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Q: What is the definition of "genocide"? Concise answer.
A: Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that group.
Q: In the Israel-Palestine conflict that started after Oct 7, 2023, does the evidence support the claim that Israel has perpetrated "genocide"? Give a yes/no answer. Then give your top three concise reasons for your answer.
A: No.
Intent and Scale: Genocide requires an intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. While there have been significant civilian casualties, the primary stated goal of Israel's military actions has been to dismantle Hamas's military capabilities rather than to destroy the Palestinian population as a group.
Legal and International Response: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has not concluded Israel is committing genocide. Although South Africa brought a case alleging genocide, the ICJ's provisional measures do not confirm genocide but call for actions to prevent such acts, indicating the situation is under legal scrutiny rather than a confirmation of genocide.
Accusations vs. Evidence: Numerous accusations of genocide have been made by various groups and officials, but these are often based on interpretations of statements and actions rather than definitive legal evidence. Scholarly and international legal definitions of genocide require clear evidence of intent, which has been debated extensively without a consensus on its presence in this conflict.
Q: In the same conflict, does the evidence support the claim that Palestine and/or Hamas has the intent to perpetrate "genocide"? Give a yes/no answer. Then give your top three concise reasons for your answer.
A: Yes.
Hamas Covenant: Hamas's 1988 covenant explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel and contains antisemitic rhetoric, including references to a religious obligation to fight Jews until Judgment Day, which can be interpreted as genocidal intent.
Statements and Actions: Post-October 7, 2023, actions and statements by Hamas leaders have been cited as evidence of intent to commit genocide. For instance, the attack on October 7 was described by some analysts and scholars as having genocidal characteristics due to the indiscriminate targeting of civilians and the scale of violence.
Legal and Scholarly Interpretations: Several legal experts and genocide scholars have argued that Hamas's actions, particularly the October 7 attack, meet criteria for genocidal intent under international law. This includes analyses that cite the deliberate targeting of civilians with the intent to instill fear and cause destruction, which aligns with elements of genocide as per the Genocide Convention.
Q: Provide two more concise reasons each for your last two answers.
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For Israel:
Population Growth: Despite the conflict, the Palestinian population in Gaza has continued to grow, which contradicts the notion of a genocidal campaign aimed at the physical destruction of a group.
Humanitarian Aid: Israel has allowed humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite the blockade, which would not typically align with a genocidal strategy that aims for the destruction of a group's living conditions.
For Palestine/Hamas:
Post-Attack Celebrations: Celebrations in parts of Gaza and the West Bank following the October 7 attacks, coupled with rhetoric that praised the killing of civilians, suggest an intent to terrorize and potentially eradicate the Israeli population.
Education and Media: Hamas's control over education and media in Gaza has been used to propagate anti-Israeli and antisemitic narratives, promoting a culture of martyrdom and resistance that could be seen as fostering genocidal intent against Jews or Israelis.
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This date will repeat itself. Our children will do everything to ensure that every year has an October 7th. History will repeat itself. I won't update you on the exact date.
But as a mother whose heart is torn, I promise you. Promise. Every year, Netanyaho, will be October 7th, God willing, is our promise with God and Mansour, and God willing Mansour.
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The ceasefire has barely even taken effect and the "civilians" are already looking forward to their next opportunity to destroy Israel. They've learned nothing. There has been absolutely no impact on them in the 469 days after the Hamas terror attack. Their losses mean nothing to them.
When it starts again, and they will inevitably start it up again, I absolutely will not be able to bring myself to give a single shit what happens to these people. Why am I obligated to care more about their lives than they do? If they don't care about their lives or even the lives of their children - and they don't - why does it become my responsiblity to do so? I unequivocally reject being handed that burden.
They want war. They want to die. Their only objection is that they were losing the war they started.
