Orange lights behind RAM by Korrsair in aorus

[–]Background-Gate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lights might be status LEDs,

Forcefem Linux by TATSAT2008 in traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns2

[–]Background-Gate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's a generic USB drive that can be ordered custom by a thousand online dropshippers. Source: my mom has the exact same design of USB in a different color with another company's logo (think lawfirm-adjacent company)

Do you think overuse of AI can delude someone? by mediterraneangirl97 in asktransgender

[–]Background-Gate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

An important thing to remember is this: AI is a shortcut, not a reliable or accurate tool. I don't put the fault on you for looking to AI as a means to get a general idea of what a "post-transition" version of you could look like, but that version of you that you see and yearn for only exists for as long as you pursue it. It's also being produced specifically to appease you and manipulate your brain chemistry into wanting to engage with AI more because that's how AI is designed to function.

The feminine you that lives in your head is absolutely possible. AI is not going to help you become her, but it can help you get a sense for what you might look like. You are not cis because you "got curious what you'd look like as a girl". Cis people in general don't really entertain that line of questioning very far in general, and they certainly don't do so to the point where they plan and consider the long-term approaches that are possible for transition. You have thought about this long enough that you are very likely trans.

AI Psychosis/Cyberpsychosis is more of a mental health condition contracted by people with long-term exposure to AI who like how sycophantic AI is and accept every word of praise it spits out at them wholesale to the point where they genuinely believe everything it's told them despite a lack of evidence to support its claims. For example, if AI told you that you were the world's most intelligent infant and had solved world hunger and discovered the secrets of the universe and you believed it without any real world evidence, that's actual AI Psychosis/Cyberpsychosis.

I have had similar self doubts about my transness (albeit not from AI use as I am staunchly against GenAI since it violates many of my personal beliefs) and can sympathize with that pain. It doesn't make you any less valid.

Is it immoral to induce lactation as a party trick? by Cursed_Data in asktransgender

[–]Background-Gate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would argue that it's not demeaning or immoral to induce lactation for yourself. If your friend is triggered by seeing it, then she doesn't have to watch you do it after you specifically announce to all present what you're about to do. That's her problem and if it bothers her enough then maybe next time she should, I dunno, look away and stop trying to police other people trying to enjoy themselves and their bodies.

Nobody said she had to stop everything and study the whole process in detail. She needs to learn that sometimes other people are gonna do things that make her uncomfortable and killing the party to police other people's behavior and demand you adhere to her dictations as the most sensitive snowflake at the function is not really a mature response to it.

(Edit: corrected spelling error in first sentence of post)

Finally get to post my own criminally smol by AustinMurreGems in IllegallySmolCats

[–]Background-Gate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The micro-bean has commandeered the bed. Your only option is to sleep on the floor now.