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- Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI 10 hours ago:
That or I’m cherry picking :P
The most important things about the fae for me are in order: likely to try and blend in poorly as a person; but also untrustworthy in a demon/fine print way; entrancing; subject to their own (unknown) rules; dangerous to give your true name to; and dangerous to accept gifts from. The rest of them aren’t inapplicable to modern ai, but they’re not as easy to explain, I guess.
Do you have different associations with the fae when I list them all out?
- Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI 12 hours ago:
That’s an interesting theory, though I think the fae fits better with neurodivergence than other hominids. (Incomprehensible, different, follows strict rules, changelings, unpredictable, etc. I’m autistic and have been called all of the above multiple times)
But again, this is just a shower thought- I’m enjoying finding more overlaps, not actually convinced that we somehow had a computing society that disappeared and left no trace except for fairytales.
- Comment on Maybe stories about the fae were long term warnings about AI 12 hours ago:
Oh yeah, that’s why I put “AI” in scare quotes and mentioned our current AI. This is just about the technology assisted masturbation that uses astonishing resources
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- Comment on Why you should always have an assistant 13 hours ago:
I’d probably choose the cane over the shoes, too
- Comment on 1 day ago:
That’s some Žižek shit right there
- Comment on Saying "Be careful" when someone stumbles is more an admonishment than a warning. 2 days ago:
Every single time, my brain goes “no! Now I’m going to maim myself out of spite,” and then I feel like an asshole for (internally) responding like that to someone trying to help
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 1 week ago:
They’re easier than zucchini? Does that make keeping radishes from taking over their entire plots actually kind of difficult or do they just grow perfectly only where you plant them?
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 week ago:
I recognize that that type of comment is supposed to be a joke (and I’ll react accordingly, because I’m not a buzzkill), but it absolutely isn’t actually funny (ha-ha) for me.
- Comment on ICE is 30 minutes late again. I'm really pissed about that. 1 week ago:
I can’t wait until ICE goes to Nuremberg
- Comment on We will never know the name of a human that lived 50,000 years ago 1 week ago:
I like to think that historical humans prefer it that way, if it helps.
I want my name known to people who loved me and whose life I directly impacted. I like the concept of getting to know the larger human community, but I don’t think I’ll have failed if nobody remembers my name a hundred years after my death. If the choice is between my diary being found and read by people or my name forgotten, I’d prefer the latter.
- Comment on There should be a 'Political Showerthoughts': so there's a place for such thoughts 1 week ago:
Holy shit, is that a variation on an existing icon or did you just spitball a neat visual metaphor from scratch on the spot?
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
Sure it is. We used to have crimped laundromat coins and if you put it in backwards, it wouldn’t work. This was baffling to people.
You’ve already made a significantly healthier assumption than that strangers seeing you in need want to lie to you
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
I’ve been accused by multiple customers of lying to them about how to access our bathrooms. I have no idea what their lives are like that they assume strangers would just do that to them for no reason.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 2 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve bombed Americans in the US.
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
I’m probably an egg (by which I mean I’m pretty sure I’m trans and would love to take a pill right now to make it so that I had always been a dude, but I don’t know that I’d take one that turned me into a man now, because I don’t know if it’s worth it to explain it to everyone. I also don’t think I’m actually experiencing dysphoria, just aware that I’m probably a man. I think that counts as an egg for some people, trans and closeted for others, and probably cis [lol] for transmedicalists).
If I ever do come out, it’s probably going to seem sudden as fuck to a bunch of people, because I’ve already thought about it for years, so I’ll have everything planned out as efficiently as possible and ready to go the second I decide to transition. I’ll come out to people after I’ve started hormones and right before it becomes noticeable, which I’ll time to coincide with a top surgery (my mother died young of breast cancer that was diagnosed when she was within a few years of my age, and I’m medically eligible for a full mastectomy). That might be wishful thinking, but at least from here, I think I can be patient about it.
- Comment on Cronch 3 weeks ago:
Well…….not safely and legally, at least.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 3 weeks ago:
They began requiring it after and in response to that- that’s the James Frey scandal I mentioned.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 3 weeks ago:
Required to be published as a memoir.
Corroboration from others, photographs, medical/police reports, receipts, travel documents, the normal ways.
No, you have to bring receipts.
Medical records, photographs of bruises/marks, checking with friends or teachers you might have told about the abuse at the time.
- Comment on Have anyone here actually published a memoir or know of someone IRL (as in, you've met them face to face) that published a memoir? Do people actually read these? 4 weeks ago:
My sister wrote one and had a publishing deal for one (as a prize for winning an essay contest), but she couldn’t prove everything. The memoir was about her dealing with some deaths and getting sober, so the unverifiable bits were most of the story. This was right after the James Frey scandal, so the publishing company bought her out instead of trying to pare it down or chase down a bunch of non-recovering addicts to confirm years old details.
- Comment on science rules! 4 weeks ago:
I would have taken it like that from anyone else, but it’s so OOC that I checked the spelling to see if it was a novelty account
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 4 weeks ago:
There was a time, in December of 2016, where I really thought that trump might come out as a democrat after taking office. I think I’d still prefer Gore had been inaugurated, if we’re changing the presidencies of this century, but trump coming out swinging for progressive causes (or at least socially progressive causes, because he’s been too rich for any actually leftist fiscal policies) would have been nice
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 weeks ago:
I never took it in school, and I don’t have much contact with it now either. I’m picking up some Arabic now though.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 5 weeks ago:
I took Spanish from age 12-22 and German from 18-23 and 29-31.
I speak both those languages, though my Spanish is rusty, because I moved to Germany and don’t have much contact with Spanish speakers.
- Comment on Greedy bastards 5 weeks ago:
You could always sabotage it
- Comment on shoutout to finland 5 weeks ago:
I know several, but they were mostly born in Germany or immigrated young.
- Comment on EU says ‘too early’ to assess legality of US attack on Venezuela 1 month ago:
What country do you think is good? Being against governments is not exactly strange on Lemmy or indefensible.
- Comment on Cube me 1 month ago:
That’s not exactly how I would have imagined a kibblesmith smiths kibble, but as long as the pets get the cubes afterwards, I’m happy
- Comment on Cube me 1 month ago:
“Grate” joke? Or did I get double whooshed?
- Comment on The Wagon 1 month ago:
Maybe she doesn’t know if she’s joking or not either. Only one way to find out!