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they never told me that hand sanding my car would take a million years

#its like 200 grit sandpaper and i have one paintless spot in the middle of this door panel whyyyy #and my paint stuff arrives today so now im gonna be spending every day just sanding sanding sanding #text post

redstonedust

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

sinnegantheworm

here's my super-quick, easy-to-digest summary that i use when i can't spend more than like 15 seconds on it but need someone to know the basic distinctions:

generative AI - bad evil AI. chatbots, LLMs, image generators, etc. this the one that steals shit.

analytical AI - helpful medical AI. this the one that helps detect cancer early.

game "AI" - fake AI. 100% human created and dictated. this the one that determines game mob behavior n stuff.

resemblingthegrave

losing the battle with my own self-control so will briefly comment and say that categorizing certain types of ai as straightforwardly good and other types as "bad evil," even for the sake of summary, doesn't really hold water. just to give two counterexamples to the distinctions drawn above, large language models ("evil") are being used by human rights groups to parse huge datasets about police abuse while analytical ai ("helpful") is also the kind of ai that animates facial recognition software and the increasingly ubiquitous searchable license plate databases that police are using to stalk people. the goodness or badness of a given ai tool has less to do with its type and more to do with things like scale and scope, transparency, ownership, and contextual application.

#the types of ai themselves cannot be inherently good or bad #if your problem with ai is training on copyrighted material to create things that avoid paying real humans to do it? thats not the ai its #the usecase #if you enjoy ai that parses datasets and problems and highlights important patterns to find significant information out of a huge dataset?#that ai isnt inherently good it can be used for anything. it once again is the usecase #it can be used to find you out of a million posters guilty of terrorism for a youtube comment from 8 years ago or it can be used to identify #genes that are likely cause cancer for research #same AI different usecase #its not black and white no ai is good or bad it is a tool and how you use it is the problem not that it exists #text post

thatdiabolicalfeminist

are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?

are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?

are people demanding to see the conditions in this place that keeps making us sick? why are the enslaved workers not having the time to use the bathroom or to rest when ill? very few people would shit in front of their coworkers given any choice at all.

cutecipher

On the prisoners point:

In a sweeping two-year investigation, The Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from F

More on the health point:

"US Department of Labor proposes more than $1M fine following worker fatality at New Jersey vegetable processing facility"

https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osha/osha20251124

weekendviking

Reminder: Every annoying health and safety and worker rights thing, every legal test that slows down your production and delivery schedule, everything that you think is being misapplied, or is being mis-used by the bosses to cover their ass but not yours in a compliance exercise, is actually there because it's written in someone's blood, either worker or user or consumer.

#text post #link #ive been explaining to people at work that feild workers shitting in fields is a common and expected problem for food safety #and like. could be solved if we gave field workers the same rights as other manual laborers #they should be given time and facilities to use the restroom with dignity like the rest of the world can #i dont care if that means farmers have to dedicate a % of their field space to making little break huts or something theres no excuse for #making people shit in a field at their job or their forced labor camp as they often are used as #its ridiculous

haveyouever-polls

Have you ever smoked a cigarette?

Yes

Remaining time: 4 days 17 hours

#noooo #cuz i already can't breathe and my lungs are full of scar tissue so i can only imagine the damage smoking would do #i used to enjoy the smell of them though 2ndhand even though thats just as bad #i dont like the smell anymore and dont hang out with people who smoke in my presence #poll

wizardarchetypes

anyway every time i post about ocd people start tagging the post like "wait this isn't normal?" and i always like to remind people that intrusive thoughts are normal. pretty much everyone experiences them. "what if i jumped off this balcony?" "what if i crashed my car right now for no reason?" "what if i yelled a curse word in the middle of this wedding?" everyone thinks these things from time to time. it's disordered thinking when the distress starts becoming intolerable.

"am i normal" is not as helpful question to ask as "are intrusive thoughts causing me frequent distress?" and "would my life be better if i could find a way to feel less distress/learn to tolerate the distress?"

millions and millions of people have ocd. having ocd is normal. you're normal. but what if you could feel better? what if living everyday in your own mind and body could be tolerable? is that something you want? need? these are questions to ask.

#text post #mental health

birdsareblooming

sometimes i feel like im climing up this incline again alone but thankully sisypus and the itsy bitsy spider and here with me

birdsareblooming

holy shit is that kate bush

#text post

nessa007

#i don't remember the last movie i watched #photo

sawed-on-shotgun

'women have too high standards for men' 'its impossible to live up to what women want from men' 'women are too picky and bitchy and mean to unattractive men' thats news to me because i keep meeting and learning about women who would be better off snorting arsenic than even associating with the men that they are dating

sawed-on-shotgun

sometimes jakey is an ok guy who is just annoying to have around and sometimes jakey needs to actually die for the betterment of society

#text post #so often women get blamed for men's shortcomings and they internalize it as their own problems #so the women sympathoze bc they think oh we all have something wrong with us let me love you #except she isnt a lover she is a scapegoat and now shes stuck somewhere dumb with someone who doesnt respect her

goetic-justice

You guys are always like "being crushed by 10,000 tons of rock probably feels good as hell" or "being torn to pieces by hunting dogs would low key fix me" and I feel like those things would actually be unpleasant.

goetic-justice

How about "Drinking an ice cold strawberry milkshake probably feels good as hell". Do you guys like that one.

