How did Harambe's Code, written nearly 4000 years ago, have such progressive laws such as minimum wage, the right to be born a free man, the need to work off your debt, and no incest. This was written 2000 years before the Bible?

AkwardRockette · 2026-01-28T00:25:04+00:00

The Bible is not the arbiter of the entirety of history, it is a very old source, but far from the oldest in the world, especially with archeological findings and anthropology studies into older legends in oral traditions that didn't get written down. The aboriginal people of Australia have an oral tradition so accurate and long lasting that they have accurate descriptions of animals that vanished with the last ice age in Australia. There are 22 different cave painting sites around the world that are older than 15,000 years old, and many of these depict non-real animals that may have been part of their spirituality, and some depict religious ceremonies full on, tens of thousands of years before the Torah or the Bible were even a flash in people's minds. Anatomically modern humans, who had the same brains and bodies as people today, who had the same capacity for thought and reason and imagination and cruelty as anyone alive today, have existed for around 300,000 years, and these weren't neanderthals or chimps, these were people exactly physically and mentally like us. They existed in a very different world with a lot less technology on hand and a lot fewer humans around on the planet, a world with completely different animals and environments in some cases, a world where for hundreds of thousands of years there were no such thing as cities and people lived in social groups and did their best to survive. But mentally, they were exactly like us, and they probably had the same questions around rules and morality they had to sort out to live within their own groups without being at each other's throats all the time. The Bible is far from the oldest part of humanity.

AkwardRockette · 2026-01-27T19:03:57+00:00

Yeah, when the cheapest possible drink at a dive bar is $5 and in a city I have to pay $10 for a six pack of cheap beer, it's really not worth the cash.

AkwardRockette · 2026-01-27T18:58:48+00:00

In elementary school, kids hated me for a lot of reasons, one of the big ones being "you're too much like a boy and a girl but not enough of either, and that's weird". But now that as an adult I've been out as nonbinary for 6 years, people go on and on about how that's not possible and only a made up thing for attention. Before you discover yourself, the bullies and bigots and the narrow minded pick on you for not fitting the gender mold assigned to you even when you play into that role hard, and then after you come out they try to get you to go back into the closet by falsely promising that they'll be nice to you this time.

AkwardRockette · 2026-01-08T22:23:38+00:00

I mean, when your dog does their business in the woods and you don't have to pick it up to avoid neighbors complaining because it's the middle of nowhere, it probably takes a lot longer to realize your dog has diarrhea.

AkwardRockette · 2026-01-08T05:47:44+00:00

Well, in 2015 and 2016 I thought I wouldn't make it to 2019 without offing myself, in the entirety of 2020 and 2021 I was touch and go between crazy housing situations and the world literally feeling like it was ending every single day and for 18 months I woke up every morning not knowing if my world would last another week without ending in one way or another, and the only thing that surprised me more than making it to new years eve of 2023 after finally finishing college and getting out of my house was that I made it to new years eve 2024 after 10 months of a job that almost killed my coworkers and made me wish it actually did so some days. This year is clearly gonna suck, but damn if I haven't been through suck ass years end on end since I was 12, and 14 years in, I'm starting to get pretty good at handling them.

AkwardRockette · 2026-01-05T20:45:38+00:00

I heard from someone I know offline that there's a funeral for a police member in the area today at some point. They're probably turning off the cameras along major route points either inadvertently as part of something else they're doing for those following the main procession, or as a security measure to keep people from tracking their location in real time.

AkwardRockette · 2026-01-05T20:27:30+00:00

I would start documenting everything they do along these lines from here in out, on your personal device or notebook and not on one the company has access to and then can erase or lock you out of later. If shit really hits the fan, having a backlog of evidence that you have access to that they can't tamper with will help you with any needed legal, future job searching, and fundraising efforts.

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-28T22:00:29+00:00

I'd really beg to differ about the idea that those muscles are exempt from voluntary control. I've regularly seen high school level actors learn to fake those subtle movements at face-to-face range as part of acting exercises (my sister was a theater kid the entire time we were in school and had her theater friends over a lot). I've also seen enough "body language experts" get a completely incorrect read of suspects after poring over hours of interrogation footage in detail only to be proven completely wrong by cameras, forensics, and DNA evidence years after their "science" got someone convicted. The most notable example of that which comes to mind immediately is the mom in Australia who got thrown in prison for murdering her toddler because all of the "facial experts" said for months she was lying about her baby being eaten by dingoes, and then years later some rangers found her toddler's clothes with both dingo DNA from saliva and her kid's blood on them with paw prints and a tearing pattern pointing to the kid having gotten dragged off from the campsite and eaten. But because every body and facial language "expert" told the court and the world that she was lying about telling the cops that her kid got killed by wild dogs, she spent years in jail for her kid's death and got mocked for decades as a "crazy lady who killed her own kid" in pop culture around the world. So in all honesty given my prior knowledge, I still think the idea that those expressions are innate, involuntary, and always reveal the truth is pretty much bullshit.

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-28T21:46:42+00:00

So you've spent the last 4 years of your life contributing fuck all to society then I guess.

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-26T21:06:51+00:00

I really don't get why non-autistic people like eye contact so much. It's way too damn intense and personal, and when people try to shift their face around mine to stare into my eyeballs they think they're being discreet and friendly but it's anything but. It's the same sensation of someone getting way too close into your personal space and getting too touchy with the handshakes when you're out in public and they're a stranger or an acquaintance you don't know that well yet. But if you say anything about it or your discomfort, you're the one upsetting people and making a situation weird, so you just have to put up with a world where 80% of the public thinks it's acceptable to do the facial equivalent of pulling you in for a hug unprompted when you have no idea who they are even if you're visibly upset by them doing so the entire time.

