I AM the infinite nothing that becomes the everything

Child: doesnt want to spend time with them afterwards

Parent:

Child:*doesn’t want to admit their mistakes and starts keeping secrets from their parent*

Parent:

child: *doesn’t talk to parents about their issues and feels worse*

parent:

Child: *actively avoids academic achievement and becomes an atheist*

Parent:

Child: *never tells the parents about how they feel or their personal insecurities*

Parent:

Nintendo Consoles Through the Generations 

Had the idea of “what if I did models of the Nintendo consoles as if they were rendered on themselves?” and I did just that!

I plan on uploading timelapses of the process for each one. I have other timelapses on my youtube channel right now! Check it out, if you’d like!  

okay since you and everyone else on that post apparently can’t read or think critically: the point is not that the Curiousity rover was a fascist or problematic or whatever. the point is that the way people anthropomorphized the shit out of it is going to be exploited by companies in the future making robots for explicitly evil purposes.

exhibit A is Boston Dynamics. you know all of those goofy videos they put out where they shove a humanoid/quadrupedal robot while it’s walking and it manages to correct itself and everyone in the comments oohs and aahs over how impressive it is or says something like “omg stop being so mean to it”? all of those robots are being made on military contracts with the explicit purpose of either killing people or making it easier for the US military to kill people. for example, the robot in this gif looks goofy, right?

it was designed on a military contract to carry ammo and supplies for soldiers in the field and was only rejected because it was too loud and slow. literally the only purpose for this thing’s existence is to make the US military able to kill more people more easily, but Boston Dynamics has figured out that by putting out cutesy promo videos of cutting-edge robots while staying mysteriously silent on why theyre building them (hint: it’s not just for fun), they can influence public opinion away from “robots are being used as tools to do horrible, horrible things” and towards “awww look at the widdle doggy slipping on ice!”

tl;dr:

If the negative thoughts you’re having are catastrophising, try your best to change them like the examples above. Try your best to be kind to yourself. If these thoughts aren’t like the ones that you’re having, that’s okay. This series is going to address the ten most common kinds of negative thoughts every week. If reading or learning about them becomes too much, please remember that you’re allowed to take a break and try again later.

Introduction to ANTs and PRTs

- Generalisation

- Filtering

- All or Nothing Thinking

“automatic negative thoughts: catastrophizing

These are the thoughts that overestimate the chances of something terrible to happen, and often jump to the worst possible outcome of a situation.

For example: ‘I am going to do this speech really badly. Everyone is going to laugh at me. I’ll fall off of the stage.’

‘I’m going to get hurt if I leave my house. I’m going to die. It’s just not safe.’

Let’s put a more positive spin on those thoughts, okay?

Positive response thoughts: catastrophizing

You can use Positive Response Thoughts to do that. (Perspective, Reassurance, Validation)

‘I’m nervous about this speech, but I just need to try my best. Everyone has to do one. I’m sure they’re worried about doing it as well. I can get through this. I can do it.’