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I don't particularly want to leave Tumblr, because I like it here, but given recent events I think it's best to have an easy escape.
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I just put the top ten frailest monkeys on the worlds bounciest bed
*flirting* it/its pronouns would be so pretty on you
i know this is tumblr and we’re all playing perverts but i just think some of you would be excellent company for a late night walk and a four hour conversation about absolutely nothing
mutuals who make your hand twitch away from your sword
mutuals who make your sword arm relax and hang limply at your side
It's a bit funny how I'm the inverse of those lame "Ill eat twice as much meat to cancel you out" meat eaters except mine is for environmental reasons. People who rely heavily on animal products for medical reasons are part of why I'm so happy to be vegan. Here in the US, everyone needs to consume less meat to ensure a livable climate. This does not inherently mean no meat for anyone, but significantly less per person.
There are people out there who cannot reduce their meat consumption at all. When I cut out all meat from my diet, the small portion I would have been able to sustainably eat can be allocated to someone who has no option to reduce.
A group of more than 21,000 scientists from around the world say reducing meat and going vegan can protect the environment and fight climate
The scientists signed an article in the Journal of Bioscience entitled “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice.” Initially published in 2017, the number of scientists offering support for the article and its message has risen from 15,000 to more than 21,000 in the last two years.
The group’s statement is clear, we must do better. According to the report, we must promote a dietary shift towards plant-based foods, increase nature education for children, halt the conversion of forests, grasslands, and other native habitats, and, among many other changes, devise and promote new green technologies.
Since its initial publication, a number of scientific studies have drawn the same conclusion. In 2018, the biggest ever food production analysis revealed that the single biggest thing a person can do to reduce their impact on the planet is to adopt a plant-based diet. The United Nations is also backing a shift away from animal agriculture. At the end of last year, it named tackling meat consumption as the world’s most “urgent problem.” “Our use of animals as a food production technology has brought us to the verge of catastrophe,” the UN Environment said in a statement. It continued, “The greenhouse gas footprint of animal agriculture rivals that of every car, truck, bus, ship, airplane, and rocket ship combined. There is no pathway to achieve the Paris climate objectives without a massive decrease in the scale of animal agriculture.”
cinephile really is like. the worst word for what it’s trying to describe bc it does literally just sound like a person that has jerks off to film tapes
when gods honest truth is that im fuckin the tapes!
crazy to see "I can't believe these young scholars let the homunculus do their homework" coming from wizards who I know copied all their spells from Sparikus's Commentaries on old grimoires when they were apprentices
My wards alert me that scribes keep adding annotations to my scroll saying that the homunculi are wrong sometimes. Of course they're wrong. If you don't have a use for bumbling, overeager, sycophantic, incompetent minions, how can you even call yourself a mage?
Commentaries also seem to be circulating widely-disproven ideas about the homunculi's mana consumption. Dude like half of the top artificers think the homunculi are going to try to kill us in our sleep and extract our souls for conjuring ink. We don't need to make up reasons to be distrustful of the treacherous and deceitful minions
I don't know, that particular one just annoys me so much, it seems so self-evidently true that if you cared about animals you wouldn't eat them, and going, "Uh, actually a lot of meat eaters are conservationists" doesn't really help much.
Any time a meat eater succeeds in preserving the species to continue hunting it they are treating that species as a resource to be exploited, and in fact saying that any individual member of that species can be destroyed for purely selfish purposes, as long as the resource as a whole is stewarded for future generations.
But you are treating it primarily as a resource to be exploited, rather than a group of beings that have some right to pursue their own goals free of interference.
I'm not saying this is bad, but again, think of how it would be if you treated a group of humans like this.
"Anybody who regularly kills and eats Frenchmen doesn't care about the French." strikes me as... just obviously true.
And I think it would be fundamentally absurd to go, "Uh, actually I only hunt and eat Frenchmen sustainably, in fact I have donated a lot of money to the Louvre and various efforts to preserve French culture, so what right do you have to say that I don't care about the French."
And vegans are arguing that the same analogy is true of animals.
If you treat people purely as a resource to be exploited for your own gain, I think it's proof that you don't care about them, even if you treat them as a resource to be stewarded and preserved rather than a resource to be destroyed in a one-time orgy of greed.
A lot of vegans feel that this logic should be extended to animals as far as is practical.
The "stewardship" model is *better* than the "destroy the resource in a short-sighted orgy of personal greed" model, I agree, but I still think there's a strong case to be made that it's not really "caring" about animals in the way that Vegans mean.
I would never eat my friend's pet cats. I would never eat them even if they had kittens and I could eat one of his cats while sustaining the population of cats that live in my friend's apartment.
Now, personally, I think that's a pretty clear indication that I care about those cats more than I care about, say, the cow who died for the burger I ate yesterday.
I think it's the defensiveness I find really sort of irritating and, honestly, a little bit perplexing.
Again, it just feels like the cannibal above getting really irritated when you claim he doesn't care about the people he eats, and explaining that he actually does a lot of cultural preservation work, and he's donated way more to museums than most non-cannibals, so how can you sit there and act like the non-cannibals care more about French people than he does?
I guess I don't understand why you want credit for caring deeply about something you'll happily destroy and eat even in cases where you really aren't required to do so.
Why not just admit that you don't care in the way vegans tend to mean?
