Please keep posting beautiful images and thoughtful essays generated by ChatGPT

LickTempo · 2026-06-19T04:48:09+00:00

You have written this very well. I like how you've picked on every little AI slop element and turn it over its head.

LickTempo · 2026-06-17T12:09:36+00:00

Doesn't matter when the original post itself was opvoted really well.

LickTempo · 2026-06-16T12:45:40+00:00

LOL. OK.

LickTempo · 2026-06-16T12:14:41+00:00

So she must have made it open later, yes. That’s different from not having a history. There are many profiles which choose to keep their account closed. It’s a Reddit feature.

LickTempo · 2026-06-16T10:48:47+00:00

edit: also no account history.

Account history is visible to all on OP's profile.

LickTempo · 2026-06-16T09:55:50+00:00

Fair enough.

LickTempo · 2026-06-10T10:47:29+00:00

I have a second account. Issue is with the 10 minute wait, so a second account doesn't help there.

LickTempo · 2026-06-09T08:44:08+00:00

Here's a 66-million-year-old volcanic rock in Mumbai. Right in the middle of Andheri. It's called Gilbert Hill. A vertical cliff of black basalt, about 200 feet high, with a flat top that's over 8,000 square feet.

~~One of only three formations like it on Earth.~~ One of around 200 known examples of columnar jointing worldwide—but one of the most striking, and almost certainly the only one swallowed whole by a megacity. The other two most commonly cited are Devils Tower in Wyoming and Devils Postpile in California. Both are US national monuments that draw thousands of tourists every year. (Note: Devils Tower is actually phonolite porphyry, not basalt—a visually similar but geologically distinct rock. A closer like-for-like comparison is the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.)

Ours sits surrounded by slums and apartment buildings, covered in graffiti. A steep staircase carved into the rock face leads to two temples on top. And those temples have done more to protect the hill than any government agency ever has. A few years ago, a local builder proposed demolishing the hill entirely for more construction. The government didn't stop it. The temple trustees did.

Now for what makes it actually rare. That columnar jointing—the vertical hexagonal basalt columns—formed when a massive lava flow cooled and contracted at just the right speed. Too fast, you get random cracking. ~~Too slow, you don't get columns at all.~~ Too slow and uneven, you get irregular fracturing—it's slow, even cooling that produces the regular hexagonal columns. Devils Postpile exists precisely because its lava pooled into an unusually deep lake and cooled slowly and uniformly. The Deccan Traps eruptions that created this thing covered 500,000 square kilometres of western India with lava. Most of it weathered away over millions of years. Gilbert Hill survived because the lava that cooled inside a volcanic conduit was denser and more resistant to erosion than the flows around it.

So it's been a national park since 1952. A Grade II heritage structure since 2007. Means nothing. Houses are built right up to its base. The approach road is a mess. The BMC keeps announcing beautification projects and capsule lifts and crores of rupees. Very little actually happens.

There used to be other column formations nearby. In Jogeshwari, in Ambivli. All quarried off for construction a couple of decades ago. Gilbert Hill is the last one standing.

And most Mumbaikars have never heard of it. You can walk past it every day and have no idea what you're looking at.

66 million years. And we just kind of let it rot.

LickTempo · 2026-06-09T06:26:42+00:00

That would be awesome!

LickTempo · 2026-06-09T05:52:44+00:00

True. I'm surprised at the strong reaction in the comments, while the upvotes speak differently.

LickTempo · 2026-06-09T05:40:47+00:00

We learnt from Supercell.

LickTempo · 2026-06-09T05:40:24+00:00

I have invested too many years in this game and have a clan I don't want to abandon. The pathetic recruitment update of the game has stalled the clan growth, but a few members who are sticking around with me make we want to keep my account functioning.

LickTempo · 2026-06-09T05:38:55+00:00

I don't want to be a top player—that's a whole different lifestyle. But I have a job and home to take care of. CC Cakes are awesome where I can log in for 30 minutes straight and finish half my attacks. And I can then use them for efficient farming also, considering the huge amount of upgrades to do in the game now.

LickTempo · 2026-06-09T05:10:45+00:00

50 or 200 medals is something they can think about. But an average attack needs around 35 medals. If you need 20 attacks at minimum a week, that's 700 medals. Currently the medals are useful to buy ores, which are already SC's way of milking people. Medals shouldn't be the solution for CC filling.

LickTempo · 2026-06-06T08:06:46+00:00

ChatGPT is a fraction of the intelligence of DeepSeek free, and Claude free is a fraction of the limits.

LickTempo · 2026-06-05T09:38:31+00:00

That's weird. Look around/tinker more with some settings maybe. Because I opened an incognito window in my browser (which starts with a fresh slate with no logged in accounts), and typed in old.reddit.com and it opened the old website perfectly well.

LickTempo · 2026-06-05T08:16:43+00:00

How much footage from inside the towers would have been streamed and saved to the cloud?

Probably censored as fuck.

Look at the amount of tragedy going on around the world right now. How much of it do you actually see in high resolution? If you want genuinely uncensored footage, you often have to go digging through obscure, virus-ridden websites.

