gradient descent into madness

me asking my cis husband for the nth if he's sure he isn't trans: maybe you haven't met the right gender yet

It bothers me so much how most AI discourse singles out AI art as a particularly bad thing when that's one of the least harmful uses of AI. If you're going to be talking about how AI is terrible at least talk about the actually harmful things it could be used for like mass surveillance or layoffs or something instead of "it makes bad art"

I keep seeing people act as though the solution to these problems is to just harass anyone who uses AI until it magically goes away, and that isn't going to work. Sending death threats towards random hobbyists (and don't pretend this doesn't happen, I have seen it happen with my own two eyes) is not going to help anyone and does not address any of the actual problems with AI. The actual problems with AI have nothing to do with consumers and acting as though shaming people for using it is going to fix any of those problems is misguided at best.

it's a shame that housing supply is a cause that only seems to appeal to policy wonks when it's like. at a society-killing level of bad in most of the Anglosphere. anyone with any level of passion just doesn't seem to be interested, or is actively on the NIMBY side

I think it’s hard for people to accept that something so boring and prosaic can be the cause of so much ill. They want the profound malaise they experience to have an equally profound explanation, like Late-Stage Capitalism (TM) or reverse racism or whatever. Everyone knows you’re supposed to lift the curse on your homeland by slaying the dragon, not tweaking some numbers on a spreadsheet.

sometimes i am glad tumblr users have zero political power

my strongest claudes would kill you, traveler

you legally have to tell me if it's satire, or it's entrapment

must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason

Soulslike boss fight that riffs on the Black Knight sketch from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail where every time you hit a new phase you hack off a limb, and somehow it just keeps getting harder. Most guides recommend cheesing burst DPS to skip the hopping-on-one-leg phase because it's just plain unfair.

ime pure sociopaths get put out of doors pretty quickly, the people who float to the top are people with very active yet very mercenary emotional lives, thats the new meta

once in a while you see someone whos overcome with pity and horror-at-all-pain the moment their friend is getting shit, whos swamped with tics and trembles whenever they need to look weak, who relaxes into smooth /b/tard cruelism whenever someone inconvenient needs to go. and never hesitates and never gets self-conscious and never feels their opponent threw a nice punch. and look as long as you like these feelings are all completely authentic. every chord of human experience is there but here the instrument's in tune

blogger basically making the argument that the cultural revolution is what allowed china to later experience such meteoric economic growth. it's nice to see contrarian opinions like this. I've played enough victoria to be sympathetic to this idea that the destruction of the peasant is the ultimate good, but you know. none of this is horribly rigorous