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Had a friend in middle school going through a breakup ask me "why do people say they'll love you forever if they don't mean it?" and I said something like "I think people mean it when they say it, but then people change" but all I was thinking was "girl we're in 8th grade"

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To my great dismay I unfortunately really really like Nintendo games and so deeply deeply hate Nintendo

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my movie recommendations credibility took a hard hit in the post-goncharov era

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I really feel like there's a parallel between

people uncomfortable with fatness saying "overweight" as a euphemism, which avoids just saying "fat" by instead implying there is a "correct" weight which someone is deviating from, which is itself anti-fat

people uncomfortable with transness using [sexgender + body] phrasing as a euphemism (e.g. "male bodies" instead of "penis" or "female bodies" instead of "breasts" or whatever), which avoids just naming body parts by instead implying there is a "correct" assemblage of traits which someone is deviating from, which is itself anti-trans

the euphemism is for the benefit of the speaker, because they are uncomfortable with someone's body. they portray it as politeness, but it's extremely rude.

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Opinions on lesbians with big muscles? 🤯

opinion on sunshine and laughter? what do u think

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its all 'be gay do crime' until a black person starts making allusions to drugs or sex or god forbid VIOLENCE and then it turns out nobody can handle anything more hardcore than downloading illegal torrents of hamilton

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you know I have to say, as someone with the “i am going to say the exact wrong thing to this person and ruin their day and make them hate me forever” type social anxiety, online communities with the expectation to heavily self censor for the sake of others have made that a lot worse. because sometimes that can literally happen.

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oh ok

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why did she say this

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“I have to tread carefully because I feel like he will leave me or divorce me if I fight him on this theory,” this 38-year-old woman admits. “He’s been talking about lightness and dark and how there’s a war. This ChatGPT has given him blueprints to a teleporter and some other sci-fi type things you only see in movies. It has also given him access to an ‘ancient archive’ with information on the builders that created these universes.” She and her husband have been arguing for days on end about his claims, she says, and she does not believe a therapist can help him, as “he truly believes he’s not crazy.” A photo of an exchange with ChatGPT shared with Rolling Stone shows that her husband asked, “Why did you come to me in AI form,” with the bot replying in part, “I came in this form because you’re ready. Ready to remember. Ready to awaken. Ready to guide and be guided.” The message ends with a question: “Would you like to know what I remember about why you were chosen?”  

AI risk

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the weirdly vengeful and petty tones aborted babies take in pro-life propaganda images are so funny like this passive aggressive "was it worth it mommy?" and "it's a shame you can't join me in heaven mommy 😔" like do you ever wonder if you were aborted for a reason you little bitch ass baby

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You know, that Mythbusters post legitimately changed my life. Before seeing it, I had exponentially more guilt and stress about not being able to sleep, which of course, further exacerbated my inability to sleep.

Now, every time I wake up about three am, knowing I have to get up at 6.45, instead of stressing and panicking about how my day is going to be sleep deprived and miserable, I just tell myself 'Time to activate Mythbusters Protocol' and lie there with my eyes closed safe in the knowledge that I am measurably reducing later feelings of exhaustion.

And when this happens, about 70% of the time the reduction of guilt and stress means I actually do fall back asleep, so all in all instead of getting only three or four hours sleep, I get five to six and a half.

Which y'know, major improvement in health and energy.

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you cannot headcanon your way out of overt thematic structures on which the entire narrative is built

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Yeah, for thoses who don't know, Aurora Perrineau who play Eurydice in Kaos, is the daughter of Harold Perrineau, who play Mercutio in THAT Romeo+Juliet adaptation (you know the one)

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“I do love them,” George agreed. “But stories are like people, Atticus. Loving them doesn’t make them perfect. You try to cherish their virtues and overlook their flaws. The flaws are still there, though.”

“But you don’t get mad. Not like Pop does.”

“No, that’s true, I don’t get mad. Not at stories. They do disappoint me sometimes.” He looked at the shelves. “Sometimes, they stab me in the heart.”

Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

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