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fluffysheeps

Bumble sharks 🐝🦈

pedantic-swedish-bunny-girl

@catboy-tdick opinion on the bumble sharks?

catboy-tdick

WONDERFUL AND JOYOUS….

kedreeva

I think that part of what irks me about AI being used even for "small" stuff like meme graphics (aside from all the larger problems obviously) is like.... the time spent on it was part of the humor. "this is a silly inconsequential joke but I had to stop everything and spend 5 minutes making it" was, at least for me, part of the joke. Someone really took time out of their day to make me look at something silly they took time out of their day to make. Now it's like someone took time out of my day to make me look at something no one even made. Stop wasting my time if you aren't wasting yours too.

skajador

Message to all Americans: you BETTER NOT have brought BURGER in your SUITCASE

kactusnz

#shout out to the time I was bleeding a lot in (Australian) customs#and a customs guy stared at my wound and I could just see the gears in his brain automatically going 'blood = biohazardous material'#but like what were they supposed to do#so he just stared at me until another customs agent was like 'that's their own blood they are allowed to have that'

DERIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN get back here and explain yourself

derinthescarletpescatarian

What's there to explain. It was my blood. I was allowed to have it.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#I was asked repeatedly if I had sausages because I was German#nobody asked about my blood :/

They have to get super specific because you would not believe the amount of people who think that their contraband doesn't count somehow. Oh, I don't have any fish, just this tinned tuna! It doesn't count if it's in a tin! These apricots are dried so they're not a fruit! It's not a dairy product, it's just cheese -- that doesn't really count because it's not liquid! No, I don't have anything made of wood. Oh, the wood carving in my bag? Nono, that's an antique. That means it's magically not wood somehow.

The customs people asking you repeatedly about sausages probably had friends with a story about some German guy who tried to bring in 30kg of cured sausage or something, insisting that the meat is cured so it doesn't count and he doesn't need to declare it.

When I went to Germany their biosecurity was nothing, and multiple people there couldn't comprehend that I wouldn't be allowed to take German sausage home with me. Several different people asked and assumed I was exaggerating when I explained that I couldn't do that without importing it through the proper channels or filling out a fuckton of paperwork. I think Europe as a whole has shitty biosecurity because their geography makes it difficult to enforce; when you have the natural advantage of being a single country completely surrounded by water with a very unique ecosystem, it's both a lot easier and a lot more important to guard your borders against new pathogens, parasites and invasive species.

answeringmysister

i had to force the german customs agent to stamp my dog and cat's paperwork. they truly have terrible bio security

derinthescarletpescatarian

#if you drive into California from elsewhere they ask you about fruits#I have only the vaguest recollection of this (it was over a decade ago) and I've no idea why and maybe they don't do it anymore#and we didn't have any so I don't know what happens if you did

Most likely they asked because one state had a fruit fly or similar parasite that the other state did not have. And if you have fruit then they make you throw it out or eat it on the infected side of the border. Fruit barriers like this are pretty common; most places will have special fruit dumping bins for anyone who didn't know and showed up at the border (or at a public transport depot intending to cross the border) with fruit.

wordfather

someone at work told me 'oh, just ask chat' when i raised a casual question and i asked what she meant and she said 'you know, chatgpt' like im an idiot. and i should get an award for the fact that i did not start snarling and biting and killing

wordfather

i know everyones justifiably mad right now but do you wanna get madder? i work at a school. a teacher said this to me.

wordfather

im glad this version of the post is making rounds now. the amount of casual ai use i see some teachers do these days is disgusting and they genuinly dont see the problem with making school assignments for children using chatgbt, and even encourage them to use it themselves. school is about teaching kids how to think and they're taking that away from them. this is a sickness and we should be calling it out more so people realize the damage they're doing

wordfather

i subbed a 7th grade class a few months ago and i gave them a written assignment and they had to use their textbook to find answers and weren't allowed to copy the text, they had to rewrite the answers in their own words. a simple thing i was taught as a kid. i banned the use of ipads and phones for the duration of the class.

