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@the-she-in-shenanigans
Being extremely temporary confers on you the same reckless boldness as being immortal
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just wants a sippy. of tears :>
ink: small batch floral ink collection orange i bought in china, idk the brand since i lost the packaging
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.
well…darn
like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮
Nothing I’ve read has changed me more than “you do people a favor by accepting their help” like I repeat this constantly to so many people because it’s true!!! People like to feel useful, they like to feel kind, they like to feel like they have an ability to impact people’s lives so just let them!! Not everything is a thing to be owed back — accept people’s kindness without making a competition out of it
I figured out too late in life that refusing random help will more often make the person feel unwanted or not trusted : (
This is true on the interpersonal level and on the community level. Your friendsgroup/family/house/affinity-group/street will thrive so much better when people accept each others help. When there is a regular back and forth of people helping each other and people accepting that help, you get a generous community where needing help is not stigmatized. Accepting help is an essential component of that. You literally can’t have a functioning community without it.
There are times when you shouldn't accept help. Examples include when the help has conditions, when there's evidence that the help comes from someone who feels like they have to do it, or when the help doesn't actually help. But in general, it's good to accept help.
In my experience as a third culture kid who travels a lot the best indicator that you as a non-x is appreciating x culture is if the locals actively invite you to participate in it with them
Yes, you are allowed to buy those handmade Inuit winter clothes if an Inuk is literally selling them to you. They would not be offering you a price point if they didnt want you to buy and wear them. And you might discover that theyre the best winter clothes youve ever worn because of COURSE they would be if theyve kept this culture warm in harsh winters for thousands of years.
Yes, you are allowed to join those Cambodians in that local holiday theyre celebrating during your visit if they literally invited you to it. They would not have invited you if they didnt want you to participate. And in the process you might learn a lot about a culture you never wouldve interacted with and you can all have a laugh together about your clumsy but genuine attempts at getting your footwork right in one of their traditional dances.
Yes, you are also allowed to ask if you can participate in something from the local culture you are visiting. Sometimes you will get "sorry, thats a closed practice" but in my experience most of the time you'll get "of course, let me show you how to do this!" And in my experience people tend to appreciate when others make an active effort in sharing their culture and wont stone you to death if youre clumsy about it while youre learning. I guarantee that the local children doing all of this for the first time too make the same mistakes you do and they can tell if youre being disrespectful or genuine.
So much "cultural appropriation" discourse really starts to sound like "you cant participate or visit any other cultures if youre from a Colonial Culture and have to stay in your little box and never relate to other people"
You actually sound like more of a racist dickhead when your response to being offered something is to say "no im not allowed to do that, Im white"
ubi, universal basic income
The thing is, even if you were lucky and your parents taught you how to clean, they probably didn't teach you how to clean the stuff you clean stuff with, like brushes, mops, sponges, rags, and so on. Or how to clean your cleaning appliances, like a dish washer, clothes washing machine, and clothes dryer and its ducts (if you have a ducted dryer), or a carpet cleaner, vacuum, Or how to clean up clean messes, like spilled bleach or detergent.
My parents threw away all of these things (even the vacuum cleaners and the dryer) when they got too dirty to function, because no one even told them THAT they could be cleaned. Cost them thousands of dollars over the years.
All I'm saying is that cleaning is not intuitive, and not knowing how to clean is not a moral failing, but it is something you can learn.
I'm going to reblog this post with resources for learning how to clean things and how to clean cleaning things (I'm not at my desk at the moment). If you have any favorites, please feel free to add them in too!
I like this video because it does a great job of introducing the basic foundations of house cleaning (and because he doesn't use bleach, which is a common allergy in addition to being awful to inhale). He also talks a little about how to clean a vacuum. And why you shouldn't put grease from your pots and pans down the sink drain. I also love that he mentions that different houses and different people have different needs and different versions of what clean and cleaning looks like.
He doesn't mention though that the toilet seat comes off. I take my toilet seat off to clean under the hinges and clean the seat more thoroughly once a quarter.
It's so, SO important to share success stories like this. I know an actual JPL engineer who doesn't believe in climate change because, "you never hear about acid rain anymore."
He thinks climate change can be lumped in with acid rain and the ozone layer of "things that were overblown and not really important because no one talks about it anymore."
It didn't even occur to him that we actively fixed the problem. Here's the EPA page on acid rainfall.
From the page:
It's also important to talk about success stories tonfuel hope that we can overcome current and future conservation and environmental issues.
We fixed the hole in the Ozone layer too.
I wish I could take this post, go back in time, and shove it in the face of literally everyone.
All of these problems are fixable
I wanted to share this: WE FIGURED OUT HOW TO BRING BACK DEAD CORAL!!! By using sounds of living coral to attract fish.
Coral can be saved!!! This planet is way more resilient than we give it credit for. And we don't give humans enough flowers for stopping the harm billionaires cause.
