Trees don’t generate large profits this quarter, obviously.

AI music is also going to suck if you give it shitty pop music to train on.

The same reason parallel parking is done backing in.

You’re literally the only one talking about buying it, and it’s not YOUR software, it belongs to Microsoft. Your boss just rents it and makes a profit having you work on it.

Yeah dude, just make a new account. If you’re attached to your account the govts use that against.

I guess the problem from an idealistic standpoint is fine, let them sue. Hosting an instance is not about being profitable. Do what you need to do as far as shell corporation and all that to protect your personal finances, or just close the instance instead of censoring. The community is just people who will find another instance, it’s not empowering to treat people like they will fall apart if you don’t submit to hegemony.

Now, it’s just an instance that is perpetuating unfair systems of power, instance of helping to democratize the internet.

But that’s the point of sarcasm. Jonathan Swift got lots of death threats by mail after writing “A Modest Proposal,” and he expected it! If someone doesn’t want to risk being misunderstood, they should not write the opposite of what they mean.

Not at all – it’s the people who use /s that are dumb.

Yes, the /s and sarcastic tone both exist and are used by people.

Am i wooshing myself??

That is literally the point of sarcasm. People legitimately wanted to murder Jonathan Swift.

If you write “/s”, just write the direct unironic statement in the first place.