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Roan/Juniper - they/them - 20s - queer - US

[roanawayspoons]

Okay so, I got this ad on YouTube and in the first 30 sec, I swear I was being sold pizza though that might just be because I'm high. Turns out it's a romcom under the premise of two people in a fictional NYC """are the only ones looking for more than sex""" on the one night a year every single person is allowed to have sex.

I saw this ad like 30 min or more ago, but it is stuck in my head because I have so many fucking questions about the world.

Is this supposed to be satire? Or saying something about being ace-spect?? Or, more realistically, are the allosexuals just being fucking weird again??

Now for the questions that are about the in-movie world

Why one night?

Is it for some biological reason, political, religious???

If biological, I'm very curious how biology was impacted and how close this has brought humanity to omegaverse with heat and rut? Or if it would lead to that as biology continues to progress.

If it did, have we reached whole world is in heat and rut at the same time? That would be fucking wild. How important does that make "betas"?

Would that make ace people/people with low libido/abstent/chaste people/people with sex effecting health issues the "betas"?????

What effect does this have on couples?

If political, why? I'm guessing religious, but the movie probably wouldn't be overt about that.

So how is the government tracking and enforcing this? Like how ya dystopia has the world gotten in efforts to eliminate single people from fucking most of the year???

How have the SWs begun to work around this?

Seriously is there like some kind of implant they give everyone??

And if it is an implant, when do they? Like if it's religious do they do it at 18? Cause then there's gonna be a thriving teen sex vulture. Also this will continue to push sex nerds into tech so they can fuck with the implants.

This also makes me have so many questions about what acts have become more erotic and queer as a result of the limitations

Also is this like a soaking situation isn't sex situation? Like where is the boundary? Did they get more open with their definition and let it include hand, mouth, and anal stuff?

What are the punishments?!?

How do the laws effect couples? And are polycules, swinging and non-monogamy allowed? Are there like rules and codes about this?

I definitely have more questions somewhere in my brain, but mostly I still want pizza.

Also the movie is called One Night Only, if you see the trailer for it, did it make you want pizza too?

yes

no

yes, I have questions too

no, I have questions too

I don't like pizza

I don't like pizza and I have questions

Voting ended onJun 4

ALSO ALSO ALSO, I almost forgot that the cast lists Levar Burton, Molly Ringwald, and King Princess is the fucking cast. And that does make me lean more towards it being satire or queer somehow, but like... I doubt it, y'all. It's also listed as a romcom on IMDB

[finalset]

adhd is like I think it’s gonna take me fifteen minutes to fill up my water bottle

[romanceyourdemons]

made homemade bagels for work and brought them in all hot and crispy and no one’s eaten any of them except for me so here are the remaining ones for you guys 🥯🥯🥯🥯 <- these are the cinnamon roll bagels 🥯🥯🥯<- these are the scallion pancake bagels but there’s only three bc i ate one

[asleepinawell]

daily pep talk i give myself

[everythingfox]

Most unserious animal

[ceescedasticity]

That looks like an "I'm going to run through all my tricks until you reward me for something" to me.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

"I don't see any god up here. But from here the Earth is beautiful, without borders or divisions."

The first words of a human in space.

Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961.

Thanks to Clara Statello

[fibro-memes]

[whitebisexual]

The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...

[sleepytabbycat]

idc what you guys think I'm proud of him

[astronomical-bagel]

Several AI services (chatbots 🫩) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!

[astronomical-bagel]

Hidden Mental Health Dangers of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots

AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import

The reality of chatbot-induced delusions

Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users

AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.

Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose

[oh-morrow]

Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:

Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)

[wilmvandrr]

a single mum who works two jobs who loves her kids and never stops!!!! immaaa survivorrr

[victusinveritas]

Ken Unsworth

Suspended stone circle

1978-1981

[kaijuno]

[tsunderebird]

[wizardlyghost]

[apathyosis]

[uptownthots]

white people will literally be like if u arent nice to me Im going to become a nazi. and think they’re making a great argument

[uptownthots]

this stupid shit has been around for so long and it’s crazy to me there are still people with enough rocks in their brain to believe it. “Oughhhhh if you aren’t nice to you oppressors they’ll become bigots instead of allies” if someone’s support for marginalized groups hinges entirely on whether or not that group is niceys, they’re by definition not effective or useful allies and, by admission of this argument, an active danger to the communities theyre supposed to be allied with because they can Enter Bigot Mode the second they become displease

[strawberry-crocodile]

Your friend is not Brennan Lee Mulligan. Your friend is not capable of being Brennan Lee Mulligan. They tried to be Brennan Lee Mulligan, and they got burnt out. Your friend. Is not. Brennan Lee Mulligan.

[strawberry-crocodile]

having been talking and thinking about Actual Play podcasts for a few days, I think it's worth noting that the idea of the always-prepared always-witty DM who comes up with these things on the fly is as much a performance as the dragon he's voicing; these are professional products, generally with a team of people to help write scenarios, a lot of off-screen discussion with the players, and also EDITING so when something flops or they play through a scene and it doesn't work out, they can fix it.

the truth is not even Matthew Mercer (real life human being) is really Matthew Mercer (The DM from Critical Role)

[fatartappreciation]

Photographer Howard Schatz at his best!

[parkchanwoohoo]

[titsay]

let's hunt with mama

[mermaidenmystic]

so sweeeet

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day