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[ohcorny]

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

[animal-emancipation]

"We need to challenge the hierarchy in our own lives, and begin living in a way that promotes mutuality. If we take this point seriously, it only makes sense that we begin systematically examining and extirpating hierarchical thinking and actions from our lives. Only in this way, will we begin to reconceptualize our relations with each other and with the natural world as complementary rather than dominant and conquering."

-Bob Torres in Making a Killing

[animal-emancipation]

The position that we hold — the abolitionists position — is often said to be “extreme,” and those of us who hold it are said to be “extremists.” The unspoken suggestions are that extreme positions cannot be right, and that extremists must be wrong.

But I am an extremist when it comes to rape — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to child abuse — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to sexual discrimination, racial discrimination — I am against it all the time. I am an extremist when it comes to abuse of the elderly — I am against it all the time.

The plain fact is, moral truth is often extreme, and must be, for when the injustice is absolute, then one must oppose it — absolutely." ~Professor Tom Regan

[wooblecomics-deactivated2026052]

"no part of the animal is wasted"

"nothing goes to waste"

"I use the whole animal, nothing is wasted"

OH MY GOD STFU. Their life was wasted. Needlessly cut short for a couple burgers and a bag. They died kicking and screaming, and eating their asshole after the fact does nothing to absolve you of that.

[kaikiky]

Books should not be written by or for people who want to “just turn their brain off.” If you want to do that, fine, but don’t make that everyone else’s problem. You can turn your brain off just as well with a book that makes sense.

No one is going to force you to follow along with character development or all the logical points in the story progression, or keep track of all the questions raised and their eventual answers, but for fuck’s sake those things should be there for those of us who don’t turn our brains off.

A book that is thoughtfully constructed can appeal to both careless and careful readers. Bad characterization, nonsense plot points, and glaring plot holes mean the target audience is smaller than it could be.

It should not be asking too much for an author to put as much thought into their writing as a reader with a handful of brain cells does just by paying attention as they read.

“Trash” novels shouldn’t be trash because they’re poorly written and poorly constructed. They should be trash because they were written deliberately to fulfill shallow desires or be shallow entertainment that doesn’t go too deep into any themes or messages. There’s nothing wrong with that in itself.

And really I consider these to be “candy” novels more than I think of them as trash.

But personally, I demand that trash/candy still have a sensible structure, otherwise it’s really just word vomit. Only someone with their brain turned off could play with someone else’s vomit and be entertained. I don’t respect it.

[kaikiky]

People are so fucking stupid. If you’re driving through a parking lot, and someone starts backing out of their space because they can’t see you coming, your reaction should not be to honk at them while you keep driving. Your reaction should be to STOP, because as the one in the situation who is actually aware of the other, it is YOUR responsibility to make the situation safe.

Don’t act entitled to the right to keep moving forward as if honking is enough to let the other person know what’s going on. It’s not always easy to tell where honking is coming from, who it’s aimed at, or why. Just be smart and fucking STOP so you don’t cause a fucking wreck because you were too self-important to let some else have fifteen seconds to get out of a parking spot.

[kaikiky]

I have listened to every sleep token song available to me on YouTube music at least twice now (because I know my opinion of a song can change drastically on the second listen), and it’s not clear to me what the hype is. They have like three songs I genuinely really like, the rest are fine.

They at least have interesting lyrics, so I’d rather they get attention than some generic pop idol or whatever, but still, I’m not getting what makes people go crazy over them.

Their sound is a bit too slow and meditative to really hold my attention, and yet there’s also too much metal inserted into some songs that’s really jarring and disrupts the meditative vibe (so if I was ever in the mood for that, I couldn’t even rely on them to provide it consistently).

I dunno, it’s just weird, but I know I’m very particular about music.

[kaikiky]

Any time a band puts out a song that’s basically like “People didn’t believe in me, but I kept trying and now I’ve made it big! Fuck the haters!” I’m just like, wow bro, yeah you’re so alpha, way to stick to your grindset and max out, you’re so fire or whatever, woot woot 🙄

I genuinely don’t care whether someone is famous, I care if I like their music, and these songs are never interesting. They always come across as petty and arrogant, and the sound doesn’t draw me in, so I would never want to listen to them again. They’re also kind of off-putting.

I know there’s a million bands out there saturating the market, especially with social media making it possible for everyone to put their music out in a public space, so it’s hard to stand out and be discovered by a large audience and picked up by an actual label. I don’t want to downplay the odds of getting noticed and “making it” in the industry.

But jfc I hate people who are full of themselves. It was probably luck you got noticed. Lots of people make good music and work hard and never get the audience they deserve. So I hate people who act like they’re special just because it happened to work out for them, as if they’re the only ones who work hard.

(And these bands never have consistently good music anyway. A lot of their songs are hit or miss for me. There are a few bands I love who I like at least 95% of all their songs, and they don’t put out these “I’m so great!” anthems, they just make really good music.)

[kaikiky]

I really would like for everyone who comes to a business/organization with a bad attitude, using professional wording as a weapon to sound official and serious while they make a fucking fuss about not being catered to exactly the way they expect (demand), to know that everyone, everyone is making fun of them as soon as they leave.

