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one thing that took me embarrassingly long to learn is "sometimes when people say things, they will not be true."
I used to tell people about this revelation and they'd be like yeah.....duh.....but like, why wouldn't my base assumption be that you're communicating to me in a straightforward manner. anyway, I get scammed a lot.
#example: a 'friend' in middle school told me I should ask a guy out. she said 'he'll totally say yes'.#he did not. which was the obvious outcome#but it took me years to realize that she'd said that hoping to fuel some drama for her own entertainment.#ANOTHER EXAMPLE#a guy in college approached me saying that he'd been seeing me around campus but was always too shy to talk to me#and that he really wanted to get to know me#so I was like wow š„ŗ romance š„ŗ and hopped into bed with him#and afterward I was like what do you wanna do š should we see a movie š should we go out š#and he was like nope. byeeee.#and I realized I got bamboozled into sex#total shocked pikachu face#I'm still not the best at this tbh. I'm like 'why would this person lie to me. lying is bad'.#anyway this is why I not looking forward to entering the dating world again#DONT BAMBOOZLE ME I'M GULLIBLE
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quite frankly idgaf what Luigi Mangioneās politics are, he actually did something to make a change and thatās more than most people can say
#heyyyyy fbi this is totally a joke iām not on his side what noooooooo#edit: good god yāall canāt read between the lines. he did something to TRY and make a change#which is more than yāall complaining have ever done. is that better. is that more clearly spelled out for you.#also iām not a fan of this whole āoh nothing changed nothingās ever gonna change so why botherā attitude#we canāt get complacent just because making change is hard. we have to keep trying#even if it fails over and over we have to keep trying#luigi mangione#united healthcare#brian thompson#us politics#also yeah obviously innocent until proven guilty. sentiment is the same either way
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one 100 word email written with ai costs roughly one bottle of water to produce. the discussion of whether or not using ai for work is lazy becomes a non issue when you understand there is no ethical way to use it regardless of your intentions or your personal capabilities for the task at hand
with all due respect, this isnt true. *training* generative ai takes a ton of power, but actually using it takes about as much energy as a google search (with image generation being slightly more expensive). we can talk about resource costs when averaged over the amount of work that any model does, but its unhelpful to put a smokescreen over that fact. when you approach it like an issue of scale (i.e. "training ai is bad for the environment, we should think better about where we deploy it/boycott it/otherwise organize abt this) it has power as a movement. but otherwise it becomes a personal choice, moralizing "you personally are harming the environment by using chatgpt" which is not really effective messaging. and that in turn drives the sort of "you are stupid/evil for using ai" rhetoric that i hate. my point is not whether or not using ai is immoral (i mean, i dont think it is, but beyond that). its that the most common arguments against it from ostensible progressives end up just being reactionary
i like this quote a little more- its perfectly fine to have reservations about the current state of gen ai, but its not just going to go away.
#i also generally agree with the genie in the bottle metaphor. like ai is here#ai HAS been here but now it is a llm gen ai and more accessible to the average user#we should respond to that rather than trying to. what. stop development of generative ai? forever?#im also not sure that the ai industry is particularly worse for the environment than other resource intense industries#like the paper industry makes up about 2% of the industrial sectors power consumption#which is about 40% of global totals (making it about 1% of world total energy consumption)#current ai energy consumption estimates itll be at .5% of total energy consumption by 2027#every data center in the world meaning also everything that the internet runs on accounts for about 2% of total energy consumption#again you can say ai is a unnecessary use of resources but you cannot say it is uniquely more destructive
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oops, still feral over pre-war Dead End Dratchet
(drift: you're rusting at every joint gasket: but isn't that doctor chummy with the cops? we're literal thieves??)
started with the headcanon that drift hung around the clinic like a feral wet cat for a while, then halfway through shading these, I started thinking, what if deadlock was an especially reliable assassin because he knew what kind of damage would make sure that even the best of the best couldn't bring you back
#couple million years later#ratchet is performing autopsies and very determinedly not thinking about teaching that one kid which energon lines are most volatile#you ever get this image in your head of a guy lurking around the guy who saved his life and then think#guess i need to design a clinic#but because your dumb brain needs context you think i guess i need to design the surroundings so you start a daytime wide shot too#and then an even dumber part of your brain is like let's do it all in that fake etching style that you haven't totally worked out yet#and then you also get sad about gasket so you stick him in too#they're done at least we achieved something aaaaaaa????#transformers idw#maccadam#tf drift#dratchet#tf ratchet#ratchet#gasket#drift#mtmte#my art
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Oh snap, tumblr did the thing.
