One of the commenters said it was fundamentally gross to them…

It’s fundamentally depressing to me: intimacy’s … unending.

There’s no such thing as “a 1-night stand”, or “just a fuck” … you’ll never be unmixed with that someone…

& doing it as mere-transaction, or mere-physicality … ??

but apparently that view that most of a someone isn’t physical, & most of sex isn’t physical either, is deemed to be nonsense,

& pretending that merely-physical is “all that exists” is actually common …

so, my perspective is deemed lunacy or idiocy by this world.

But seeing women being used for mere-physical sensation by random strangers, as a purchased-transaction … that’s depressing…

I wish the world didn’t work that way.

I’m with all the people who want prostitution not-criminalized, who want it taxed & regulated, & I’d add that I want pimping criminalized: let women form cooperatives, or something, but nobody should coerce anybody into the biz of being used bodily.

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But nobody’s suing the schools for their textbooks-with-needless-“updates” extortion-rings?

OPEN TEXTBOOKS EXIST, & school-systems ought be legally-obliged to either use those, XOR justify coercing students into economic-abuse for sake of fancier ones.

OpenStax.org

LibreTexts.org

etc.

This SHOULD be cutting both-ways: lawsuits going up AND lawsuits going down.

Since it’s only axe-chopping-down, then … obviously, then the people doing the “representing” are NOT representing the citizens in their ridings, but rather the established-special-interest-groups who’re profiting from the extortion students are currently subject-to.

Fundamentally, beyond all copyright-law, platform-exclusivity, etc, fundamentally, IF G-D put immense LivingPotential in a life, THEN it’s our obligation to be honoring that LivingPotential.

NOT to be snuffing it unless money is concentrated to a particular class, or pseudoperson, or cartel, or institution:

It isn’t that “information wants to be free”, rather, it is that LEARNING ought be free, for upright, proper, honest learning ( not evil/abuse/similar ).

The Scandinavian system whereby nobody can buy their way into higher-education: it’s merit-ONLY, & the public-education-system cannot be bypassed by money/status, THAT is more right, but I’ve no idea how they do learning-materials/textbooks.

Further, it ought be that learning & certification are decoupled: one ought be able to get learning at any institution, or even on one’s own, & then get certification independently of that-school’s-institution.

“Conflict-of-interest is the root of corruption” is a good rule for understanding why learning & certification need to be segregated, to break the cartel-system from education.

( that does, of course, require standardization of required-learning-for-specific-certifications, & many might balk at that, but if driver’s-licenses & pilot’s-licenses can be standardized, then I’m willing to bet that degrees can be standardized, in many subjects, too. )

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ttbomk, emojis are legal function-names in both Swift & Julia…

The Swift example was damned incomprehensible, & … well, it was Apple stuff, so making it look idiotic might have been some kind of cultural-exclusivity intention…

The Julia stuff, though, means that you can use Greek symbols, etc, for functions, & get things looking more like what they should…

Also, I think emojis are actually better than my all-text style, for communicating intonation/emotion ( I’m old: learned last century ), & maybe us old geezers ought to adapt a bit, to such things…

That does NOT mean that cartoon “code” is good-enough, whether it’s cartoonish in plaintext or in emojis, though…

I’m just trying to keep the cultural-prejudice & the code-quality being distinct-categories of judgement, you know?

( & cultural-prejudice is an actual thing, though it’s usually called “religious wars”, isn’t it, in geekdom? )

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TheRegister had an article, a year or 2 ago, about using AI in the opposite way: instead of creating the code, someone was using it to discover security-problems in it, & they said it was really useful for that, & most of its identified things, including some codebase which was sending private information off to some internet-server, which really are problems.

I wonder if using LLM’s as editors, instead of writers, would be better-use for the things?

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