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mom come get me, I’m scared

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one profession that does need better gatekeeping is people who write or translate subtitles. brother that is not what was said.

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Sims modders/CC creators, this is for you...

PLEASE put your name in your filename. One, someone will have a clue who it's by when they go to find more by you or to finally organize their Mods folder. Two, you're less likely to end up with the exact same filename as another creator.

PLEASE put your name FIRST in your filename. Alphabetization is super useful. It's less useful to alphabetize by the cute name you gave that hair or set of chairs.

PLEASE, for the love of all things Sims, consider not only using your initials. My Mods folder now has three different creators whose files start "MM". There might be even more of you MM's out there.

This has been a public service announcement.

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the one thing thing funnier than this caption is that the only reason they stopped doing it was that the ferret shit in the tube

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“Can I tell you a secret? You don’t have to be in a relationship. I mean it. I know they force it down your throat until you choke on it. Girls aren’t pretty unless they’re wanted. Boys aren’t men unless they’re having sex with someone. People aren’t lovable until they’re dating someone. But a relationship won’t always make you happy, and as wonderful as romance is, it isn’t the only love that exists. I have seen friendships that are deeper and more pure than couples who swear it’s forever - and yet the friendship is the one people ignore. I have heard so often “nobody loves me” out of the mouths of people who are single. And it kills me because if you ask them: where are your parents, your teachers, your classmates, your pets - they say, yes, okay, but it doesn’t count. Of course it counts, love doesn’t diminish just because someone doesn’t want to have sex with you. In fact, doesn’t it sort of make that love more real that they want nothing - not even a date - out of you? It is pretty to be in love. It’s magical, I’m sure. But it’s also wonderful to stop for ice cream in your prom dress with six other girls. It’s also wonderful to go visit the world with nothing but a bunch of buddies who are really excited about learning. The problem is: we’ve made everything about “the one”. But maybe “the one” is just you, loving yourself, having fun, and being happy. Maybe instead of looking for our other halves, we should be piecing ourselves together. Maybe I wasn’t born unfinished. Maybe I am the one who makes myself better.”

— Single serving size // r.i.d (via inkskinned)

I second rhat

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Garden of Hope - James Gurney (detail)

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steel. he made steel

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First cat video ever? 1899, colorized & speed corrected.

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'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

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i really hate coming out but still want my extended family to know, so my mother took it upon herself to invent the game “guess which one of my kids is gay.”

the rules are simple.

sit down with uncle so-and-so

he says something about gay people in passing

my mom says “there’s a gay person at this table right now. guess which of my kids it is!

he looks frantically between the three of us trying to figure out if she’s joking or not and trying desperately not to offend anyone but also she won’t continue with the conversation unless he makes a guess so he has to make a guess

we all enjoy his discomfort immensely

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I once used an airport restroom, and next to me was a man in a suit. He was washing his hands, and after he was done, he took a paper towel and cleaned the entire sink and faucet. I was surprised because he was well-dressed, wearing a suit, a tie, and had neatly styled hair. I looked at him because I had never seen anyone do that before.

So, I made a joke and said, "Oh, you must have been working here for a long time, doing it that thoroughly…" He laughed, looked at his hands while drying them, and then smiled: "It's never a bad idea to leave things a little better than you found them." And with that, he walked away.

That sentence really stuck with me, and I actually copied him. I cleaned the entire sink myself. Since then, I try to keep it in mind whenever I can.

I just find this thought so beautiful. If you apply it to life, to everyday situations…

imagine if we all left everything just a little better than we found it. What kind of world would we live in? It would be incredibly beautiful, and so easy to do.

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Nuns prints in my Shoppe - www.emilyscartoons.myshopify.com

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One of the common mistakes I see for people relying on "AI" (LLMs and image generators) is that they think the AI they're interacting with is capable of thought and reason. It's not. This is why using AI to write essays or answer questions is a really bad idea because it's not doing so in any meaningful or thoughtful way. All it's doing is producing the statistically most likely expected output to the input.

This is why you can ask ChatGPT "is mayonnaise a palindrome?" and it will respond "No it's not." but then you ask "Are you sure? I think it is" and it will respond "Actually it is! Mayonnaise is spelled the same backward as it is forward"

All it's doing is trying to sound like it's providing a correct answer. It doesn't actually know what a palindrome is even if it has a function capable of checking for palindromes (it doesn't). It's not "Artificial Intelligence" by any meaning of the term, it's just called AI because that's a discipline of programming. It doesn't inherently mean it has intelligence.

So if you use an AI and expect it to make something that's been made with careful thought or consideration, you're gonna get fucked over. It's not even a quality issue. It just can't consistently produce things of value because there's no understanding there. It doesn't "know" because it can't "know".

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Being Kind and hopeful and recklessly good is an act of rebellion