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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • A big emotion I’ve been dealing with is that the US decided to fall apart completely at the same time I finally got my life together. I used to be someone with a reputation, someone who didn’t have anything to lose or anything better to be doing. Now I have a wife and kid, career, I’m on my way to a degree, and I’m scared.

    I didn’t care if I threw my life away back then, it waant getting used anyways, but now that I am using it I’m to terrified of losing that to protect what I have.



  • You could compare it to something in the same environment instead of something that comes across as misogynistically charged.

    Using makeup and bra styles as your example, even if you aren’t intending any slight by it, evokes the constant societal effort to police women’s bodies. This is a huge discomfort for a majority of people either because they are women who are subjected to this, or they care about women who are dealing with it.

    A great example for less charged comparisons would be existing propaganda, things like the “got milk?” program, the push to use of Vegtable oils after WW2 when the government had a surplus and needed to do something with it, or even the decades long campaign to frame fat as the cause of the obesity epidemic everyone knew it was sugar. All of these have a very similar tone to AI suggesting to glue your pizza or cook your pasta in gasoline.

    You could even site actual fake things. Our health department is currently lead by an Anti-Vaxxer. We didn’t need a data center to make that lie stick.

    Communication is a big part of all this, we don’t know what your feelings are, just what you said. We have to guess from what you say and what was said paints you in a bad light.



  • Best laptop I ever had was an HP with touch screen and Ubuntu. Anything I couldn’t easily do with basic keyboard controls I’d just tap the screen. Had my start bar up the right side so I could poke with my dominant hand to me very between progams. It was accurate enough I could tap to set my typing course when I was editing documents and rarely have to arrow key around.

    I didn’t realize how much I’d miss it until I built my current desktop. If I knew how to DIY the two 32in TVs I use for monitors into touch I would in a heartbeat.



  • Meeting myself in any variation.

    I have no idea why, but I’ve always had this idea that if I met another me in the world it has to end in one of us dead. Doesn’t matter on the origin, clone, copy, alternate timeline, time travel, doppelganger, replicant, don’t care. There’s absolutely no way around, it’s on sight and to the death.

    This is one of my most consist feelings in life and I often wonder if it’s because I consumed my twin in the womb. As a child I came up with an arrangement that if I accidentally time travelled I’d be able to use to contact myself indirectly so that we can’t cross paths.

    Of course, the chance of any of these things happening is insanely low so it’s kind of dumb to have a plan in place for its eventual occurrence.



  • I’ll be your new person to meet for today.

    I’m spiritual but still atheist and my family has been agnostic atheist for 3 generations. Back in the 80’s my grandfather started celebrating the winter solstice because he wasn’t happy celebrating holidays for a religion he didn’t agree with. He picked it because it’s the longest night in the year and that’s a good reason to give a gift.

    40 something years later, I’m raising my kid to celebrate the solstices and the equinoxes. Winter is a quite calibration of your closest people and you exchange gifts that will help them through the next year. During summer it’s a celebration of the people you know and everyone gets together and brings everyone they know to eat and party with the goal of meeting some one new. Both equinox are a celebration of the community and we go out to do community service.

    That’s 4 generations of non Cristian celebration.