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As always, I encourage people to give to these orgs if you can. It certainly does more than being a dork online.
some of you need to stop psychoanalising your kinks and start doing mad scientist shit to them instead.
no more "do I enjoy being tied up because I secretly crave an excuse not to fight back against intimacy because of my mother", that is dumb and useless.
start doing shit like "what do I like about being tied up? what part of it gets me going?" and then once you have isolated the components of the kink that are the main drivers, look for all the other kinks that contain them. mix and match. get creative. experiment.
id really like to hear your thoughts on talking dog buttons
uhh i think it's kind of sweet that people want to talk to their dogs but they are probably making mistakes about what kinds of concepts dogs have. they might have a rudimentary understanding of what they're communicating. but i think if you're looking for your dog to say they love you in words you may be looking in the wrong place and looking at them as the wrong kind of being. i mean i don't have anything particularly biting to say here; it is easy to love dogs so i understand why someone would want to try to talk to one.
I don't think my dog was a particularly affectionate guy. He got a little more snuggly in his old age, but he never really allowed anyone to pet him for more than a few minutes. But he did have a lot of ways of showing his love for you. For one, he would sit beside you. He would be very excited to see me, running up with joy and sniffing me all over. He was very content when the whole family was in the room with him. There was an extra spring in his step and he would come over and show me branches when I went out and walked the trail with him and my dad. He was in general very loving and loyal. And I don't think getting him to press a few buttons would have communicated that any better. You have to look at the way other animals express themselves sometimes.
Been seeing some people express a bit of bewilderment over how rapidly the public has turned against data centers, and blaming things like the PR of the AI companies and the like; but I don't think this is any big mystery. People are NIMBYs and hate change! The hate it in almost every form - they are fundamentally anti-growth and pro-stasis. And why wouldn't they be, really? This is far less of a dunk that it might seem - of course getting a big, annoying construction project right next to you that might raise local electricity prices and disrupt the environment, while only offering far-term tax benefits and jobs you personally won't ever take, isn't appealing to the average local resident.
How this is all expressed has much less to do with anything specific to data centers, and much more to do with humans having narrative brain. You see polls saying people would prefer you build a nuclear power plant in their town over a data center, but all that is telling you is data centers are the current thing being built! Of course people aren't worried about some hypothetical power plant we aren't building, over the real data centers we are building, and at such a rapid clip they are carrying half the GDP growth of the country on their backs. If we were actually building gas turbines in people's backyards they would oppose it, and their poll answers would change! We just aren't doing that so they don't care. You can't read polls this naively; they are about signaling, not giving a true ordinal ranking of one's values.
It is of course the job of a good society to build a government that reigns in this parochial NIMBYIsm, listen to the valid complaints (which there obviously are) while pushing back on the bad ones, and find compromise paths that allow robust growth. That we lack such a capacity today doesn't really have much to do with datacenters themselves though - they are just the symptom.
(Not saying the PR & cultural battle stuff isn't exacerbating all this, to be clear - just pointing to the core dynamic)
*nodding* people want everything to get better while staying exactly the same as it's always been.
I think there's also an element where previous pariah industries see the benefit of latching on.
You can get people to go from "What the fuck, they're building another car wash?" to "What the fuck? They can't build a data center there, it was supposed to be another car wash!"
Can we bring back respect for the social contract. Who is a big social contract fan? Me woooo
Every time I see posts about how the state has legal power to enforce laws (And That’s Terrible) it’s like. Ok the reason we give the state this power is because we’ve decided that this setup is better than the “nasty, brutish, and short” life we would have without laws and centralized power. And sure I’m much more on Rousseau’s side that we can renegotiate these contracts as we see fit because many times they do fail. But like. We have laws as mutual agreement to protect us all. The state has a monopoly on violence because a free market of violence would be worse
"health-inspired snacks"
i have a cookbook about this sort of thing
the author is like "i grew up with hippies, so this is my comfort food. i'm pretty sure my take on it isn't particularly beneficial to your health, but it does taste good." which i can respect & work with
Lotta hippie food is actually delicious once you add reasonable amounts of salt and fat.
