#stop-arguing

[gumy-shark]

whatever. okumura brothers blast!!

[burning-beneath]

I’m Done Arguing

I’ve come to a quiet but powerful realization: I’m done with arguments. I’m done with exhausting conversations that go in circles, where no one is really listening—just waiting for their turn to speak. Especially when the goal isn’t growth or understanding, but simply to be “right.” When I was younger, I mistook debates for passion. I thought arguing meant we cared. It was part of the fire in…

[chanafehs]

Happy pride month everyone! Yearly reminder that pinkwashers should be ostracized from lgbt spaces and have no place amongst us, fascism is still fascism even if you put a rainbow in front of it. If you care about Palestinian queers, stop making excuses for genocide.

[morganbritton132]

Steve has the worst case of wrong time/wrong place and keeps getting unknowingly filmed in public and posted online.

Sometimes he accidentally wanders into the background of someone’s shot. Sometimes someone tries to stop him to ask him questions for one of those street interviews. Sometimes someone is a creepy weirdo and just filming him without permission.

Steve’s notable and noticeable because he’s hot and kinda a weirdo. Robin is a number one Steve defender though so she’s always in the comments warding off creeps.

Her favorite example of this was when a girl posted a video complaining that people were so unfriendly nowadays. Her example is that she sees this guy at the park all the time and she always says hi to him, and he always ignores her.

She demonstrates this by flipping the camera around to Steve on his morning run. He goes past her, she says hi, and Steve doesn’t acknowledge her.

She complains that he’s not cute enough to be ignoring people trying to be nice.

Robin simply commented, ‘He’s deaf 🫶’

[inkskinned]

i have chronic pain. i am neurodivergent. i understand - deeply - the allure of a "quick fix" like AI. i also just grew up in a different time. we have been warned about this.

15 entire years ago i heard about this. in my forensics class in high school, we watched a documentary about how AI-based "crime solving" software was inevitably biased against people of color.

my teacher stressed that AI is like a book: when someone writes it, some part of the author will remain within the result. the internet existed but not as loudly at that point - we didn't know that AI would be able to teach itself off already-biased Reddit threads. i googled it: yes, this bias is still happening. yes, it's just as bad if not worse.

i can't actually stop you. if you wanna use ChatGPT to slide through your classes, that's on you. it's your money and it's your time. you will spend none of it thinking, you will learn nothing, and, in college, you will piss away hundreds of thousands of dollars. you will stand at the podium having done nothing, accomplished nothing. a cold and bitter pyrrhic victory.

i'm not even sure students actually read the essays or summaries or emails they have ChatGPT pump out. i think it just flows over them and they use the first answer they get. my brother teaches engineering - he recently got fifty-three copies of almost-the-exact-same lab reports. no one had even changed the wording.

and yes: AI itself (as a concept and practice) isn't always evil. there's AI that can help detect cancer, for example. and yet: when i ask my students if they'd be okay with a doctor that learned from AI, many of them balk. it is one thing if they don't read their engineering textbook or if they don't write the critical-thinking essay. it's another when it starts to affect them. they know it's wrong for AI to broad-spectrum deny insurance claims, but they swear their use of AI is different.

there's a strange desire to sort of divorce real-world AI malpractice over "personal use". for example, is it moral to use AI to write your cover letters? cover letters are essentially only templates, and besides: AI is going to be reading your job app, so isn't it kind of fair?

i recently found out that people use AI as a romantic or sexual partner. it seems like teenagers particularly enjoy this connection, and this is one of those "sticky" moments as a teacher. honestly - you can roast me for this - but if it was an actually-safe AI, i think teenagers exploring their sexuality with a fake partner is amazing. it prevents them from making permanent mistakes, it can teach them about their bodies and their desires, and it can help their confidence. but the problem is that it's not safe. there isn't a well-educated, sensitive AI specifically to help teens explore their hormones. it's just internet-fed cycle. who knows what they're learning. who knows what misinformation they're getting.

the most common pushback i get involves therapy. none of us have access to the therapist of our dreams - it's expensive, elusive, and involves an annoying amount of insurance claims. someone once asked me: are you going to be mad when AI saves someone's life?

therapists are not just trained on the book, they're trained on patient management and helping you see things you don't see yourself. part of it will involve discomfort. i don't know that AI is ever going to be able to analyze the words you feed it and answer with a mind towards the "whole person" writing those words. but also - if it keeps/kept you alive, i'm not a purist. i've done terrible things to myself when i was at rock bottom. in an emergency, we kind of forgive the seatbelt for leaving bruises. it's just that chat shouldn't be your only form of self-care and recovery.

and i worry that the influence chat has is expanding. more and more i see people use chat for the smallest, most easily-navigated situations. and i can't like, make you worry about that in your own life. i often think about how easy it was for social media to take over all my time - how i can't have a tiktok because i spend hours on it. i don't want that to happen with chat. i want to enjoy thinking. i want to enjoy writing. i want to be here. i've already really been struggling to put the phone down. this feels like another way to get you to pick the phone up.

the other day, i was frustrated by a book i was reading. it's far in the series and is about a character i resent. i googled if i had to read it, or if it was one of those "in between" books that don't actually affect the plot (you know, one of those ".5" books). someone said something that really stuck with me - theoretically you're reading this series for enjoyment, so while you don't actually have to read it, one would assume you want to read it.

i am watching a generation of people learn they don't have to read the thing in their hand. and it is kind of a strange sort of doom that comes over me: i read because it's genuinely fun. i learn because even though it's hard, it feels good. i try because it makes me happy to try. and i'm watching a generation of people all lay down and say: but i don't want to try.

