Some like potatoes
But it seems that I would not
No AI eats them

Shoot. Maybe someone’s card is in the right order.

Destroys well-paying jobs has been a major public issue since the mechanical loom was invented in 17whatever. I like mechanical looms. I think there’s varying opinion even on here about which squares are actually bad and which are just whining.

Dating apps and similar with insufficient moderation come to mind, or even ones that effectively paywall dickpics and harassment instead of removing it.

For gender nonconforming people, lots of forms.

Are they making elevators without mechanical fail-safes now?

I have noticed an attitude like being a computer person is a defect, but they still want us to fix their shit, sometimes.

Blyat.

It took me a while to notice the problem. Am I an AI?

TBF if I was writing for my dog I’d pull out all the stops. Only the best for such a good boy! He would eat almost anything, though.

This is one of those moments I’m depressed I’m poor and this guy probably wasn’t. Just, how do you fuck up that bad?

Huge application. Dominating it’s industry. It had only one user on a DBs with a password that hadn’t been changed in over a decade. Same user/pass for each DB as well. The DBs were all publicly accessible. The applications, clients, engineers, and everyone else used that singular user.

At least one of those people seriously considered doing crime, right? It would be like shooting fish in a barrel and, with simple steps to hide your network origin, there would be no way of finding the culprit. With the kind of ransoms you could get from a company like that you could go and live happily ever after in Dubai.

Absolute madness.

For the small niche that would find it comprehensible, that would be gold. Maybe it would work as a YouTube channel.

The trick is that software companies and their clients tend to be more publicity-averse than restaurants, and for Kitchen Nightmares they need to find ones that will straight-up agree to be made an ass of to get on TV.

There’s both hype, and anti-hype.

It will do some jobs humans do now, but not others on any clear timeline. And the role of chessmaster was taken by computers over a decade ago.

I mean, it can do a little logic. But only as long as it helps it gossip.

Lugonu actually started as a goddess, before being turned into a genderless abomination. I think I’ve seen the devs use it/it’s pronouns.

Yup. The panic buttons are nice, the easier rune is nice, and back when there was Ak there was a cheap blink+blink other ability. That character used a distortion-branded demon whip to great effect as well, IIRC. Happy playing!

Sorry, “jawed fish” is used a lot in when talking about the epochs where tetrapods hadn’t evolved yet - growing the first jaws was a pretty big landmark. That’s my bad. Ray-finned is pretty clear, though, and doesn’t include anything I can think of that’s unexpected.

Close enough for a layperson, but for a biologist they probably should use Gnathostomata when that’s what they’re talking about.

They absolutely do use casual terms as well as the technical names when talking to each other - I’ve been a fly on that wall. They tend not to get confused about their own subject. However, when they have to get into more specifics than “that’s a squat lobster” yeah, they have to go back to the jargon.

I mean, some of the taxanomic divisions do have common names as well - jawed fish and ray-finned fish might come up in that conversation. And don’t forget some of the formal names and roots are Greek as well.

What kind of whale is that? “It’s a whale whale… you know the original whale… the proper whale… the right whale.” There’s actually a paragraph in Moby Dick about this.

Was that the weird chapter that was just a biology lesson, but was also completely wrong?

Lol, I still died half way up my one orb run, so you’re further than me. I save scummed right before Zot:5 and did get it on my second try, but that doesn’t count.

It was a gnoll abyssal knight IIRC. What about you?

Or there’s fish and we are one, or there’s fish but hagfish, dogfish and lungfish are something else.

I guess we could return to medieval and say it’s based on shape not taxonomy, too, so whales would be fish.

TBF it had been a long standing problem for roughly a half century before this. Specifically birds were the thing researchers tried to identify first, which is probably the reference here.

Do you have the Orb yet?