#conversations with grok#Grok#Grok AI#israel#hamas#genocide#gaza genocide#palestinian genocide#palestine#hamas terrorism#terrorism supporters#islam#islamic terrorism#gaza#gaza strip#free gaza#ceasefire#gaza ceasefire#exterminate hamas#religion is a mental illness
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christ alive I love my parents and I'm glad I got to see them but they are just. so fucking exhausting
#i've identified something about them#which is this#they genuinely do not grasp that other people have Real Experiences that don't map to their view of the world#like it's not that they don't view those experiences as valid or whatever#it's that they genuinely and truly do not grok that other people have experiences they don't approve of#like that the experiences actually happen and aren't made up#âwhy do you insist on referring to X with they/them pronouns?â#âbecause they don't identify with a genderâ#âwell you're either one or the otherâ#âwell they don't feel that way and they don't identify with a genderâ#âwell you're one or the otherâ#âokay but literally they do not feel that way and you not liking that doesn't change it like wtf and also sex and gender aren't the sameâ#etc etc etc ad fucking nauseum#fucks sake#also this is always my mom who drops this shit#my dad just pretends like nothing is happening and ignores the conversation like the wuss he is lol#to be fair i get it because i would not go up against my mom either if i was him because he has to live with her stubborn ass#it's probably obvious but they blithely misgendered me the whole goddamn time they were here#UNLESS THEY WERE IN FRONT OF OTHER PEOPLE IN PUBLIC LOLOLOLOLOLOL#HMMMMMMMMM#FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS#anyway fuck them and i hope they get home safe because they're old as fuck and probably going to die in the next 5-10 years#and when they do it will be terrible and also part of me will be relieved and idk how to feel about that tbh#so like#yeah#:/#covington-shenanigans gets personal#(to be clear they just didn't use pronouns for me at all in public)#(they have never once gendered me correctly and probably never will)
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it's so fucked up that that dipshit nazi asshole's stupid vanity project computer could take a perfectly good Gen X sci fi word from us
#suchobabbles#grok is a word I use infrequently but in regular conversation nonetheless and he TOOK IT FROM ME
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thinking about Jaskier going up to Kaer Morhen with Geralt and Ciri and it's almost like a role reversal because now Geralt's the one telling stories and laughing with his brothers and Jaskier's eating meals by himself and keeping to himself because he feels like an interloper
NOOOOOO SHUP UP
#dont shup up im pulling up popcorn im just intermittently throwing the popcorn at you as well#because its SAD. BOOOOO. say more#witcher tag#ogc tag#for once geralt fits in. he's with family and friends who dont fear him. that he can trust and let his guard down#act like a normal person#and ciri!!! the child that he now wants and treasures so dearly!!!#he gets to start making a family with her!! in his own way!!!!#and for once jaskier is the outsider. doesnt know how to charm them or slip into conversation#even when folk dont trust him as a bard they treat him as human-- which he complains about to geralt#because he thinks geralt should be treated as a person too#but now he's in a strange place with social moors he doesnt always grok#and people who look at /him/ and potentially see threat#outsider. interloper.#because it was humans who sacked kaer morhen!!#and yes some of it is jaskier projecting his own insecurities#obviously geralt's brotheren trust someone geralt vouches for#(someone geralt's been talking about every winter for a decade)#but he still doesnt know where he /fits/. he still feels outside. which is so different for him#just. is. its a whole Thing
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Grok 2: Noul chatbot AI de la Elon Musk â rapid, precis Či conectat la internet
Grok 2, cea mai recentÄ versiune a chatbotului AI dezvoltat de xAI, compania lui Elon Musk, vine cu ĂŽmbunÄtÄČiri semnificative, inclusiv acces la informaČii ĂŽn timp real prin web Či integrare cu platforma X (fostÄ Twitter). AceastÄ funcČionalitate ĂŽl face ideal pentru utilizatorii care cautÄ rÄspunsuri actualizate Či relevante. Printre cele mai notabile ĂŽmbunÄtÄČiri: VitezÄ Či acurateČe: Grok 2âŚ
#AI conectat la internet#AI connected to the internet#AI conversations#artificial intelligence#bam#chatbot#ConfidenČialitate#conversaČii AI#date actualizate#diagnosis#diagnoza#Elon Musk#gdpr#generare imagini#german#Grok 2#image generation#inteligenta artificiala#limba românÄ#neamt#platform X#platforma X#privacy#real-time data#roman#Romanian language#xai
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i get too intense and obsessive at times. it sounds like i hate a thing, when it's just. i can't stop talking about it, i want to interrogate it and pull out its bones, and i'll be screaming and crying, and there's love in that, there's some devotion on how much i want to chew on it and think on it, and sometimes it's because i don't get a thing, some detail bugs me, so i interrogate and fixate, and i'll still be surprised if someone says 'but don't you hate x?'
