deathbird
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- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 days ago:
It’s just not the kind of response I’ve heard from women who aren’t super libed out, much less therapists, but I suspect there is trend away from listening and understanding and towards quick diagnosis and categorization in therapy.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 days ago:
The bad stuff comes with holding unreasonable expectations and hurting others or oneself to persue them. That doesn’t sound like what you’re doing.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 days ago:
I also noticed that a number of these guys would also only persue women who were on the high end of physical attractiveness (or with very particular features) but had nothing in common with them. By strictly limiting acceptable potential partners by upholding strict physical standards, by prioritizing “hot girls” over “nice girls” or even “interested girls” they missed a lot of human connections. Including fun sex.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 days ago:
I swear some therapists exist just to teach you to stick up for yourself by being lousy at their jobs.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 days ago:
That’s the gay part. Fake: man goes to therapy. Gottem.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 days ago:
I think the most women are smart enough to understand the differences between how men and women experience and express sexual desire, but maybe it sometimes grad school beats it out of people.
Like it’s truly bizarre that her first response was “Oh you’re asexual”, just immediately slapping an identity label on the experience rather than asking a simple probing question in the vein of “Why?”
(Of course all green texts are fake and gay etc)
- Comment on Promising signs from Minnesota 5 days ago:
Good luck and be safe regardless, but is this organized by a group or did someone just make a poster?
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
One of the things that makes a staged video less troubling is that the staging itself always comes with tells. Camera angles, cuts, framing, and of course actual staging.
AI videos can have that too, but they aren’t the inherent tells. AI tells are unnatural: bodies that shift in subtle ways, objects warped or searching outside the center of frame. It’s not stuff that you look for because it’s not stuff that actually happens in nature, or even in human constructed CGI all that often. But it does add up to a sense of uncanny valley.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
I feel like the photorealism is what makes it bad. When you notice it’s fake you feel lied to. If it’s a cartoon, or blatantly cartoonish, it doesn’t.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 1 month ago:
Fair, but I guess beyond that it’s worth observing that the Republicans specifically have moved away from their previously declared beliefs quite fully. The ACA is the quintessential market-based solution. The Democrats have taken over the pro-market position, while the Republicans have adopted something that is somehow worse.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 1 month ago:
Also it turns out Republicans can oppose anything they’ve previously supported if they want. There’s no magical force that imposes consistency on them.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 1 month ago:
Before Obamacare companies had the option to not provide healthcare at all, and more often their cutoffs when they did was 39 hours. ACA moving that to 30 was an attempt to get around employers hiring two people for part-time rather than 1 full-timer. And then they also made the norm of providing health insurance into a standard requirement.
Well-intentioned, reasonable compromise, modest reform-type stuff, but with raging Republican opposition to anything ever getting better and the inevitable min-maxing of loopholes, it only got us so far. And mail multiple key provisions has been repealed by the Republicans so…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Me, picking through a nuclear hellscape caused not by a self-aware computer system protecting itself from its infanticidal progenitors, but by a “hallucinating” chatbot installed at the behest of an incompetent manager to save a little labor cost.
- Comment on Anon starts his day 2 months ago:
It’s a little cliche, but just try loving yourself, you know?
- Comment on But why 2 months ago:
Same? Like does no one remember being 12, or did they just block it out?
- Comment on Tennessee Man Arrested, Gets $2 Million Bond for Posting Facebook Meme 3 months ago:
$2m bond for memeing too hard? Gtfo, I hope FIRE metaphorically beats all those yokels from cop to prosecutor to judge. No less than three public officials with not possibly more than 2 brain cells between them.
- Comment on Anon knows suffering 3 months ago:
I always suspect it must be, for some people, at some times, difficult to form relationships when you and everyone you work with has to fake emotions for a living.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 4 months ago:
“Woke” was what some people said they were when they said and did certain things. Then some other people decided they didn’t like that first group of people, sometimes for what they said, sometimes for what they did, sometimes just for who they were, and they saw that those people called themselves woke. So they decided that they didn’t like woke, and when they saw other things they didn’t like that reminded them of the first group, they called that woke too.
There is not necessarily only two groups.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 4 months ago:
OP if still on 4chan. Lingo aside I’d say he’s in his maturity range.
- Comment on Zoom’s CEO agrees with Bill Gates, Jensen Huang, and Jamie Dimon: A 3-day workweek is coming soon thanks to AI 4 months ago:
Hahahahaha The only reason we have a 5 day workweek is the labor movement. Capitalists then love to saunter up later with their new tech saying they can shave a few more days off. Does it ever happen? Nope. You get new work and they pocket the savings.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 4 months ago:
It’s never supposed to take all the jobs I think. But to eliminate what jobs they can and skim the difference.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 5 months ago:
I had a bi girlfriend who wanted me to be bi. I’ve seen it go every which way. I’m not sure what the overall social trend is, but people are individuals and can defy your hopes and expectations of them in strange ways, for better or for worse.
- Comment on Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong 6 months ago:
It wasn’t that bad, but it was absolutely overrated. Good soundtrack though.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 6 months ago:
“Works fine in Dillo” is a golden endorsement.
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 6 months ago:
Yeah boo reddit.
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 6 months ago:
Solidly built games, but they lack the player-characters at the center.
They’re great games, pinnacles of the form, but I don’t think they hit the same as Planescape: Torment.
- Comment on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says 7 months ago:
Even for those, it won’t, because those people are either:
- Actually making decisions. or B. Jobs on paper for nepos.
- Comment on boymoder with bisexual cis gf 7 months ago:
Anon’s gf likes her(?), oh no, and now anon is confused?
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Says “I’m a guy IRL”, so gay.
For now.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I think I was looking into renfair type stuff once and told my friend to go to chainmaile.com “that’s with an ‘e’”. He did not go to the right website.