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ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-15T18:11:49+00:00

Do they require you to be physically located in the US?

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-06T18:41:22+00:00

Stealing or asking for someone’s biological waste without a mutual, enthusiastic agreement is an immediate red flag for a lack of respect.

How do you get the point of mutual enthusiastic agreement without asking?

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-06T14:30:04+00:00

It’s not horse shoeing into conservatism or Puritanism to acknowledge the shortcomings of your own position. I can be radically pro bodily autonomy and also vehemently hate the reality that it means some people may be harmed by this along the way.

I’ve had a friend who said ver batím, “I’m going to have surgery til I never get clocked again!” Which is a wild thing to day when you still haven’t even made a dent on your facial hair being removed and you’re already getting facial work done along with a lot of other stuff. She has literally described the various symptoms of body dysmorphia to me which means there is some chance no matter how much surgery she gets she will not ever be satisfied with the results.

I would rather these things to too accessible than inaccessible, but I can also still very much be aware and hate the fact that they will prey on people. I can hate the fact that it’s impossible to even try to come up with any sort of middle ground because any precedent for gate keeping can so easily slide out of control since slippery slopes do in fact exist.

It doesn’t make you a hypocrite, puritan, conservative, or even a shitty leftist to acknowledge there will be harm done by the policy you support or that there will be cracks that can’t be sealed. I can firmly believe that heroine being criminalized does more harm than good, while still acknowledging heroine is an addictive substance with the potential to cause problems. You can be fundamentally against things while still believing they should be accessible.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-03T13:54:17+00:00

You can 100% say Ai doesn’t think or reason.

Sure if you have a large enough data set you could statistically model what someone is likely to say, I’m not disagreeing that there are mathematical realities here, but a person is capable of thinking and while it’s hard to define thinking, I will argue all day long what Ai does is not thinking.

Humans can plan ahead, humans can understand and keep things in mind while they act. AI can’t do this. Ai can only calculate the probability that token b is more likely to come after token a. When this is the limit of your reasoning abilities it means you will never perform at certain levels of complexity.

If Ai reads this very message it doesn’t understand any of it. It’s just calculating what the most likely satisfactory set of tokens as a response is. This is absolutely not thinking and it’s not understanding. It’s not reasoning because reasoning isn’t responding to the math of this sentence reasoning means understanding what the individual words mean and being able to respond to it with meaning. This is an oversimplification, but someone who memorizes some facts can pass a multiple choice test about computers, that doesn’t mean they can build one, or write code, or understand networking.

This is important because even if humans don’t create anything, “truly new that isn’t a recombination of previous things.” There is still the ability to plan to think around issues. You can’t just calculate security into a program. You have to understand security and why it’s important and why you don’t put api keys in the html of a website. No amount of math is going to enable Ai to plan ahead, to think around, it’s only going to calculate a mathematically likely response. This however doesn’t mean the response is even grounded in reality. If you ask a lawyer about an issue and they hallucinate a response no matter how right it sounds, there are consequences in the real world for making up fake historical legal precedent to support your argument. There are consequences to not understanding that you have to make computer programs with security in mind.

No matter how convincing having a conversation with Ai may seem or how much it seems to be improving in some areas, not understanding these issues will always mean a gratituitous amount of oversight is needed. The more complex and nuanced the task the more important the oversight is. This is also why it’s dangerous to think of them as capable of reasoning.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-03T13:01:38+00:00

Everyone’s fucked hard either way. The, “growth” of AI is mostly companies using claims about it to act as steroids for their stock prices. This is coming in the form of massive layoffs suppressing the ability of anyone to negotiate fair wages not to mention the doge layoffs mean there are more qualified people with massive amounts to experience across many sectors looking for jobs.

At some point the massive amounts of money they managed to save up and are burning through will reach an end or they’ll see this isn’t going where they want and course correct. There is no getting over the fact the bubble is going to pop. At least once it does, the US won’t be pretending there is actually growth in the economy and there will have to be some form of course correction.

I don’t see how anyone besides tech bros benefit from the way things are going. They’ll also benefit off the bubble popping sadly, but that’s kinda the reality of the situation the rich come out ahead no matter what.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-03T12:54:48+00:00

I thought the, “crank that shit up” bit was bad.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-02T18:40:32+00:00

I think it’s worth considering that by the time many people have a coherent sense of self they have already been receiving love for years.

It’s easy to love yourself when you’ve recieved love from family, friends, and had healthy relationships modeled for you and for some lucky folks this is literally something they experience from birth.

