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I keep seeing birth rates discourse end in "and I guess the long term solution is exowombs" and, ignoring questions of how long such a technology will take to make, that is not the issue with birth rates. The carrying is not the issue, it's the raising and paying for children that's the stop gap. If it became possible to 3D print babies, that would not change the population growth rate more than a little.
If we could somehow solve the care and investment issue—say, by the discovery of magical brownies who loooove taking care of kids and gladly work for a saucer of milk—then the actual production of kids would not be hard. Pregnancy is a pain but not a bad tradeoff, if the kid isn't also a huge time and money suck. And if society still can't make enough kids, surrogacy is a known thing that could be publicly funded.
i think the imagined solution with exowombs is that once you have decoupled making a child from pregnancy the next step is your state-owned exowombs produce however many babies they need for their population target that year and then they are raised in communal creches staffed by people paid to be there who work in shifts.
which i would not necessarily describe as a 'good idea' tbc
(do you actually need the exowombs for this? can't you just set up the creches and then pay people to get pregnant professionally? idk. probably)
my team at work is mostly spanish speakers but there's a handful of people who are not, and we generally discuss things in english. like everything written down, of course, but also meetings over voice have to be in english when they're there. and you can definitely feel the shift in mood when people realise one of the non-spanish-speakers joined the voice chat and they have to switch languages to one they are less comfortable with.
which probably doesn't feel super welcoming to them
Is using generative AI in a professional and/or academic setting always plagiarism
* yes it’s alway plagiarism
* it’s plagiarism in academics but not in a workspace
* it’s plagiarism in a workplace but not in academia
* its plagiarism if you didn’t get your boss/professor’s approval beforehand
* it’s plagiarism if you use it for the majority of the work
* it’s plagiarism if you don’t label it as AI
* it’s plagiarism if you use it for the final draft (brainstorming/first drafts okay)
* it’s plagiarism if you use it for the first draft and rewrite it yourself
* it’s plagiarism if you use it for research
* it’s complicated
* no, it’s not plagiarism if you use generative AI
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Context: OP has a friend who’s a marketing/social media manager for a small company. Their boss has encouraged them to use AI for their post, but the friend feels this is plagiarism
Is using generative AI in a professional and/or academic setting always plagiarism?
yes it’s alway plagiarism
it’s plagiarism in academics but not in a workspace
it’s plagiarism in a workplace but not in academia
its plagiarism if you didn’t get your boss/professor’s approval beforehand
it’s plagiarism if you use it for the majority of the work
it’s plagiarism if you don’t label it as AI
it’s plagiarism if you use it for the final draft (brainstorming/first drafts
it’s plagiarism if you use it for the first draft and rewrite it yourself
it’s plagiarism if you use it for research
it’s complicated
no, it’s not plagiarism if you use generative AI
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Context: OP has a friend who’s a marketing/social media manager for a small company. Their boss has encouraged them to use AI for their post, but the friend feels this is plagiarism
ok so this is awkward. when i shouted “floor it” i was actually referring to the brake pedal. i understand now that i wasn’t being specific enough

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hey can everyone do me a favor and put in the tags why they chose their name? even if you don't go by a chosen name irl, you can put why you chose your online name.
Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me
what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.
i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.
i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.
Features of the Category.
this is a picture of a woman. if you gender someone who looks like this "Sir", you can't not be doing it in bad faith. yeah I'm a bit clocky, if you know what to look for, but my gender is very fucking clearly "Barbie doll".
as for sex. Features of the Category. I have the tits, the hips, the shape, the smooth skin, hairless face, hormone balance, body smell, ways of moving, and the entire style of hair, clothes, and other decorations. and the voice (when I remember and bother and can). I have way more female sexual characteristics than male ones, and those I can't have surgically corrected are not that scarce among people nobody wouldn't think to call women.
it cannot possibly be news to you that trans women who are not you also exist.
so? transition is switching Features Of The Category. that's what hrt, surgeries, laser, trainings, etc. do, giving additional sex characteristics and modifying existing ones.
not all trans women have done all those things, and not all of them got the same results from them. some features of the category are difficult to impossible to switch for many trans women
if 'trans women are the same sex as cis women' means that, then the people saying it don't actually count all trans women in that statement.
why are you on a terf tangent
why do you think honest discussion of the variable results of medical transition for trans women is being a terf. do you think trans women only count as women if we look like conventionally attractive cis women, and so acknowledgement that we sometimes don't is the same as rejecting us from womanhood?
what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.
i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.
i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.
Features of the Category.
this is a picture of a woman. if you gender someone who looks like this "Sir", you can't not be doing it in bad faith. yeah I'm a bit clocky, if you know what to look for, but my gender is very fucking clearly "Barbie doll".
as for sex. Features of the Category. I have the tits, the hips, the shape, the smooth skin, hairless face, hormone balance, body smell, ways of moving, and the entire style of hair, clothes, and other decorations. and the voice (when I remember and bother and can). I have way more female sexual characteristics than male ones, and those I can't have surgically corrected are not that scarce among people nobody wouldn't think to call women.
it cannot possibly be news to you that trans women who are not you also exist.

