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hanging this on my damn fucking wall right above my nobel peace prize and presidential medal of freedom

i'm lucky to not know AI-users irl, but i wish i did so i could instinctively just shout "EW!" whenever they mention it

no emotion, knee-jerk "Ew!" and then i just look at them to keep talking. what are they gonna do, ask me why i did it? they know why

i'm lucky to not know AI-users irl, but i wish i did so i could instinctively just shout "EW!" whenever they mention it

i love (/s) how people hallucinate people saying things they never actually said at all. we are out of the "so you hate waffles?" territory and into the "you don't comment on this, thus you are a coward". listen, i get it, you are all scared, shivering little dogs who have been hurt too much by people going about-face on something you were certain you'd be on the same page about, but when somebody makes a good statement, they should not be expected to also lay out their radical manifesto on who and what causes evil in this world and what they stand against for you to compare with and pass judgement on.

it's in fact a lot better that they don't -

and i'm so sorry to tell you this but being tactful and agreeable is a valuable strategy for getting people on your side instead of opening with something disagreeable and saying "i wouldn't even want you to be on my side if you can't agree with that!" you should take things slow and go through your entire thought process when it is invited and appropriate. and that's just it, inviting disagreement where there was none is bad for everyone's perspective to be able to be shared. somebody says "but-but-but, i don't wanna hear [the worst person ever]'s perspective!" NOT WHAT I SAID, SEE. you don't have to! but not everything you immediately like the sound of will be right, and you don't know that until you hear a different perspective, and they won't know if they're wrong unless they want it explained from you. you are not in control.

BUT ANYWAY. until they say something to the contrary, you have to assume they're not aggressive! you just have to! that's merely kindness! and if you read a vibe, you actually can't go spreading it like fact until you can back it up. you can be wrong, and until proof you are just as good as wrong. you're not a fucking mindreader. the silence is not deafening, it's just silence. silence is great! silence leaves room for more qualified people to talk. another valuable skill to let better voices reach people first before yours. it's awesome, you regret your words less, you should try it.

so, is silence the answer? wow, hypothetical/rhetorical question, you are bad at getting the point! i'm kidding. but no, people are good at saying what they deem important, but it isn't a rule and you don't live in their mind. they could talk about it all the time, and on your internet feed of them you wouldn't know it. or maybe you missed it! encourage good behavior, discourage bad behavior, don't go tilting at windmills when you sense underwhelming behavior. don't become an authority on who's doing enough. you don't know.

i love that people have like names and shit. cute of them.

i now say "allegedly" in most sentences.

gonna ask a big, long rhetorical question but i'm going to spoil it with the answer first: "because the target audience is comfortable wine moms"

ok here goes

why do period dramas all do the same thing where all the men are sexist but absolutely no part or code of society is racist? it can be set in 1870 or 1960 and it's so, so same-y, it's just a bunch of women who equally all regard each other as full human beings, including the diverse secondary cast who apparently have no issues ever despite the anglosphere they are set in being more-than-just hostile to them. it feels uncanny. i don't want period dramas to be more white but at what point is depicting the past as consistently friendly towards racial minorities in the western world spreading a narrative of harm a la "white people were the first people to ban slavery--so we're all made up now"

alright guys i'm about to go to sleep and have a fever dream. wish me luck that my sick brain involuntarily completes a compelling narrative basically for free cause that would be awesome

camoftarakas

trying to decipher the motivations of this y2k edutainment game villain that captured me (irl). he insists that he hates learning but has an entire labyrinth themed around math problems??? get your identity straight, fuckhead. if you mean to call me a nerd, challenge me to a battle of brawn or something

camoftarakas

oooooh, jesus fucking christ, not "3x2=?" so, like, i'm your opponent because i can solve this? but you wrote the problem, right? and you punish me if i get it wrong? so you also know the answer? why not punish me for getting it right if you hate it so much. i should be able to escape if i prove myself stupid enough.

camoftarakas

dude forgot to get rid of my phone when he put me in his "math maze". i can't stress enough, this guy claims to hates math. but he's also pissed i keep ignoring his math puzzles. i have games on my phone dude i can do whatever i want. and a calculator but, not to flex, but i can do 11+3 in my head.

camoftarakas

trying to decipher the motivations of this y2k edutainment game villain that captured me (irl). he insists that he hates learning but has an entire labyrinth themed around math problems??? get your identity straight, fuckhead. if you mean to call me a nerd, challenge me to a battle of brawn or something

camoftarakas

oooooh, jesus fucking christ, not "3x2=?" so, like, i'm your opponent because i can solve this? but you wrote the problem, right? and you punish me if i get it wrong? so you also know the answer? why not punish me for getting it right if you hate it so much. i should be able to escape if i prove myself stupid enough.

trying to decipher the motivations of this y2k edutainment game villain that captured me (irl). he insists that he hates learning but has an entire labyrinth themed around math problems??? get your identity straight, fuckhead. if you mean to call me a nerd, challenge me to a battle of brawn or something

"get off your high horse" dude, he's not high, it just calms him down

*my horse eats another weed brownie (horse-sized)*

HORSE NO YOU ONLY NEED A HALF

everyone needs to get cozy with the feeling of being wrong. you have been wrong, you are wrong about something now, you will be wrong many times in the future. the only thing i'm confidently right about is that nobody is confidently right about anything and that shouldn't discourage us from speaking and living, but it should give everyone more caution about what they say and do

i love you, 4-hour video essay on why that thing i always hated is in fact dumb trash

camoftarakas

criticism of my favorite things: that's ok. you can do that. i also have criticisms of my favorite things! blind affection is meaningless to me!

criticism of my favorite things off an obviously very superficial feature of it with no consideration as to why those choices were made:

camoftarakas

criticism of a thing i HATE with no consideration as to why those choices were made: not ok. this is bad rhetoric. i don't like it here. blind hate is meaningless.

criticism of a thing i HATE with FULL consideration of why those choices were made:

criticism of my favorite things: that's ok. you can do that. i also have criticisms of my favorite things! blind affection is meaningless to me!

criticism of my favorite things off an obviously very superficial feature of it with no consideration as to why those choices were made:

i hereby declare this pride month TTTTIT pride month. it stands for what you think it does and bonus points: it spells TIT once.

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