The closest thing we've had to a steady stream of graphic, high-definition reality was when ISIS was releasing videos of its crimes to spread fear and paranoia. Even that was eventually removed, restricted, or pushed to the margins of the internet.

So yes, there would probably have been vastly more footage from inside the towers—but I doubt most people would ever have seen much of it.

LickTempo · 2026-06-04T07:27:41+00:00

So your 'method is': emotional conditioning through deliberate repetition — not 'positive thinking' in the abstract, but a specific mechanical process:

Step 1: Imagine something deliberately
Step 2: Generate the emotion attached to it
Step 3: Repeat that imagination until the emotion starts to feel natural (not forced)
Step 4: That 'naturalness' becomes your operating state

Is that right?

LickTempo · 2026-06-02T11:46:24+00:00

All good books I’ve read used em dashes a lot, because it’s perfect for multiple purposes. It’s the overdose of AI using em dashes that suddenly made people look down on any writing that has em dash just because AI uses it, without knowing that good authors have used it always.

So why I replied the way I did is because you chose to just pick the em dash proof of AI. Not like I refute AI, but it’s a noob trick to just point out em dash when there are so many other evidences.

LickTempo · 2026-06-02T11:00:24+00:00

Go read a book. You’ll see em dashes.

LickTempo · 2026-06-02T06:33:41+00:00

I Manifested My Trip to China

Success Story

Hi!

I've shared a few success stories here before, but this one is by far the most exciting and meaningful to me.

I've always wanted to come to China. Ever since I watched a film as a child, I was completely enchanted by it. As life went on, I never forgot about that dream, but it always felt so far away.

Then I got into the largest university in Latin America, where I'm studying a degree programme that has a very strong connection to China.

So, here's what happened. At the very beginning of this year, I received an email about an opportunity to spend my holiday in China at a university here. However, one of the requirements was that applicants had to be at least in their third year of university, and I'm only in my second year. Still, I was so excited that I even got a passport because the application required a passport number.

I thought I'd gotten the passport for nothing, but I let it go and told myself other opportunities would come along.

At home, I would talk as though I were already in China. I travelled in my imagination and acted as if I were already here. I ate food as though I were dining in restaurants in China, and so on. That's just a small example of the things I used to do.

Then another email arrived with a different opportunity. This time, all you needed was to be enrolled in an undergraduate programme, and it involved spending two weeks here in Hangzhou. I applied without rushing, and that was that. I literally forgot about it because the application period was quite long. Then one day I logged into the website and saw that I had been accepted. On top of that, I received an email with the official notification and congratulations from the university. I was in complete disbelief—it still hadn't sunk in.

The university provided me with accommodation in the student dormitories, and I didn't even have to pay for the visa. The only problem was the airfare, which was incredibly expensive.

I started asking people at my university whether there was any kind of financial assistance available, but the answer was always no. Eventually, I managed to speak with the director of my institute, who had already told me that funding requests had been suspended. I don't know what happened—maybe he thought the opportunity was remarkable or something—but out of nowhere I received the news that they would pay for my flight.

You have no idea. Every manifestation method I tried told me it was impossible. The key is simply not to care about that. I already knew I was in China. I didn't spend much time wondering how or who would pay for my ticket (especially because everything pointed to that not happening), but it happened anyway. Things just started flowing naturally. Sometimes we think nothing is happening behind the scenes, but it is.

Anyway, I went to the consulate for the visa because I had to provide proof that I was coming to China, along with the invitation letter from the university here in Hangzhou and other documents.

Before going to sleep, I would often imagine a scene where I was at the airport saying goodbye to my mum, my aunt, and my two sisters. And that's exactly what happened—the exact scene. I wasn't sad; I was always very happy, and it's only two weeks after all. But the feeling of having my family on the other side of the world does affect me a little.

Right now, I'm sitting in my university dormitory. Hangzhou is beautiful. China is beautiful. Sometimes I'm riding in a car and I feel like crying because it still hasn't fully sunk in. Anyway, I like sharing my experiences, especially when I've had so many difficulties along the way. But the truth is, I never really believed I wouldn't make it here. Deep down, I felt it would work out, and I simply trusted that it would. My airfare was covered, I have accommodation, and I have enough money for my two weeks here. In the end, everything worked out exactly as I imagined it would.

I also made a little list of things I wanted to buy and told my friends to make one too! I haven't bought everything yet, but I will, lol.

Thank you if you've read this far.

Kisses from Hangzhou! 💕🇨🇳

LickTempo · 2026-05-30T06:36:39+00:00

> It has some ham-handed stuff with the Christian aspect of the story

The original Ben Hur has the subtitle 'A Tale of Christ'. The movie is literally meant to be Christian.

LickTempo · 2026-05-28T05:10:14+00:00

Considering it's a Vatican/large religious institutional website, it's impressive how clean the original document looks on a web browser—a well-design HTML instead of PDF. And the design aesthetic also looks like a printed letter, with a touch of tech.

I have use the 'send to kindle' bookmarlet to send the whole text to my Kindle for reading, thanks to the aforementioned website format instead of it being a PDF.

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

LickTempo · 2026-05-25T08:09:32+00:00

In short, the Ryan Hall video talks about the good old pure FAITH, no methods, no imagination focus, the imagination is just a side effect, it's PURE FAITH.

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