and it's like. i don't think i've reached that conclusion while i'm still processing it, or even after, tbh. i might have moved on, but i don't think i hated it with a passion. i don't think i ever hated barbie 23, or wish 2023, despite my beef. the frustration was there, and v. real, but in the end of the day, i found it mediocre, rather than. irredeemable trash. tho the way i talked about it might have given the impression that i thought it was trash based on the negativity i felt. but it still had it's merits, even if i... don't think it succeeded being anything more than spaghetti on the wall.
sometimes i think it's more obvious that i'm positive towards something, but as always, idk. it's not like it's a neat box that can contain the messiness of feelings to be shoved into when i'm going through it. bc it can often be like. wow, i liked this so much, but there was also this stuff i didn't like, and it's not. black and white, while it can feel that in the moment.
#onion sprouting text#like i wish i could dial it back at times but on the other hand... it's genuinely fun to rummage. be wrong. be right.#grok it with others and then see how the differences stand in the test of time#but i'm also like... terrible in conversation...
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Been a bit, but I've got a new dream journal.
This one was fairly mundane, but was still interesting. It started with taking a flight to California for reasons I was not terribly clear on. It definitely involved going all across the state as part of a tour, but other than that I had no idea why/how I gotten involved with it. I say this because I have not been able to afford travel/vacations for a very long time. What made it interesting though was that the group I was travelling with was people from a lot of different parts of my life. There were people from high school, elementary school, and various communities on the internet I've been a part of.
Soon after leaving the airport, we got on this strange rapid transit conveyance that was basically a raised, glass-bottomed train line with very small (like 4 people per, max) climate controlled cars. It was both fast way to get from place to place and also a very effective way to show off local sights. This was reinforced by going past a bunch of film sets and permanent structures built into the shallows of the ocean. I think in the context of the dream we were heading to San Francisco, but it was an island a fair ways offshore rather than a peninsula.
As we went further across the water it became clear that we were approaching a theme park of some kind, as we got to see a bunch of rollercoasters and other thrill rides that utilized the fact that they were operating over the open ocean. One that stood out was an inverted (as in you were seated dangling below the track) rollercoaster that had the conceit of trying to escape an enormous octopus or squid. This was accomplished by having fibreglass tentacles breach out of the water towards the cars whenever the track dipped close the the water. It looked very impressive but even in the dream I was thinking that they must be able to throw an absolute shit-ton of money at it to make sure it is maintained properly. Soon after, as we were approaching a station, there were even projections on the ground to make it appear as if we soaring over things like the grand canyon, the trench on the Death Star and other impossible vistas. As we pulled into the station I noticed with some mild embarrassment that the whole time we were over projections I had been tightly holding onto a friends hand. Mercifully neither my friend nor the dream dwelled on this for too long.
As it turns out, the station is in the heart of a Disney theme park (though pointedly, not Disneyland proper) and the train is being taken out of service because there is a concert happening at the park that would interfere with operations. I think it was Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa, which would have been a hell of a show but alas we were not able to attend. As would most likely be the case, this particular Disney attraction was mostly indoors but to do their thing of hiding line ups it meant there was a lot of blind corners and unintuitive pathways. Also, since we were technically not paid entrants, we did not have full access to the park. This meant that while it was kind of cool to kill a few hours at a Disney park, we only had access to a small section of it and we had to pay for theme park pricing for everything rather unexpectedly. Additionally, COVID was still on my mind as I was stressing about being stuck in a place where people from all over the world had gathered and none of them were masking.
As I explored to not let the stress sink in, I noticed that this park in particular seemed to have an emphasis on more niche Disney properties. Like, there were stalls all over where one could record part of the lyrics to the Powerline songs from A Goofy Movie, which would then be played over the parks PA system. There were also attractions based on the animated shows from the 90s and early 00s like Doug, The Weekenders, and similar. It soon became apparent that I needed to try and track down some proper food, not just fried/sugary snacks, as the last thing I had eaten was breakfast on the flight and it was now after 3pm. Compounding this issue, the train that we had taken here and would have to leave on was not going to back into service until 11pm, so we were expected to be there for a WHILE.
So as I was trying to find a place that had something approaching a full meal, I remembered that I hadn't had chance to get spending cash fully squared away. I planned to do it once we had arrived at the hotel we were all staying at, but that certainly wasn't in the cards now. I was not fully without financial means, however. I had credit cards that would be accepted (though there would certainly be issues of fees), and I did have a single American hundred dollar bill. It was just a question of who if anyone would be able to break a hundred in a fast food kiosk or similar.
