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Kinda wish I wasn't feeling more and more vindicated every day about calling it from the start that treating the AI issue like a moral crusade where you have like a moral obligation to prioritize signalling and reaffirming your hatred of generative AI at any possible chance would lead to a lot of ostensibly "progressive" people uncritically parroting extremely reactionary rhetoric.

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"Homestuck fans didn't want this, who is this animated series even for?"

Kids, probably

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You guys over here probably aren't aware because someone will post a picture of a small daily dip in the market with a gif of a video game guy clapping saying "Crypto is dying!" But cryptocurrency is currently popping off. It's at an all time high and Trump is deleting regulations, allowing your parents' 401ks to invest in crypto. And with normal routes of online payments wagging their fingers and deciding what you can and cannot purchase, a different form of payment is going to rise up and fill that niche.

"Major credit companies are cracking down on what they will and won't allow consumers to purchase"

Oh.

This is going to push cryptocurrency.

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"Major credit companies are cracking down on what they will and won't allow consumers to purchase"

Oh.

This is going to push cryptocurrency.

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And the sign says:

Long haired, freaky people

DNI

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Toby Fox Vivziepop Homestuck adaptation

Toby Fox Vivziepop Homestuck adaptation

Toby Fox Vivziepop Homestuck adaptation

Toby Fox Vivziepop Homestuck adaptation

Toby Fox Vivziepop Homestuck adaptation

Toby Fox Vivziepop Homestuck adaptation

Toby Fox Vivziepop Homestuck adaptation

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I feel like something happened.

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There was another new mom in PT yesterday, her baby was two months younger than mine and she was gushing about how well her baby sleeps and all I could think was

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Heard an insurance commercial that was like "Are you the most DIVORCED man in DC? We're divorced too! Give us your money!"

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I was in 9th grade when the anthrax scare was going on. It was after Halloween and it was still in the news. I had some sweet tarts in my lunchbox.

The group friend leader said it would be very funny if we crushed up the candy, put it in some envelopes, and gave it to teachers we didn't like. We got to the crushed candy stage before I spoke up and said "Hey this is probably a bad idea." I pointed out the cameras in the cafeteria and how easy it would probably be to track this to us.

And after some light ribbing at my expense they agreed. And instead used a straw to pretend they were snorting coke.

I have some advice for teenagers: every friend group needs one (1) goody two shoes anxiety friend. I say this as the goody two shoes anxiety friend in a group of edgelord hot topic kids back in high school.

The GTSAF is your human replacement for the impulse control you don't really have yet. You need to listen to them until you develop your own internal "maybe we shouldn't do this" voice.

Now you do need to give them a little enrichment. Push them a little bit. Encourage them to sneak out from the sleepover at 2 am to play on the elementary school playground. This is good for them and they'll remember it fondly in the coming of age novel they'll write in their 40s.

But in return you gotta listen when they say "Hey maybe we shouldn't film ourselves stealing beer. Maybe we shouldn't show our faces in the video and say our names and post it online." The anxiety friend will save your ass.

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I have some advice for teenagers: every friend group needs one (1) goody two shoes anxiety friend. I say this as the goody two shoes anxiety friend in a group of edgelord hot topic kids back in high school.

The GTSAF is your human replacement for the impulse control you don't really have yet. You need to listen to them until you develop your own internal "maybe we shouldn't do this" voice.

Now you do need to give them a little enrichment. Push them a little bit. Encourage them to sneak out from the sleepover at 2 am to play on the elementary school playground. This is good for them and they'll remember it fondly in the coming of age novel they'll write in their 40s.

But in return you gotta listen when they say "Hey maybe we shouldn't film ourselves stealing beer. Maybe we shouldn't show our faces in the video and say our names and post it online." The anxiety friend will save your ass.

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Had a dream that we went to a theater to watch a movie, and installed at the top of the movie screen were three large televisions. One was playing a baseball game, one was playing a different movie, and the third was playing advertisements nonstop. They were all on mute with subtitles and playing during the movie but the seats had headphones and you could choose to listen to like, the ads tv instead.

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Do you guys remember when Griffin McElroy would record himself shoving Nintendo toys in his mouth. Do you remember when we used to have fun.

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Re: the post about seeing so many people who just complain about babies and kids online, I've had a similar experience.

And in particular I see so many other trans people happily proclaiming how proud they are to not have plans for children that I felt very self-conscious mentioning it within those circles, but as it turns out, enough people are happy to be supportive that it doesn't matter.

The internet just really likes to shove negativity in your face.

They really do!!! And I know a lot of people who are proudly child free but excited to be tangentially in my kids life as an aunt/uncle figure. The folks who are militant child haters are very rare and, as the kids say, terminally online

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That post about how minorities are overrepresented on this site so you get a skewed idea of normalcy if you spend too much time on here and end up with posts like 'can we normalize male business owners?' or something but like

I had so much anxiety about taking our baby out in public. On every community like here and reddit it's full of people complaining about babies and small children being disruptive, noisy, stinky, etc. but then every time I do take him somewhere I'm met with nothing but kindness and awe. People old and young stop to gawk and coo at him, tell me how cute he is, offer me a look of understanding when he's fussy. Sometimes they give advice or ask how I'm doing unprompted. It's very sweet.

And then I remember that one post where someone said babies are humans with rights and they have a right to exist in public and well, it seems the majority of the public actually agrees.

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If I say "magic is real" I get a million people in my inbox telling me that god and Harry Potter are fake and that I shouldn't lie to people about sky fairies and casting fireball in real life.

If I say "magic isnt real" in get a million people in my inbox saying like "well what about this specific poetic interpretation of 'real' that could, in some cases be interpreted as yadda yadda yadda"

If I try to acknowledge the delineation between ritual praxis and a material belief in the supernatural, people go back to sleep because nobody on this website wants to read anything longer than a tweet. Or worse; they attribute any inarticulation on my part as evidence of some fundamental deceit. As if I'm a grifter hiding behind academic language and not just someone with a deep and abiding interest in something. God forbid someone just find the occult interesting.

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Sometimes you buy a record based solely on the album art and it really really works out