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?t=0
Huh. I normally don't watch video essays but that's really insightful, thank you for sharing.
what do you think of this paper? [https :// www . media . mit . edu / projects /your-brain-on-chatgpt / overview /] nearly all "serious" "relying on gen ai makes you dumber" posts or essays quote it despite the authors explicitly asking not to use phrases such as "impact negatively" "dumb" "brain damage" "harm" etc. when talking about the results and listing a lot of the study's limitations. However, the conclusion is still this: "EEG analysis presented robust evidence that LLM, Search Engine and Brain-only groups had significantly different neural connectivity patterns, reflecting divergent cognitive strategies. Brain connectivity systematically scaled down with the amount of external support: the Brain‑only group exhibited the strongest, widest‑ranging networks, Search Engine group showed intermediate engagement, and LLM assistance elicited the weakest overall coupling."
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If you use a calculator rather than doing all calculations by hand, would you see a reduction in brain activity on an EEG? If someone uses Grammarly to correct every grammar mistake they make rather than reading over their entire essay/email/cover letter/etc manually, would you see a reduction in brain activity? If I use google maps to map out what route I need to take to get somewhere rather than plotting it out by hand using a paper map and asking multiple people for directions, would you see a reduction in brain activity? Or, to use an example of something I did today - if I asked the Google search AI to write out the excel formulas I need to use to conduct statistical analysis on my dataset, rather than reading the documentation pages on Microsoft’s website for ANOVA tests/t-tests/etc and manually trouble shooting every time I ran into an error, would you see a reduction in my brain activity? Furthermore, because the study mentions poorer content recall when writing an essay via LLM, if you were asked to recall the processes of each of these tasks (eg, calculations, grammar, travel route times and directions, formula syntax) after having them automated for you, could you do it?
Like, almost certainly there would be a reduction in brain activity and poorer recall, because you are offloading cognitive tasks to a machine to do that thinking work for you. But neurological activity is not the language we use when we talk about other forms of automation, because it would be absurd to claim that there is collective cognitive decline happening as a result of Google Maps telling you where to drive or what bus to take. And this is a good comparison imo, because you certainly can't make the argument that everyday travel is less important/foundational to the functioning of society than writing an essay.
I suspect that one reason why the authors are asking people not to use these conclusions to call people stupid is because a reduction in brain activity is not an indication of stupidity (although they are incredibly bad at explaining this, which is very irresponsible imo). The assumption that a reduction in neurological activity when doing a specific task is a causal indicator of intellectual decline, which is what people are claiming, is asinine
Post complaining about lack of ability to repair oir own computers made some throwaway comments about Chinese manufacturing. Not reblogging.
The way people are acting about Mangione's guilty plea is pissing me off. Again, much of the evidence they had against Mangione was seriously flawed or capable of being planted. Much of it should have been inadmissable. This is something we shouldn't cede because guilt needs to be proven beyond reasonable doubt in court. They did not do that. Many reasonable doubts remained, particularly for police forces we know have a history of fabricating evidence. Further, the strategy of the state is to pressure defendants into putting in a guilty plea on some kind of bargain. The reason Mangione did this is to get around the federal death penalty. Every day, people in America plead guilty to crimes they didn't do, because the cost of being found guilty by trial is too severe, and they have been intimidated or coerced to compliance. We have reason to believe Mangione was physically tortured at the beginning of all this. The guy has been the target of years of media campaign. There's no way he would have gotten a fair trial. As soon as he was arrested, everyone just accepted it was him. He could have gotten the death penalty. This is the exact kind of circumstance where people plead guilty to shit they didn't do.
It is less about this specific case and more about the principle of the matter. Particularly in a case so high-profile, we need to scrutinize the case of the state as much as humanly possible. We need to maintain awareness of how the state operates, how it prosecutes, how it punishes. This same pattern has played out with unknowable quantities of other people being ground to paste in the machinery of the prison industrial complex. This is a conversation everyone in America needs to be having. These are maneuvers every American needs to be aware of, particularly as the police state kicks into higher gear than we've ever seen it before. We cannot trust state prosecution. You need to maintain your skepticism, not for this case, but for all the cases that are going to follow it. We all need to hang onto this together.
i would really like it if ciswomen momentarily subjected to transmisogyny would say anything other than "i was born female" as a way to deflect. it just screams "this shouldn't happen to me, im not your main target".
try thinking for five seconds about trans women who cannot use that same deflection when they deal with the exact same shit 24/7
lady gaga was the baseline for what an ally should be. if confronted with accusation of being trans, your default response should be "okay? so what? is that such a big deal".
saying "im actually a real biological vagina having female, and you're so stupid" is not stopping transmisogyny. its in fact contributing more to it. its enforcing the divide between ciswomen and trans women. its making the world unsafe for us. and it's making it so that the next time any woman gets accused of being trans, its gonna be worse for her because of the rise in transmisogyny you are inadvertently contributing to.
"wtf is an egg laying kink?" my friend... I don't know how else to tell you this.... but it is all quite literally in the name
look at me. look me in my eyes. there are brave souls out here contemplating the eroticism of greasing a bike chain. we can't be gawking at every kink this side of light spanking or we'll be here all day
back in my undergrad I heard my 19 year old roommates tittering about sexy halloween costumes and ribbed condoms. one of them thought I was some kind of pervert bc I knew what furries were. they didn't even know what knotting was
