The Republic of Heaven

"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." 29

[the-bees-are-beeing]

Attention to everyone on here whos in a country which is a member of the EU.

You can vote on what you want the next Euro Banknotes to be ! (They want to print a new euro Banknotes with a new design)

https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/lng/de/pageTag/SurveyCampaign/cId/kncta8eN4QphQCTJ/

[mustiest]

Suzi Hyun

Third Person

[decompose1]

if you can't write essays you're stupid and bad. if you have trouble reading you're stupid and bad. if you have trouble understanding classes you're stupid and bad. identify these themes for me. you can't even order food over the phone. you can't even look people in the eye. i'm not explaining this to you, if you don't understand you shouldn't be here. if you don't understand you're stupid and bad. The Key To Heaven is an IQ Test. you wouldn't get it. you're too stupid.

[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.

[carmilla-minus-one]

in deep psychological distress: i should make a post on the internet

[international-nerd]

Cleaning out my laptop is such an experience. Matrix transformations and the 9/11 report and Unicode for Myanmar all hanging out on there.

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[pseudonymjones]

[shocked--kwarrtz]

Anyway a lepton is either an electron or an electron that’s full of itself and that’s all you really need to know

[gothhabiba]

“Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The wealth which smothers her is that which was stolen from the underdeveloped peoples. The ports of Holland, the docks of Bordeaux and Liverpool were specialized in the Negro slave trade, and owe their renown to millions of deported slaves. So when we hear the head of a European state declare with his hand on his heart that he must come to the aid of the poor underdeveloped peoples, we do not tremble with gratitude.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via precarious-life)

[ttlyrandom-username]

"average trans woman gets stabbed by millions of swords in their lifetime" factoid actually just statistical error. average trans woman gets stabbed by 0 swords in her life. Anthy himemiya, who lives in a fucked up timeloop and gets stabbed by thousand of swords every year, is an outlier and should not have been counted

[trans-pickles]

i don't think bodily autonomy for minors should be a luck of the draw type thing where you have to cross your fingers that your parents are chill about it.

[frostbitfawn]

I hate rgu fan's refusal to accept the idea that the show is racist. anthy is a south-asian coded racialized character who unfortunately plays into a lot of stereotypes associated with south asians. the only reason we know she is south asian is because of the bindi on her forehead. akio as the representative of the patriarchy is south asian and plays into the "brown rapist" stereotype. the only reason anthy and akio were racialized was to Other them. to say that the show is a thoughtful depiction of racism and colonialism is to give the show far more credit than it deserves. to say that race is a blind spot in the show is doing much the same. that's not to say that any analysis of utena through the lense of race is worthless, it actually adds to the show's critique of the structures of oppression. especially since racism is kind of inseparable to them. but that analysis can go hand in hand with acknowledging the show's inherent racism. a lot of south asians, including me identify with anthy as a character and they have given a lot of excellent meta that enriches the show but i don't want anyone to use that fact as a card to deny her orientalized depiction.

to add to this, a lot of rgu fans who try to analyse the show through a racial lense will impose western ideas of race onto the characters, this feels like ignorance of the very idea that racism can exist beyond the white/poc dichotomy and it's racism within itself. every character in the show is japanese in a japanese setting, anthy and akio are racialized due to being the only south asians in a majorly japanese setting. any analysis of utena that doesn't take this fact into account is worthless.

[communist-due-to-complaints]

Could you describe in more detail the nature of their orientalist depiction? I think I'm ignorant of the nuances here and I'd like to learn.

[frostbitfawn]

the only reason we know anthy is indian is because of the use of bindis in anime to indicate a character being indian. as bindi = hindu = indian. Ignoring that there are a lot of south asian countries with hindu populations. Also, there is no other indication of them being indian through cultural signifiers. I have already talked about their racialisation being used to Other them and akio playing into the brown rapist stereotype. the only reason anthy was given brown skin was because she was inspired by lalah sune from gundam, which to my knowledge is a pretty racist series in itself. there is also the curry episode, where india is depicted as a wilderness filled with african elephants and no people beyond poachers

[sapropel]

Sometimes your bad coworker will be like "I can't do anything right & I ruin everything I touch :(" and you can't even comfort them because like damn. Yeah. You really can't do anything right and you do ruin everything you touch☝️

[sapropel]

HE'S GETTING FIRED. NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS!!!!!!!!!!

[byjove]

There is this sort of paradox in unhealthy relationships where the victim will waver on if what their partner is doing to them does or does not rise to the level of abuse. I want to say that it does not matter if what your partner is doing to you fits the dictionary or legal or your personal definition of ‘abuse’. If you are in a relationship where it has gotten to the point that you’re wondering if you’re being abused or not, it’s time to start thinking of an exit strategy and putting it into motion. So many people stay in terrible relationships because ‘it’s not abusive’, so many people are waiting for their partner to do something egregious and undeniably abusive before they give themself the permission to leave, when that moment happens, when they hit you or break your phone or scream at you all night before a job interview, the goalpost for what is unacceptable will shift further and further away. Ultimately, it does not matter if your toxic partner is or is not abusive in this moment, if they are doing/saying things that make you feel worse about yourself, feel embarrassed about yourself, feel unsafe, feel smothered, feel dependent on them, feel stupid, etc., it is time to go. It doesn’t matter if you’re actually the problem repeatedly setting them off, stop weighing that, maybe they WOULD be happier with another partner, all the more reason to get the fuck away from them and focus on yourself instead. If your partner is making your life worse, go. If your partner is making your life sooooo much better but there are just these little moments where they make you hate yourself, go. Stop qualifying and looking for a justification to go, just leave knowing life is too short to have misery inflicted on you, whether it is abuse or not.

[cutecipher]

"if there's a revolution disabled people might die" wow so glad thats not happening right now.

[cutecipher]

i just dont think communists are going to cut power to hospitals while on the other hand private equity might and quite literally "america" and its collaborators will bomb a childrens hospital

[reverieausoleil]

And once again for the people in the back: political revolution is about regime change - something that happens pretty regularly around the globe without massive disruption to manufacturing or trade. If you hear "revolution" and think we're going to somehow lose access to modern technology and have to go back to subsistence farming and herbal medicine, I suggest reading less dystopian YA and more history.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong vizier, advising his sultan