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Props to Murderbot for both having the most grammatically ambiguous common pronouns and not allowing anyone to use its name. MB was like “if you absolutely must talk about me in any capacity I’m going to make that as difficult as possible for you” and I respect that.
#I started to watch an interesting-looking video about fight scenes in murderbot the other day#and the dude said ‘murderbot himself’ ten seconds in#I jumped back TWICE to check that this dude had just truly blatantly said that utter nonsense and not just ‘themself’ poorly pronounced#then closed the heck out of that video#‘themself’ would still have been wrong#but a slight effort would have been made#I’m still mad about this#how do you make a video about murderbot and understand it so poorly???
This one time I heard someone be like “Martha Wells should assign Murderbot a gender since it’s becoming so human” and my incandescent rage was halted only by my brain bluescreening as I tried to figure out which completely wrong part of that statement made me the angriest.
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Favourite part of The Murderbot Diaries is whenever someone suggests killing all humans and Murderbot’s immediate reaction is “umm who would make soap operas for me to watch if we did that though”
I love the idea of Murderbot setting up its little security consulting business and advertising is like "Hey want some real security? Hire a rogue SecUnit. What's my rate? Unmarked bills. How much? I dunno, haven't thought that far. Gimme gimme, I wanna patrol your compound and rescue you from danger."
I like to imagine it learned from stuff like Hackers and misunderstood it as edutainment because, since MB has basic access codes to a lot of the stuff it hacks and can make friends with and trade media with the rest, the shitty fake hacking actually works so MB assumes that's how it's supposed to be done.
*MB accidentally bypassing the main security with its access codes and mathing its way through the basic Idiot Block* "Yeah this is how penetrating a security system works for everyone. You do some very basic cool math and you're in. I saw it in Movies."
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Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.
Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).
Perhaps I’m being dramatic, but it almost feels as though the original phrasing (that I see being reflected quite heavily in the comments) focuses on Cheng’s inspiration from AI-generated breakup texts. The article goes much further than that; Cheng and her team clearly spent time acquiring data and then processing it to tell the story of how AI-dependence is fundamentally shifting how people interact with others. This change in human interactions didn’t happen overnight. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how we interact with other people and a simultaneous diminishing of how long people will spend on any given task. Focusing in on the more click-worthy problem of breakup texts overlooks the underlying issue that, after being discovered, can actually influence policy change as Cheng discusses
You know how wealthy people turn into stupid arseholes by surrounding themselves with vapid yes-men? ChatGPT is vapid yes-men on tap. Now you, too, can subject yourself to the phenomenon that we've all long known turns people into giant toddlers who are impossible to deal with.
Well, you're not really autistic, then. You've been faking it.
And I can understand why you'd feel the need to fake it. You don't feel like you belong anywhere. You don't even know what "be yourself" means. So you're copying a random different group of people every once in a while and hoping something works for you. And this time, the random group of people you're trying to copy happen to be autistic people.
I wonder what would cause someone to have a pattern like that. Could there be a disability that causes that pattern? Maybe one such as ... autism?
So, you're not really autistic. Your autism is just telling you that you are. You being autistic is making you think that you're autistic even though it's just your autism playing tricks on you.
I do not agree with veganism as a moral standard. If it is your personal moral stance, that is fine. If you think humans eating meat is inherently immoral, I don’t want to deal with you, you’re hopeless. Vegan ideology behaves more like a sect of evangelical Christianity than a dietary choice.
Veganism is better for the environment, but claiming that it's a morally superior choice ignores cultural and economic factors that make people eat animal products.
It is not inherently better for the environment. That is the thing. When you begin trying to explain that local, sustainably sourced animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant proteins that are farmed 3,500 miles away using slave labor, they start tuning you out. Down is better for the environment than polyester stuffing, leather is better for the environment than pleather. We should work on making animal agricultural practices more sustainable instead of trying to shame everyone into eating plant products that are also farmed unethically and unsustainably.
Ok so I actually did the math on the first statement (local animal protein is better for the environment than imported plant based proteins).
I will be making a comparison between animal derived proteins (beef, poultry, and eggs) and plant based proteins (tofu and pulses)
First, I looked up the CO2-equivalents (CO2e)* emitted by producing 1kg of each protein source (Source), which yields the following results:
Beef: 498.9 kg CO2e
Poultry: 57 kg CO2e
Eggs: 42.1 kg CO2e
Tofu: 19.8 kg CO2e
Pulses: 8.4 kg CO2e
So we can see that plant-based proteins emit fewer greenhouse gasses than animal derived proteins.
Next, I looked at how transportation affects these numbers. I made the assumption that (1) no transportation is needed for the animal proteins and (2) the plant proteins are shipped from the other side of the world (so 20.000km). Shipping a kg of protein by freight ship at this distance emits about 0.6kg of CO2 equivalents (source)**.