50% of the kids couldn't find the many of the answers, even though they only had one chapter to read. the other 45% didnt know how to rewrite the answers in their own words. only 5% finished the assignment properly. they asked me repeatedly if they could ask chatgbt. almost all of their handwriting was on 1-4th grade levels. i struggled to read most of it.

this isnt their fault. the school system is failing them. the adults are failing them. 'we're evolving with the times' we are losing our ability to think for ourselves, and its all thanks to the system being set up. we should all be angry. why aren't we more angry

feluka

we need more pathetic female characters written by authors who don't hate women

feluka

to be clear since this is making the rounds: she has to be an absolute loser in no way that can be pinned on her gender. no "i'm just a girl tee-hee" stuff. straight up just a loser (nondenominational)

feluka

addendum: she must be the most important person in the whole narrative

makiionfire

could I possibly get some silly Hyrule and Warriors please :3

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makiionfire

could I possibly get some silly Hyrule and Warriors please :3

hyrule warriors warriors hyrule

langernameohnebedeutung

My favourite little x men thing is when someone is like "Give up, Magneto! You stand no chance against this plastic weapon/gun/suit I have built!"

And Magneto is like "I see. Whatever will I do."

and throws the surrounding infrastructure at them.

langernameohnebedeutung

genre classic

langernameohnebedeutung

I'm thrilled to report that not so long ago, he had his heart ripped straight from his body and kept going for hours by keeping his own blood inside his body and circulating it.

callizinc

Did you know that you can waste your free time by not knowing which activity to do so you do none of them

sstxrlite-phantom

laugoscos

Matching icons ✨

Complementary besties is my favourite friendship trope

(Free for personal use with credit, but do not repost)

olderthannetfic

🎶 🍃 on the topic of ppl trying to prevent minors from having access to any kind of adult topics

i know a lot of the time its just an excuse and the people who get so controlling about it don’t really care about “protecting” the kids, but i have seen a few too many users who genuinely seem to think its better for minors to be “shielded” from anything mature. and its so crazy to me??

like the day you turn 18 is not a magical day where you’re suddenly a completely functional well adjusted adult. if it wasn’t for the legality, it would not be a special day at all. and like- it benefits no one to be thrown into deep water with no prep or warning, so why would it ever benefit someone to be thrust into adulthood without the ability to process darker topics first??

like obviously so far, the youth still have access to that stuff and most of the gates in the way are easy to get around, but if the development continues like this i worry for them.

personally, i probably started with the internet too early- i made my first tumblr account at 11 and was already reading smut by then. but like i don’t think that really harmed me in retrospect; i didn’t understand a lot of it, but like i wasn’t disturbed by it. it was the same kind of curiosity i had about stuff like true crime or creepypasta at that age. and because of this personal experience, it’s just so annoying to see the amount of people who act as if any minor who reads something that, like, contains the word “boob” is gonna be traumatized irreparably.

like it’s a million times safer to read smut too early than to go out and actually do the thing too early.

and to prevent them from being able to read that will only do the opposite of harm reduction. and create even more young puritans, tbh.

I read far worse erotica stories on Usenet at 8 than I ever have on AO3 as an adult.

Kids will look at things if they are curious. It's not a problem unless they lack trusted adults and a supportive environment. I was reading some very dark shit, and I certainly did not tell my mother because I knew she wouldn't understand, but that was in a situation where I could talk to my mother about most things, and I had been taught to have boundaries and just stop reading something if I couldn't handle it.

I don't give a shit what age people find something like AO3. The bigger problem, and one that hits kids with good support networks too, is that the modern internet is designed to be addictive and to keep people angry and terrified to drive engagement. Even someone sensible will fall into patterns of doom scrolling and will train themselves to expect quick rewards for little effort from their social media use. Understanding how tiktok et al. are designed doesn't stop one from having a regular human brain that still responds to this style of manipulation.

It is more important now than in the past to give kids things to do that aren't online.

But yes, pearl clutching over someone reading a piece of text, possibly for hours, is the silliest form of this anxiety. That's not where the problem lies!

occasionalauthoring

Reading this, so naturally I got an idea for Bruce:

Bruce is drunk. More than he ever usually lets himself be, more than he ever can afford to be, and yet here we are.

An arm wraps around his shoulder, and as Bruce is guided away from his table and out back, he fogures he can let them get them alone before he knocks their teeth out.

But when they stumble into the alleyway, because the door gave way easier than either of them was expecting, and Bruce ends up cursing and spinning around with Hal Jordan so they don't topple into the bins, his eyes catch on those lips as they're tugged into a reluctant grin at their predicament.

"Jordan?"

"Spooks. Come on, let's pour you into a taxi."

"Just...hold on a moment," he whispers, stepping closer as they cautiously catch their balance. His eyes remain locked on those lips (pink, so pink, like the rest of him, flushed with exertion), missing the way Hal's eyes caress his face like a lover's touch before hardening.

"Come on, Bruce. You're drunk, let's get you in a car."