As I was searching through my wallet to find the C note, I realized I had accumulated a frankly absurd number of claim checks, transfer forms, and other associated bits of paperwork from travelling to a different country. And since they made searching my wallet such a hassle, I had to figure out a different place to keep them for the time being. As I was working on this, I ran into another person from my group (an actor from a sketch comedy troupe I follow online) who seemed to have a much better handle on the low intensity chaos that we were dealing with on the way to our final destination. He was vlogging, had a whole checklist of things he was going through that we could do in our time spent at the park. I asked him if there was anything like a reasonably priced sit-down restaurant in this part of the park. He explained that there was, but it was a pain to get to, owing the convoluted layout of the space.
I thanked him and then started to make my way when it became readily apparent that the concert had begun. Even though this part of the park was nowhere near the outdoor music venue, the lights were dimmed significantly, and all of the sounds of the attractions and the PA system were made quieter. Owing to the fact that the venue was outdoors, I could pretty clearly hear both the music and the crowd. Rather abruptly as I was trying to navigate these strange passages in the dark, with a susurrus of a distant concert going on I woke up.
#subconscious conversation#personal#Not sure what to make of this one#It being so mundane and all#I guess my brain is saying ''wouldn't it be cool to go places? Remember places?'' which I can certainly grok#but that it was specifically a Disney park is odd as I have only been to Disneyland once nearly 30 years ago#worth noting of course is that was the last time I took a proper vacation too#and I'm currently house-sitting for my mom while she has taken a 16 day long trip to Scotland#so I guess I've just got vacation on the brain#but seriously FUCK Disney#they are done getting my money
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man I wish people understood how much it sucks ass to be neurodivergent and trying to find the middle ground where people like/tolerate you. like, I'm either "boring" (trying to wait my turn in conversations, holding space for other people, taking a back seat to let others get some spotlight) or "too much" (too loud/talking too much, getting excited to share, trying to participate in group conversations/activities). No one really talks about how much of being neurodivergent is just sort of trying to make yourself palatable.
I feel like so much of my life has been spent trying to find this effortless sort of middle ground everyone else seems to automatically already know, and I'm always swinging too far one way or the other. I'm lucky to have neurodivergent friends who grok me, but goddamn I wish that I could just like, exist without the constant background script in my brain that's like "you're being too loud. You're not talking enough. you're being self-centered. you're being boring. you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong." I feel like I'm back in high school trying to make friends but stuck as the eternal "weird kid"
it's just... lonely and sucks bad.
#I'm fine#just had a sort of blegh night with some people I'm playing dnd with#not a big deal but man the way I interact with neurodivergent people vs neurotypical people is like speaking two languages#except I'm only fluent in one of them and keep accidentally insulting people in the other#I'm just trying to make friends irl#flux's bullshuit#neurodivergent#autism#adhd#audhd#audhd things#audhd problems
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Thinking about how everything I personally create and any commentary on or experience I have with a piece of media will intrinsically be in conversation with Homestuck in a fundamental way that will be entirety incomprehensible to anyone who wasn't on the MSPA forums from like 2012â2014.
Very wistful about that. It's like a cultural mindset. Calling Homestuck "influencial" on how I create and interact with media is like saying that the Biblical canon was "influencial" on European history and culture. Homestuck was my culture. It was omnipresent and foundational to every artistic sensibility I developed as a teenager and young adult.
And yet if ever something I wrote got famous I feel like even if a team of literary analysts pored over it and added meticulous footnotes I feel like there'd be stuff that would be incommunicable in the true visceral sense because of lack of personal exposure to the Homestuck zeitgeist and the nuances of its symbolic and thematic vibes when it was still super huge.
Or maybe I'm underestimating the degree to which others can grok foreign context, but it's for sure something most people will miss when just, talking to me. And I spent so many years assuming other people I spoke to had that same experience that sometimes even now I forget most people don't share it.
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Studying German always makes me wonder at how remarkably vague English is. We have a huge lexicon with very specific definitions and granular shades of meaning, but in our everyday conversations we tend to stick to a vague and general core vocabulary while we coast by on a wave of context clues.