A post of hope
i'm not sure why this was posted without the link to the actual GFM but here it is
an underrecognised tragedy of AI slop isn't just that any piece of contemporary art could be AI, any news reel could be AI, it's that now just any video of something vaguely nice and whimsical happening in the world could be AI
this is about the trampoline bunnies
"lol if you just look closely you can tell when somethi--" silence nerd, the problem is that i don't want to have to approach everything nice wondering if the devil is trying to deceive me
Of course. If the robots overheat and die, replacing the robots costs extra money. But if the humans overheat and die, replacing the humans doesn't cost extra money.
When I was a kid (like age 12-15ish) sometimes I’d get super paranoid that someone on the train or in public was reading my mind and at first it made me worry that they’d see what I was thinking and think I was a bad person but after a while I started just responding to the paranoia by thinking at them like “what the fuck bro, this is a huge invasion of privacy, what is wrong with you. mind your damn business” and yes it was weird but you know what?? It worked
Around the same age I got super SUPER nervous around mirrors for some reason? Like I don’t know how I got the idea in my head but I was weirdly worried that every time I looked at myself in the mirror it let something on the other side see me? Like seeing my reflection in something meant something else was looking back
And because of this I really avoided my bathroom mirror and hung towels over the silver faucets and avoided dark windows and junk, and I was never comfortable changing clothes cause what if something was watching?
But eventually I got so sick of living like that that I just started sleeping buckass naked like ‘fuck you Buddy enjoy the view’ and flipping off my reflection until I straight up stopped thinking about it and forgot until this exact moment
And now that I’m going on this I STILL sometimes get the weird prickly “something invisible is in my house watching me” feeling and after the first few times I noticed it and couldn’t shake it off I just kept a guest area prepped and talked out loud like an irritable host with an unexpected guest
like “Hey bud, weird of you to be lurking like this but there’s some blankets by the pull-out if you need a place to crash, help yourself to the fridge but if you start doing freaky shit I’m gonna chant some Latin shit ‘til something sticks, capisce?”
And I mean
That ALSO helps
But now I’m realizing I’ve never laid it all out like this before and I’m starting to wonder if I have like. A condition or something
EDIT: No, it turns out human people just have a lot of weird anxieties and it’s only clinically disruptive on the sometimes
See, I harness this and turn it into a maladaptive daydream where my favourite people (real and fictional) are hyping me up.
That or I pretend I’m being filmed for a nature documentary by a Steve Irwin or David Attenborough type.
Ex: “observe this beautiful creature and how she cleverly utilizes what would have been a terrible and anxiety inducing behaviour-and turns it into a coping mechanism. What an clever and gorgeous creature!”
being unemployed is rad but being unemployed in a world that treats employment as a necessity that completes you as a person while also having zero access to unemployment benefits is maybe not so good
It's funny how we watched younger generations' attitudes towards work shift so rapidly over the last few years, when everyone started realizing with low pay and high COL and no pensions or benefits, the juice just wasn't worth the squeeze, that literally every media outlet started pushing articles on why job hopping and quiet quitting (i.e. doing your job and going home) is bad, and how the push for RTO is good, actually, and we were having none of it because billionaires were buying megayachts and private jets while we were getting evicted from our homes with skyrocketing rents.
It's a weird dichotomy where society insists you have to work to eat, but you bust your ass over a grill 40+ hours a week and you can't afford the food you cook, and meanwhile some CEOs are gutting Sears and Toys R Us and Red Lobster and getting rewarded millions for destroying perfectly functional businesses. This is what the world considers valuable work? You'll forgive me if I'm skeptical of the whole arrangement.
#it's very simple: you do bad work you get laid off#if you do good work: you get laid off#if the CEO does bad work he lays off a third of the company to keep his bonus#if he does good work he lays off a third of the company to keep his bonus
standing up and blacking out for a few seconds is just transitioning from a cutscene to the actual gameplay
You motherfuckers need to eat salt is what that means
fun fact antidepressants can cause low sodium levels.
when i was on them, i didnt know this, and my parents hated that i craved salt because “salt is unhealthy”, so i didn’t get enough–and blacked out and got dizzy a LOT.
if ur on antidepressants make sure to get enough salt!! i know media says salt=bad but i promise your body needs it!!
IS THAT WHAT THAT’S BEEN ABOUT??
IVE BEEN BLACKING OUT CONSTANTLY WHAT THE FUCK
Holy crap, it makes sense now
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One of those memories that will stay with me till I die is the time the rotating exhibit at our local natural history museum was a spotlight on a local asylum that had closed down some time ago. Included in it, along with photos and a collection of personal items the asylum confiscated from inmates, were a number of diaries, journals, and letters. Often these included the reason why the person's family had had them committed.
And sweet cheezy peets this is 110% true. The sheer number of people who got locked away because they were "a little strange," "embarassing," or "inconvenient" was horrifying in and of itself even when it wasn't shown alongside all the docunentation and evidence of abuse.