Bruce doesn't step when Hal tries to tug him away, and closes a fist in his jacket. "Kiss me," he whispers.

This is why he doesn't get drunk. It strips away his inhibitions, leaves him vulnerable, leaves him careless.

"Bruce," Hal laughs. "You're drunk."

He can't help but snort. He's done things worse than kissing while under the influence...whichever of his unfortunately wide spectrum of influences it happened to be.

"It's just a kiss."

Those lips purse, and Bruce leans in, enticed. He still doesn't notice the flicker of indecision across Hal's face, not before it's cleared away, not before he's surging forward, meeting Bruce in the middle.

Bruce allows himself to be shoved into the backseat of a taxi, and lets loose a terrible giggle when the door is closed.

"Good night?" The driver chuckles, pulling away from the curb, and Bruce sighs, melting into the leather seat.

"The best."

Just a kiss, he said. What a lie.

Hal sinks onto his couch, and leans forward, putting his face in his hands. "Just a kiss," he mutters, still able to taste Bruce on his lips. "Dammit, Spooky."

It was never going to be 'just a kiss'. Not with him.

byjove

I came across an interesting Reddit post where a Redditor was angry that their great uncle’s FindAGrave biography mentioned that their uncle had died in a domestic violence murder-suicide, killing his girlfriend (the mother of two young sons) and then taking his own life. The event happened decades ago but the sons and the grandchildren of the woman his great uncle killed could still be alive. It is common for newspaper article clippings and explanations of the decedent’s circumstances to be included in the FindAGrave entries of murderers, the descendants of murder victims seem to support this, additionally, there is an argument that this is important so that passersbys understand why certain graves are set apart and do not have flowers and do not feel undue sympathy. The person who edited the entry to describe the Redditor’s great uncle’s crimes was likely a local who remembered the act or a descendant of the woman who he killed but the Redditor was highly offended though the information was factual. I’m wondering how everyone feels about this.

Should FindAGrave biographies contain factual information about the decedent’s heinous crime(s) when applicable?

Yes, it is a matter of public record & vital biographical info.

It should be the choice of the descendants of the victim of the act.

It should be the choice of the descendants of the perpetrator, like the Redditor

No, never. Let the dead rest in peace.

Something else (leave in tags or replies).

I don’t know enough about this/I’m undecided.

Voting ended onAug 7

I will say, I think it is very interesting that the graves of famous outlaws always mention that they are famous outlaws with no pushback but this person can’t stand the idea that everyone knows his great uncle was a piece of shit who killed an innocent woman. Additionally, one of my ancestors was a murderer (though it was allegedly a semi-justifiable act of revenge) and I would not care if someone edited her bio to mention that.

byjove

Okay, so, I feel like I need to add additional context that may be relevant for some of you for genealogical reasons. America does not have very stringent privacy laws, not in the way places like South Korea do, it is usual to publicize the charges, accused perpetrator and alleged victim unless the victim requests anonymity and the judge decides it would be detrimental. Court records are often public and historical court records are usually readily available in archival form.

Additionally, you can request records about investigations through A Freedom of Information Act Request. There are arguments for and against this system, it can be helpful for victim’s families in understanding the details of the crime and what law enforcement bothered to write down, it can be helpful in holding law enforcement and the courts accountable for misconduct and negligence but it can be extremely violating and defamatory if the allegations are false. There is a lot of nuance there, I don’t want a debate over that rn.

Death certificates become publicly available in 25-75 years depending on jurisdiction. You can get someone’s death certificate and see where they were born, who their parents are and where they were born, where they were living, what their date of birth was and (usually) what their cause of death was. Historical death certificates being available is vital in genealogical research and I have used them many times.

Lastly, we think of ‘true crime’ as a modern concept but violent crimes have been widely reported on since before Jack the Ripper. Tom Dooley, Lizzie Borden, the Lindbergh baby, all sensationalized and picked up by newspapers far away from the place where the crime (or alleged crime) was committed. Historically, local papers usually reported on violent crime in the local area in heavy and gruesome detail, this has been reigned in a little but there is a 98% chance that newspapers reported on the murder-suicide when the Redditor’s great uncle did it 50+ years ago.

In short, privacy is a myth in this country and there is next to no privacy in historical records. Whoever attached that to the great uncle’s FindAGrave entry wasn’t sharing earth-shattering new news that had been protected for years, it is available to anyone who knew the great uncle’s name and searched him up on an ancestry site, pulled his death certificate or were casually browsing the newspaper archives. His victim’s cause and manner of death would be easily available too and her family would have no way to conceal that.