[uncle-fruity]

You have to love trans men and transmascs more than you care about semantics.

[something-about-sunflowers]

People do get that like. Trans men are men because they're trans, right?

Like.

You cannot separate the 'trans' from the 'man' because that person is not a man if they're not trans. If they're not trans then they're cis. But they're not. Because they're trans.

I genuinely don't understand how to convey to people who say all that 'trans men aren't oppressed because they're men, they're oppressed because they're trans' shit that like.

That's the same thing.

You're literally just saying 'trans men aren't oppressed because they're trans men, they're oppressed because they're trans men'.

That's how much sense you make when you try to separate it out like that. You can't. They are, quite literally, linked by definition.

[havenshereagain]

DPxDC Idea

Danny working at Wayne Enterprises as some sort of engineer, uses the in-house app for all his blueprints and stuff

He starts getting notes from a coworker in-app, and assumes its this annoying older guy in his department who constantly undermines him because of his age, despite his education and past achievements (i feel like in this AU the Fentons react well to the reveal and they work together on a number of non-lethal ecto inventions that have Danny's name attached to them)

Except one day his coworker mentions never using the app, and Danny suddenly realizes there's only one other TD he could've been arguing with in the notes of the app

[hussyknee]

Post cancelled because too many liberals think Kendrick actually did something other than profit off US nationalism. Keep Nina Simone's name outta your dickriding mouth.

[simplysomelilguys]

People have got to stop making Trump and Musk out to be idiots with no awareness of their surroundings, it only devalues the actual harm that they are doing

Musk is not too dumb to know what a Nazi salute looks like

News sources have to use terms like he appears to do this or alleged to do that because of risk of being sued for libel or slander or whatever but we do not

Be for fucking real, they know what they are doing and they are slowly getting more extreme like we are a frog in the pot and the water is slowly boiling around us

[s0up1ta]

markhelly fans get behind me

[nataliescatorccioapologist]

There is both a supernatural and a rational explanation for every major event in Yellowjackets. Lottie walking safely over the pit trap might be the Wilderness intervening to protect her—or it could be that Travis accidentally covered it with too many sticks when resetting it, just enough to support her weight. The cave visions could represent the Wilderness trying to communicate—or they might be hallucinations caused by carbon dioxide/poisonous gas exposure. The birds crashing into the cabin in Season 2 might be the Wilderness offering a sacrifice in response to Shauna’s accidental bloodletting onto the symbol blanket—or, as Misty and Nat suggest, the birds could have been diseased or thrown off course by iron deposits in the ground. Lottie speaking French during the cabin séance could be the spirit of Cabin Guy possessing her—or a trauma response, with her preexisting mental health condition triggering dissociation and emotional dysregulation, causing fragmented memories (like her high school French classes) to surface. And so on!

I hope they keep things open-ended and ambiguous like this, where every event can be interpreted in two opposing ways. It’s so fun to experience Yellowjackets as two different shows at once—one steeped in the supernatural, and the other grounded in psychological realism and trauma responses. The ability to shift between these perspectives (or hold both simultaneously) not only deepens the mystery, but makes the entire viewing experience so much more compelling.

[repotting]

If you're so concerned about teenagers being "groomed" (recruited) into the USA military why would you be... defending joining the USA military?

Like wouldn't it make more sense to take a firm anti-military stance and share it as widely as possible, with specific arguments to discourage kids from joining?

Stop fucking justifying this shit. I knew as a teenager the USA military was evil because people were widely condemning it and I heard some of their arguments.

Why the fuck are some of you trying to shut down criticism of the USA military and claiming it's to benefit American children who... don't know enough about the criticisms to not get recruited?

Like I know you're racist American chauvinists to have even thought of prioritizing the feelings of American war criminals over the families they blow up, but even if you only give a shit about Americans not suffering ptsd or whatever it only benefits military recruiters for you to go around trying to stop people from criticizing the fucking USA military!

[spookberry]

I like to headcanon that it was his job to take care of the bathroom fish tank

[morganbritton132]

Eddie, posting to TikTok at 3AM: Welcome back to Can’t Sleep With The Munsons…The Harringtons? The Harring-sons?

Steve: The Munsons.

Eddie: With the Munsons. What are we overthinking about tonight? *holds invisible microphone out to Steve*

Steve, into the invisible microphone: Nothing. No thoughts. Just craving sleep.

Eddie: So true, baby. Also a lie. I can hear you overthinking. I can smell how ridiculous it is. Hit me with it.

Steve:

Eddie:

Steve: Do you think Ozzy is mad at us?

Eddie: Why would he be mad at us?

Steve: He’s not sleeping in here.

Eddie: Well, we did kick him out for a couple hours. I’m pretty sure he’s just conked out in the living room.

Steve: I’m think he’s getting tired of me.

Eddie: Yeah, no. No one in the history of the world has ever gotten tired of you.

Steve: My parents.

Eddie: Proof they’re creatures from the Hellmouth

Steve, snorting: That’d make me from the Upside Down too.

Eddie: I married an alien

Steve, starting an argument they’ve had a hundred times: It’s a different dimension, Eddie. Not a different planet. I’d still be human.

[romehbo]

reposting myself but rly feeling this today