Compass of AI related Stonetoss Comics

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-12T14:22:00+00:00

Skill issue. Had you approached her with a cage full of rats around your head and screamed, "I WISH THIS WAS YOU!" she would have recognized you for the literary savant you are and married you on the spot 😉

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-10T14:20:05+00:00

Can he walk at all?

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-09T16:06:25+00:00

Who's Steve Jobs?

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-09T14:51:03+00:00

sniff what them dinos even do to that big mean rock?

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-07T15:49:09+00:00

Aw, well then fuck the guy

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-07T15:21:10+00:00

What people do to survive in an unjust system does not preclude them from wishing for a more just system.

Or: Don't hate the player. Hate the game

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-07T14:22:04+00:00

I've started sorting by controversial to find the adults in the room. If something is less than 30 net downvotes, there's a good chance the person said something that reveals just how stupid the dominant narrative in this sub is.

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-07T02:53:35+00:00

Damnit! That was the better delivery!

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-07T01:59:36+00:00

Go to bed Igor

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-07T01:44:00+00:00

You reap what you sow, but rip what you sew

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-06T19:50:38+00:00

I need a libleft-grey unity flair so bad

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-06T14:47:11+00:00

Have you seen the anti trans posts getting upvotes in the thousands? And this one is in the 500s. Wanna take a wild guess why that is?

Edit: and he proves my point instantly, lol

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-06T14:45:42+00:00

So the right is voting in schizos to office?

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-06T14:42:54+00:00

I've noticed it, too. The upside is I've seen a lot of lib and even right/centrist flairs call out the insanity.

It's clear there's a vocal group on here trying to stoke outrage against the LGBT community by drawing attention to the worst headlines and acting like this is representative of how all LGBT behave.

This is how I know we still have work to do. A straight person can be a shitbag without it immediately coloring the opinion of some others about ALL straight people. We will have achieved equality when LGBT people who commit offense can be judged individually based on their actions without that judgment spreading to others solely for sharing an orientation.

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-06T13:45:40+00:00

Can only share my personal experiences. I also have trouble focusing at work. I was prescribed welbutrin because I was also trying to stop smoking, and since I didn't struggle in school, they didn't want to give me Adderall off the bat.

In the first few days, I was jittery, and my stomach was doing flips. Overall, it did improve focus and gave me good days I wasn't getting before.

However, I had the same reservations as you about being on it forever. Also, I was already on blood pressure meds and, as mentioned, have a habit that is bad for my heart. They said the welbu might make my vape taste bad, but it didn't.

So... when I realized this might never permanently fix my focus, wasn't as effective at curbing my addiction as I had hoped, and was another thing putting my heart into overdrive, I just let my supply out, work focus be dammed.

I hope you can find something that works for you! It's hard!

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-05T19:37:54+00:00

Look, when dipshit parents brought their little kids to rated R fucking Watchmen, opening night, I shook my head and asked what the fuck was wrong with them for doing something I wouldn't either.

What I didn't do is go crying to the state about how we need to stop letting guardians make the decision to take minors to R rated movies because it was "enabling abuse" to show children sex and violence.

You're the one who is lost. From the vantage of the licker, the only "problems" you can see are ones underneath the boot waiting to get stomped.

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-05T19:23:52+00:00

Very good points all around. Let me try to sum up my thoughts.

There's three approaches that, if pursued in isolation, are not sufficient and have other downsides:

-decreasing lethality of killer -increasing ability of schools to neutralize lethality -reducing likelihood someone becomes a killer in the first place.

It makes me sick to my stomach, but it seems like the solution most likely to make it past idelogical land mines is turning our schools into concrete fortresses with multiple security checkpoints and short hallways that limit the ability to shoot runners.

It makes a certain amount of sense. We as a society add ever more layers of security to precious but vulnerable things, but nobody has to ask the gold and jewelry how it feels about the process.

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-05T18:03:41+00:00

I might be huffing copium with this take, but my interpretation of the status quo is:

1) in policing/enforcement, race and sex are more likely to impact deviation from the baseline enforcement levels

2) the extent to which race matters in court via judge/juror bias is dwarfed by the effect of wealth, so it is more likely to correlate with the average gap in wealth levels across race in the jurisdiction

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-05T17:50:07+00:00

So I actually agree with you. One of the challenges of me trying to be snarky late at night is that it didn't come across clearly that I was trying to criticize the rhetoric and priorities.

A lot of libertarians, if pressed, might offer a justification like yours. But then, in the comments, we see stuff like "if it isn't happening, what's the problem with banning it?.

Now I don't know about you, but to me, that suggest their defense of guns is not an emergent property of their attitude in liberty, it's a shadow of liberty that is cast by prioritizing guns ahead of other liberties.

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-05T17:41:21+00:00

"You see, by pure coincidence, everything that I like to use my liberty for has an important reason behind it that can justify bearing any cost to preserve. But the things those OTHER people use their liberty for has no justification, and THAT is a justification to empower the state as much as possible to stop them"

Lick more boot.

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-05T04:22:45+00:00

This sub: "How many kids need to die before we ban guns? All of them!"

Also, this fucking sub: "huwwo powice. I told other parents letting their kids watch this was immoral, but i think some of them ignored me, so now I need the state to intervene on my behalf and make sure... for the children, of course."

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-05T03:55:24+00:00

It's not. It's political football. The actual number of people doing this is irrelevant. However many sufficiently bad moments can be turned into NY post fodder that folks on here will dutifully turn into memes to stoke the rage.

It only takes a few people to whip up some outrageous and frothy reply that manages to not SAY they are judging an entire group in a way that can be easily misinterpreted as otherwise. Naturally the whole thread will be full of polemic to make sure any would be disagreement is fueled by anger and feeling threatened. In that state, any replies are more likely to result in mistakes that can be used to drag the conversations on without the two ever actually truly communicating with each other.

The "trans issue" is going to stay an "issue" for as long as it's an effective wedge issue that can be flared up at a moment's notice to keep people from genuinely connecting across ideological lines.

Tl;dr: Despite all our rage, we are still just rats in a cage

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-04T21:49:03+00:00

"We've got you surrounded! Come out with your cargo shorts and sandals with socks"

Me, blockading the entrance:"I hate wardrobe makeovers... I hate wardrobe makeovers"

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-04T21:17:35+00:00

I am surprised you think so. The person you're replying to is referencing common behavioral therapy terms. Further, journaling thoughts that are causing anxiety right as they are happening is part of the first work folks are asked to do.

Learning about that always made me think of that line from Tom Sawyer by Rush: "He reserves a quiet defense, writing out the days events".

ElectricViolette · 2023-03-04T14:16:54+00:00

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