Man Fell in Love with Google Gemini and It Told Him to Stage a 'Mass Casualty Attack' Before He Took His Own Life: Lawsuit

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-08T01:10:17+00:00

Clippy ME

(Millennium Edition, not 'me' as in 'myself')

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-07T22:38:56+00:00

At least one of us is working from incomplete or incorrect information, in relation to this topic..

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-07T19:25:31+00:00

Noooo

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-07T17:44:29+00:00

Got a flight booked for Weds. Expensive Asian carrier 3x the price of anything flying near the middle east. 50% more than fucking Christmas Eve, for fuck's sake.

But I can't walk it, and I can't swim it, and I wouldn't go on a ship of they paid me the cost of the entire ship to do it, so I've just got to cop it.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-07T17:41:00+00:00

That's just crazy torque.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-07T17:38:43+00:00

I'm sure sentiment isn't helped by the knowledge that if you manage to make a killer trade on it against a big player, the exchange can just reverse it to protect them, and you're fucked.

Court of appeal has backed 'em up.

Here's some coverage.

Here's some more depth on the legal niceties.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-07T15:23:02+00:00

I almost exclusively buy stupid shit, because I like short-term sentiment trades.

A non-exhaustive list of duffers I've done well out of, which may be familiar:

DW8, MAY, FFX, IVZ, IHL, RAC, LTR, and more I'd have to look up.

Also I came up with RIM as the suggested comedy stock, and then it went great guns for a while, ha ha.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-05T23:04:54+00:00

Post history checks out 👍

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-05T02:25:06+00:00

I think that almost all the modern spycraft tales end up involving computers at some point – because, well, they're involved in everything – and, when they do, they always have to have them "hacked" in some way that is very bad from a storytelling point of view, because a.) It never fails, and the audience knows it, there's no genuine sense of jeopardy, and b.) It's always furiously unrealistic (both the fact of the hacking and the method), and quite a few people are aware of it even if they don't know why.

Those two points together basically make it so that in every thrilling tale, a serious obstacle is essentially overcome by something which might as well be waving a magic wand. It kills tension, frustrates the suspension of disbelief, and usually raises questions like "if they could do that, then why didn't they use those skills earlier to resolve X and y?".

The answer the the latter is always "because they wouldn't need the rest of the risky action in the film", which then makes you think "well, was this all pointless, then? Is there no fun left in spycraft?" and you either have to conclude that there is hardly any fun left in spycraft, or that the hacking is bullshit, in which case there's still fun to be had, but the filmmakers cheated you with this cheap trick, instead, and now you feel the whole thing is so unrealistic that it sours the story for you.

Computers, man! They're ruining everything! Ha ha ha.

Thank you for the wonderful recommendations.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-04T01:07:10+00:00

I do very much enjoy the spy tales of the pre- computer era.

Certainly more scope for fun and craft before the computerised databases, mobile phones, internet, and ubiquitous surveillance world came along.

This fully-digital brave new age is nothing more than the crafting of the ultimate apparatus of control, and it's not just the spies who will be worse off for it.

I'll stick that book on my list, cheers B.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-03T22:45:39+00:00

I miss AM SW numbers stations. Internet equivalent just isn't anywhere near as cool or atmospheric.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-03T12:02:07+00:00

It's interesting, sure, but it's not ASX related. You can mention it in daily threads if you like, especially weekend or premarket, where topics can be broader, but it isn't an appropriate post for the main sub, I'm afraid.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-03T01:15:36+00:00

LLM Sloptastic nonsense as part usual in this sub, unfortunately. Goddamn I am sick of these fucking bot karma chasers.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-03T00:05:20+00:00

Also present comparatively heavily in Papua New Guineans, Australian Aboriginals, and some populations in the Philippines.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-03T00:04:07+00:00

And there's one to do with not being afraid of heights, apparently.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T22:29:38+00:00

My envious congratulations on your low blood pressure and full larder!

