merriest motherfucker this side of the nuthouse

sasza || 25 || he/they || the header is a representation of my last 3 braincells struggling to keep me alive || i've been on this shithole website for too long || enjoy your stay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Rool

[citrusmillie]

all tumbrlinas come from a common ancestor

[the-big-mood]

[bigbigtruck]

quotes taken from the source

(the 4th one is Bumpus wanting dinner, friends can back me up on this)

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

come back to me most perfect of comics

[blonsh]

[scienceviewscreen]

Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 3/?

Bonus:

[scienceviewscreen]

Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 2/?

[thegentlemanstar]

this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is

are you usamerican

yes

no

some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)

Voting ended onJun 5

[dracula1992soundtrack]

being online is so scary aren't you guys worried about the world wide spider

[redfagdiver]

It took 36 years for someone to make this joke and by god it was worth the wait

[firstethicalpisces]

girl nothing is ever gonna be all the way together just enjoy the bits and pieces #yourfragments

[feminist-space]

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[baddywronglegs]

The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that

[thefriendlyneighborhoodpervert]

This problem isn't AI. This problem originates with our terrible schooling system. It fails to prepare young people for existing in the real world, probably under the expectation that parents can do that themselves. The economy of this country has rendered parents basically incapable of spending hours and days teaching their kids how to exist, on top of those kids' ludicrous amounts of schoolwork.

Basically, the system has been designed to result in young adults with no ability to do much of anything besides basic manual labor, who rely on technology or other people's labor to cover the gaps in their own understanding.

[vaspider]

The problem is indeed "AI," though other factors may be at play as well. Programs like chatGPT are actively designed to breed dependence, and are actively detrimental to the decision making and imagination parts of the brain.

The thing that people really need to understand is that the "product" that chatGPT and other "AI" chatbots create is "more interactions with chatGPT." Everything it does is engineered with that one end in mind. Think about how it's billed, and you'll see that's true, and why it's true. What do "pro" subscriptions give you? More inquiries, faster answers, etc. So its entire thing is "getting you to ask it more things, more often."

Will it say "I don't know?" No. You won't ask it things if it answers that. This is why hallucinations are built in, and cannot ever be eliminated.

These programs are machines meant to generate more inquiries, which means they will generate dependence in order to generate them.

The purpose of a machine is what it does.

[thefriendlyneighborhoodpervert]

I did not intend to defend AI LLM. It's total bullshit. I merely meant that a class of people who have been left functionally incapable by a broken system are more susceptible to a machine designed to make people more stupid.

[vaspider]

Right, and what I'm telling you is that this matters way less than you would like to think. Like, it doesn't matter. At all. You are not "less susceptible" to AI because of your education.

It really does not matter how well-educated you are, because this kind of endless flattery and dependence-creation isn't the kind of thing that "being educated" protects against. The idea that "kids these days" are specially vulnerable to ChatGPT due to a failure of general education is insultingly wrong, skips over the fact that a lot of highly-educated people from my generation and older have been sucked in to dependence and even psychosis by LLMs, and frankly makes it more likely that people will look at this "kids these days" thing and say, "Ahh, but I'm [older/better educated/built different], I'm not like Those Kids, AI's tricks won't work on me, or at the very least, I will be less susceptible to them!"

And that's just wrong.

ChatGPT is Wormtongue, in a very real, not metaphorical or exaggerated sense. The only way to truly avoid the way in which it rots your fucking brain is not to use it at all.

There is no amount or type of education which will protect you from the automated evil vizier whispering flattery and lies into your ear. Telling yourself or others otherwise is simply incorrect.

Trying to reframe it as "Kids These Days are more susceptible because they're 'functionally broken' by our education system" doesn't change the basic thesis statement.

And it's wrong.

[thefriendlyneighborhoodpervert]

... That's an excellent point. It's essentially using cult recruiting tactics, which I know work on even quite capable and independent persons.

[vaspider]

Basically, yes.

[slaviclore]

You still have to go somewhere else in the EU to actually get married, but this is a great step. It's queern time everybody!

[slaviclore]

Momentum!!

[nondeducible]

not to rain on anyone's parade because this is great new BUT only after the government ran out of options to block this ruling and was forced to recognise same-sex marriages from elsewhere in the world. the national administrative court was the one that actually pushed this ahead. the government and the ruling coalition (of which the president of warsaw is part of) did everything they can to block this by trying to find legal loopholes, e.g. make the ruling applicable only to the specific couple who sued poland, which would mean more costly and lengthy legal battles for other couples. they capitulated because people got angry.

let's also not forget that the ruling coalition won in part because of the votes of lgbt people and their allies, because of the promise of civil partnerships, but they walked that back immediately after forming a government.

this is a big win but only thanks to the years of costly legal battles against poland in the european courts.

[nudityandnerdery]

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[ceruleanheaven]

[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over

[punksandcannonballers]

just found the most fucked up plane

[punksandcannonballers]

bro what

[1980sspaceman]

bro how do you think airplanes get between airports

[punksandcannonballers]

[punksandcannonballers]

alright i’ll give it up they turned it from awful to delightful. now it’s like the oscar meyer wiener mobile of planes

[dogwise]

PRACTICE URGE SURFING

[dogwise]

[teumessianandlaelaps]

Huh, didn't know there was a term for it. This explains why I haven't been drinking as much lately.

[rainyydoves]

why don't you calm down and look up the little auk

[rainyydoves]

why don't you calm down. and look at the little auk.

[charl0ttan]

huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while

[charl0ttan]

something earth shattering going on here

[emily84]

this is why one of my favorite all-time paintings is Ship in Stormy Seas by Ivan Aivazovsky... he was really onto something there

a close up to just... light shining through those waves, makes me feel faint with exhilaration every time

[is-there-a-boat]

THERE IS A BOAT BY IVAN AIVAZOVSKY!!

[clayandsorcery]

Ivan Aivazovsky could paint glowing water. One of the GOATs for sure.