#mousse#moose#fun fact#moose are called elk in Europe#which is just so incredibly confusing#I guess we call elk wapiti for some reason?#itās truly bizarre#this is why common names are total mooseshit#this is not related to herpetology
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when people refer to canon story-relevant kingdom hearts games as āspinoffsā it makes me sad not only for the obvious reasons i always say but also bc like man i WISH this series had spinoffs. imagine what they could do if they had permission from nomura to truly go off the rails and ignore the greater canon for a second and just do some fun whimsical plotless thing in an alternate universe. imagine a fishing/boating game on destiny islands. kh fighting game. it is an injustice that we have been deprived of kingdom karts. can anyone hear me
#in terms of alternate gameplay and lack of reliance on plot#i feel like melody of memory is the closest thing kh has actually had to a spinoff#but even that is important in its own way in the end#union cross to a certain degree as well what with being an online multiplayer gacha type game#its original concept i would definitely classify as a spinoff game#bc it was set in a totally different world and time period and was supposed to be about customization and fun with friends#and nomura or someone said it wasnāt meant to be connected to the plot#but then like. he did very much go and give it a plot. like he went back on that almost immediately#and even then. given that the game is still very much combat and exploration#even from the beginning can it really be called a spinoff? itās just kh in a different format#iām talking like a game in which the objective is something totally different.#racing game or cooking game or fighting game or (another) rhythm game#ace attorney style detective game. dancing game. dude i donāt know#there are so many different flavors they could go with here#alas nomura is allergic to genuine whimsy which is hilarious given that this is a disney series#like he apparently was like āohhh should we really let sora in smash? would it make sense in the story?ā#my brother in christ surely weāre not supposed to interpret this as canon to kh right? right????#i guess itās just that the kh franchise has a very specific pristine vibe he wants to maintain#which is disney shenanigans as a seasoning on top of a main dish of Stone Cold Serious Anime Plot#kingdom hearts#kh#mine: kh
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Out of sight, out of - wait.
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#granny wen#a-yuan#It's always fascinating how colours translate from the page to the screen.#It would probably surprise a lot of people to see what some of these comics actually look like in physical form.#My lighter colours takes about 3-4 washes before it shows up on scan which means it tends to ripple the page.#And my yellows and oranges are drastically different colours when scanned compared to the ink colour.#There's about 20 or so comics where everyone's hair is purple - because it scanned in the exact same colour as my light grey.#Wait my book is right here in front of me so I can...yeah...Comics 57-77 were indeed purple.#This is all to say - is it not fascinating how what we see is often not the full truth of what the subject truly is?#Is it not fascinating to open another episode that reminds us that despite everyone's claims they could totally spot the evil YLLZ-#-The man walks around among them for months as no more than a man haggling for deals like the rest.#It's almost as if he's just a person. It's almost as if none of us - no matter what we do are really anything more than just a person.#Your good acts will be overtaken by how other's interpret you in negative light.#Just as easily are people willing to forgive crueler actions if they hold you in high esteem.#But what's real? Is the page I hold the real version of this comic? Is it the one you look at?#Is the man known as Wuxian the most himself when he is alone or on the battlefield?#Perhaps he is and has always been a scared orphan boy lost in the market.#I think there is no good answer to any of these questions.#But I do know that panic rising in WWX as he frantically looks for A-yuan was for more than one boy.#To be human is to have layers around a delicate center. We only really grow around our wounds from childhood.#In other words; Donkey from Shrek would also probably call Wei Wuxian an onion. I'll see myself out now.
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1x08 | 2x02 | 5x15 | 10x05
quiet everyone, hotch is telling us a story. (because the writers never did.)
