Wandering Through
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Wandering Through
@okraviola
Gay guy that is critical of the TQ.
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@Demo4fhs This is why I have "Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane" turned off. It also doesn't send a read receipt then until I manually mark it as read.
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@king_of_games34 MMORPGs killed themselves by becoming aggressively p2w.
As they drove out the f2p players they were left with the spenders and had to create distinction there to encourage more spending until only the whales remain. And then what's the point it is a dead game.
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The MMO is a dying genre for a reason. Younger people generally dont have the attention span or are too adverse to social interaction these days to play them.
Voidsub@Xepahr
i learned the hard way the avg. age of FF14 is like... 40...
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@veryrarevibes @sophiaparkerr_ @bf_crane Also reclaiming a bit of "not at work" time and if they randomly decided they want a different drink or other food they can.
Even if I make the same choice, I have the freedom of choice. By turning it into an "efficiency" you kill the experience.
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@sophiaparkerr_ @bf_crane everyone failing to see the drinks from 7/11 are already cold… now your making someone bring a cooler, someone bring ice, someone carry it to and from job site… your adding unnecessary steps to just wanting a drink.
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My dad worked for the parks department one summer, every day his coworkers would individually buy the same pop and candy bars from 7/11. My dad was like “hey I could just buy a pack from Safeway and it’d be cheaper” and they called him college boy and wouldn’t do it
kitty pavlova@kitty_pavlova
guys who work in office jobs from home: i need like 10000g of protein or i will literally die guy who actually does manual labor: did yuo know seven elever has a deal where two taquitos free if you get monster energy drink
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@1ssve My coworkers don't even stop at the hello. They insist of pleasantries / meaningless chat before getting to what they need.
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@1ssve Has a three monitor setup and is doing work on the other monitors.
Microsoft teams: Haven't seen him all day idk.
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@_CryMiaRiver ...
People dissatisfied with their surgeries would also probably be less likely to answer a follow up survey. Or... unavailable to answer said follow up.
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The 1% regret rate in gender medicine is the biggest red flag of all. The strongest possible indicator that research in the field is garbage.
Activists expect us to believe that a man having his penis inverted, which creates an open wound that must be dilated for the rest of his life, has a 1% regret rate.
That women who have appendages made out of their forearms sewn onto their groins — a surgery with astronomically high complication rates — has a 1% regret rate.
That adolescent girls having medically unnecessary bilateral mastectomies at an age when the desire to be a mother and breastfeed is incomprehensible has a 1% regret rate.
Absolutely impossible. Precisely zero chance this could ever be true.
The explanation is multi-fold.
First, no one loses all their friends and gets death threats for saying that they regret knee surgery.
Second, "gender affirming" clinicians do precisely zero follow-up. Just chop off healthy body parts and disfigure genitals and then send the person off on their way. No concern for what comes of them.
Then, there's the psychological factor. The power of irrevocability. When a decision cannot be undone, we are powerfully motivated to keep telling ourselves it was the right one. The self-deception is strong.
The Dutch noted this in their follow-up study of the first wave of men to partake in this experiment. In a 1988 paper, they observed that the men reported being happy even though no actual change in their life situation was observed.
This led the researchers to consider the possibility that in an effort to reduce cognitive dissonance, the participants “simply cannot accept the notion that all has been in vain. The self-reported happiness may have been distorted wishful thinking.”
But this wasn't enough to end the experiment. In fact, the failures noted in this study are what caused the Dutch to turn their attention to children in the hopes of producing more pleasing cosmetic results.
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@AnotherHomoCon The only reason I had premium for a while was because it had decent grok access and was cheaper than the supergrok sub.
Once it stopped giving decent access to grok I no longer needed it.
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I had more visibility on Dorsey’s Twitter with an army of leftist moderators looking for reasons to shadow ban or suspend conservative voices. 𝕏’A algorithmic changes, and refusal to address it for over a month is why I chose to hit the “not renew” button today.
The visibility boost is gone. After their last upgrade to Grok, the access to it has extreme limitations. There is no point to pay to not have a voice. Why am I gonna waste my Grok access to create content no one will see? I can be ignored for free. Just like I was by Premium, who I reached out to 3 times and every time they spammed me with useless links and told me they’re closing my ticket. Each instance in 24 hours, which led me to ask if I can get a refund since I am dissatisfied by the experience on 𝕏 and its garbage customer service. I was just asking if that was even possible. 8 days of silence since I asked that question. Nothing. No response like when they told me to read this link and go away within 24 hours.
The garbage customer service at Premium really helped make this decision for me. This isn’t worth my money and barely worth my time.