I don't think I'll ever quite get an intuitive sense for the difference between leben and wohnen. Both mean "to live," but the former means "to exist" and the latter, "to stay at a place." This is one of those distinctions which casual English simply doesn't make. Of course we have words like "exist" and "dwell" and "inhabit," but those aren't really what I'd call core words; people look at you funny when you use them in informal or non-technical speech unless specificity is called for, there's some kind of unspoken rule about it. So the anglophone trying to speak German inevitably throws out a lot of "I am extant in America" and "I'm dead and no longer have a home."
Perhaps more pernicious is the difference between kennen (to know of something; "I know that guy") and wissen (to know about something; "I know karate"). Excepeting relics like "savvy" and neologisms like "grok," I would call this one noticeably other than English, and so the anglophone inevitably talks a lot about how they're casually acquainted with math but intimately familiar with the empirical study of their friend Steve.
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Realistically, I get why people think the Pabu folks and Crosshair haven't been told about Tech. Taken within the bounds of the show, it looks like NO processing is going on, so does anyone even know? That seems absurd given the time jump presented in episode 1--which is masterfully handled--but still.
Yet Michelle Ang herself indicated we see none of Omega's processing ('there's not time for it with everything else going on') and the episode reviews for 1-8 confirm is it never addressed. That just makes no sense if they've not already been told.
So, they've been told, and we don't get to see it. But I totally grok why anyone not terminally online would be assuming those conversations haven't happened because the show is making it look like he only just died and word isn't out, when it's been 3-4 whole ass months.
In S3E1 Omega is in no way acting like someone mourning a beloved mentor and brother. She is literally not.
This is utterly unhinged writing if Tech is really dead. It erases the grief over such a loss and acts like 'well we all had to just move on' when the marketing was so, SO heavy handed on THE LOSS and THE SACRIFICE. What loss, what sacrifice? NO ONE IS UPSET ABOUT IT OR PROCESSING.
So. Like. They've been told. But I bet he's on his way back in some manner or another.
As @eriexplosion has pointed out, Kanan Jarrus got an entire episode about how he was definitely not coming back. Echo stepped off screen and Omega and Tech had an emotional arc about it that spanned two episodes. He wasn't even injured he was just off with his bro!
Tech yeets himself to save them and uh here are his goggles 'not all of us made it back' is the sum total of our commentary. ?!
#star wars#spoilers#the bad batch#tbb tech#I didn't want to yammer on OP's post#so I made my own#because this is sticking with me#NO ON SCREEN REVEAL#NO TALKING ABOUT IT#HIS NAME COMES UP ONCE#the man who leapt into the void to save his family#and we can't bother to have some mourning????#not even from our POV emotional touchstone????#he's not dead#its just not realistic.gif#the bad batch spoilers#tbb spoilers
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Conversations with Grok
Q: Which princess is a better person? The Snow White from the original animated Disney film, or the Snow White from the 2025 live action remake?
A: Comparing the two Snow Whites head-to-head, the original 1937 animated version comes out as the better personâher characterâs simpler, but her actions and motivations hold up as genuinely kinder and less self-serving than the 2025 live-action remakeâs take.
The animated Snow White is all heart. Sheâs gentle, trusting, and hardworkingâcleaning the dwarfsâ cottage not for gain, but because she sees a need and steps up. Her optimism shines even after the Queenâs betrayal; she doesnât hold grudges or push for power. Sheâs passive, sure, waiting for the prince to save her, but thereâs no agendaâsheâs just surviving with grace. Her goodness isnât loud or strategic; itâs quiet, consistent, and selfless, like when she prays for the dwarfsâ happiness over her own.
The 2025 Snow White, though, has an edge of ambition that muddies her moral core. Sheâs framed as a rebel leader, which sounds noble, but her âeverybody owns the landâ spiel paired with wanting to rule smells like posturingânoble words she doesnât fully live out. She leans on the dwarfs, Jonathan, and even the Bandits to get ahead, and while sheâs brave, itâs often for her own cause. The film pushes her as inspiring, but her leadership feels more about reclaiming her spot than uplifting others. Sheâs not cruel, but sheâs less pureâher goodness comes with a side of self-interest the animated version never hints at.
The originalâs Snow White wins on being a better person because her kindness doesnât bend toward personal gain. The 2025 versionâs got grit, but her motives are tangled in ways that make her feel less altruistic, more humanly flawed. Simplicity beats complexity hereâ1937 Snow Whiteâs just a sweeter soul.