Leftists who think constitutional amendments are easy will never not be funny.
Pete Buttigieg literally ran on abolishing the electoral college and public health insurance in 2016 and they hate him.
If you want to leech off of rich relatives, you will be subject to their whims!
the trouble with writing is that it’s literally always easier to just lie facedown on your floor and make inarticulate noises
How many altos does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None, they can’t get that high.
How many sopranos does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
One, she holds it up and waits for the world to revolve around her.
How many singers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Two. An alto to actually do it and a soprano to stand by and ask “isn’t that a little high for you?”
u wanna fucking go
here for this fight
How do you know a soprano is at your door?
She can’t find the key and doesn’t know where to come in
I am perhaps not the audience, but I'm always a little befuddled by a certain type of overly forward proposition line. It'll be some shit like "Hey, wyd? My throat hole goes all the way down..."
Like... What do I do with that?
Once: "My ass is so wet right now."
Uhhh, what?
I am perhaps not the audience, but I'm always a little befuddled by a certain type of overly forward proposition line. It'll be some shit like "Hey, wyd? My throat hole goes all the way down..."
Like... What do I do with that?
they sell items at tjmaxx that even God is not aware of
cow triangles
If someone asks you something, send your answer. Not the AI's.
"I'm not going to argue about this. In fact, I don't care about it at all," says person whose URL is showing up in my notes dozens of times.
this is just what gerrymandering in the US looks like
You do realise a LOT of french people will oppose that right ? Word of advice : leave the Bretons alone or be prepared for repercussions
the french will be completely fine with it stop being such a tightass
this is what gerrymandering in the US looks like by the way.
Some highlights:
PA-7 until 2018 ("Goofy Kicking Donald Duck")
(To be clear, when I say "until", I don't mean "from 1776 to 2018, PA-7 was Goofy Kicking Donald Duck", I mean "in the 2016 election, this was one of the districts)
All of Texas, and I feel like it's worth noting that all of these are the current districts and they're gerrymandering again to make it even more Republican:
TX-4:
Republican representative, you'll be shocked to hear.
TX-6 is taking a bite out of the Dallas suburbs to create a Republican district:
Is this a dancing winged creature or Texas's 9th Congressional District, represented by the Democratic Al Green?
(The answer to 'how many angels can dance on a state's congressional district map' is apparently 'at least one, if you're willing to gerrymander it enough')
TX-10, and look, I don't mean to be rude, but I'm beginning to think we should just start calling it Texasmandering. Republican representative.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth districts, both Republican:
TX-17 looks like it's a weird dog trying to look for something. Or some mythical monster. Not entirely sure. Republican.
TX-19 makes excellent use of negative space. Also ideally your congressional districts shouldn't be able to be treated as works of art, but you threw that out long ago. It's Democratic by the way.
Democratic district, TX-20:
The Sorcerer of Gerrymandering casting a spell or TX-22 (represented by Republican Troy Nehls)?
I genuinely don't think I could improve on TX-24 (Republican):
Excited to announce that TX-29 is the negative space we saw in TX-18, and is also Democratic:
TX-32 and 33, both represented by Democrats:
TX-35 (Democratic) really wants to go to San Antonio:
TX-37 and 38 (someone talking [Republican] and the boogeyman [Democratic] [Probably should rephrase that but oh well]):
To be fair, Democrats also gerrymander, but just...look at these districts and tell me if that doesn't look like the map of France and France 2
OOOOO I can share my gerrymandered district: Illinois' 4th congressional district. The infamous "earmuffs" which represents a lot of the largely mexican part of chicago (the south muff) and the largely puerto rican part of chicago (the north muff) hence the tortured shape they carved it into.
Because districts need to be contiguous a small portion of I294 is technically part of the district despite being an interstate and therefore, obviously, uninhabited.
The City and The City, China Miéville
