I love this strip, but I’m not sure it really applies to “dude has a manhole cover in his house.”

You never forget your first

I don’t love their decision to defederate hexbear, but otherwise I like this instance.

Not to say I don’t understand their reasoning for defederating, because I do, I just prefer as little defeds as possible aside from corporate influence (fuck threads)

I genuinely cannot express the depths of my sorrow.

I understand the decision and hold no ill will towards the admin team, I just think lemm.ee was exactly everything I wanted from an instance and am truly sad to not only lose the account history being associated with me, but also the most neutral of the instances.

I’ve seen a lot of variations of the trolley problem, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard the “heavy man.” It also makes zero sense, because a heavy man would do nothing to a trolley.

I use Infinitebacklog, which is basically the video games version of what letterboxd is for films or rateyourmusic is for music

Bro I love Cryptopsy, their album None So Vile slays!

Air is a gaseous fluid.

This is just how birds look at all of us.

If “everyone” keeps reading a sentiment you did not intend out of your message, perhaps it is time to consider that you are doing a poor job of communicating your point.

Or you’re being disingenuous and just don’t like being calling on your hissy fit.

I dunno, take your pick.

I see this kind of comment before and I will never understand it - “other companies do it so just bend over and let us do it to you too!”

People say this all the time about Denuvo too: “Other games already have Denuvo, why are you crying about it here when you’re playing other games?”

And see, that’s the problem - we aren’t playing those other Denuvo games. And same thing applies here, guess what, a lot of us aren’t buying games from gross companies like EA with these shit terms. So when a company we are doing business with suddenly changes their terms to be shit, that’s a valid complaint. Some of us have already been boycotting bad business practices in the industry, so the idea of company changing terms towards the boycott after we’ve already invested in the game feels like a betrayal because it is.

So maybe stop focusing on what you assume the rest of audience is doing and instead go back to focusing on what the people at the goddamn podium are trying to pull?

Frequently the point of comparing the two is to caution before they actually become comparable, though. I think it’s intentional hyperbole to make a stark point, not an insensitive reduction.

Not if you want any kind of consistency so you can actually replicate or understand what you’re doing. Like hallucinations aside (and we really shouldn’t put them aside because they’re a very real thing in this context), the point of a recipe is that you aren’t just getting an averaged version of the process; you’re getting a curated version with specific considerations in mind.

So you can ask AI for a cinnamon apple pie recipe, and you might get an okay one, but you’re probably never going to get a better-than-average one. And if you do like the version of the recipe it gave you, you had better write it down because when you ask for it next time, it’s not going to be the same cinnamon apple pie recipe. I’ve personally played around with recipes in AI, and even within the same chat, there’s no consistency because it never “knows” anything; it only makes predictive guesses. So when I say, “I like that recipe, but let’s try half as much ginger and maybe add some mirin,” it will reduce the ginger and add mirin, but suddenly all the volumes of the other ingredients have changed, and some items may even disappear.

So yeah, I think this is something that AI could potentially work well for in the future, as is kind of always the case with any potentially useful AI application right now. But right now, until they’ve been developed with some kind of better active memory and/or something resembling comprehension rather than predictive association, I think this is a field where AI is passable at best, not yet somewhere it shines.

SEO is part of it, but it’s also literally just more physical real estate for ads. Recipe sites, including personal recipe blogs, are infamous for the sheer volume of ads placed on them. Yes, everyone just scrolls to the recipe so it kind of doesn’t matter, but longer text means more space for ads.

No, I’m pretty sure it means being or becoming a weeb

Well I’m forty now and about 6 months ago I decided that after nearly 30 years of listening to metal music I was going to finally learn how to do harsh vocals/metal screaming. Still an enormous amateur, and I have a lot to learn, but basically just this week I finally got to the point where I don’t hate listening to my own screams.

So uh, whatever you wanna call that midlife crisis, that’s mine.

A contributor? I would call it a primary source, tbh.

Real talk, we have to figure out how to handle this kind of chronic fear and paranoia, because this shit ain’t normal, but it is frighteningly common.

Like yeah this is a hilariously over-the-top example, but the amount of people you and I both know who go through life genuinely thinking that they’re going to be the victim of a kidnapping or worse at any given time is astounding. And it’s not without impact either, because this is exactly the unfounded sense of fear that conservatives/fascists seize on to manipulate the population.

I don’t know the solution, but a world where everyone is afraid of their own shadow is a literal hellscape.

Alright, fair, I’ll take the note on your use of deviant as a response to my unfathomable comment. I did not mean to imply your thinking was deviant, as that word comes with a negative suggestion, just incomprehensible, but I understand the ambiguity. So I retract my comment on victimhood with that new context.

I don’t retract the rest of my ire though, sorry, and now I’m confused as hell, because in what world are people who engage in casual sex the same ones berating people for being horny, and how is that relevant to the conversation at hand? I feel like I accidentally skipped a couple important chapters in the book that is this discussion.

Show me where I said we should reject all human progress and revert to animals.

No, I simply said we should evaluate the social choices made by humanity, even ones as old as clothing. I’m not saying we should reject it all; I’m saying we should be thoughtful and investigate these things to find out if they hold true or not.

Personally, I think in the case of nudity and shame, we’ll quickly find it doesn’t really hold much water beyond empty religious mumbo-jumbo.

And who exactly is calling you a deviant for liking clothing? Was it not you who came in with the statement, “Nudists are weird people and I wouldn’t accept what they have to say about sexuality at face value,” and now you’re trying to act like you’re just responding to some sort of victimization from nudists of all people after throwing the first punch? Come on, dude.

But I’m sure it all does just come down to religious mumbo-jumbo bullshit for you because you said “perverts who enjoy casual sexual encounters,” as if a healthy casual sexual encounter is somehow a “perversion.”

So, like… grow up and get better opinions, maybe?

My guy we are literally the only creature on the entire planet with a sense of shame who covers our body. If you don’t think there’s benefit to at least understanding why this enormous difference exists, I can’t even begin to fathom what your mind is like