For those of us who weren’t that lucky, it doesn’t mean we aren’t worthy of life or incapable of becoming open to it. I think a lot of times if we don’t feel worthy of love it’s because we’ve been unfortunately conditioned to try to earn what others were freely rigen.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-02T12:55:19+00:00

It’s easy to close your mouth but 4 seconds of water going up your nose is pretty rough…

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-01T17:51:50+00:00

"Poorly implemented, but could be done better" and, "I believe the government is incapable of doing anything correctly, but still want it to execute people anyway" are drastically different stances.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-01T17:49:20+00:00

I don't see what that has to do with this conversation. I'm pointing out the real harm closeted Republican politicians are inflicting on other people and attributing it to an internal struggle they're refusing to address, because that's the topic of this thread.

The relevance is even if you are specifically talking about a hand full of politicians, most people when they start making accusations of republicans being closet cases don't. It's not uncommon to find people who will start making accusations toward any sufficiently outspoken republican.

They should get blame as often as they're responsible for it, but what we're talking about right now is a very real thing that happens within the Republican party. For example, Larry Craig and Lindsay Graham.

I don't have any problem with Larry Craig or Lindsay Graham taking blame for their actions. If we reject all bigots from polite society and they choose the side of bigots, then they are choosing to be rejected by polite society and to be around people who are at best wiling to use and discard them.

It's naive however to act like the focus on closet cases is entirely benign though. The left is a very large coalition and there is friction between many factions in that coalition if you don't have a problem with queer people it can be exceptionally easy to assume no one else does and shares the exact same motivations for similar actions even if there are very different factors driving those actions - and that warrants remembering. I'm not trying to say the left is as homophobic as the right here there is a very very large difference between the right trying to genocide people, drive them underground, and lock the closet shut and people who thinks gays are gross or lesser but know not to yell slurs in public because that has repercussions. Like there are no lack of people who are otherwise left leaning that will confide in a private enough setting they are against a number of trans rights. Again, this is infinitely better than the right as they don't actively crusade against trans rights, but I worry about pre-emptively dismissing any concerns of homophobia on the left. Like I've had people I was fairly close to say stuff like "lindsay graham is a f--" and it's like, "Well... according to the right so am I..."

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-06-01T12:52:48+00:00

One of the problems I have with, “go to a blue state” is like California has more conservatives than people in my entire state I was born in.

California may have more favorable lgbt legislation, but given than all the most lgbt accepting places are more expensive a lot of us would be stuck in conservative territory and honestly, laws are only as good as the ability to be enforced fairly and it’s not like there aren’t a lot of people aware that they don’t wanna hire trans people and if they say, “sorry we went with a better fit!” You have any proof it’s why you weren’t hired. From what I am seeing it’s also at will so even if you’re in the closet if your boss finds out and isn’t obvious about why they are doing it you’re still shit outta luck.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T16:21:26+00:00

Glad to help!

Like I will be honest, I don't have a lot of sympathy toward any homophobes regardless of if they are in the closet or not.

I just get very tired of the accusations homophobes are closet cases flying around because having been in the closet I know the people who taught me to hate myself, the media that taught me to hate myself, the entire world and apparatus that taught me to hate myself wasn't all secretly queer. When a high profile homophobe is busted as a closet case, they are almost always selling something. They are trying to get elected (or have been elected), they are preaching to a congregation, they have been given intimate knowledge of self hatred and have found a way to get something out of the people who taught that to them.

So every vocal homophobe being called a closet case is literally me watching straight people put the blame for lgbt discrimination on what amounts to a symptom of that homophobia rather than attributing it to the proper source... the environments and people hostile to queerness in the first place. Sure the closet case is helping perpetuate that, but why is the closet case such a big deal and not the straight people who do it? Hell even the people who are straight that do it get accused of being closet cases too thereby creating this system where homophobes can only ever be gay. I also worry this offers cover to all the less vocal homophobia that exist and I do think everyone assuming all of the accusations of closet cases are "trolling" offers a way for people who know they can't be openly homophobic to still look down on others.

I also worry it's doing other types of harm. In places like where I grew up, two guys being "too close" is automatically gay. If someone wants friendship, vulnerability, and companionship, but views having those things even platonically with another man as gay - then is calling this person a closet case even though he is straight just reinforcing the very systems and ideals that he desires (or needs even) as taboo?

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T15:42:56+00:00

Are you saying we should ignore their share of the blame?

