@mauddweeb I find it fun but not actually funny. And since I read it on a Kindle I can see the "often-highlighted" lines, and it's always something that's supposed to be so funny or so badass-epic, and it's always underwhelming.
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Sometimes Softly
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"The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define." - C.S. Lewis
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It’s Reddit-coded but it’s also fun so
John A. Douglas@J0hnADouglas
Dungeon Crawler Carl is just ACOTAR for guys
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Expected water bottles to be provided at this beginning-of-the-year staff meeting, forgetting that every single other person would be bringing their own metal cup.
Sometimes Softly@SometimesSoftly
Starting my new job surrounded by women, after my old job where I was the only woman. First thing I notice is all the Stanley cups.
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@BarneyFlames Did the simulators choose to include, like, cosmic background radiation or is that somehow inevitable? Which one is "probably" true?
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@BarneyFlames That happens in simulated games on simulated computers. That doesn't mean it would happen on the Real computers.
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The "we're probably living in a simulation!" thing has the same problem as "you're probably a Boltzmann brain!" thing.
Why would the simulation give me information about what the "real world" is like, allowing me to judge whether I'm in a simulation?
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@ChrisExpTheNews Tbh, I can't remember what any Prince songs sound like. They don't stick in my head.
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I'm officially a Prince hater now. I was just bemusedly indifferent but now I have been sufficiently persuaded that he's widely overrated as a musical act, despite any talent he may plausibly have as an instrumentalist. Apologies to anyone who likes his stuff, but...
Analytic Valley Girl Chris@ChrisExpTheNews
Purple Rain is an incredibly boring song, yes. It's mediocre and uninteresting. It's repetitive, vapid, and unmelodic. I don't know what the hell anybody sees in it. That's why I'm comparing it to Friday, which I find much more fun even though it's obviously not particularly good music. He may be a talented multi-instrumentalist, but it's fucking guitar, bass, keys, drums plus some strings, and he plays guitar and keys. So he's generational talent but he's got the same setup as the left overs from when Evanescence split? And if people think my taste is bad, whatever, it's purely subjective. "What? No! It's a fun song!" "No man it's boring". "Nah, it's a bop" That's the extent of the debate, which his fans seem unwilling to concede. Surely you can understand the difference between personal taste and knowledge--as if you have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of music or music theory to make a call on a song being good. If you want to explain to me how it was actually a technical innovation for the time or whatever, or was influential for emerging artists, I'll hear people out, but so far I mostly just get "he played lots of instruments", although "he wrote a 1 hit wonder for a band you couldn't name if your life depended on it" is again at least a step in that direction... I think "little douce coup" is an annoying song, but the Brian Wilson stans have more to say about the band and music than "no actually it's indisputably great, the only way you could think otherwise is you just don't understand good music".
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@_RiskTolerance I'm sure there exists somewhere a guy who realized frequenting prostitutes didn't make him happy and quit--good for him.
Men and women can both grow and change and realize that they were attracted to the wrong things.
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@_RiskTolerance Bringing in prostitution is your attempt to find an element women find viscerally gross, bc you realize the actual equivalent (man dates party girls until he realizes what he really wants is to settle down with a nice church girl) is actually a pretty common female fantasy.
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My cousin, speaking about her husband, said "I used to think it was a good sign if a guy was mean to other people but nice to me. Now I'm marrying someone whose kind to everyone, always, and he is so wonderful."
civilization enjoyer@civ_enjoy
She doesn't seem to realize how offensive this is to her bf. "Oh you're boring, i would have never picked you when i was young and hot. Now im old and tired though so you're perfect for me"
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If the real world isn't the real world, there's no reason to think evidence gathered from it is real, and the concept of "probably" is meaningless.
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Have recently read a couple of supposedly comic novels where some possibly funny things happen but are not described in a funny way, and I kept thinking of Wodehouse. Good prose is in fact more important in comedy than other genres.
LiterateIndy@LiterateIndy
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(Similarly, when my brother was young he fell for very pretty and pretty manipulative girls who I found extremely annoying. I'm glad he got over that and don't think he has somehow harmed his calm and responsible wife by having liked a different type in the past.)
