ethaver
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- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 2 days ago:
PSSSST
...ezekiel 23
- Comment on The fact that users are encouraged to include text descriptions with media content makes it perfect training data for AI. 3 days ago:
and I actually like that one particular use-case of llms and image analyzing ai because less required human interaction gives the blind user more independence. The remaining issue of corporatization and private ownership of something that should be a publicly owned resource (as with many other assistive technologies) is a society-wide issue and framing it as a futurist vs Luddite discussion is a powerful misdirection.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 4 days ago:
...and that's how I converted to Gnosticism.
- Comment on Oppa oppa 6 days ago:
It was a fucking banger you tasteless, joyless, spork sharpener.
- Comment on utter failure 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 1 week ago:
Yeah I lurk around r/conservative and hubs still lurks on the remains of Twitter just because we both a) can't look away and b) think it's important to understand what's going on over there.
I usually see stuff said like "they're not actually antifascists that's just a misdirection to cover their real fascist ideologies." Which is a genuine strategy in political propaganda. People use all kinds of labels to cover up all kinds of awful shit.
Really the only way around that is to focus less on labels overall and focus more on individuals and either thoughts on or even more importantly actual specific real world actions. I don't know what political label people would put me under.
A lot of my local politicians last year were listed independent. I picked the one that wanted to expand the bus lines. I think a fetus is a human being but that it doesn't have a right to use a woman's body without her continuous consent. I think the rich have broken a bunch of the social contracts they made to avoid bloodshed and that something bloody is inevitable more than it even is desirable. I'm thinking that next time there's political unrest in my area I should just sit on an out of the way street corner with a sign that says "RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES."Dunno what any of that makes me but I'd like to find more of us if possible. Sometimes labels help that, sometimes they don't. Wish I had a better or cleaner answer fire you.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
That's not what freeze drying is.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 week ago:
idk but I love freeze dried marshmallows and can never find them anywhere.
- Comment on Update 1 week ago:
this is why I converted to Gnosticism. Mainstream Christianity never sat well with me, atheists are pretentiously #intellectual, and agnosticism just wasn't loud enough. Now I'm following in the footsteps of Jesus by vibing with the homeless dudes at the bus stop, whipping out a tarot deck when I need to be alone with my feelings, and drawing weird sacred geometry shit that makes people uncomfortable. 10/10 highly recommend.
- Comment on This is Larry. 2 weeks ago:
Hubs recently put the box next to the toilet and our cat has since taken every chance she can to co-poop with us.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 weeks ago:
Yeah 16 pounds is a large cat like a Maine Coon cat or a small corgi / beagle. There are flighted birds that big but they're not common.
- Comment on It's about time we showed concern for the men 2 weeks ago:
interestingly there is a (rare) phenomenon where the male partner gets some or all of the menstrual or pregnancy symptoms. Apparently my grandmother could tell she was pregnant (she had 10 total not including miscarriages) because my grand_father_ would get morning sickness! Partially explains how she managed to have 10 if she wasn't having to deal with all the symptoms herself. As an aside, apparently the local doctor told her it was a shame she'd already had her appendix out because otherwise he could do a prophylactic appendectomy and "accidentally" cut her tubes while he was in there.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
if my mother hadn't forced me out early to intentionally lower my birth weight (I'm the last child and size tends to increase with subsequent births, my next oldest sibling complicated delivery by size alone) I might've succeeded too.
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
yeah my husband brought this up a few days ago actually and was talking about the movie and I was like do you remember me mentioning that I literally actually did that? 4 times around apparently!