So adding it up yields the following numbers***:
Beef: 498.9 kg CO2e + 0 kg CO2e from shipping = 498,9 kg CO2e
Poultry: 57 kg CO2e + 0 kg CO2e from shipping = 57 kg CO2e
Eggs: 42.1 kg CO2e + 0 kg CO2e from shipping = 42.1 kg CO2e
Tofu: 19.8 kg CO2e + 0.6 kg CO2e from shipping = 20.4 kg CO2e
Pulses: 8.4 kg CO2e + 0.6 kg CO2e from shipping = 9 kg CO2e
So even if we produce animal proteins locally and we ship all of our plant-based proteins halfway across the world, plant proteins are still far more environmentally friendly than animal proteins.
In other words, we can produce 55kg of pulse proteins, ship them 20.000km away and have the same environmental impact as producing 1kg of beef locally.
This is not even accounting for land use, water use, nitrate pollution, phosphate pollution etc., all of which have very real environmental impacts, and all of which are more present in the production of animal proteins****.
*CO2 equivalents is a way to combine the impact of all greenhouse gasses into a single number. So not just CO2, but also gasses like methane and nitrous oxide. Methane is about 30 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2, so 1kg of methane = 30 kg CO2 equivalents. The large amounts of methane produced by cows explains the high climate impact of beef relative to other meats.
**The calculations on this site are made assuming a 2kg parcel, so twice the weight I'm assuming my protein parcel to be. Considering how negligible the shipping emissions are compared to the production emissions, I did not bother to adjust these numbers.
***Overland shipping at this distance yields about 4.2 kg C02e. This is more than shipping by sea, but still fairly negligible compared to the CO2e emissions generated at the production stage.
****I've worked on this comment for like an hour now and I'm too lazy to look up sources for this statement. I hope I have been thorough enough in the rest of my comment to convince you that I am not pulling this out of my ass. Feel free to look it up yourself as well. I will be happy to correct this statement if you hit me with a source that proves me wrong.
Factory farming is worse for the environment than what the farm actually produces. Also, there's always going to be some people that eat meat just like there's always going to be some people that never do. Both of these choices are morally neutral, because food is food and we do not get to tell people what to eat, because bodily autonomy is a human right.
This is not a problem math can or should solve, because math is unfortunately something that can only solve problems that have a single correct solution. And real life problems that involve living beings are not those types of problems.
Industry emits more CO2 than any living being. The plastic and rayon plants, the oil refineries, the mines, the data centers--they all are the main CO2 problem. Factory farms are the main animal welfare and groundwater/soil toxicity problem. Blaming this on people not being vegan is ridiculous. This is a problem created by industry and cannot be solved even if everyone in the world COULD get their protein from plants--and at least one person on this earth can't, because I can't. But I'm sure I'm not the only one.
There are several places where animals are overpopulous--some of them are invasive, some are not--and hunting them down and eating them is a very good solution. We have feral hogs where I am. We also have a native species of deer that is overpopulating. Humans stepping in and hunting them down and eating them so as not to waste the meat is a good solution here. In places that have a long tradition of NOT eating meat, eating meat isn't something anybody is saying they should do.
It IS however a fact that we are omnivores as a species. Some humans not being omnivores is not proof our species isn't. You have canine teeth. You have a gut that is arranged in a particular way. These are facts of our species. That we have the freedom of choice and adaptability to survive by genetically engineering plants to produce more protein and eating them instead does not erase that when looking us up as a species of animal, we are among the omnivores.
There is no one size fits all kind of answer. And vegans asserting there is and then doing a bunch of math about CO2 emissions like that proves it is not just doubling down, it's actively deciding to play into the oil executives who found out that oil was destroying the earth in the 1970s and spent millions of dollars in marketing the idea of a Carbon Footprint and guilt-tripping individual people into thinking THEY were responsible. No. It's the oil companies. It's the industrial factories and plants that are doing the bulk of the polluting. Nothing any individual person decides to eat or not eat is going to make more than a drop in the ocean's worth of difference.
Shut the factories down.
But don't lecture people on what food is and isn't moral to eat, especially if the only thing you're thinking about is CO2 emmission. What about the human cost of plants? What about the human agricultural workers? Quinoa getting popular fucked up Indigenous people who relied on quinoa as a staple and now they can't afford it. How is that less terrible than the CO2 emmissions of a single cow? What's the cost of suffering? Or does that not matter because you can't make a number out of it? Who is the "we" in "we can produce... pulses"? They don't produce themselves! There are humans out there picking them, weeding them, and those humans have a CO2 emission and take up resources the same as any other animal. But THOSE numbers aren't available, not like the handy numbers of a cow. Doesn't mean they aren't there!
Eating only plants are not some shortcut to being morally pure, that's what I'm saying. ALL food production involves something deeply exploitative and unethical in this age of factory farming and global exploitative economy and so forth. Vegans are not magically exempt from having blood on their hands just because the blood is human only and most agriculture statistics ignore the human cost of a crop.
You cannot diet your way into moral purity and it's folly to equate diet with morality anyway. That's not how morality works. It's messy and complicated and personal. It's not a math problem.
That's a big chunk of text to basically say "I want to keep eating meat no matter what but you don't get to judge me". You could do the exact same argument against every single social improvement that has happened in the last two centuries. Your point can be boiled down to "nothing I personally do really matters in the long term so I shouldn't have personal responsibility on anything".