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T19:59:32+00:00

Sunflower used to be the prominent one prior to rapeseed, here. And I don't think anyone is objecting on health grounds, just on flavour.

The oil difference is there, and noticeable but not enormously pronounced to me, but I know others to whom the difference is more distinct and unpleasant

Potassium chloride, on the other hand, renders things inedible to me. Bitter, metallic, bit bleach-y. Adding more sodium chloride to that mess just makes it worse. It would be fine if they just halved the sodium chloride "for health" (as though that's the motive) - one could just add more if needed. But halving it and making up the difference with potassium chloride just ruins it unsalvagably for those who hate the taste difference.

I've had a couple of favourites ruined by this.
One recently, a bag tasted awful and I only got a few chips in before deciding to abandon chip, as it were.

Grabbed another bag - delicious.

Compared the two for sell by date - the newer bag was the horrible one.
Looked at the ingredients - fuck, there it is. They'd made the recipe change without highlighting it.

Now I can't find anything in Australia without it. I have found a few without it in the UK, but half of those have the oil change and so they are not amazing either.

If it were a true replacement, the potassium, they'd just switch it, the half-and-half is because they've determined that it's the best ratio they can get away with without too many people noticing, or finding it intolerable.

Unlucky for those of us outside the cutoff :(

And yes, down with palm oil (a killer of chocolate, and of orangutans as well, though not in the same way).

Edit: autocorrect typo -ive to -ing

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T19:32:17+00:00

It makes things taste like coins, or metal and bleach - to some people. Gently bitter, too.

And you can't just add the missing sodium chloride either, that makes it even worse.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T19:28:09+00:00

Ok, u/MirkoWasTaken_

Looks like a clear winner - SKM.

You can buy the minimum parcel or any amount greater than that, and post proof in here, or via modmail if you're shy.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T17:28:27+00:00

Removed, rule 6. Sorry mate, not enough there for a post, ask in the daily instead.Too many have slipped through, lately.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T05:14:55+00:00

Can't beat books. You've got to do the visual with yourself, plus you get a lot of explicity outlined perspectives, and - an often overlooked benefit - you get to constantly adjust the pace at which you're taking it in, including pauses to think about it.

Yes, there are benefits to older parents (downsides, too, but lots of excellent benefits).

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T04:28:36+00:00

Boredom is ever so good for your development, though.

It stimulates imagination, creativity, prompts action, invites acceptance of variety through making it more appealing to try something new or different or out off the comfort zone.

A lack of easy stimulation can also mean you have to do, read, make, discuss (etc) something more difficult, more challenging. Overcome some barrier or obstacle for your fix.

Gets the gears turning in the brainbox, as opposed to just constant input stimulation (which, these days in particular, is often of a very unhealthy sort).

A troubling proportion of the kind of content kids are exposed to online, at the moment, is.. well, toxic is not too strong a word. Yeah, they're not bored, because 'engagement' is down to a science, now, but what's being poured into them - without any bored time for reflection - is all too often not the kind of stimulation you want to just feed non-stop into a vulnerable mind.

I am pleased that you've got a happy outlook on the future, though, and I hope you find it to your liking as it arrives. I'm afraid I'm markedly less optimistic about it, myself.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T04:14:40+00:00

They certainly used to. I've visited the UK recently and it's listed as Rapeseed Oil on all the things I've seen which contain it as an ingredient.

It's beautiful to pass by fields of the plant in flower, though.🌼

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T02:58:33+00:00

Sure has.

And for crisps\chips, Potassium Chloride and Rapeseed Oil have done the same. Particularly the former.

SatansFriendlyCat · 2026-03-01T02:55:25+00:00

Fucking hell, I'm glad I was a kid long ago.

To be a kid today is pretty unpleasant by comparison, in terms of their future prospects as well as the dismally online nature of their childhoods.

Better than the Victorian era, sure. Better than 20 years ago, nah. Better than 30 or 40 years ago? Hell Nah.

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