit he was wrong about anything.

What is wild to me is that… you know like schizotypal people get a horrible rap in society, because they’re unstable and dangerous!

Yeah, yes, its tragic when one of them snaps and does something horrible.

But you what is fucking everywhere, so commonplace that its just expected, seen as unavoidable?

Absurdly overconfident malignant narcissists.

They’re very often literally sociopaths, and they very often do nothing other than ruin the lives of those around them, to validate themselves, because they fundentally are not capable of self-validation.

But again this is just apparently so normal, that it only even registers at a social level when it is hyper obvious and extreme, as with Destiny or Thor/Pirate Software.

They’re all the same personality type… never take real accountability for anything, gaslight you into thinking you somehow made a mistake or misunderstood them… when they will and do just say anything that they think will make them more highly regarded.

Its narcissists that are the most dangerous kind of person to human society, but we hardly at all treat them the way we treat a far smaller number of people with overall, far less dangerous neurotypes.

Certainly doesn’t help the field of psychology itself is full of narcissists.

AAA knows that their primary competition is old games, that run better on more hardware, and are just better games.

Via a combination of acting like a cartel in a market, and also personally being basically unimaginably vain… they distort reality around them to the greatest extent that they can, to continue to convince people their overpriced garbage is actually the hottest shit and you’re some kind of horrible bad person if you don’t pay them.

That’s why they have entire networks of access journalists, why they constantly write essentially op-eds that follow the meta, or the meta-meta of the actual video game industry, why AAA games have marketing budgets bigger than Hollywood movies.

It is literally a propaganda machine.

Piracy is morally superior to feeding these nepo baby gaslighting rainbow capitalists that love to pretend they’re progressive.

They’re not progressive, they’re entitled faux nobility, delusional narcissists that live in hugboxes that reward complancency and not rocking the boat.

Lemmy does satire all the time, you’re just not reading it.

The problem that you are trying to identify is that satire needs to actually be satirizing something, ie, the context must be clear, and many people just assume the context in their head is the same as the context in everyone else’s heads.

You can see this illustrated by all the sarcasm that your comment has generated.

Now that the context is clear.

My guess?

NSA is currently figuring out how to insert backdoors into all these things.

You see, the last backdoor they used all the time, well… people figured it out.

So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.

So, now they need a new backdoor into literally everything.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/full-text-iran-national-security-council-statement-ceasefire

…

In this regard, and according to the prudence of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, His Eminence Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei (May God protect him), and the approval of the Supreme National Security Council—and considering Iran and the Resistance’s upper hand in the battlefield, the enemy’s inability to carry out its threats despite all claims, and the formal acceptance of all the rightful demands of the Iranian people—it was decided that negotiations be held in Islamabad to finalise the details. This is so that within a maximum of 15 days, with the finalisation of details, Iran’s victory on the field shall also be consolidated in political negotiations.

…

Now, the honourable Prime Minister of Pakistan has informed Iran that the American side, despite all outward threats, has accepted these principles as the basis for negotiations and has surrendered to the will of the Iranian nation. Accordingly, at the highest level, it has been decided that Iran will engage in negotiations in Islamabad with the American side for a period of two weeks, based solely on these principles. It is emphasised that this does not mean the end of the war; Iran will only accept the termination of the war once the details—given the acceptance of Iran’s preferred principles in the 10-point plan—are finalised in the negotiations.

These negotiations will begin in Islamabad on Friday, April 10 (21 Farvardin), with complete distrust of the American side, and Iran will allocate two weeks for these talks. This timeframe is extendable by mutual agreement. It is essential that during this period, complete national unity be maintained and victory celebrations continue with strength.

…

If the enemy’s surrender on the battlefield is transformed into a decisive political achievement in the negotiations, we will celebrate this massive historical victory together; otherwise, we will fight side-by-side on the battlefield until all the demands of the Iranian nation are met. Our hands are on the trigger, and the moment the slightest error is committed by the enemy, it will be responded to with full power."

There’s quite a lot more to it than that, but I’ve selected here the parts that make it clear that Iran is proposing 14 days of negotiations (potentially more, if the US and Iran agree they want more time) with the US in Islamabad, Pakistan.

The ‘surrendered to the will of Iran’ type language… they’re referencing how they refused negotiations untill the Americans accept their 10 points as a basis for negotiations, how they refused many earlier attempts by the Americans to start such a ceasefire without consideration of all their terms.

They’re basically being boastful and literally holier than thou, but thats rhetoric.

They at no point mention Israel being present at or party to the negotiations in Islamabad.

They also quite plainly say that they will continue to fight, if this falls through.

So… nobody has actually agreed to any of Iran’s 10 points or the US’s 15 points yet.

They’ve agreed that those sets of points represent acceptable starting conditions for an actual negotiation to begin… and that there should be a ceasefire in effect for the duration of these negotiations, between the US and Iran.

This is how… this kind of thing works. You each start with your sets of demands/conditions, then you work toward something that probably features some of both, some compromises, some concessions of your demands for some concessions of the opponent’s demands… then hopefully both sides mutually agree to the deal.

Again they know the US isn’t capable of reigning in Israel… they’re not stupid, they know Israel will still be attacking them while these negotiations are occuring.

Now, if Iran believes the US has resumed attacking Iran, yeah that could blow this up, but if the US just sits tight, without Trump going insane again, or having another stroke, well, maybe something can be accomplished.