And while I don't think we should put the responsibility of reducing the climate crisis on individual's shoulders, I'm very in favor of governments legislating your behavior for the common good based on scientific consensus. Which on this topic, had been massively clear for years.
So as with CFCs or leaded gas, this is not a "personal choice" matter, because your personal choice affects us all. Climate change is, very much, a math problem. A very complex one that very smart people have been studying for decades. You can listen to them when they talk or you can cover your ears and shout "ÑAÑAÑAÑA THIS PROBLEM IS TO HARD FOR ANYONE TO UNDERSTAND LET ME ALONE" or "WHAT ABOUT [this other thing that should also disappear]" the same moment they mention something you find personally inconvenient.
Sure.
Throw your tantrum.
Just don't try for everyone else to look at you as the smart one when you are thumping your feet and whining about those evil men that want to take away your burger.
Explain to me what the Inuit are supposed to do. That's thousands of people. Who cannot and have never been able to grow protein from plants. Explain to me why they should have to change their traditions, which have helped them to survive in their environment. Explain to me how demanding every human on earth stop eating meat isn't cultural genocide.
Explain to me the human cost of your plant crops. How much CO2 does a human worker put out? Because you talk like crops just spontaneously generate by themselves, which is a very privileged point of view. I've been in a field and picked crops. It's hard work. It requires LOTS of workers, every day.
Explain to me how a person who is deadly allergic to pulses is meant to be getting protein. That's not a hypothetical imaginary situation, there's a very common condition that makes someone unable to consume legumes of any kind.
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Even one human being dying should not be acceptable to you. Human lives are valuable. Your solution would cause at least 1 human being to die in result. It is not a valid solution therefore.
The fact that you sit there accusing me of "throwing a tantrum" when you're the one dismissing everything I just said is ironic. The fact that you dismiss me as "throwing a tantrum" and tell me to my face that you wish me and people like me to die, well that's not surprising. Vegans don't care about humans very much, especially disabled humans, in my experience.
I don't care about your solution if it means I have to die. I think it's reasonable to get angry when someone says they don't care if you die and they want to control what you do with your own body!
Any amount of disagreement you would label "throwing a tantrum" so why should anyone call you anything but evidence of veganism being a cult??? Them's cult tactics! If it quacks like a duck it's a duck!
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the idea of ortiz rocky / rocktiz / human(oid) rocky using an AAC device is changing my life, & also making me think about rocky hitting the same button over and over again when he's trying to make grace listen, e.g. grace. grace. [grace raising his voice] [rocky turns up the volume] GRACE. GRACE. he has twenty hours of battery and can't physically run out of air. he will use this to win arguments.
american blackbirds are icterids but european blackbirds are thrushes but american robins are thrushes but european robins are flycatchers and they are named robin because (checks notes) brits in the 1400s called them "robert" on account of they are just some familiar guy who shows up in your yard. hold on post canceled is that really why they are called that? what the fuck. they did this with jackdaws and magpies too? i can't even be annoyed. how human. "who's that? that's bob." fuck dude it sure is.
using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me
my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament
I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn't notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.
However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like "Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we're both here at the Devil's Sacrament, so I don't think an apology is necessary."
I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, "Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces."
And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, "Thanks. I stole them from the president."
And the rest of the team was like, "What...the fuck...?" before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.
So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.
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I really can and will blame the 9-5 for everything. "We're in a loneliness epidemic" well, we have to spend a third of our day interacting with people in a professional way that makes forming real friendships difficult and then we're peopled out by the time we're done. "People are eating more and more unhealthily" people have to spend more than a third of their day doing work related tasks and they don't want to spend their tiny amount of free time making food. "People aren't involved in their local communities" after spending more than a third of their day doing work related things people are tired and also all those community events take place during normal working hours. "People need to get more hobbies" after spending more than a third of their day working, people are TIRED and don't want to do anything that takes yet more energy. "Literacy is dying" to maintain your critical thinking skills you need to read/watch things that make you think and after spending more than a third of your day doing work related stuff you are TIRED and don't want to expend even more brainnpower. "People need to get outside more" People. Are. TIRED. Because they have to spend all of their time working or preparing for work or recovering from work or doing all the chores they couldn't stay on top of because of work. I can blame fucking anything on having to work, it is truly the root of all fucking evil.
And some people are lucky because they're able to afford to work less than full-time, or because they're able to afford to Support a homemaker-spouse (or pay someone else do Most of their household chores), or because their physical-ability, distance between Home and Work, climate, and Access to Equipment makes it feasible to regularly get their exercise on their Work commute, or because their relationships to their coworkers or other people who do the Same commute, makes it possible to get their friend-hangout or craft-hobby-group-meet during their lunchbreak or commute. That is all they are, LUCKY, in a way that Most people are Not. The Situation will only get better If the hourly-wage (relative to cost of living) increases enough to make it possible for EVERYONE to choose between 25-30 hours work-weeks and longer Work but having a Lot of disposeable income to spend on support services.
functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I
