apotheotic (she/her)

I’m not convinced that voting for a third party has any positive effect, in one election cycle or over longer time. But I’m open to hearing your perspective.

I mean sure! Take the whole CEO situation and springboard off that, you find yourselves in circumstances similar to pre-revolution France so the conditions are right.

I feel as though there’s a significant amount of extra info that isn’t strictly conveyed here.

The core issue is that you only have 2 real options in america, third parties may as well not exist. So, come election time, your harm reduction option is to vote for the least evil party.

But that’s not the way to solve the issue, and neither is abstaining or voting third party, IMO. The way to solve the issue happens between votes. Picketing, protesting, demonstrating, taking action, making noise. You won’t solve the broken 2 party system at election time. But you do have to actually get out and take action, not just say that you will and keep letting the overton window shift right.

(Take with a pinch of salt because I’m not american)

They do, yes. /srs

You’re thinking of Mac users. /j

Ah. Thanks for explaining. How vile.

What on earth does this title mean

L opinion. some dubstep is just noise. A lot of it has a lot of beautiful harmony and songwriting. Black midi is a lot more like “just noise”

Pretty damning if true. Paints him in a whole new light. Feeling betrayed.

A mass shooting is not the “only thing they can do except suicide” and that’s a ridiculous argument

Entitled customers make me cringe hard, especially when its someone I am with.

In theory, your toothbrush is getting a clean twice a day. Its already covered in nice sudsy toothpaste foam and you’ll (hopefully) be rubbing and rinsing that off.

The plastic disintegrating in your mouth however, yeah, I can’t dispute that!

Here is the reality:

The person is going to use money, whether it is yours or someone else’s, to buy whatever it is that they feel is the best use of that money.

Disconnect yourself from any ideas of what the money is going to be used for, and just understand that it will be used to reduce their suffering. If that is a satisfactory use of the money that you give them, then give them the money. Consider, at the same time, putting money aside to donate to local causes, some of whom may be helping the homeless.

Above all though, your money is somewhat valuable, but nowhere near as valuable as your time and effort. Volunteering at these same local causes is even more valuable than whatever spare pocket change.

Just don’t turn into a “but they’re going to buy drugs with it!” person

As long as, even if reddit is using it to train LLM, they are actually still using the descriptions to add accessibility to those images, which I don’t take for granted

I am missing a small amount of context - is reddit randomly prompting users to describe images in posts? Or is it prompting you to describe your own image at upload time?

Context aside, I definitely think that providing image descriptions is something we should do in spite of the fact that its definitely going to be used to train AI. Choosing to not do so is throwing our blind peers under the bus to reduce the amount of training data for ai fractionally.

I hope to leave whatever spaces I inhabit better than before I was there. I also want to be a cute girl with a cute tummy and thick thighs. I believe these are both aligned with one another.

High Guardian Spice. I’m not personally an enjoyer of it, but the amount of criticism it received was vastly, vastly out of proportion simply because it was “woke”.

And as Ada said, trans people.

Fair enough, I forgot other people still federate with .world

Where? I don’t see any cats in my feed and I feel like I’m missing out

Idk I just existed and my narcissist mother decided to take that personally when I was an early teen

It sounds like they mean that they projected their insecurities onto their partner, as opposed to just sharing the insecurity. The latter is good and healthy, the former is unpleasant at best and harmful at worst.