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MT-BC & LSW - Carrie - 32 - bi : I'm all about Metal, Music, TTRPGs, and Nintendo : Nothing wrong with the occasional tumblr funnies too

[daily-spooky]

[cryptidjeepers]

just watched a star trek episode about a planet that relied so heavily on it's computer system that they all forgot the basics of their own knowledge. and that allowed them to miss the fact that they were being posioned with radiation and nearly ending their civilization. because they couldn't use their own knowledge to figure things out. i bring this up for no reason in particular

[daciancatamite]

"my great grandmother who survived 3 wars and raised 10 children by herself while working in a factory watching me go to therapy because my parents yelled at me" ok but your great grandmother was also miserable. maybe your great grandmother would be happy you try your best to not be miserable

[lastoneout]

I do think the Hank Green AI thing makes it abundantly clear that if you have ADHD or any other mental illness and/or you are prone to addiction you need to avoid AI at all costs. This shit will rope you in, and if you have a mental illness that say, starves your brain of dopamine, you're gonna be extra susceptible to that. I won't use AI for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is knowing how it would fuck with my ADHD and bipolar. Like yes, it's bad for the environment and giving money to rich scumbags and runs on plagarism, but even more than all that, it's straight up not safe at all and you really shouldn't use it if for no other reason than to protect yourself from whatever the fuck it might do to you.

[liberalsarecool]

Stay engaged.

[kiwi]

as a former escape room host i highly recommend doing an escape room as a first date. its a great way to learn how ppl react under pressure and how well they collaborate with you right off the bat. also more than once ive seen people enter an escape room as a couple and exit broken up LOL its a fantastic litmus test

[kiwi]

sorry to broadcast ur tags but this is also a valuable part of the litmus test! it seems like you learned a lot about how this person makes you feel in their social group. they didn't go out of their way to include you, and neither did their friends. therefore you can come to a pretty good conclusion about how you might feel being part of their life outside of an escape room; someone who doesnt include you or your feelings in a game is likely going to do the same in other situations

[softness-and-shattering]

An experiment with a clear negative outcome is still a successful experiment.

[aya--bb]

genuinely I'm so sick of people wanting all fiction to be ethical. can we all just get a little gross with it. the point of fiction is that it's not real. we can be unethical in fiction; same goes with being perverted with fiction, being unrealistic with fiction, and being grotesque with fiction. not all fiction has to be ethical, not every character has to be ethical, and that's okay. can we stop with the puritanism. be gross. be unrealistic. be whatever. if I don't like it it's not my business as long as we're all clear that its fictional.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[pokemonarchive]

Flying High Plush Collection — Official Artwork (2026) © Pokémon / Nintendo / Creatures / GAME FREAK

[discordantcongregate]

'Oooh if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life' false. I'm a glassblower. I love glass more than (almost) anything else. And I have worked. Every day. For the past four weeks. And I am just as burnt out and depressed and miserable as when I was killing myself working at the Home Depot. All of that labor is tainted with the knowledge that if I hadn't done it I wouldn't have been able to eat. Or live indoors. Or support my partner. Capitalism is hell, dont let anyone fucking lie to you and imply that if youre fucked up about it you're just doing it wrong.

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[wheelie-sick]

for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.

[wheelie-sick]

flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work

[ailithnight]

I did not think it possible, but I have just developed even more hatred, derision, and contempt for the perpetual surveillance state.

[wheelie-sick]

#surely theres a way to hack/disable that function???#this fucking sucks my god

most newer hearing aids and cochlear implants require bluetooth to adjust them + many newer FM systems connect via bluetooth + many have bluetooth features that go beyond just listening to audio from your phone (and that's if you set aside the inconvenience that you can't use hearing aids and earbuds/headphones at the same time so disabling bluetooth would mean never listening to music on the bus or train)

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Like I said with cgms (continuous glucose monitors) and insulin pumps, Bluetooth is essential to how they work.

With CGMs, Bluetooth is how you get the data from the cannula under your skin to an actual display (phone, pump, separate receiver) so you can do anything with it; there is no functionality with Bluetooth.

With insulin pumps, I don’t know the exact proportions of tubed/tubeless in use pumps, but tubeless are in major if not the majority use, and they don’t have displays/controls on the pump itself, but with your phone or a separate receiver, which only function via Bluetooth. Tubed pumps are technically functional without Bluetooth, but ideally you want them integrated with your cgm bc this drastically increases quality of life/care, and once again you can only do this with Bluetooth.

If you’re a tubed pump without a cgm, i guess you could try to hack it, but I can’t envision that not voiding the warranty, which can be medically precarious for reasons not really relevant here. There are plenty of people adventurous enough to do warranty voiding things to their pump, but it’s not really worth anything without a cgm

There’s not really a point to diabetes tech without Bluetooth I’m afraid

[briarpatch-kids]

Powerchairs and power assist are also Bluetooth compatible.

[arctic-hands]

It took Sydnee McElroy beating this moral into me in the Sawbones episode about tear gas, but disabled people are actively disenfranchised in the United States because we do NOT have the right to assemble. When the police get the batons out, people with mobility aids can't run. When the police throw out tear gas, people with asthma can die. If you're deaf or have technology in you, you can be tracked. It's another example about how supposedly inalienable human rights don't apply disabled people.

[mini-godzilla]

Something I really appreciate about Sam as a player (that makes a lot of people on the internet really mad) is his absolute refusal to meta game.

To be clear, the goal of DND is not to make The Correct and Strategic Choice all the time. Critical Role isn’t just DND either, it’s Actual Play, which is using the game as a medium for storytelling. Actual Play is a performance, it’s telling a story, and stories are so much more interesting when you make messy choices.

Wick going to find Teor even when he knew Teor was dead made so much sense because

1. We’ve been shown that Wick, as a character, is excellent at denial. His entire religion was revealed as a farce and he’s still a believer. That’s consistent characterization! Being told Teor has died was of course going to be met with a ‘no! It can’t be!’.

2. Wick knew there were other party members with Teor, of course he’d be concerned about them. For Wick to just assume Thimble and Co. would be fine wasn’t realistic!

It takes a really good actor to be able to see a piece of knowledge offered to them that their character could benefit from, and continue to act according to only their character’s beliefs.

Every time Sam does this (Scanlan deciding to leave the party because fuck these guys there’s no cosmic force saying he has to stay, Nott high out of her mind trying to cast a spell she doesn’t have) it makes the story he’s participating in telling better! Funnier! More interesting!

Wick became a killer because of these choices and it spun his entire character arc in a different direction.

Sam Riegel is GOOD AT HIS JOB and that job is to cause problems in the narrative.

I’ll get off my soapbox now.

[shoujonotes]

[my-dailydreams]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]