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possibly tmi but my bf's parents gave us a squatty potty a while back and i literally dread pooping without it now it's that much of a game-changer
in retrospect i definitely was exhibiting symptoms of heat sickness yesterday. it was fucking 106 degrees out while we were unloading the truck for the final time
move was successful. love my new place. my whole entire body hurts
when the anxiety diarrhea hits
i just tried to use 2030 as an example of some distant far off year of the future.
>4 years
Child abuse is legal in the U.S. and I’m seriously sick of people pretending that it isn’t or that you can CPS a kid out of an abusive household or fuck, an abusive school. Circumstances that would’ve been considered assault, harassment, or even sexual abuse should they had happened between two adults are disregarded the moment it’s clear the victim is a child and the perpetrator is a parent/guardian. Corporal discipline is not better than child abuse, it sanctions child abuse, and it is, unfuckingrefutably, child abuse. The system is not built to help children in these circumstances, they cannot just go to a trusted adult, or a teacher, or the police, or anywhere else for fucks sake. It doesn’t work that way. CPS does not save you, even if they take you from your home! Anyone who was abused — with or without the marks to prove it — knows that.
white ppl love saying they receive death threats when they are slightly criticized
and i absolutely hate how the conversation shifts when they say this like first off they are lying and second “no one deserves death threats” okay. lets focus on what YOU did
im awfully pretentious for someone who knows nothing and does nothing. solution is to become someone who knows everything and does everything. because i am not getting off this high horse. im velcroed to the saddle. im fused to the horse.
They’re on Reddit saying texting “hi” is low iq and gives people the ick and that’s why they got ghosted. They don’t let u say hi no more….. we’re in a loneliness epidemic bc everybody is a weirdo about every little thing im cracking up
If you say "hi" and that's it you sound like you don't give a shit. Why would I want to talk to someone who won't even introduce themselves properly? Make an effort or suffer your loneliness epidemic.
You people are crazy . You’re just crazy. This isn’t a normal world anymore
It's poor netiquette. If someone sent you a letter in the mailbox that just said "hi" would that not drive you insane?
I would send hello ^.^ back ….. and feel warm inside
I would tear it into pieces with my hands.
Who the fuck are you?
Fuck you for the anxiety you gave me from getting a letter from a name and address I don’t recognize.
Fuck you for the time you made me waste having to open that letter.
Fuck you for the complete bullshit feeling of finding out that you literally just wrote “hi” and expected that to communicate anything or resolve anything.
I don’t know your stupid douchebag ass, and I don’t want to. Fuck all the way off.
I’m here all pissed off just from imagining that hypothetical. It’s nothing short of disgusting that SOME shitheads think that this is acceptable behavior.
someone said hi to me, why would they do that? They must not be human!
does anyone have $1k and a parasocial relationship with me that may tempt them to send it to me
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
I think it's so important and crucial for 20 year olds to witness older people who are genuinely bad at some aspects of being a person but are still living lives they find meaningful and enjoyable. Not just "oh I got married and you can too" but like. sometimes you cannot for the life of you finish college or find a good job or stay in a relationship or arrive to locations on time or whatever it is you think when you're 20 that you HAVE to be able to do. But you wind up finding a place in the world anyway. It happens!
*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god
On the internet ppl will be all "omg STOP talking about that they APOLOGIZED" and the apology will almost always be something like "sorry you felt that way dumb bitch btw I meant it"