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 3 weeks ago:
apparently I literally tried to strangle myself on my umbilical cord in the womb but my take on that was that I knew what was coming.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
I've been getting back into Christianity lately for a variety of reasons but I've also been doing a lot of research into the history and philosophy and whatnot and reconciling:
that outer sphere of what all these different people over the centuries have written and decided to include or exclude from their various compilations and what motivated them morally or especially politically to do so
vs
the inner sphere of my own lived experience with what does and does not make the world a better place and what motivations exist in the modern day to practice or interpret those centuries of texts in one way or another
and honestly it's actually been really interesting from an academic perspective as well. It's a fascinating combination of history, language, culture, and even what influences it's had on the sciences over time like I recently wound up learning some stuff about early geometry and the ways it's affected the architecture of churches.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
the only "um akshually" I would even bother adding to this is that the Torah / Pentateuch is just the first five books of the Tanakh, which is the best / closest approximation of books that later became the Christian old testament. The Tanakh also includes the Prophets (Nevi'im), and the Writings (Ketuvim). There's also a few books in there that the council of Nicaea chose not to include. Also relevant is the Septuagint which was the first translation from Hebrew into a mainstream language (which at that was Koine Greek) which is relevant because that specific translation has had a profound effect on translations since, which really hammers in that concept of "a translation of a translation of a translation of-"
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
And trinitarianism specifically is basically just a reason to wage wars. I was raised in a trinitarian denomination and I still mostly consider myself Christian but I can't reconcile my morals with waging literal wars over fucking metaphysics.
- Comment on Deaf people get to avoid a lot of arguments 4 weeks ago:
LOL I had a coworker who used to pretend his hearing aids died when he was done with your shit. everybody hated how lazy he was at overnight cleaning and whatnot but he was god-tier as a 1:1 sitter for maladaptively attention-seeking patients. They'd be saying all kinda outta pocket shit to him and he was just so used to faking deaf at that point that they had nothing on him. And I loved having him on our unit when we had sexually inappropriate guys. they'd fake suicidality to try and get one of the 18y/o nursing assistants but NOPE. You, dear creepy sir, get deaf gassy off-season mall Santa.
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 4 weeks ago:
It's wild to describe something I needed to get a license for and that is overseen by a board that can revoke it for malpractice as a hobby.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 4 weeks ago:
eh. there's also polka.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 4 weeks ago:
well first I'd take an extension cord to goodwill
- Comment on Space colonization would create so many jobs for everyone. Not great jobs but jobs. 4 weeks ago:
No if I was completely set for life I would still wanna be a nurse. I'd do like one shift a month maybe one shift a week at most but I don't think I could do without the satisfaction of helping someone. I'd also probably pick and choose how I got to do it more. I'd do a lot less stuff that's more characteristic of the institutional system and take more time to actually talk to people and try to help them with specific stuff instead of just providing three hots and a cot and my main method of keeping them from stabbing each other being intrusive into their privacy.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 4 weeks ago:
it's funny because I'm AFAB but NB with a husband and I'm the one who gets the man-flu.
- Comment on Flexin the muscles 5 weeks ago:
sent this to hubby but given that we go at it like rabbits idk if -cel is the right suffix for him.
- Comment on If your name is Theodore, you could end every conversation with "thanks for coming to my Ted talk" 5 weeks ago:
I certainly do!
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 5 weeks ago:
got hubs one because I couldn't afford a steam deck for his birthday. he loves it. I never see him play it at home (I think because the actual computer is here) but every once in a while he'll mention having played x or y retro game and he has covered the ENTIRE thing in Simpsons stickers.
- Comment on what can I do at my workplace during downtime? 5 weeks ago:
so you can study stuff and do coursework but you gotta make it really easy to do accidentally. when I got a paper to write I would make a google drive folder with the project outline and a template for the paper including a reference sheet. I would lazily look up sources occasionally and add the pdfs to the folder and easybib / citation machine them into the reference section by doi. at that point it would be a matter of when the paper would get written, not if. the dopamine would just hit suddenly when I'm having an IBS shit at 2am and "oops. I wrote a research paper." I accidentally wrote so many papers while shitting. one time I set all of it up and went to bed and turned out one of the group members was also ADHD because when I woke up she'd accidentally done the whole thing while I was asleep. 10/10 method.
- Comment on Poor pugs 5 weeks ago:
i mean. this is a completely normal pediatric knee x-ray:
- Comment on Clock logic 5 weeks ago:
It's called a "highly composite number!" I read up on a lot of this stuff while learning about numerology and other esoteric spiritual traditions!