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People are allowed to have an exciting bad boy (or girl) phase and then realize it's stupid and get over it. They are allowed to then fall in love with a nice guy (or girl).
Endless bitching about this possibility is for bitter losers and enemies of love
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@ChrisExpTheNews A perfectly fine reason not to use it, not a fine reason to condemn others for using it.
Said as not-even-a-heavy LLM user myself.
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This isn't completely unreasonable. This was very much a thing even a year ago. The default posture of AI evangelists to say "this is a miracle" at launch over hyped the tech. Those claims were easily falsifiable by experts. At some point ethos is revocable. /
Dr. Daria Pidhorodetska@AstroDaria
the first (and last) time I tried to use chatGPT to summarize research papers and find references, it returned a full list of papers to me, with DOI numbers and all, that were entirely fake. the papers did not exist. they weren’t real.
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Parts of the timeline seem insistent that keyword searches in a database is apparently *just* enough automation to preserve the fingerprint of the human soul.
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@AstroDaria This is also what I found the *first* time I did this, but that was years ago. Things change. Refusing to update on your first impression doesn't make you smarter or more honorable.
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the first (and last) time I tried to use chatGPT to summarize research papers and find references, it returned a full list of papers to me, with DOI numbers and all, that were entirely fake. the papers did not exist. they weren’t real.
@dingchilling @dingchilling
they cancelled my goat for using LLMs TO SEARCH PAPERS that he would need to READ to make his videos. they want him to use google search like a caveman in big 2026.
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Cool, suave thieves but they're anticolonialist-ly stealing cultural artifacts is an idea that every even barely creative wokester had years ago.
It's the backstory of a character in "Arkham Horror: the Card Game."
Hans@hansvshans
brother lol
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@trumwill Country Western is fine but I have difficulty imagining one whose very over-weight.
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How important is the "Pixie" to the Manic Pixie Dream Girl? Is it still within the trope if she has an accent and a country & western affectation but otherwise meets the criteria?
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@janecoaston One of my nephews semi-jokes that his dream job would be to be a light-house keeper.
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yes, the children long for the mines, but not my kid, for some reason
EK Dagenfield@EKDagenfield
@janecoaston This probably applies across both Left and Right, but polling always shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans think trades and manufacturing jobs should be promoted to teens but then like only 20% say they would encourage their own kids to go into those jobs.
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@estherzelda0514 I don't enjoy rejecting men--it feels awkward and uncomfortable. I don't fear they're going to fly off and beat me (again, in public) and my lack of fear seems reasonable given that nothing like that has ever happened to me or anyone I know.
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@estherzelda0514 I mostly agree with your first tweet, but not this one. I do not believe that women's fear that men will physically attack them in public is more significant than that being verbally mean to women is generally seen as worse than being verbally mean to men.
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Women doing the pursuing have a higher risk factor. Women are socialized to put more of their self-worth into whether they're hot enough to be pursued by a man.
The first blow to her ego is pursuing a man at all, because if she was good looking enough, he'd pursue her, right? It's already coded as desperate. The second blow is being turned down. Because she has even more ego tied into her physical attractiveness, this double hit is going to hurt really bad. What was already thought of desperate gets upgraded to pathetic and validation that she's ugly and undesirable.
Yes, men approach more. So they get the overwhelming volume of ego hits by facing rejection more often. But women who gets a single rejection on approach is going to likely getting rejected in a way that stings way more than any individual rejection a man faces.
Because dating is often a game of numbers, and you have to approach a lot to get any measure of success, however you define it, women are not going to approach when each individual rejection risks being catastrophic to her confidence and therefore her ability to approach at all until she gets over it.
You can pretend women are not socialized like this or deny that they aren't seen as desperate and pathetic more often then men who do the pursuing all you want, but it's just denying reality.
Cartoons Hate Her!@CartoonsHateHer
Women making the first move more often would make dating a lot easier, but many of them find it not just anxiety-provoking, but a turnoff. Link in replies.
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