#i made myself a peanut butter chocolate chip milkshake the other day and i think it did actually heal me a little bit :)#not my toilet though :) that thing was the opposite of healed :)#text post

northstareclipse

There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

#idk why this reminds me #i live in a nice little townhome complex with a bunch of randos for neighbors #and one of my neighbors are these little grandparents whose 8 million grandchildren are always here bc their mom works #and i had the joy of having one of them come up to my door and ring my doorbell to ask if i could fix her brother's bike #because they see me ride my bike all the time #and we are not one of those mutual aid obsessed community garden free little library places #so i was pleasantly surprised :)#neighbors are good and diverse neighbors are good and we should all get to know each other more for the betterment of the world :)#text post #(i fixed the bike the brakes were seized so i loosened them probably arguably too much but they were happy and rode the bikes all day)#(a win is a win)#edit: i read the notes and i would like to add that a perfect world should not mean everybody is the same #i think a lot of people are imagining their commune utopia as a same-face world where everybody is identical and always happy #a la starlight glimmer in mlp unironically #and thats both unrealistic and impossible #the world is better for diversity and youre never going to have 2 people with the exact same views and even if you could find that #the secret to peace is not for everyone to agree it's for everyone to respect each others' differences

kibumkim

The patriarchy won lmao

pancakeke

she's right cause I'm gonna fucking get her

#me too pancakeke #text post #and i wont have to worry about sludge on my face smearing in the process either 💅#photo

stephexmachina

proposing a new genre of fiction called an anti-romance where u r presented w a couple at the start & the story is about their emotional journey towards a catastrophic break up

stephexmachina

will they won't they (end this farce). there's only one bed (but for some reason they don't really want to share it). out of context eavesdropping (that paints the relationship in a better light than it deserves). chasing after them to stop them getting on that plane (and stopping them from finally being free)

stephexmachina

nobody understands my vision i don't mean any old story where a relationship fails and it's tragic or w/e i mean a story where the intention is for the audience to root for it failing the same way u root for it succeeding in a romance. & when the relationship finally implodes at the climax of the story it's all very cathartic & everybody cheers.

stephexmachina

like have u never wanted a fictional couple to break up so badly it hurt?

#you can do this irl too if youre brave enough #(me with my cole lowkey)#at a certain point it went from maybe we'll fix this to well he doesnt want to fix this so i will milk all the physical affection i can #until hes sick of me and then he told me to back off severely and has had thoughts of dating other women since then despite hating himself #too much to love anybody let alone be happy dating people #and like. i miss being a person i wasnt a person i made myself into a convenient thing so i would feel needed and therefore loved and i #think breaking up was maybe the best thing we ever did #tho im kind of pissed hes hanging out with bad people now and thinks theyre funny #my love is a machine that turns well intentioned white boys into the worst versions of themselves #and it is cinematic tbh #text post #*coughs* anyway

pancakeke

i almost never get takeout food it feels like a rare treat. but then something happens that reminds me people will get takeout multiple days a week and it makes me feel like a pioneer woman

mr-deep-downer

this is totally snarters

pancakeke

I searched that without and with quotes before realizing you're probably fucking with me

#op i feel the same #when i started dating dudes i realized theres people in this world more comfortable buying taco bell than using a pan #which was incomprehensible to me because i never had out to eat money and if im paying for food why would i buy junk #i used to get doordash in college bc i didnt have a car and i thought doing that once or twice a month was a lot let alone multiple times #a week or every day #the way other people live is scary #text post

teashle

Daily Equestria Sketch #135

Sunburst has a stroll near the Crystal Mountains- hope everyone has a great day!

#my litle pony #mlp #photo #art

alamari-chibi

I had an absolutely harrowing dream this morning

alamari-chibi

I work with lab animals and most of the dream was being trapped inside the facility from some kind of world destroying disease outbreak as one of the only survivors just to take care of a chronic full of rats and i was slowly running out of the food for the animals and was rationing it from cages where rats had passed and I had nothing but these animals and I was desperately trying to keep them alive and nursing them back to health when they were ill and at the end some group of people came to say they had found a cure for whatever was killing everybody and they made me leave my rats and I was devastated

#every loss of an animal in the dream felt like i was losing a piece of myself #that was all i had no people no home i slept in the study room it was just me and my study full of rats #i forgot how vivid my dreams can be because it felt so real #text post

thatdiabolicalfeminist

are people talking about the labor conditions at Taylor Farms yet? like the fact they use enslaved prisoners in their facilities?

are we drawing the connection between worker safety and consumer safety & public health yet?

#text post #i hate to say this but conditions like that are far more common than youd expect #large corporate farms dont care about their workers and are too large to adequately provide rest under the excuse of #well they're in the fields #produce e coli outbreaks are usually caused by human feces in the produce during harvesting #this whole situation is a workers' rights dilemma

yesornopolls

If you got offered the chance to double your lifespan, would you take it?

Yes

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

#i wanna watch the world change #poll

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