#aaron hotchner#criminal minds#sorry the captions on d+ suck and i was in a hurry#i should have written my own#anyway#i have a lot of thoughts about the complete lack of backstory hotch gets from the writers#but we get these little moments#seeds from which my brainrot has grown#and i just think he's neat that's all#i took a little cm break and i'm not sure if i'm totally back yet but...i can't ever actually leave#that scene on the jet in 5x15 that everyone wants to make about reid#can we let hotch have his moment too? because it's important#not everything is about reid
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The Sweater Season is now in full swing
#global warming is real#it's been like 24Ā°C(ā72Ā°F) for like a month#which is totally off#should be like dropped to 10 degrees by now#people are wearing half sleeve t-shirts and it's not normal in November here#we should be wearing coats rn#we're not even getting autumn leaves yet#thank God that's gonna change next week...#karly draws#trigun#trigun stampede#vash the stampede
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If you hear Republicans speak to other Republicans, you'll hear a lot of them say that they really don't like Trump for whatever reason (many of them aren't fans of the felony convictions, his personal manner, his business dealings, his family life, or whatever else) but that they'll still be voting for him because he'll get them closer to what they ultimately want. They're pragmatic; they don't demand purity in their candidate. They recognise him as their strategic choice so they'll set aside the issues they have with him and vote as a bloc. That's what makes them effective at getting their way. That's how they win elections.
And boy I wish we had more of that attitude on the left. Imagine what we could get done.
#this isn't to say we shouldn't hold candidates to any kind of standard#it's that the relentless purity testing the left subjects itself to arguably does our opponents' work for us#it's so much harder to convince progressives to vote if the relevant candidate isn't entirely perfect with a 100% clean record#(which arguably no one has because the definition of perfect is going to differ person to person and also just... people have flaws)#whereas clearly conservatives take barely any persuading at all to turn up en masse and vote for the worst people ever#EVEN when they aren't totally on board with every aspect of those people#politics#us politics#american politics#us election#election 2024#2024 elections#us elections#2024 presidential election#project 2025#please vote#your vote matters#voting matters#my posts
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Tom on more of Owen's s2 improv (x)
#tom hiddleston#owen wilson#mobius#loki#lokius#mcuedit#lokiedit#marveledit#never gonna be a biggest owen fan competition as long as tom's around but i'm not mad about it šš#the way we keep getting confirmation every moment of the loki series i've loved heart and soul has just been owen in the moment#including the timeslipping effect!? which he visualized perfectly before anyone even had a clue what they wanted it to look like!?????#cool cool cool feeling totally normal about how powerful his mind is š#(also for the record i called all these moments out the second i saw them lmao the man's humor is just too good)#'SKIN?' you'll always be famous#marvel#owenwilsonedit#dianagifs
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The amount of death in the wild robot is crazy š like showing a cute crow and then BEHEADING IT??? is CRAZY ā ļøā ļøā ļø peak movie 10/10
#the wild robot#I WAS LIKE OH OK THEN???#AND NOT TO MENTION SHOWING THE DEAD BIRDS WING LATER ON#GIRL THAT SHIT WAS LIKE AHISSHSJHS#It really made you worried for the characters because they were NOT afraid to kill anyone#The joke about the possum baby getting killed was like NOT FUNNY BECAUSE I TOTALLY THOUGHT IT DIED šššš#Also the amount of times they said killed or murdered was wild#It makes perfect sense for the movie but damn is it jarring for a kids film#Which I LIKE btw we need more jarring shit in kids movie#Btw I do not remember the book being that violent so I was like omg
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Jaehyun ā ćJ - The 1st Albumć 'Smoke' MV Teaser Images
#bex.edits#jaehyun#jung jaehyun#nct#jaehyunnet#*smoke#jadeblr#userzyx#leksietag#useroro#alitracks#eritual#ninqztual#useranusia#userpeach#foraddy#rhitag#userhornet#heyteo#higabi#heyykass#albalook#oorieri#njoyz#melontrack#lookwwill#rinblr#vinnieblr#it's giving film noir which is totally why i made so many of these b&w and not at all bc of the coloring#idek if i like my coloring on these... :/ but we post
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[cackling] Robin: Why donāt you guys find something better to do and pick on someone else-.. or better yet, no one at all! ā¦ Titus: Whatāre you gonna do about it, gingy? ā¦ Robin: Is that enough, or do I have to knock all your fucking teeth out too? Titus: The fuck-ā¦ Levi: Dude, the team-.. itās not worth it. Harry: Heās right, man. ā¦ [raucous laughter] Aster: Whatās so fun-.. woah, what happened? Harry: Gingy just fucking popped off, man! Threatened to knock Titās teeth out nā everything. Aster: Oh my god, and I missed it?! Titus: [scoffs] Iād like to see him start again. Levi: Maybe let your nose heal firstā¦ [Levi stifled his laughter as Titus snorted, covering his upper lip with a fresh wave of blood] Aster: Whatād he sound like? Molly: His voice was deeper than I thought itād be. Titus: I think he broke my noseā¦ ā¦ Robin: Sorry, Iām just sick of them treating you like that-.. thinking theyāre better than everyone, itās pathetic. ā¦ Robin: I donāt care when itās me but it pisses me off when they do it to you. Robin: I guess I shouldnāt have threatened him though, or punched him quite so hardā¦ ā¦ Robin: What..? Alex: Robin, youāre talking-.. like, a lot. Robin: Oh, yeahā¦ [Alex clapped her hands wildly and squealed, failing to conceal her excitement] Alex: Sorry, sorry! I shouldnāt make a big deal out of it, I just-.. itās exciting! Robin: Itās fine, I donāt usually revert once Iāve started. You can be excited. Alex: AAAAAAAAAAAA!
