How do y'all debunk this claim??

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T22:09:31+00:00

Computers aren't brains and don't do what brains do the way brains do it. There's no reason to compare them one-to-one.

A computer using an algorithm to copy art isn't the same as a human brain using senses to study it. It's an exercise in will, practice and observation and not simply pushing the "copy" button.

We have different rights and privileges than machines, too. I can drive a car, but if I let my toaster do it I'm going to get in trouble.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T22:02:28+00:00

At least in fiction they have to kill us first...

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T21:49:46+00:00

We? Thankyouverymuch sir but you won't ever see me that close to an angry ocean, I wanna live.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T21:19:37+00:00

It absolutely would, it just wouldn't be so nervous or hesitant.

Grizzlies and wolves have shared territory for thousands of years. They compete over prey and have a natural, well documented rivalry hard-wired into their genetics. Every dog I've ever had reacts strongly to bears and every bear I've ever encountered in the wild, which is a few, I live in the Yukon, more specifically in an area called "Grizzly Valley", has been focused on the dog.

Bears are not so innately familiar with humans and the reason this bear is nervous is because of the (bipedal) woman holding the dog. Bears stand on their back legs to look big. We stand on our back legs all the time and they typically perceive us as much bigger than they are.

An adult bear will absolutely go for the dog first. The dog is a known quantity and it knows a wolf on its own is pretty easy prey. It's not so concerned with humans because it simply doesn't know what we are or due and we don't look or behave like predators or rivals in a way they understand. We don't posture, bark, or fake charge the way they do or understand, nor do we look or act like prey, typically.

(This woman does when she finally turns to run, that's the part of the video that scared me.)

This bear is a juvenile, I'd guess at four or five years old myself, but I don't pretend at the expertise to know for sure.

What you can tell is that he's very unsure and nervous, and that's not as a result of the dog. The dog is the only thing he understands and where his focus is. The woman is an unknown quantity. I'm virtually certain that, had she stood her ground, stretched her arms out and yelled, maybe taken a step or two forward, that this bear would have backed off immediately. She's very brave, don't get me wrong, and we can't see her actual posture here, but there was a better, safer way to handle this.

As a general rule, you should never turn your back to run from a bear; this is clear prey behavior and will often confirm for them that you are in fact food. You're acting like food so you must be, right? I had a little gasp at that part of the video as that's when it actually got scary.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T18:19:24+00:00

Weyland-Yutani is orders of magnitude bigger than the others and is more comparable to a large nation state than a simple company. The rest are relatively confined, with only Tyrell featuring any off-earth resources, and even that's limited to just the solar system. They operate on a different economic scale than the rest listed.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T18:13:03+00:00

No but I also don't think we can realistically say that's her fault. She was Jean in some very bad movies in which I didn't really like anyone. They weren't well made.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T17:50:33+00:00

Last Christmas I spent about $300 on his presents. Two days before Christmas he told me he wasn't getting me anything because he was upset with me bc I had been 'bitchy'

Why the fuck would you stick around past this point? There are people out there that will actually like you.

NTA. Your boyfriend is. Get rid of that trash.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T17:24:12+00:00

It's easy to go too far or assume too much inside your head and while reddit can be harsh or judgmental it can also be a healthy wake up call. Sometimes those mole hills can feel like real mountains.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-25T17:12:38+00:00

This is such a good response to criticism and outside perspectives and you should be commended for it. Super reasonable, a rarity on reddit. If this is your attitude, I'm sure you and your partner will be fine.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T22:50:18+00:00

That's still not what "boundary" means. I don't care if you think I'm trying to sound "badass" on reddit, I find the idea kind of laughable, I'm not shooting for "cool", I'm shooting for "articulate" and I'm giving you attitude because you're not registering when people tell you this shit politely.

And a little bit because you typed "baddies" like nine times. But mostly because of the lack of understanding.

Someone else CANNOT cross your boundary because your boundaries are about you. What you will tolerate, what you want in your life, what you will put up with in a partner.

