After a cursory search it seems like both are acceptable. “Think” appears to be the original phrase, but “thing” is more common today, especially in America.

I assume they’re talking about a reason as in a cause, not a reason as in a purpose.

Minorly inconvenienced. A lot of comments riddled with typos appear, and I’m vulnerable to normal doxxing. I have a few spicy takes, but nothing that jeopardizes a relationship with anyone I’m not willing to confront about it. Still rather not be doxxed out of principle.

I assumed big crisp topiaries.

I don’t think you need millions getting billions to equal all the Bobs. If there are 50 million Bobs getting $1500, you only need about 40 corporations getting $2B to exceed them.

Assuming there’s not some new thing:

The recent US general election was, as usual, a face-off between the two predominant parties. The incumbent party, while nominally being the relative “left” party, continued the unbroken support the US has provided to Israel since its conception, despite recent genocidal activity. There are some who insisted that, while that support is reprehensible and isn’t representative of the will of the left, the alternative party would be just as bad for Palestine while also being worse by most other metrics (including LGBTQ+ rights).

There are some who suggest that those insisting such a thing are shills or intelligence agents, logging into niche leftist spaces to manufacture tepid consent, rather than individuals expressing genuine concerns.

Look, when I was a kid I had some cringe taste. I’m sure many of us did. He looks a bit old for the teenage cringe era here, though.

Panama is mostly because of cheaper rates to go through the canal, if I’m not mistaken.

Convergent Evolution might explain why intelligent species wind up being bipedal tetrapods.

I think there’s a compelling argument here. Certainly not all aliens would be bipedal tetrapods, but the ones who go on to be tool-using, space-faring species probably would be.

Mistake?

There’s the option of acceptance, where you know what’s going to happen but you don’t waste energy crying about it. Hope in this scenario isn’t hope that they actually do anything beneficial for average people, it’s hope that they’re too incompetent to actually accomplish the horrible things they plan to do.

And there’s a big difference between not living paycheck to paycheck, and being able to save $1k/mo

Is this your first election? Every cycle they shout about wasteful spending, and when they win they increase military spending, cut taxes on the wealthy, and cut important services to cover it, then when that doesn’t cover it they quietly run up the debt just to shout about how high the debt is as soon as they’re replaced.

There’s holding out hope to be pleasantly surprised, and then there’s pretending that there’s even a whisper of a chance that they’ll do the exact opposite of the thing they’ve done for decades.

In German, a phone is called a “Handy”

Looks like a yummy meatball, it’ll look great on your first spaghetti

It’s also pretty young, human toddlers hallucinate and make things up. Adults too. Even experts are known to fall prey to bias and misconception.

I don’t think we know nearly enough about the actual architecture of human intelligence to start asserting an understanding of “understanding”. I think it’s a bit foolish to claim with certainty that LLMs in a MoE framework with self-review fundamentally can’t get there. Unless you can show me, materially, how human “understanding” functions, we’re just speculating on an immature technology.

Yeah, I get that. It’s just, there isn’t really a revelation here. That’s just what memes are: units of cultural expression based on broadly recognizable forms. “A hammer is a weight on a stick you hit things with” isn’t really a showerthought, it’s just stating the definition of a hammer.

I’m familiar with the term, just trying to figure out an interpretation that isn’t just restating the definition of meme.

What do you mean by this?

I don’t know why everyone keeps insisting that courting the right was a stupid move. I personally know a lot of life long Republicans that got real tired of the MAGA stuff. In this matchup specifically, trying to scoop the conservative-but-not-MAGA vote makes sense by the numbers. Obviously it didn’t pan out, but at least in theory, there should be a sizeable bloc of voters there.