No one takes you seriously. No one is afraid of you. No one is trembling at your feet wanting to appease you like you're a wrathful god. We are cussing you out and laughing our asses off over how self-important and ridiculous you are.

I would give anything for these people to know that and be deflated of all their nasty hot air.

[enki2]

[chibird]

I will never let AI touch my art, even as it becomes more and more prevalent in today’s society. I like to think that every part of the process, from coming up with the ideas to handwriting all the words, is special because it’s coming from me. I put my whole heart into my art, and I hope that it shows!

In this AI dystopia, your favorite artists need you more than ever! Join their Patreons, buy from their online stores, like or engage with their art on social media. Let’s uplift human artists over AI that continues to profit off of the backs of millions of artists that it stole from.

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[nongunktional]

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

[scribefindegil]

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

[bluishorange]

actually a coworker of mine said something interesting about this. I was saying that I truly can’t help how easily I cry, and I hate when people assume I do it on purpose.

and he paused for a second and then said, “when you’ve been taught from a young age that crying is weak and you should train yourself never to cry for any reason, you assume that everyone else has trained themselves too, so anyone who cries has to be doing it on purpose. it took me a long time to realize that wasn’t true.”

listen we’re never gonna run out of ways the patriarchy hurts all of us.

[bread-and-roses-too]

Not feminist as in "women should be included in the draft" but feminist as in "being drafted is a violation of bodily autonomy for any gender".

The draft should not exist. Drafting people into the military is a violation of human rights. You should not be able to force someone to risk their life. If you can't find enough people who care about a conflict to keep it going then it simply shouldn't keep going. You can't even force someone to donate a kidney using government power, why the fuck can you force them to donate their whole body and life to a cause they don't agree with or don't care about?

[anothergayghoul]

"People are not property!" - *loud cheering*

"This includes prisoners! They are not suddenly property of the state when they're convicted!" - *a little less cheering*

"And that includes children who are not their parents' property!" - *almost no cheering*

"What? I thought we said people aren't property?"

[iz-robin]

"animals also aren't property" *angry shouting*

[kaikiky]

I’m so sick of my students asking for extra credit. No, you don’t get fucking extra credit. If you care about your grade that much, you should have done your original assignments well. You should have read the assigned readings, followed my fucking instructions, and asked me questions if you were confused about anything.

If you’re not willing to do all that the first time, where do you get off asking for the chance to do even more work? You didn’t put in the work before! And I don’t have fucking time in my schedule to make room for even more grading!

It’s not my fault you waited until the very fucking last minute to turn in your assignments every fucking time and ended up doing shit work because of it. You had a whole fucking week to do it and put the right amount of effort and care into getting a good grade. You don’t deserve fucking extra credit. You get the grade you earned with the work you were willing to put into the assignments, fucking deal with it.

Your grade reflects the quality of your work throughout the whole semester, and you have the audacity to think you should be able to inflate that with extra credit? No! Put all that “extra credit” effort you’ve been saving up on your real assignments. Don’t come crying to me that your grade isn’t what you want it to be. If you wanted an A or hell if you wanted to pass, you should have done your assignments better!

I’ve done everything I can to give you the information and instructions you need to do each assignment well. If you fuck it up, either you didn’t read what you were supposed to, or you actually aren’t capable of doing good work, and your grade is going to reflect that. I’m sorry, but that’s what the grade is for. I’m not going to assist you in artificially pumping it up so it looks like you did better than the reality.

And also, don’t send me these requests in the last fucking days of the semester. It is too fucking late. You should have been thinking about this early on and emailing me within the first couple of weeks to ask how you can make sure you do better on your assignments going forward.

This extra credit bullshit gets me so riled up. I’ve never asked for extra credit in my fucking life, and it’s like these people depend on it. What the fuck.

[kaikiky]

I'm about to spill some raw anger right here but like, I live in Texas, and apparently that means veterans who are 100% disabled due to injuries or conditions related to service don't have to pay any property taxes. And they are FLOCKING to this state. We have so fucking many of these veterans coming even just to my county, and they get to just ... not pay any county, school, hospital, college, or emergency services taxes. Nothing.

And what especially pisses me off is that a good number of these vets are buying, like, fucking million dollar houses. Bitch, if you're 100% disabled and you can still afford a million+ dollar mansion, you can damn well afford to pay the fucking taxes. Pay the fuck up.

Or some of them will buy two or three houses and try to get them all tax free! Fucking excuse me?

I never really cared about vets before this to be honest, but by god I have developed a special kind of contempt for vets who come to Texas to avoid paying taxes. Oh I fucking hate them.

Especially the ones who are in their 20s. Bitch, you weren't fucking drafted. You fucking volunteered to take this stupid risk to your life, limb, and wellbeing when you signed up. You aren't owed shit for whatever injuries or conditions you get from that. You didn't have to go into a job that could kill, maim, and disable you. I don't feel any fucking sympathy for you. Pay your goddamn fucking taxes so we can have county services funded you greedy fucking bitch.

(And besides! There are other civilian jobs that also come with the risk of death and disability, and they don't get this fucking kind of tax break. Vets don't deserve this fucking special treatment.)