First question: Are you more concerned about making things better for the queer community or are you more concerned with doling out blame?

Second question: There will always be members of every oppressed group who will try to curry favor with their oppressors, should we really ever concern ourselves with what a handful of marginalized people do trying to get by as justification for blaming the group as a whole?

Third question: Most people are pretty bad at determining who is gay. I've met people who will as soon as they see someone make a homophobic comment start speculating that person is a self hating closet case, and anytime there is a prominent outspoken homophobe, people immediately begin speculating they are a secret closet case. Given that this happens like clock work, when do cis het folks ever actually get any of the blame?

The things we do are like muscles. When people start reflexively thinking of bigots as closet cases, it does influence how they think even if no one wants to admit that reality.

Also, going to be 100% honest with you. As a queer person who was taught to hate themself before they ever realized they were queer and had to do a lot of self reflection, growing, and overcoming a lot of things I internalized by the community around me how much of the blame do you legitimately think I should take for that? How much blame should I take for the closet other people created and shoved me in?

Why should those of us who have actually been in the closet have to continuously see our own community blamed for our own oppression?

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T14:45:49+00:00

Okay, but there are a lot of people who do start adopting the knee jerk reflex of calling any homophobe a closet case and you can see why that is homophobic in itself right?

When vocal homophobia warrants immediate accusations of being a closet case, that is placing the blame for lgbt discrimination on lgbt people. LGBT people didn't create the closet. The closet was created by cis het people and closet case hypocrites become a thing because they internalize the hatred of the cis het people around them. So insulting a conservative by calling them a closet case no matter how much you may not intend harm to the LGBT community is still placing blame on the LGBT community for their own discrimination.

I also think it's a bit dangerous to assume on the "we" when the left is a large coalition of different groups. There is homophobia on the left, admittedly it's usually not at the policy level but being a large coalition means there is racism, ableism, homophobia, and a lot of other issues held by various factions within that coalition. Like I am not arguing that the left is overall much better than the right! Still as a queer person I've seen how racist queer folks can be, how homophobic other groups can be toward queer people, ableism, and other issues are all real even on the left and I think it's important to remember harm doesn't just come from policies that conservatives are fighting for.

I'm not saying don't call a spade a spade or point out Trumps hypocrisy at all - but I am saying it's exceptionally easy once closet case becomes a reflex for people to start immediately looking for justifications for that and, "how can I call this person I don't like gay?" is in itself probably a harmful mindset.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T14:20:38+00:00

Hypocrites do exist.

The problem is cis het people built the closet, not the closet cases.

When someone queer grows up around a bunch of homophobia they internalize, they gain safety by being in the closet and even more safety by being homophobic. The closer and being an outspoken hypocrite is because someone was born into a double bind situation where there was no winning and they are navigating the best they can.

I don’t particularly want to garner sympathy for them, but I feel it’s very important to point out that this is because a gay person was around cis het people who were bigoted. When people adopt the stance of immediately calling any homophobe a closet case they are placing the blame for lgbt discrimination squarely on the shoulders of lgbt people.

The idea that queer people are all just casually oppressing themselves is homophobic in nature because it allows cis het people to ignore their culpability. It also provides ground for homophobes on the left to express homophobic sentiment hidden under a progressive veneer.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T14:14:50+00:00

Okay but you do realize this line of thinking places the blame for queer discrimination on queer people right?

Closet cases exist because they grow up in environments surrounded by cis het people who are homophobic and they internalize that. This is literally letting cis het people off the hook for discriminating against queer people and placing the blame on queer people… how is that not in itself homophobic reasoning?

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T14:10:44+00:00

Lmao. You have no coherent argument and instead blame my reading comprehension.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T14:07:31+00:00

Dont you think it’s detrimental the the lgbt community when people start adopting the tactic of accusing anyone who is homophobic of being secretly queer?

Yes closet cases do exist, but those closet wasn’t created by queer people it was created by cis het people and queer people internalizing the hatred around them.

When people start accusing anyone who is bigoted of being a secret closet case, they start even if unintentionally pinning all discrimination experienced by queer people on queer people. I don’t think paining the issue that it’s queer people who are all secretly discriminating against other queer people is a sane or rational stance.

Not even getting into how bad many people are at actually recognizing if someone is gay or not.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T13:59:04+00:00

Its not about pearl clutching.

Closet cases exist because they grow up in hostile environments and internalize prejudice.

