Actually, it was the acceptance of blatantly and provably wrong information used to justify attacking an unrelated country and then deciding it didn't warrant any further investigation, justification or consequences that proved American fascism
Automating my email inbox, I just wanted to split them into folders according to the attachment name but the fields were often incomplete and ended up missing rules, and imap fetch was taking forever and kept failing. In frustration I decided to turn to ChatGPT to split them by messageid which I had never bothered with because the strings were too long to be useful. I initially intended to build a text list of messages and fetch them all one by one but I ended up making chatgpt crush all the instructions into one gigantic python dictionary using the messageid as keys and using it to generate a single pipelined imap call with success flags, dynamic folder naming, cleanup steps the whole works. I was just working on theory of what I knew was possible, and it's the ugliest table you ever saw, but it works and it runs from memory instead of reading and writing values to a temp file and I'd never been able to keep up with that level of nesting before
My aunt had a Macintosh with this game and we used to play for hours. I still vividly remember because it was one of the first "computer" games I'd ever seen with sound