Strangely, I am basically the opposite of this.

No formal training whatsoever, basically only sing in the car, shower, or karaoke bars.

I am nowhere near good enough to be some kind of professional vocalist, but I am usually in the top 3 singers by actual ability to hit the right notes on songs, at any given karaoke / bar outing.

I’ll usually try to cajole another actually good singer into some kind of duet, be it either an actual proper duet, or basically if its like a song from a singer with incredible range in the song, i do the baritone lines, they do the tenor or falsetto, we both sing the mid range, we basically act as live backing tracks for each other.

The Iranians know that Trump cannot actually guarantee that Israel will stop doing anything, that Trump has no realistic ability to force Israel to stop, due to basically lets say, his ties to Israeli intelligence cough cough, and his domestic political situation.

… What they almost certainly actually want from the US is a withdrawal from region, cessation between US+GCC<->Iran hostilities, some kind of recognition of some kind of Hormuz tolling set up (they want that as a UN resolution, revenue split with Oman, the idea is the toll would replace demands for reparation payments), and something approximating a pledge of neutrality from the US in the ongoing exchanges between Iran and Israel.

They want the US to effectively bow out and also admit that the Israelis are insane and the US is impotent to stop/control them.

They will of course act outraged and surprised that the US, under Republicans, cannot actually stop its rabid ally… but they obviously already know that to be the case.

The Iranians are literally the most rational actor in this conflict.

They want to essentially be the new ones to cuck the US.

They do that… petrodollar ain’t lookin so hot now is it?

Anyway, its important to remember that both the US and Iran have stated that they’ve agreed to an outline for negotiating a solid, actual deal, with a 14 day ceasefire for those negotiations to actually take place.

Nobody has actually, technically, said that anything other than ‘lets stop shooting each other for 14 days and hammer out a deal.’

But, because this is being so heavily propogandized by… basically everyone involved… a whole lot of people are not actually reading what people have actually said.

Apparently its very difficult in the Twitter era, for people to comprehend a complex, conditional, nuanced statement.

Hooray for media literacy, which is downstream of just literal literacy.

Eh… I don’t think that is quite an accurate/fair analogy.

Simply because it is dehumanizing, on the one hand, … neurotypicals are people, they have agency, and emotions, LLMs do not…

…and also LLMs explcitly do just try to mirror or tailor their vocab / writing style to be ‘correct’ as per what you are saying.

They’re literally built/designed to do this, as essentially extremely fancy autocomplete machines.

To me, that’s actually much more like autistic masking.

The hallucinations are thus arguably more akin to the kind of panic that occurs in an autistic person when they are trying to, on the fly, merge two different social masks… they say strange or awkward things or sometimes just fail completely and essentially make up some bullshit / contradictory / nonsensical or false concept.

They also don’t really actually have any real concept of ethics, as operating guidelines. They can discuss ethical theories, but they cannot really… employ them, in practice, unless you did a ton of work to try to command them to, basically.

Also, they’re fundamentally incapable of real learning. They can perhaps mimic this, in a single conversation, but all that’s gone with a new instance of talking to them.

Neurotypicals are obviously capable of learning.

They basically just assume what the other person means by something, and then proceed confidently with that assumption.

Failing to consider that you could be wrong about something, could have interpreted it incorrectly or entirely missed something important, yes indeed that does make it seem like they know things they actually don’t.

Its just a thing you have to get used to with neurotypicals: They’re usually not intentionally trying to construct their own specific version of a social reality… they just do it by default.

Which is often aggrevating because the way this often works out is they will basically put words into peoples mouths that they didn’t say, entirely invent context that did not actually exist, and also disregard extremely direct statements or invent a new meaning for them if it contradicts with their imaginary context.

Oh wow, I never would have expected the ‘I am a Mom of an Autistic Child’ people to demand that only they be allowed to speak for and have opinions about autism and autistic people.

Dave himself literally has an autistic kid.

Fuck all of these delusional narcissist aggreived white women who turn someone else’s intrinsic and unalterable identity into their valor and profit machine, by way of gaslighting and promoting nonsense that serves as a bullshit worldview that rationalizes their deep seated need to infantilize people they do not care to fucking actually listen to.

I viscerally hate these people, they are quite literally hateful bigots, who just absolutely need to be the victims, because they have no real identities of their own.

Absolute A+ cat name lol.

Aha! I’m glad that you had both … well, maybe not understood what you were getting into, but you were both informed and agreed to it, hahah!

Variety is the uh, spice of life, as they say.

I… wouldn’t use this as lube, because I wouldn’t want to just inflict this on a partner with no warning…

… but I find tiger balm on the nuts and bolt to be enjoyably painful, or, painfully enjoyable.

So yeah, masochist kink, i guess, compared to most other people?

To me the ‘oddest’ thing is that I’m apparently just a masochist, and not a sadist; somebody could be on their hands and knees, begging me to whip them or slap them, and I would not be able to do it, I’d actually just be purely angry that they were asking me to significantly hurt them.

Like, I never completed GTA V, because when I got to the torture scene, I nearly vomited and feinted… I just quit at that point.

You… probably just want a steady stream of water, to flush out the irritants.

Get a detachable, flexible showerhead.

… these are also useful for things beyond flushing out irritants.