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what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.
i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.
i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.
Sex is in practice defined by phenotypic expressions. With sufficient estrogen, broadly a given, trans women match much closer with the Woman phenotype than the Man one. One of the points of "trans women are the same sex as cis women" as a slogan is "hormone replacement therapy works and creates a range of changes throughout the body and thus treating these two types of women the same in eg medicine is actually reasonable and sensible" Admittedly it also has political signalling usages that you can agree or disagree with separately.
With sufficient estrogen, broadly a given, trans women match much closer with the Woman phenotype than the Man one
this is not how estrogen works. quite a few of the effects of having gone through puberty on testosterone will not reverse themselves just because you threw enough estrogen at the problem, and the changes that do happen vary between trans women.
a claim that 'trans women are phenotypically much closer to cis women than cis men' can only be true if you are smuggling a lot more assumptions in there than just 'was on estrogen long enough', and as a trans woman for whom that is not true, i object to trans women positivity posts with the tiny asterisk of "*not including you or anyone who looks too much like you in the category of trans woman"
also. trans women should not be treated the same as cis women or cis men by medicine. we should be treated as appropriate to the amount of medical transition we've undergone. i want my doctors aware of my estrogen levels, and also that i can't get pregnant and I have a prostate.
Choose a style of shapeshifting: A: you can change your appearance however you want, at will, WITHIN the bounds of existing, realistic humans* B: you can change into any species of existing animal, at will, but you cannot alter your human appearance
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B
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*you can change your hair color or face shape, for example, but no cat ears or wings. (i will also allow physiological changes ie removing physical disabilities or changing sex characteristics)
what does it mean to say 'trans women are the same sex as cis women'.
i can understand someone saying biological sex isn't real. I disagree, but I can understand it. what does it mean to say that sex is real, not as in 'having sex'* but as in as above saying a person 'is' a sex, and also that all trans women and all cis women belong to the same one. is there only one sex, the human sex.
i suspect people who say this do not have a coherent model for what it means for a human being to be a particular sex and are just saying things that sound nice about trans women. please prove me wrong. i also like saying nice things about trans women but i prefer them to be true and meaningful.
Pokémon?
Pok-ee-mon
Pok-eh-mon
Pocketah Mahnster* (nuance)
Something else?
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I keep hearing the younger generation saying EE and it's driving me up a wall just a little 🙃
*this is a joke, not meant to be derogatory. I'm just not sure how else to type that phonetically
Pokémon?
Pok-ee-mon
Pok-eh-mon
Pocketah Mahnster* (nuance)
Something else?
Results
I keep hearing the younger generation saying EE and it's driving me up a wall just a little 🙃
*this is a joke, not meant to be derogatory. I'm just not sure how else to type that phonetically

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You are handed an envelope. Within it is information about a not-especially-close friend. They would strongly prefer you not to know this information and would be quite upset if they learned you had opened it, though they won't know unless you tell them. The information is not in any way related to you or people you know personally other than this friend, and it does not contain information about them doing anything illegal. If it reveals information about them acting immorally, it is something noticeably not as bad as the worst thing you have ever done. The information will not benefit you personally in any way (it's not their bank account password, etc).
Is it unethical to open the envelope? Would you open it?
It is unethical | I would open it
It is not unethical | I would open it
It is unethical | I would not open it
It is not unethical | I would not open it
If you met someone with the same last name as you, how surprised would you be?
Not at all, it's very common
A little surprised, but wouldn't immediately assume a connection
I would be surprised and assume there was some relation
I would be very surprised that I *hadn't* met this person, we must be related
Does anyone else with this last name even exist?