relevants

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I built a Discord bot a while ago that I later added a Patreon for, which adds some extra features. I don't make a lot of money with it but it covers the hosting costs and leaves enough for an extra night out every month.

looking at files inside the temp folder … otherwise known as … are you sitting down? You really should sit for this … temp files!

The point OP is making is that those people would not put 2 and 2 together to understand that the files they were looking at are called temp files, just because that's the folder they found them in. They may not even remember the name of the folder, only that it contains a bunch of files with a prefix they're now googling.

Not sure why I'm bothering explaining this to you, the way you responded makes you look absolutely insufferable, but maybe someone else who comes across this will find it useful.

Asking someone their country of residence is privacy intruding? Lol

I am from Germany

If you were really from Germany, you'd never have given that much personal information up voluntarily!

This isn't about responsibility, it's about preventing suffering. If you could prevent a genocidal leader from being born, which you knew would save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, why wouldn't you? Because it's that person's "responsibility" that all of those innocent people died after all?

I'm too terrified of dying to an irresponsible driver, so as much as I would like to bike everywhere, I'll keep taking the metro for now. They're adding more and more actually decent bike lanes so hopefully one day...

I'm mostly just glad to be in a country where it is more socially acceptable to be direct. I would be a bit more formal than the original email, but the rewritten version seems really watered down and tip-toed in comparison.

I think that is changing through ChatGPT and the likes though, even it's non-English output has a distinct American tone to it that I'm starting to see more in professional emails. I have seen too many literal translations of "I hope this message finds you well" already, it's kinda ridiculous

Ok, I like this description a lot actually, it's a very quick and effective way to explain the effects of no backtracking. A lot of the answers here are either too reductive or too technical to actually make this behavior understandable to a layman. "It just predicts the next word" is easy to forget when the thing makes it so easy to be anthropomorphized subconsciously.