And when pressed to define what "woke" actually means, they universally fail to come up with a definition. Even an "author" having written a book about it fails to be able to define woke.

I work in localization. Technical writing is often easier for machine-translation systems, because the writing is (ideally) deliberately clear, concise, and structured.

The terminology issue you mention can be addressed at least partially by feeding any such machine-translation system a list of words and phrases to keep as-is in the target text.

Fiction, meanwhile, often involves complicated and subtle wordplay, which no AI system is going to handle very well.

Already thrilled to learn what erotic literature..

.. will read like, after it has been dragged through the automatic translation process. Even the automatically translated descriptions of sex toys on Aliexpress are hilarious, and those are really short and not sophisticated.

I can see it now:

"I put on my robe and wizard hat..."

How about giving the choice for an analog control and taking the wasted extra money spent on computer chips + design + digital display and making the motor last longer?

I would love it if some manufacturer would produce tried-and-true analog designs without all the extra add-on, planned-obsolescence, enshittified bullshit. I suspect this approach would do quite well in the market, at least in certain product categories -- blenders, ovens, washing machines, etc.

Actually, this reminds me to take a look at Lehman's catalog, see what they're getting up to these days. I bumped into them quite by accident ages ago when a relative was living in Amish country. Poking around their website just now, I see things like ovens and hand-cranked mixers. A bit pricey, but no "ET phone home" rubbish and solid workmanship.

• https://www.lehmans.com/

(Crikey, slashcode still doesn't render bulleted lists correctly. How stupidly embarrassing.)

That's going to be expensive as hell.

I thought that was the entire point of consumer IoT goods? Rent-seeking by manufacturers?

(Serious question, not just snark.)

Speaking of dinosaurs with tiny hands.

Prices of solar panels has fallen orders of magnitude since the 80s and 90s to the point that now solar is now in some cases the cheapest energy source. In a recent podcast episode (2025-08-26) of Why is this happening? the guest (an author of a book related to solar panels) mentioned that in Pakistan the official electricity production had dropped like 10-15% over a year, not because of lesser energy consumption but because people rather had bought and installed their own, independent solar panels.

When commenting "study proves X", how often do you fail to include references to said study?

• always
• often
• sometimes
• seldom
• never

Your comment was enlightening, but not in the way you intended I guess. So you only feel empathy towards people that you place in you in-group and are indifferent to people in your out-group.

Now, there are definitely limits on how many people anyone is able to personally relate to, so everyone has some kind of "out-group". However you have an unlimited supply of potential empathy and there is no reason to limit it to only your in-group.

Woke is a contemporary dogwhistle used by bigots to attempt to hide their hate. When pressed on how to define "woke", they all fail to give any meaningful definition. Example, an "expert" having written a book with a chapter about wokeness fails to define woke when asked about it in an interview.

So what about you dbialac, are you able to give a meaningful definition of "woke"? Despite me asking, I would appreciate even more if you spend some time on improving your life by looking into the links below rather than jumping right on writing an answer.

The happiness lab podcast

Life After Hate: Helping people exit a life of hate

PhbGPT

Oo, oo, I know, I know! "What is Bill the Cat?" :D

the phones are NOT selling for $5,000

iPhones can go for around ¥5,000 (US$700)

Oofda, that was some brainfart-induced whiplash. I'm used to seeing ¥ used for Japanese yen, not Chinese yuan / Renminbi, and at first I was gobsmacked at what had happened to the exchange rate. Then in my foggy morning brain, I rediscovered this thing called "Context" and realized I was tuned into the wrong channel.

JPY ¥5,000 ~ USD $32.91, at ¥1 ~ $0.0066 (two-thirds of a penny)

RMB ¥5,000 ~ USD $702.02, at ¥1 ~ $0.14

... I should go get some coffee.

What you wrote reminded me of Barnett Newman painting Who’s afraid of red, yellow, and blue which definitely is not my style, and younger me would most likely written off as more or less nonsense, but watching the video Who’s afraid of modern art: Vandalism, video games, and fascism I learned that the colours used are actually hard to reproduce and requite some skill I was unaware of.

Still not my style, but I can now appreciate that other people might have it as their.

Thank you for providing an explanation.

Citation needed.