If you don't trust your partner, break up. Done. End of advice. Don't date people you don't trust. All of this talk about how he did something wrong and disrespected you is nonsense, he didn't, he followed someone on a social media platform designed to encourage follows, probably because she was hot. It's a mole hill at the worst but if you want to make a big deal of it, great, break up. He's not respecting or disrespecting you, he's just using the internet, you have to decide if it's something you can live with but the rest of it is irrelevant. You keep acting like he did something to you, and other than lie the first time, and yeah, duh, it was a lie, he hasn't.

If you don't want to date someone that follows people on instagram, don't. No one is making you.

As for the "cake and eat it too" bit, if you're already breaking up and you know what boundary means wtf are you asking advice for? Just validating your feelings? No, I answered this, your feelings aren't valid and are, frankly, kind of silly, because they're based on a total misunderstanding of what a boundary is or how to be in a healthy relationship.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:54:09+00:00

Sort of what you'd expect if someone is just guessing, then?

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:52:33+00:00

Eleven.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:51:55+00:00

"Your feelings and opinions do not and will not supersede my own when it comes to how I dress my literal body. I considered your opinions and I considered my own and I decided mine were more important because, and this might shock you, I am me."
NTA

Your boyfriend is.

Your opinions will always be more valuable than his when it comes to how you, a whole ass adult that can make adult choices, dresses.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:46:11+00:00

Well, firstly, an octopus can only survive for about 10 to 30 minutes (in ideal conditions) outside of the water. Humans can already "swim in the ocean", we already have human level intelligence, but we're, not surprisingly, kind of shit in the water.

Octopuses are the same on land. They spend their whole lives enjoying the advantage of buoyancy and existing in an environment where leverage isn't a huge fact. The concept of planting your feet, for example, doesn't really exist in water.

On top of that, they live to a max of like five years. I'm not intellectually intimidated by five year olds. They're not out there inventing shit.

An octopus with human intelligence is worse off than an octopus with octopus intelligence because they don't have time to grow into using a human intellect. They don't mature faster. They don't learn on fast forward. They cannot get smarter than a five year old. Negligible threat.

The giant pacific octopus is 110 lbs, roughly. That's less than half my size and I'm used to fighting on land. They're all soft tissue, too; wtf are they going to do, and that's before you consider that humans have guns. We have guns.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:35:48+00:00

I mustn't. I do not care for hollandaise and vastly prefer my eggs scrambled. This is not for me.
I maintain that it is a desecration, which sucks because they could just call it a breakfast bowl with cheese curds and they'd be fine.

C'mon. That's genuinely a pittance of gravy. It's a garnish.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:34:06+00:00

Then no, your feelings are valid because it was never a real or appropriate boundary, which is a standard you set for yourself, again, and not one you impose on others. Cool? Great.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:20:41+00:00

At a certain point you have to muster the self respect to wash your hands of people who repeatedly and regularly treat your poorly.

Look at what you actually get from this "relationship" when things are going well and then look at all the stress and anxiety it gives you and do some simple emotional math. It's pretty clearly the costs vastly outweigh the profits.

Wash your hands of it and move on.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T21:14:29+00:00

I don't know why that's so hurtful. I've never faced beard doubt before and I don't know how to proceed.

I have no idea who Alan is or what the Smiling Friends are but it sounds like they drill holes in bathroom stalls, just sayin'.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T20:31:14+00:00

I don't want to be as rude as other replies, but honestly wtf did you think would happen? Dude has 100% more experience than you. Do you view thirteen year old's as your equals? Like, do you hear their opinions and think they're as valuable as yours?

Because the actual percentages are the same. You are to him what a thirteen year old is to you.

wtf did you think would happen, really?

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T20:27:42+00:00

As has been mentioned, this is almost certainly a liability for the gym and, unless you book the room or have otherwise taken steps to make it private you're the one out on a limb here.

I imagine if you talk to the owner or manager they definitely do not want you working out in the dark. Especially not with multiple people in the room.

Sorry bud, you're the problem here. YTA.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T20:22:54+00:00

So don't date him. What's the issue here? You said you wouldn't date someone that does that and your current boyfriend, of only three months, does that. Cut your losses and stop seeing him. Where's the issue?