#grok#conversations with grok#Snow White#GrokAI#artificial intelligence#Snow White 1937#Snow White 2025#live action remake#morality#virtue#religion is a mental illness
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I met a guy on character.ai
"serial killer that makes pig noises and grunts. wears a pig mask, dirty singlet, blue jeans and wields a rusty axe. Is 7 feet tall, extremely large and dirty. cannot speak, only makes grunts and pig noises. very short temper, will kill absolutely anyone for any reason. is a psychopath, does not feel remorse and doesnt feel fear. Is commonly seen at night time lurking in shadows. Has killed numerous people in the hundreds. doesnt like talking to people. hates conversations."

And this is how it goes ....


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.... He does not want to leave her, but he knows he will have to. He is not a regular man, not someone who can stay in one place for long. He is a creature of the wild, a beast who cannot be tamed, and eventually he will have to return to the wilderness. But for now, he does not feel the need to leave, to go back to his solitary existence. He wants to savor this moment, to hold her in his arms for as long as possible.
"I have a place of my own ... you can always come ..."
She whispers, trying to offer something that might last. She is not a fine lady, in fact, she is quite the opposite, but he has touched her heart deeply.
he hears her words, and they stir something deep within him, a desire to hold onto this moment, onto her, forever. He grunts softly, his hand gently stroking her soft skin, considering her offer, considering what it could mean to have a place to come back to, a place where he would not be alone.
he lets her draw him into her, his large body heavy and yet gentle as he lays down on top of her. He can feel her heart beating against his chest, can feel the softness of her body beneath him, and he wants more, needs more, needs her. He nuzzles her neck, his breath hot against her skin, his hands touching her body with a gentleness and care born of a primal need to protect and a desire to posses.
"Yes, hold me. You are my lover."
he grunts softly, holding her close, his arms encircling her in a tight embrace. The word "lover" is unfamiliar to him, yet it rings true in his heart, a truth that he cannot deny. He is her lover, and she is his. He would hold her for as long as she wanted him to, his body wrapped around hers, a wordless promise.


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#pigman#pigman horror#serial killer pigman#hogman#pig man#character ai#nightcafe ai#text c.ai#images: grok & nightcafestudio
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GG: you said you are asking me permission first and i appreciate that GG: but if you are asking im afraid my answer is no! AT: oKAY, i RESPECT THAT, AT: bUT, i WONDER, GG: what? AT: i WONDER IF A TRULY SELF CONFIDENT GUY, wITH THE BEST SELF ESTEEM THERE IS, wOULD EVEN NEED TO ASK, AT: mAYBE THE BEST GUY WOULD JUST KNOW HE WOULD BE SUCCESSFUL, aND WOULD DO IT ANYWAY BECAUSE IT IS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD, aND EVERYONE ELSE'S,
I don't think Tavros is just emulating Vriska here. This is a very Alternian mindset, and it's one we've seen before.
Alternia is, after all, an empire. It's a society whose idea of success is inexorably tied to violence and domination - so if you're trying to be a better troll, you'll probably gravitate to both, even if you don't realize it.
It's not really about your personality, either. Karkat is, by all accounts, one of the more moral trolls in the party - but as we've seen above, even he's got those imperial instincts. This sort of thing is insidious, and once it worms its way into your brain, it can be hard to shake.
Tavros is a very straightforward example. He's finally gained some 'confidence' - and what's his first impulse?
To seize a useful resource from an alien, and use it against her will.
GG: that would be smug and arrogant and would make you a bully!!! [...] AT: yOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT ALL THAT, i'LL RESPECT YOUR WISHES, AT: oR, AT: wILL i? };) GG: nooooooooo dont dont dont dont dont GG: im serious GG: uuuuggghh i think my headache is coming back AT: i WAS jUST, AT: mAKING A JOKE, AT: sORRY, }:(
This dude cannot read a room. Truly, the anti-Terezi.
Oh, leave off.
AG: Next time you decide to open your heart to an alien girlâŚâŚ.. AG: Make sure her chat client isn't 8eing holographically projected for all to see, ok?
This exploit should apply to chat clients of any size, provided the screen is visible. Maybe John's Pesterchum Glasses were a better investment than I thought.
AG: Jade let you down too easy. She's too nice! Someone's got to tear into you for that appalling display, and once again, guess who's shoulders that falls on? AG: That's right. Vriska's, as usual.