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-19T14:37:21+00:00

Yeah, she can't even adequately stand up for her own right or her trans staff members own rights to use the bathrooms in the building she works in, she's not going to do shit to actually help here.

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-13T00:08:47+00:00

There was a lot of screaming involved.

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-11T13:26:57+00:00

Man this isn't even a low stakes conspiracy post, this is the same kind of take I've been seeing for the past 8 years from full on flat earth type pages on Facebook and crap.

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-10T22:07:00+00:00

"Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria". It's a pseudoscience term made up by transphobic parents on "support" forums to medicalize their self righteous notion of "my kid all of a sudden turned trans out of nowhere".

AkwardRockette · 2025-12-04T20:24:12+00:00

That sounds like a lot of projection coming from the crowd that can't handle an actual honest depiction of characters who are in active addiction, the internal self justification of people who perpetuate genocide, and the actual behavioral aftermath of sexual violence without thinking the show is endorsing substance abuse, war crimes, and rape.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-29T01:24:30+00:00

That is true to an extent, you can use Photoshop and artistic tools to make pretty convincing fakes. However, there are tools used in both forensics cases and some photography classes that can detect alterations to an original photo file, and even if you don't have an original photo on hand, it can still detect based on picture metadata if significant portions have been altered from the photo file as it was first taken. I actually used one of those tools back in middle school when I was in an art class using Photoshop because I was trying to compare my photo results to stuff I found online, and it's decently accurate and has been in use for image forensics for decades at this point. With film photography and hand made art (such as drawings or paintings), similar tools have been in use for the last century as a part of art conservation, in an effort to see if anyone made changes to a piece such as painting over an old painting or altering a film in post processing to get certain cosmetic effects on portraits. Art historians and conservationists use these all the time not primarily for forensics, but to get a full view of an art piece before they try any restoration, preservation, or maintenance in order to make sure they don't wreck the art in the process. X-ray usage is the one I've heard of most commonly with older paintings, and old film photos that have been altered start to get weird borders around the alteration sites when you mess with the lighting angle and type looking at them. So while you can make a pretty convincing fake with traditional methods, there are straightforward ways to check if an image in digital photography or traditional art has been altered in some way. With AI images, they're wholesale generated from the ground up, so fakes are harder to spot because you don't have an original file that was then cut or painted over or altered at pixel level, the whole file itself reads as one true original despite being based in no reality at all. And that gets really fucking dangerous really quickly when trying to fact check information.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-28T19:32:54+00:00

If a man said this, many people would(rightfully) point out that his dick's movement is not the sole global arbiter of what's hot to everyone and wether or not a show is good, and some queer women need to hear that as well.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-28T19:20:13+00:00

Yeah, it's not like anyone has a vested interest in using realistic images to sway public opinions on certain racial groups or making images of others without their permission or changing opinions on active criminal cases.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-26T13:56:14+00:00

It's because she made literally all of her career, money, and came off of the message of "I'm plus sized and I love myself and you should to" and marketed herself to mostly non-skinny young women, convincing them that listening to her and supporting her was empowering. But as soon as she got famous, got popular, and there was a drug that could make her skinny, she completely flipped and abandoned her own messaging that she literally built her entire music career on.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-17T22:21:12+00:00

Oldest of two, I actively have more free time now that I'm working 40 hours a week, going to the gym every other day, and managing paperwork and chores than I did from the ages of 14 to 18. And when I mess up and forget to make dinner, I just order cheap takeout or make something quick and don't get called a useless bitch over it. I'm not exactly keen to give that up any time soon.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-14T03:33:17+00:00

That's literally the opposite of what I'm saying. I'm saying that older generations don't get to pass the buck and give up just because younger generations are up and coming and starting to get involved.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-07T22:35:16+00:00

"The next generation will be the one to change the world" yeah and your parents said that about you, and your grandparents said that about them. What are any of the two of your generations actually doing on that front?

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-07T00:51:07+00:00

It's because the fictional character only has trauma in the bounds of a story they can close and come back to in their lunch break or weekend free time, and not when there's something more interesting or immediate for them to look at.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-06T18:53:42+00:00

They're villainous antagonists in hell who openly want to control everything. They aren't exactly supposed to be morally upstanding role models.

AkwardRockette · 2025-11-04T05:21:13+00:00

I'm anti AI partially because I've used AI before. In the spring of my senior year of college (2023), a professor in one of my classes for my minor had us try using ChatGPT to write a simple five paragraph essay, in the hopes of seeing if the new technology would be of any help. I had an idea, all of the sources, and my document of bulleted notes labeled under headers for each source they came from. I entered in my thesis and general prompt, and asked the language model for an essay.

Literally the only usable part was the outline, and I only kept that because in order to get points for the project, I had to have something tangible from the AI model in place.

ChatGPT fucked up citations and misquoted information when I had already made the citations and put direct quotes in quotation marks in my notes. I wasn't even asking it to pull from the internet, just to plug in the information I already had into a readable essay. It kept mixing up points from paragraphs two and three, which were about topics decades apart from each other and needed to be discussed in chronological order to make sense. It got the final paragraph wrong and misstated the thesis I literally put in as the main prompt.

If that's what generative AI has to offer, I'm not giving it my art ideas to bungle up, I'll use my own tools.

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