The "you will all submit to RTO and like it" machine has finally found a way to package this message in a way that wide eyed internet activists will support. Congratulations to them, I guess.

Debian -- I just wasn't ready for it. Got told "oh you're using Mint? That's nice but you should try out Debian it's the Real Deal(tm)" but the reason I was using Mint back then in the first place was that it was my first step out of the Windows ecosystem, I was scared shitless and didn't understand anything. What do you mean I don't get a huge pretty start menu?! How am I supposed to find stuff then?!

This is an issue that has plagued the machine learning field since long before this latest generative AI craze. Decision trees you can understand, SVMs and Naive Bayes too, but the moment you get into automatic feature extraction and RBF kernels and stuff like that, it becomes difficult to understand how the verdicts issued by the model relate to the real world. Having said that, I'm pretty sure GPTs are even more inscrutable and made the problem worse.

Add a "refuse" button that pops up a short text box detailing the consequences. The End, credits roll. Problem solved, now they can all go explain to everyone on the forums why this is the best ending

I've always viewed this as a politics problem in disguise.

The cook wants to oust the king. He has no allies and no claim, but swears profusely that once he is king, every person who failed to back him is going to pay. Do you back the coup? What if you say yes and the cook's assistant, who overheard you, proclaims that whatever punishment the cook had in store for your lack of cooperation, he's going to do even worse? Do you switch your allegiance to the assistant then?

What if this is a hypothetical cook, who the assistants are speculating they could bring over from abroad and are also speculating would mete out the punishment to end all punishments to his non-backers, because he is petty like that? They haven't even met him, but they figure surely a petty enough cook to fit this description has to exist out there somewhere, and inevitably someone will find him, and bring him over, and he will surely attain power once everyone understands that this is inevitable? Do you throw yourself behind their coup and challenge the king? What if the jesters overhear you and proclaim "oh wait until you hear about our hypothetical jester, he is even worse than that hypothetical cook" -- do you switch your allegiance to the jesters then?

If implicit, empty "once I have power!" threats were horses, beggars would ride

You have my sympathy, I used to be the exact same person as you politically. Play the ball, not the player, and all that. I learned the hard way that for populist authoritarians, people like us are marks, suckers. Plain as that. Today it's vote your conscience, tomorrow it's think what your family would say. Today it's "free speech absolutism", tomorrow all the dissenters get deplatformed for the greater good. Whatever can sound reasonable and promote their agenda that Tuesday.

Considering a "reasonable" appeal they make in isolation, outside the context of their overall goals and values, is exactly what they want you to do. A separate bubble reality for each day, for each issue, for each political scuffle, where they get to pick what ethical values to emphasize and what moral high ground to manufacture. They're happy as long as you don't see the big picture and don't ask yourself questions like "wait... do these people actually believe in individualism? That I should do what I want with my life regardless of what anyone else has to say about it? How important has that value been to them historically?"

How did the hipster burn his mouth?

He drank his coffee before it was cool

If you're the company CEO and you've spent years shouting a marketing pitch of "scooters! Scooters! Scooters instead of walking! Scooters! They're the future!" then yes, it's a bad look if you walk, never mind if you issue a company wide walking mandate.

Reviewer 2 walks into a bar, takes a look around and shouts, "this is the worst library I've ever seen"

How am I gonna be an optimist about this?

Does this mean I'm supposed to be team MTG in the feud? Help I'm confused

Hey, this is just like -- (sees thumbnail image) never mind, I have nothing useful to add to this discussion, carry on