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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • But the context of the Game of Throne quote is diminishing.

    It might seem like I’m trying to make you out as a bad person; I apologize because that’s not my intention. That comment was just the latest one I saw using it and it stood out even more because I didn’t get the sense that you were trying to be rude.


  • Beyond how dreadfully overused it’s become, I think people should acknowledge how explicitly patronizing the phrase “you sweet summer child” is. If you’re not actively trying to demean someone, it’s strange to essentially tell someone “it’s cute how naive you are.” If you were trying to demean the other person, then that’s a different issue but I’m assuming you aren’t that type of person.

    I decided to leave a comment instead of passively downvoting.






  • This puts a spin on the article (which, admittedly, could have its own spin), that smells disingenuous.

    She wasn’t saying “yeah, those bozos will be fine in our shoddy bots run down grannies on the crosswalk”, in a mask-off moment. The article was saying Waymo expects someone will be fatally struck by one of their vehicles eventually, but society will have accepted (Waymo’s) driverless cars enough by then that it won’t break the company. “They’ll see Waymo is so much safer than normal drivers even if it still does cause some accidents.” type shit.

    It’s still wishful corpo-speak but there’s no reason to mislead.

    Edit: I understand that it is the headline of the article itself but we should do better than regurgitating and echoing clickbait titles.