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“you’re so weird, are you on something?” yeah i’ve been on tumblr for 10+years

i think a lot of people forget that you can actually still come across as confident and have social anxiety

I TRY TO EXPLAIN THIS TO PEOPLE ALL THE TIME

I really can’t believe I’ve been on this hell site for 8 years

Impart me in your wisdom of ancient times

one time there was a tumblr user with the url “pizza” and she would just comment on any text post about pizza saying “omg that’s me” and then we found out she had an entire tag dedicated to saying the n word

One time somebody paid $750 for the url ‘hi’ and got deleted in less than a year for promoting weight loss scams

too much to document, but god damn we can try

Seeing that this was from 2019 is like how ancient Egypt had people who studied even more ancient versions of Egypt.

@hellsite-hall-of-fame what say you?

sorry, Pizza did fucking WHAT

My most diagnosable take is that honestly. As much as people in social justicey spaces talk about exercising your empathy ... there's also value in being able to turn it off so you're not extremely susceptible to emotional manipulation. Sometimes you have to be able to recognize "oh, this is bullshit propaganda trying to tug at my heartstrings" and stop giving a fuck about like. Colonizer feelings or whatever. Vibes can't override your principles

Like idk being niceys is a good start but your politics can't begin and end with 🌈 kindness 🌈 or you're gonna get taken advantage of. The worst people on earth will be like "but what if........ I have a sob story about it 🥺" & you Need to be able to tell them to Fuck Completely Off

There's a certain strain of ... Everyone Is Valid 🌸 style pseudo leftism that ime invariably caters to whoever throws the biggest tantrum. And this is a Problem interpersonally & it's especially bad if you let these people dictate your opinions. Not everyone is valid some of you are racist

AO3 is down. Before (the modern concept of easily shareable) fan fiction was invented, do you think people had to recount their sexual fantasies about fictional characters and mythological and historical figures directly to their buddies? Do you think, once upon a time, there was a group of girls making bobbin lace in a dim room in 17th century Brittany with one of them spending hours recounting an elaborate fantasy she had about Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere and all of her friends listened enraptured and enthralled? I think so.

There's a scene of Lucy doing exactly this with Mina in the Dietz adaptation of Dracula into a stage play in 1996

one thing that I've noticed sometimes happens when people compare brains to computers is they compare the physical architecture of the brain (neurons firing, electrical signals, etc) to the symbolic architecture of the computer (bits and integers in registers)

this sometimes comes up with arguments of the form "human consciousness is not symbol manipulation, computers do symbol manipulation, therefore computers cannot be like human conscious". but, of course, computers don't 'really' manipulate symbols, they move electrons around, they adjust voltages, and so on.

speak for yourself. this one's desktop has hardware offload for directly interacting with forms in the platonic realm of ideals. also a WWAN card for the akashic records

i'm surprised you managed to get that to work, last time I checked libakashic was crashy as shit and akashic_rs didn't even support indexing noumena

ALSO a good timely reminder that automated systems can be wrong!!!! Sensors can be tripped incorrectly! Data can get corrupted! Electronics can fail! Machines shouldn’t make decisions!!!! There needs to be at least one human (ideally more than one for big decisions!) assessing the machine’s output, weighing it against other sources of information and the potential consequences, and making a rational, moral decision. Not just logical: RATIONAL.