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Homura..? She'd have more than time enough to do whatever she damn well pleased.

Also context: spoilers for a certain character in Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Madoka for short), a highly recommended magical girl anime and must watch classic.

Damn, and here I was hoping she'd prevent the fall of Barcelona.

Oh, well. Chile is also fine, I guess.

That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange aeons even death may die.

Oxidane.

Sure, but they're a minority. Millions, at most, out of billions. Probably less than that.

All modern LLMs are as good as professional mentalists at convincing most of their users that they know what they're saying.

That's what they're designed, trained, and selected for. Engagement, not correctness.

But LLMs truly excel at making their answers look correct. And at convincing their users that they are.

Humans are generally notoriously bad at that kind of thing, especially when our answers are correct.

And if LLM don't have the actual answer they blabbering like a redditor, and if someone can't get an accurate answer they start asking forum and socmed.

LLM's are completely incapable of giving a correct answer, except by random chance.

They're extremely good at giving what looks like a correct answer, and convincing their users that it's correct, though.

When LLMs are the only option, people won't go elsewhere to look for answers, regardless of how nonsensical or incorrect they are, because the answers will look correct, and we'll have no way of checking them for correctness.

People will get hurt, of course. And die. (But we won't hear about it, because the LLM's won't talk about it.) And civilization will enter a truly dark age of mindless ignorance.

But that doesn't matter, because the company will have already got their money, and the line will go up.

Yes, but search engines will serve you LLM generated slop instead of search results, and sites like Stack Overflow will die due to lack of visitors, so the internet will become a reddit-like useless LLM ridden hellscape completely devoid of any human users, and we'll have to go back to our grandparents' old dusty paper encyclopedias.

Eventually, in a decade or two, once the bubble has burst and google, meta, and all those bastards have starved each other to death, we might be able to start rebuilding a new internet, probably reinventing usenet over ad-hoc decentralised wifi networks, but we won't get far, we'll die in the global warming wars before we get it to any significant size.

At least some bastards will have made billions out of the scam, though, so there's that, I suppose. 🤷‍♂️

The plural of radius is radii; larva, larvae; criterion, criteria.

Façade is written with a letter that doesn't exist in the English alphabet.

Fiancé and fiancée are written using diacritics, something that isn't supposed to happen in English orthography (inasmuch as English orthography might exist).

There's at least five different ways to pronounce the digraph oo, with no indication of which to use in each case, you just have to remember it.

And I could keep listing similar nonsense, but I think I've made my point.

Do not try to make sense of the English language. Therein lies madness.

Nice, I thought it was gonna be Papa Meat's.

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Obligatory warning that although this particular one isn't, most of the stripes in Oglaf, while still as funny and smart as this one if not more, tend to also be somewhat raunchy and not safe for work, so if you're in an environment where cartoon genitals might offend you might want to wait until you're elsewhere before you partake.

Operation paper clip

Operation paperclip was when the US government smuggled Wernher Von Braun and about sixteen hundred other nazi scientists, engineers, and technicians into America for to build rockets and kickstart the cold war.

You're thinking of operation snow white.

That's not a moral system, that's mere survival instinct.

A (Frieren's world) demon will always do what best serves their own interests; if a more powerful demon tells them to do something they'll do it out of pure self preservation, and bide their time until they can be the one on top, or at least get away and carry on on their own.

No morality is involved, because morality as a concept (as we humans understand it) is so alien to them as colours to someone born blind.

Frieren has known many demons, including Macht. She has studied them for a thousand years. She can and does know.

By definition, if a demon learned how to feel empathy, or compassion, or anything like that, it would no longer be a demon.

But the point is moot, because it's been demonstrated that they biologically can't feel those emotions, even if they wanted to.

We've seen the point of view of demons. They're not human, or human analogues, in any way, shape, or form.

They just look and act like humans, as a form of predatory camouflage.

They're a perfect example of blue and orange morality (warning, TV Tropes link, abandon all hope ye who enters here).

We've seen (in the manga) a demon spend centuries doing his best to learn how to experience empathy, sympathy, or guilt, so he and other demons can become something that can coexist with humans without one or both of them inevitably ending up extinct.

He failed.

There's no possible long term future in Frieren's world where both humans and demons exist, unless demons change so fundamentally that they stop being demons (which would be a paradox of sorts, as real demons would then be extinct).

Demons have one choice: remain true to their nature and eat or exterminate all humans, or cease to be.

Humans have one choice: let themselves be exterminated, or exterminate all demons.

No side is committing genocide, they're just fighting for their own survival, in a world that gives them no other option.

Just the one weird bathtub scene.

Well, and that time she almost accidentally flashes Ed, but they're practically dating by that point, they just haven't come to terms with it yet.

Watch season 2 when it comes out. Probably the second half. The Macht flashbacks.

Fair enough, yet unless I'm mistaken most planes don't rely on people throwing bricks at them (which would be quite risky anyway, for unless they throw them faster than escape velocity they're bound to come back down eventually).

Couple tidbits before you get to it:

• The first four episodes were released at once and it's recommended to watch them in one sitting.
• While season 1 has some great demon characters (and a lot of great non-demon ones), that fourth fan favourite one won't show up until season 2, which is currently in production and is expected to come out in January 2026.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who evolved those capabilities (and speech) with the sole purpose of being better at hunting humans.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who eat humans. Not because they need to eat humans, mind, they're perfectly fine eating other things, but because they genetically like to kill and eat humans.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who are biologically incapable of feeling emotions like empathy, sympathy, guilt, or remorse. Seriously, some have spent centuries trying to learn how to feel them, and have failed.

Creatures with free will and intelligence who'll be the first to admit that they're better described as savage deceitful beasts, and that it'd be foolish and suicidal to trust them as far as you can throw them.

And, that said, Frieren the character advocates (with extremely good evidence backed reason) for their genocide, but the book and the authors don't seem to do the same thing.

There's plenty of characters that try to get along with demons, or trust them (and often pay dearly for it), and plenty of chapters where we see the demons' point of view and can't fail but to somewhat empathize with them, even if they'd be unable to reciprocate.

At no point do the book or the authors try to make the readers hate demons. They make us fear them, sure, but mostly they make us feel empathy and pity for them.

Hell, the fourth fan favourite character is a demon (and what a fantastic character it is).

(Granted, the third are the mimics, but still.)