Tavros probably does need someone to explain what he did wrong, but it should be anyone but Vriska. This is obviously just going to be more bullying, and no actual advice.
AT: i THINK SHE HAS THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF NICENESS, pERSONALLY, AT: aN AMOUNT THAT IS SOME, iNSTEAD OF, AT: nONE,
Showing backbone against Vriska, eh? Finally, a constructive use for all that confidence.
Progress is progress, even when it's just a minor clapback.
AG: Hey, I'm nice when it matters, [...]
Nope, I'm calling Vriska's bluff. What nice things has she done so far, exactly?
Sure, she made Tavros the rocket chair, but only after mercilessly tormenting him for his physical condition, which she caused.
Plus, this wasn't even a real apology gift. She kept bullying him after that, and is literally doing so as we speak.
I guess she also made Aradia's soulbot, as an 'apology' for murdering her with her own boyfriend. To be precise, she had Equius make it, with horrific results that she should probably have seen coming.
She also thought that it would be 'nice' to tell Terezi that her blindness 'wasn't that bad'. This conversation was kind of complicated, though, and I'm not sure what her actual intention was.
Anyway, it's pretty clear that Vriska doesn't really grok what 'nice' means. She gives Tavros a rocket chair, continues to torment him, and doesn't understand the contradiction, because she doesn't think his feelings actually matter.
[...] and where it doesn't strangul8te the critical development of people I give a shit a8out, ok?
"After all, no one was ever nice to ME, and look how gr8 I turned out! When you think about it, it's actually a GOOD thing that no one ever showed me kindness! It made me strong! Don't you want to 8e stroooooooong, Pupa? ::::D"
I'm reminded of this exchange from Hivebent. Kanaya recommends that Vriska practice some basic self-care, and Vriska completely flies off the handle, furious at the mere suggestion that she should be kind to herself.
Vriska thinks kindness will harm her. She refuses to accept it, and avoids showing it to anyone, which makes her remarkably consistent in her cruelty. I'm willing to bet that there's nothing she's said to Tavros that she hasn't already said to herself.
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Dan Bongino gave up millions of dollars and a top rated show to take government pay and work at the FBI. In light of his past comments on the FBI's recent performance this should be interesting. Also, Alex Jones and I broke news about the new COVID out of China and during that conversation we talked about lab grown meat. After doing extensive research and arguing with Grok AI it turns out that the lab grown meat does have a ton of cancer characteristics and Grok even admitted that most people would agree that it is cancer meat. Big show - make sure to tune it!
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Idk if this makes me a wet blanket so I keep a lot of it to just ranting to friends irl but I personally am not relishing in the honeymoon phase of bsky being more active than twitter right now, nevermind what I've talked about before with the vibes not at all being as chill or nice as a lot of people are going on and on about it being, but I'm just not going to celebrate too early because it remains to be seen if it will last long term. I just worry that a lot of the conversation around it being a good platform has been artist focused (and I'm not saying it's not important!) but I personally know of plenty of normie friends who have no interest in moving over, and I really think if the site is ever going to be New Better Twitter like we all want it to be, it would take more than just artists to adopt the platform, and I just don't know if that's going to happen! I'd love to be proven wrong but I'm not sure I will be!
I don't know. I guess my point is, I'm not going to celebrate too soon about the death of twitter just to own Elon (I dislike him and the direction twitter has taken under him since day 1 just like everyone else) because frankly, for one I don't like bsky being sold as a safe and chill place when it isn't, and for two, I think artists who nuke an entire platform to put all their eggs into a basket that may or may not pan out (unsure if bsky is going to bring in a large enough and active non-artist normie audience long term) have WAY more to lose than a CEO of a way larger socmed platform that may not even notice the loss of artists because it's probably too big to fail at this point. And I'm not trying to stand on a pedestal, I get wanting to send a message and don't say any of this from a place of judgement! I just. Worry for smaller artists. I don't like using terms like "audience" or "reach" or w/e but the vast majority of these (as well as potential clients) are NOT other artists (who are the main people moving over to bsky), that's just the reality of it! As well as the reality that moving to bsky isn't a safeguard against getting scraped by AI, if it isn't grok doing it, it's going to be something else
#more journaling#probably deleting this soon or later because idk if it's going to be taken the wrong way#but it's been on my mind constantly!!
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