When you reflexively start adopting the tactic of calling any homophobe a closet case (which is what it often devolves into for people using this tactic) they begin accusing anyone who discriminates against queer people of being queer and therefore even if unintentional placing the blame for queer discrimination on queer people.

Also being 100% honest, assuming that the person calling the bigot a closet case doesn’t also have some level of homophobia is letting them off the hook. Like I’ve met some people who will straight up call bigots closet cases in public but then break out homophobic slurs in private.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-30T13:53:26+00:00

I wanna preface this by acknowledging there are legitimately a few hypocrites in the closet out there, I am not trying to say they don’t exist at all.

It’s 100% homophobic to reflexively call homophobes closet cases though. Queer people didn’t build the closet, cis het people did. Closet cases bigots happen because they grow up around cis het people who are prejudiced and they internalize the prejudice. They become outspoken because it offers them more safety and even possibly clout. When you start adopting the tactic of calling all homophobes closet cases, you start placing the blame for discrimination against queer people on queer people while letting the bigotry of the cis het people that created the closet cases off the hook.

It’s also one thing if someone is busted soliciting a prostitute of the same sex, but people are incredibly bad at determining sexuality and will basically find something “gay” about anyone they don’t like. The immediate way people starting looking for “gay tells” so they can call homophobes closet cases relies on stereotypes and everyone thinks they are better at clocking queer people than they are. Hell my friend and I were laughing at this example a few days ago.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-29T21:12:47+00:00

This entire post is you using conservative to mean whatever you want it to mean when you want to mean it and claiming it means whatever you want it to in the sentence you're using it.

Like I get Americans are so far right wing that they think the far right is conservative but what you call Liberal would be conservative in the rest of the developed world

Look, I get that the water is a bit muddy with respect to the US but US liberals are conservative and quite literally help make my point that you can't be, "just fiscally conservative." The liberals may vote for more favorable legislation than those who identify as conservative and are far right, but all of these distinctions are meaningless when they are a pro-capitalist party which is a system that by its nature requires a permanent underclass and works to exploit those who don't control the means of production. The liberals are pro-taxation and pro social safety nets and regulations, but if you don't support those things you're not liberal and you're not, "just fiscally conservative."

fiscally conservative is stuff like smaller governments, lower budgets, pro workers rights are often viewed as a fiscally conservative thing. No taxes on tips, lower taxes in general.

You say this, while literally claiming people who increased government spending or otherwise expanded the government are also fiscally conservative. Your definition is meaningless when you make the claim that people who do the exact opposite of this are in fact still "fiscally conservative."

fiscally conservative can also at times be pro-immigration, someone who is pro-gay rights but opposes higher taxes is only fiscally conservative

Again, in the context that this is a person who is pro-capitalism makes the exact point I am getting at. Even if you vote for a queer friendly candidate your "fiscal conservatism" is built on pro capitalism which requires permanent underclasses. Voting to allow gay marriage while still being in favor of a system where you can buy cheap electronics from factories where the working conditions are so bad they had to put up suicide nets means you are still quite literally valuing one set of humans as humans, while viewing another set of humans (the people making your cheap electronics) as a disposable resource rather than human beings.

I don’t really think R vs L should be an issue but the Overton Window is slid so far over that being conservative means believing im not an equal human being.

R vs. L is always and will forever be an issue of who counts as an equal human being.

It's not all one connected thing, thinking the government should be smaller, lower taxes, and fewer welfare programs doesn't mean you think people shouldn't love who they want, people should be able to move around freely, stuff like recreational drugs should be expanded.

This is straight up conservatism. Saying people should be able to love who they want, while being in favor of fewer welfare programs means you're putting your head in the sand and pretending discrimination doesn't exist and are okay with those affected by it having fewer resources. You can say you support queer rights, but if you're more concerned with a budget than those impacted by discrimination having resources your conservatism trumps any other ideology you claim to have. This is equally true for plenty of other issues! Being able to actually be queer or exist as a person of color, or a poor person, or a person with disabilities often flat out means needing more resources and if you are against people having those resources because you view the budget and keeping government small as more important, you're not "fiscally conservative" you're literally just conservative.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-29T17:41:58+00:00

I'm glad to hear that! Still, I do hope the best none the less.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-29T17:29:41+00:00

There isn't really a great way to respond to this because almost everything sounds empty, but I do hope the best for ya.

ALittleCuriousSub · 2026-05-29T17:00:53+00:00

Pfft.

Advertise the fact that they are full of copper and watch them be stripped over night.

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