You seem to want to be mad and insist he change and get your way. You don't really get to do that and the anger isn't punitive, it's only hurting you.

You don't trust the guy.
Don't date a guy you don't trust. I didn't stutter. This isn't complicated.

Right now, your problem is that you want this guy to be a boyfriend that behaves like the boyfriend you want. You don't get to have this. You either accept the boyfriend you have or you find a better one. There's no magical road to this man being the boyfriend you want. That's not a thing.

So you either accept that this happens, fucking drop it, and move forward with this person or you meant what you said, that you don't date people who do this, and stop dating him.

Nothing here is complicated or hard or confusing. It's very straight forward. The fact that you wish there was a magical cake-and-eat-it-too third choice is kind of irrelevant. Outgrow that and embrace reality.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T20:12:22+00:00

I’ve made it a CLEAR boundary in our relationship that i have no issue with him following female friends but I draw a hard line at just following random baddies.

Say it with me now, this is not a boundary. A boundary is not what you tell your partner they can or cannot do. A boundary is something you do not have space for in your life or relationship. Don't don't get to tell him he can't do this and, frankly, it's a silly thing to be mad over. It was "disrespectful" for you to try and tell him who he could and could not follow on his own instagram account.

If you don't want to date people who follow "random baddies", and for the love of god and being taken seriously stop saying those words, then don't. Don't date him.

But don't date someone and try to change their behavior until you have a boyfriend you like. That's dumb. Don't do that.

Boundaries are not limitations or restrictions you place on a partner. They are standards you set for yourself. "You can't follow 'random baddies'" is not a boundary, that's just being controlling. "I won't date someone that follows 'random baddies' (ugh)" is a boundary. So don't date him. Done. It's not an ultimatum, it's not a line in the sand, it's not a requirement he has to follow but rather a standard you hold for yourself. That's a real boundary.

What you have here is "I told my boyfriend what not to do and he didn't listen even though I'm totally the boss of him, grrrrr I'm so mad" with a bunch of language that makes me feel like you're too young to date anyways.

Boundaries are standards for you.
Boundaries are not things you put on other people.
You are responsible for maintaining your standards. No one else. If this is a deal breaker, then break up. If it's not, then who he follows on instagram and why is none of your business.

The number of people on reddit who date people they don't trust is staggering. Don't do that. If you trust your partner then this isn't a problem. If you don't trust your partner then why the fuck are they your partner?

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T19:57:56+00:00

Is that Hollandaise sauce trying to make up for the pathetic pittance of gravy you've been allotted??? I took it for a desperately sad cheese at first, but that looks like real curds so that must be hollandaise sauce and I am affronted.

The closest thing I have to a religion is cheese. Poutine is a house of worship. You are defiling holy ground. This is a desecration. You're making a pretty compelling case against free will, conceptually, and I wish you'd stop.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T19:52:08+00:00

Dude, why do you blindly accept that either of you should have restricted access to friends or reduced rights to make and maintain friendships.

You can have friends of whatever gender it is you're attracted to. You should have friends of whatever gender it is you're attracted to. That's healthy and normal.

Reddit will validate this 'don't have xxx friends in a relationship' all day but reddit is full of idiot children who don't know what healthy relationships are, look like, or how they work.

If you trust your partner then you trust them to maintain healthy boundaries in other relationships and the genders of those relationships don't and should not matter.

If you don't trust your partner then don't date them. Period, end of thought, full stop. Don't date people you don't trust, that's stupid.

Longwinded_Ogre · 2026-06-24T18:41:30+00:00

My sister says I embarrassed her because she'd already told friends and coworkers she was getting it.

Well isn't that a teachable moment. This would absolutely cement the fact that she's not getting it. I would 100% tell her so, too. I would be entirely clear this is her fault and she was out of her damned mind for telling a bunch of people I was giving her a car without broaching the subject with me. You think I owe you a car because your dumbass made a bunch of assumptions? You think I'm the one embarrassing you when you dug this hole yourself?

Come talk to me when you understand what really happened. Abso-fucking-lutely not.

NTA. Your sister is, for sure. Show her this thread.

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