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@maga2_0 @aykiri Honestly it's not the sanitary aspect that I don't like; it's the contact with non-loved-ones. But you would think the temporary Covid restrictions might have been enough to break the tradition.

@FiiJ20 @aykiri Kissing someone’s cheek is actually much more sanitary than kissing their hand.

63 yaşındaki Tom Cruise ile David Beckham’ın eşi Victoria Beckham (52), bir etkinlikte böyle görüntülendi.

@Cinema_Vibe @aykiri No; I had just hoped the virus-panic would kill something in the culture I didn't find particularly beautiful.

@FiiJ20 @aykiri You wnana kill beautiful culture and humans being humans over a potential virus lol

@NatashaCL7 Whether you're contemplating suicide or murder, your AI therapist will always support you.

My sister-in-law recently told me that a friend of hers is using ChatGPT for therapy. Do you know how horrifying that is? A completely agreeable and validating “therapist” with zero empathy or human emotion? DO NOT DO THIS!

@RizomaSchool In the end he gave up and we had babies. There was crying, but rarely when we were out & about. Looking after your children does tend to work. Screaming is not a normal state for a child to be in.

@RizomaSchool "That kid is at least two and should be walking, but she's strapped into a stroller." "That kid's in a hot shopping mall in a full-body padded coat." "That kid's clearly never been taught no to anything."

I've traveled all around the world, lived abroad in multiple countries and the only place there are this many crying and screaming kids is the US and it has to do with how we raise infants and toddlers, all the stuff I talk about and advocate for

There's a Bee in my family. foodgardening.mequoda.com/articles/benjy…

@AntiCommieBecca The sound of a distressed child has been found to affect an adult's brain in the same way as physical pain. That's why people don't enjoy being around distressed children. It's painful.

@AntiCommieBecca crowded spaces full of other distressed children and lacking in restful connection.

OK riddle me this, if for most of human history, most women spent most of their lives pregnant/breast-feeding around small children. Why is there such visceral hate for the sound of children in public? Why is kids crying so offensive when this would’ve been completely normal for most of human history? This has to be a new evolutionary thing. For most of human history, people would be surrounded by screaming children all the time. ALL THE TIME! So we should be used to it and unbothered. What happened? And is it possible this sudden distaste for children is nature‘s way of making us have less of them? 🤔

@colonelkurtz99 if you can cook, bring them some decent food once in a while. Let staff know you're noticing when they leave helpless people in difficulty unattended.

@colonelkurtz99 In the end, one inmate pressed the "emergency" button and got scolded by the staff member who eventually came. I also saw some of the food: stuff like a plain baked potato with tuna, no veg, no butter, no herbs, no seasoning. That was their meal. If you know someone inside, and

— I’m gonna ask a question that’s gonna sound weird to yall but here goes— What is so awful about nursing homes? You sit around and watch tv and hang out with people your age. You have activities and have staff to help you. My great-grandfather checked himself into one by choice because he was bored at home and was fighting with my grandma, who had been stuck caring for him. He had a social life in the home, some girlfriends apparently, and he seemed really happy and joyful when we visited. I’m not being naive but I’m genuinely saying that of course it sucks to get old but a care home ain’t a soviet gulag. I’d rather be in a clean care facility than burdening my resentful and stressed out family.

@brecht_dp @BeckyLTuch It won't kill good writing. But it can destroy a lot of readers. People who find they just can't get into reading any more, but who don't realise it's because they're trying to read cardboard content, will assume reading just isn't really for them.

@BeckyLTuch I think the whole AI thing is overblown. Yes, it will change how we write. But it won't kill writing - and especially not good writing.

Do you think the panic about AI is overblown? Do you think it's just one more emergent technology that will compel humans to make art differently? Or do you think some panic is warranted? Is AI categorically different than anything we've seen before?

@OldHollowTree However, FWIW, if you program an AI to try and identify which writing is AI-generated, don't trust the AI to notice more than what it's programmed to notice. I did once get a micro flagged as possible AI, just b/c it turned on a tongue-twister.

@OldHollowTree A lot of times, pedestrian sentences will get flagged as possible AI. My theory is that if real writers do what real writers do best, nobody will confuse real writing with cardboard content. authorspublish.com/were-not-robot…

I am writing a reflection on May right now. Out of curiosity, I popped it into an AI detector and it came out 22.3% AI-written despite being original and typed by hand. I don't really know what to do about this. It bothers me, it makes me sad. These tools are flawed.

So true☹️ 📹 vetoshkin.evgeniy

@BradfemlyWalsh In Scotland some years ago, the primary French teaching resource was a pack of songs etc. with a teddy called Camem Bear. I couldn't use it. I made up my own resources instead.

Dear fellow people who can speak other languages: is it pretentious to pronounce foreign words right? Like, I don't want to say 'Van goff' or 'Van Go' for Van Gogh, because that's not how it's said but do I sound a dick if I say Fon Hockh with the throat sound?

@BradfemlyWalsh Does anyone else have trouble with the Lidl supermarket? I cannot say Liddle. I just can't. If you're English, /idl/ does not say iddle. If you're not English, you don't even want it to say iddle. LEED'L.