#notes thinks

[notebooks-and-laptops]

When I was a kid there was this thought experiment I remember that went something like this:

There is a world in which nobody has to 'work' for a living. Instead, people pay for things with hours of their lives. So for example; instead of working for 8 hours a day to afford rent, you would give your landlord 8 hours off your lifespan in order to afford rent.

As a kid this was a story about the way in which we give our time to work, but I always think about this story when people bring up the time saving capacities of AI.

Because if this world existed, if I could give up parts of my lifespan equal to the number of hours I work at my job to not work at my job...well. I wouldn't want to. Because I am still existing in that time at work, still building the person that is me (even if the work is shitty sometimes or I'm frustrated or tired). I wouldn't want to give up my time on this earth because I don't black out when I go to work; I make friends, I laugh, I chat, I exercise my brain.

And AI...it kinda feels that way? I've worked on data cleansing before and it can be so mind numbing to do but playing with the data in a huge spreadsheet helps your brain to understand that data. Doing research for a uni paper and finding and collecting sources that helps your brain to understand the sources and develop an argument as it reads through each one in turn, in a way you wouldn't get if you got AI to do it for you. If you get AI to write your emails or your essay then you've lost the experience of how to write these things, how to communicate and argue and persuade.

The AI is making things quicker, but it's taking away experiences which are vital to the lifespan of whatever you're trying to do; it's taking away time from YOU where you learn and put in effort and exercise your brain and your skills.

[mikkaeus]

[macbethz]

Well I like it but it’s not very well written. Also it’s a visual mess. The plot doesnt make any sense and the creators suck and its politics oscillate from mildly problematic to frankly baffling. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. However. the character

[oifaaa]

I honestly do just presume everyone in the world has watched naruto I just can't comprehend a person that hasn't witnessed rock Lee take off his training weights or seen naruto sit sadly on a swing 50 times so when I see someone say they've never seen naruto I just don't believe them they have definitely watched naruto it is a universal life step

[kiryuing]

[isuggestforcemasc]

I might know a thing or two about this feeling

[starringmoon]

toby when i get you toby

[girldraki]

this is insane

[lylahammar]

the one perk he can't earn

[tanasha-not-yet]

pov httyd1 astrid

[theywhoshantbenamed]

Red Book update: art community in china tends to call good artists “teacher” “mom/dad” and “boss” and wonder what Americans say to good artists. Americans have expressed that they mainly compliment the art rather than the person, comparing the art to a good meal and joking about eating the art.

Chinese people love this apparently

[becquerel]

STOP TELLING ME ABOUT HOW SHE DOES SHROOMS SHROOMS AND MARIJUANA ARE DIFFERENT THINGS I HATE ALL OF YOU THIS POST HAS ALMOST 40K NOTES YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL

I KNOW SHE DOES SHROOMS IN THE MAIN COMIC I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY SINCE ITS NEVER DISCUSSED 😭 PLEASE MY NOTES ARE JUST PEOPLE TELLING ME THIS NOW

i really like ryoko kui's dedication to making this elf chick smoke weed in every modern clothing art she appears in

[hannibal-is-my-comfort-show]

Headcannon that Jason got the headstone from his grave and put it above his bed because it says 'Here lies Jason Todd' (he broke off the good soldier bit ofc) and thinks it's the funniest thing ever, some of the family, of course, are horrified.

Dick, at Jason's before they go out on patrol: Hey Jaybird, make sure to bring a spare respir--WHAT THE HELL?!?

Dick, looking frantically between Jason and the headstone: this is clearly a threat. Somebody knows your identity. I swear to GOD when I find who did this--

Jason, looking up from his phone comepletely unbothered: oh yeah, about that

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Bonus:

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Tim, climbing through Jasons bedroom window: Hey, its me, dont shoot. Do you have a first aid kit here right?

Jason, getting up from where he was reading in bed: ugh yeah sure, one sec

Jason, proceeds to grab a sticky note saying 'DOES NOT' and jabs it onto the headstone so it reads 'Here DOES NOT lie Jason Todd':

Tim:

Tim: okay that's funny

[m3djed]

i think if i focused really really hard i could grow a leaf

[duckysprouts]

brain chemistry changed from no longer you and monster btw

[horsefigureoftheday]

So, fun fact about the skinned FurReal pony - I got the ID wrong, but only because Smores and Butterscotch's necks are semi-fixed in position, and I didn't think to google if the image I had of Butterscotch was mirrored.

The skinned horse IS Butterscotch, not Smores, but all of that's besides the point.

The reason I'm making this post is that y'all need to know that they skinned Butterscotch to turn her into a flamethrower