• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    9 months ago

    The NATO-beating AI targeting systems are literally a potato, though their development did pay for a number of superyachts off Monaco and stately homes in Surrey.

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      9 months ago

      Like literally literally or literally figuratively? Because the thought of someone popping out the hatch with a sack of potatoes and just wildly chunking them at a drone is kind of hilarious.

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          9 months ago

          Damn kids nowadays! Back in my days we didn’t do such things. /s

          But, I still hate literally being used “wrong”.

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          9 months ago

          You’re not wrong that it means that now, but literally has meant figuratively since it started being used in the eighteenth century

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        9 months ago

        Metaphorically. The potato’s just the battery, and the actual electronics consist of a shanzhai NES clone and a novelty golf ball detector.

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      9 months ago

      Plenty of gender studies classes at US and UK universities, too, plus posh NYC penthouses