#ts4#sims 4#simblr#ts4 story#sims story#forever in between#fib#robin finch#alexandra sampson#levi sears#harry barrow#titus alaniz#penelope fletcher#madison belrose#molly crenshaw#aster caldwell#lest we forget robin is half oscar#HAH#and titus basically offered himself up as tribute to make a stand tbh so get REKT#fffffkjdfskjd#š¤ŗ#poor aster missed all the fun#OUGH#i love how secretly amused levi is about all this lmaooo#also.. the football team won't tolerate fighting which is why he didn't fight back#but he's also a lil pussy#semi yay for levi for reminding him tho??#also also.. molly is an old friend of the girlies and a total dork#affectionate#they only let her hang out with them cos she does their homework for them
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the !! them!!! and random serpentine that arent any existing one particular
#ninjago shipping#ninjago cole#ninjago geo#ninjago dragons rising#geodeshipping#lostshipping#i forgot what their other ship name is#need to stare at a pic of their kids because it feels so incomplete drawing just these two without them AGHH#these two look so good together and they are so. so shoujo#yk i wanna brainstorm about geo. he was in the lost realm because literally none of his fellow munce wanted him right#just cuz hes the colour of a geckle#sighh...but we didnt see him in master of the mountain so he was probably already in the lost realm by then!! amd then theres#bonzle and the kids#the kids i cant really assume how long theyve been there...probably post-merge cuz theyre well. kids...unless there are some really#neglectful parents in ninjago...which yk what isnt totally impossible#bonzle had been travelling around realms for a bit so i feel shes definitely been around the longest butttt...aggh idk its 6 am man#i find it a little funny cole ended up in the lost realm ppst-merge because he was quite literally forgotten once T.T destiny!!#teshfarts
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I think it says something that Jimmy absolutely destroyed the crew and ship in half the time Curly was captain. Like he couldnāt even get them past 2 full months before breaking down.
Like he really couldnāt be half the man he thought Curly was.
#like I think itās crazy cause the whole trip from when we start the game is like 6 months#they are only six months into the trip post crash itās why getting help was so futile#they had to survive another 6-7 with almost no resources sense most actual food resources where blocked off or destroyed#I see people saying they were surviving for six months after the crash or at least five but itās only two#they were on the ship for 4 months before hand like the time frames we play are extremely small in retrospect#itās like what 187 days when we get into the game? thatās about 6 months total#like Iām sorry this is also about peop saying Anya was liek 5 months pregnant but I think a big point is the assault just happened and Curly#didnāt react to it correct initially cause like have you seen someone whose 5 months pregnant? Anya is clearly not even with artistic l#liberty like 2 months is perfect because itās literally like the time when you confirm the pregnancy is stable and can feel the first signs#of life which is why she was getting worse and worse cause it was getting to the point she couldnāt hide it from Swansea and Daisuke and Jim#he already knew but imagine him seeing her with a stomach? heād lose it completely#it was just showing signs of life hence the ultrasound and horse fetus and the heart beat#like the minimum time is around 8-10 weeks which is two months like the two months is super intentional both in accordance to what he did#and the time before hand#mouthwashing#anya mouthwashing#jimmy mouthwashing#curly mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#captain curly#nurse anya
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