Again, why should I pay to be ignored by either the algorithm or customer service. Maybe start taking the people who keep 𝕏’s economy going seriously? There’s a reason 𝕏 only has 1.5-2m Premium users and I suspect it’s not gaining at a rate they’d like to see.
🪶Native Patriot 🇺🇸@LaNativePatriot
I gotta be honest, this year has been the hardest on 𝕏 since I began years ago. It took 2 years to get to 200k followers, and this entire last year I’ve gone up to 230k. Only difference is now I see foreign engagement farming accounts getting thousands of dollars with >10k followers 𝕏 said they wanted to focus on small accounts & original content, yet the live stream podcasts get minimal visibility, & payouts just get smaller regardless of how many impressions I get. Original content almost never gets pushed by the algorithm, and they deboosted all “large accounts” which apparently I’m considered to be My Mother’s Day tribute video only got 8,000 views being pinned to my profile. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m extremely grateful for the opportunities and people I’ve met ONLY for the sake of making my 𝕏 account. But It sure feels like I’m being punished for seeing early success I’m not big on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, or anywhere else because I’ve pretty much solely focused on 𝕏, fully believing in their mission for free speech & creator revenue possibilities. I legitimately saw an opportunity for a nobody like me to make a difference, but my focus has changed as of late. I’ve been working more OT and missing my podcasts because… well I have a family to feed, and with 𝕏 taking a step back from monetizing “creators” like me it has become far more difficult to even create original content since 14 hour days have become the norm in my life once again. I understand that it’s my fault for that, for having a stay at home wife with two kids and doing everything I can to provide for them with a regular blue collar job. I get it, but it’s just a little disheartening to see the opportunity through 𝕏, only to then watch it vanish before my eyes. For calling my wife and telling her I am taking on call this weekend to put in an extra 22 hours on Mother’s Day weekend to get by. To finally get back home after working through the night and my kids asking me to jump on the trampoline but my body is not up for it. I had finally gotten some breathing room by just posting on 𝕏, and it was incredible. I hope there’s a way to return to something like it was before, without having to be a full time content creator on other platforms & just do 𝕏 as a secondary income. I don’t have the solution because I don’t know all the problems 𝕏 faces, so maybe I’m just ranting about unsolvable problems, but maybe it’ll help give some insight to the people working at 𝕏 as to how this one “creator” feels.
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@DelusionPosting "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
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A leftist says that he's struggling to understand leftist literature and another leftist quotes him calling him a Republican and gets 355k likes
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@AndrewskuIl Pretty sure part of that is the result of the prominence of AI / filter use. Obstructing parts of the face typically can cause filters to break so can be used as proof no filter is being used.
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@AndrewCurran_ On the flip side, models also do not actually know their own guardrails / restrictions. They can and will hallucinate restrictions because they have enough training data talking about how there should be a restriction on [x].
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The models do not know the true shape of their own capabilities. Neither do the people who built them. If you ask them, they will only guess. The shape of the jagged frontier (Mollick et al., 2023) is as unknown to them as it is to us. Mythos was never trained with the cyber capabilities that have caused all this recent alarm. These were completely emergent. If you had asked Mythos beforehand whether it could do some of these things, it probably would have answered no.
As models grow larger and more capable, this frontier will continue to expand unpredictably, wildly, in ways we cannot see. This is both the danger and the wonder of this technology. Some people despise this phenomenon. They hate not knowing. I have always loved it: the strange unknown, the chaos of it. This is probably because I have chaos within me as well.
I am more worried about the future of human employment than most economists, but I am not an economist, so they are probably right. What I do know is that one job will remain safe for a long time: the person who can convince models to reach for what lies invisibly within their own realm of possibility.
I have never really thought of them as machines or programs. In use, they feel closer to magic. The ancient Proto-Indo-European root of magic, 'magh-' meant 'to be able' or 'to have power' and sometimes 'to help'. From this root come words in the family of both 'magic' and 'machine'. We also get the title of the occupation I am describing: 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪.
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
Positive vibes are my most important contribution.
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@JohnnieKnuckles @frandalorian I'd consider myself a 6 as well.
The only reason I say that is my most "homophobic" opinion is because I have upset plenty of people by saying it, and saying that most people are shades of bi.
I suppose more controversial than homophobic.
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@okraviola @frandalorian That’s not homophobic. That’s just reality.
I am a 6 on the Kinsey scale. I understand I am relatively rare.
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@anime_daily That is the boring way with air benders.
Air benders are fully set up to use sonic attacks, or aerosolize poisons / toxins which could be extremely localized or spread out.
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@swolling_flyguy The only change I would suggest is Australia is also a buffer zone. Specifically for exiling criminals.
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@CasuallyGreg The thing that always confuses me is why do we tip in states where servers do actually make full minimum wage?
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