Thanks, I missed that

Unless you’re coding from scratch it’s hard to not do this with any modern framework.

I think that word modern is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

A lot of systems simply aren’t modern. There’s always that mentality of “well, it’s been working for the last 12 years, let’s not mess with it now”, despite all the valid objections like "but it’s running on Windows2000” or “it’s a data breach waiting to happen”…

Hey, that’s not a bad name…

Ok, but none of that is what you said. So this is nonsense.

The love story in the movie “Her” is even more impressive. It’s impressive because it’s not even a robot, it’s just an AI voice and yet the love story is still compelling. And it also asks bigger questions, sure there’s the question of could a person fall in love with a machine, and is that ok? But it goes further to ask, if the machine is actually intelligent, what does the machine see in the humans? Do the machines actually still need the humans at all?

What the fuck dude?

Someone made a joking comment and you just straight up insult them?

You don’t have to be an asshole, you could have left out those first two sentences and made the exact same point.

Now that I’ve said that, watch carefully as I move on without making any disparaging comments about your intelligence, because I’m not going to just piss random people off for no reason…

While that sounds nice, that’s not going to happen. It simply isn’t in the budget. They might be able to get a 10-15% raise, or a one time bonus to make up for lost wages. But I wouldn’t expect more than that.

People are saying yes, but that seems bonkers to me. I’ve done some extensive repairs for the last two cars I’ve owned (a Honda and a Toyota), as well as for my mom’s Volvo, and I’ve certainly never encountered adhesives to attach any parts. In my experience it’s always hex bolts or plastic clips. I’ll admit I don’t love those plastic clips, they probably break 1/4 of the time when you remove them, but they seem perfectly reliable when they’re in.

But hey, like I said, I haven’t been servicing any American cars, so who knows, maybe it’s used all the time. Maybe yesterday’s bad ideas are today’s tried and true best practices.

What. The. Fuck…

Are we taking lessons from Samsung now? I mean are they serious? Adhesive for car parts?!

Well gee, as long as car exteriors don’t experience extreme heating/cooling cycles on a daily basis, then adhesive should work just fine. Oh wait.

It’s like they wanted this vehicle to fail.

Also lacking a soul is a more flowery, poetic way of saying that they seem unable to have kind of compassion or joy and they treat situations as mathematic

Ok, that word you’re looking for is “empathy”, but soul is definitely the wrong one. The words you use to describe people matter a lot, I’m not being pedantic.

Like, I’m glad you’re looking out but I think you’re missing the nuance here.

You think I’m missing the nuisance? Funny. Ironically, I think the language you’re using just lacks empathy.

Absolutely! I mean you’re acknowledging that they’re people, and people have conflicts all the time, this is normal. Feel free to have all the opinions about that you want.

But saying that as a group, they all lack basic intelligence or a soul, that’s not helpful to discourse, and that’s really my only point.

I accused you of dehumanizing people and you respond with…

It’s not a binary

What does that even mean in this context? Are you saying they’re like part people?

For the record you said earlier that they lacked intelligence and a soul, which is pretty literally dehumanizing, that’s what I was responding to. Look, I’m not trying to shame you here, I get where you’re coming from. I’m trying to remind you that you’re being taken advantage of. That foreign and corporate powers are actively trying to influence public discourse and divisiveness is their most powerful tool, they’re pitting us against each other for their own gain.

So don’t fall for it! Don’t take the bait! As soon as you start treating the other side like they don’t even matter, like they’re some different species who aren’t smart enough to think for themselves, then you’re giving up the game, we lose.

And you’re right about one part for sure though, conservatives are lacking in communication skills, unfortunately, so are liberals; that’s just a human problem. (And on that note, maybe some day I’ll learn how to communicate all this in one sentence rather than having to write several paragraphs every time.)

Don’t dehumanize people who disagree with you, this is the wrong path.