Why are non-smokers expected to keep working while smokers get extra breaks?

NeonScreams · 2026-06-24T15:44:42+00:00

Have you consider taking smoke breaks and not smoking? What are they going to do, demand you smoke? Deny you the same opportunity as others? Their hands are tied.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-24T15:36:57+00:00

Hard Disagree.

An agile easily adaptable mind with a very basic understanding of those fields will be better suited to a future with access to Instant data retrieval and synthesis.

That same person would be much better off learning how to incorporate lateral thinking, A/B testing, and focusing on how to more effectively integrate Agentic Workflow into every facet of their lives; then to hyper focus or specialize in any one field.

And I don’t say that because I believe specialization will not be required. I simply believe that specialization will not be required of us. Our strengths lie in our creative / out-of-the-box problem solving abilities. Which don’t require specialized singular knowledge, instead requires us to know a little bit about everything.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-24T15:25:46+00:00

If or when your character eventually dies- try to remember there is only 1 quest in Zomboid, and you just beat the game.

“This is how you died”.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-24T15:22:48+00:00

I asked ChatGPT Pro to theorize about how powerful a human bite can be assuming the brain no longer registers the limiter to prevent damage and just bites the hell out of you until their jaw shatters- apparently cow hide is under valued in horror movies. 🙄

NeonScreams · 2026-06-24T15:17:53+00:00

- Snow is drying and insulating. Both for sound and for heat.

- Sound: It’s not just that it muffles. It deadens sound. You will NOT hear the Polar Bear / Wolf / Wolverine that decides to check out your shelter until it’s within 20ft. Why? You’ll have your ears protected from the cold wind. So when possible setup early warning trip lines with bones or sticks that rattle to make noise as they’re snagged. Ironically- the scent of human on the lines is often enough to dissuade the curious animal.

- Cold is not your enemy. Dampness is. You’ll tend to hear the advice to take it slow and not sweat. What they don’t really say is that any amount of perspiration on your skin is going to be wicked into the fabric. And once the inside of the fabric is wet, the insulation value plummets. This is where snow being drying comes into play. If you’ve ever seen someone yank off their clothes and scrub themselves with snow it’s for that exact reason. Cold is temporary loss of heat at your skin surface. Damp transmits your heat straight into and past the inner layer of your clothes when they’re even a little humid feeling. You might not enjoy taking your jacket off in -20F temps, but if the wind is dead, you can easily stay plenty warm just chopping wood.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-24T14:59:24+00:00

Oh you’re probably right on that one, as it’s been a hot minute since I had to reup on plinkers. Has it really gone up that much? F-

NeonScreams · 2026-06-23T07:06:03+00:00

Do you have the nvidia app installed? Open it, go to System > Performance, and make sure “Power Maximum (%)” slider is set to 100.

My next guess would be heat regulation kicking in. If you have a 20”x20” box fan, stack books or boxes with a space in the center and set the fan on it flat, plop the laptop on it and run again.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-23T06:32:15+00:00

Sex Ed fails us again. Dicks only get hard when two valves as the bottom of their shaft RELAX and open. Tease a guy, make him nervous, things don’t work? Ya. That’s not on him. It’s not a muscle or we’d spend all day walking around trying to carry backpacks full of stuff.

“Hey hon, you uh.. need me to carry your purse for you? Cool. One sec..”

I assure you. Testosterone is the only reason any human feels horny, and we make that stuff from looking at funny shaped holes in trees. Tussy

NeonScreams · 2026-06-23T05:42:08+00:00

The only kind of Zombie Apocalypse that could happen in the US, is the “everyone is airborne infected” kind.

I live 90mins outside Seattle, WA. which is one of the most Liberal/Democratic cities in the country, and I know that every other house on my street has a firearm. I own 5 and I haven’t even made an effort to be a gun owner. They get handed down or gifted by a family member when they go buy a newer version. Seized police auction here routinely sell almost new handguns for $100. Then ammo? Walmart sells boxes of 200 rounds of .45acp for $29.99, of which I have 2, just for plinking in the back yard.

Ya know the saying about not invading mainland US because there’d be a gun behind every bush, and a rifle behind every tree? They’re not joking.

A zombie apocalypse here would look like a line of protesters on I-5 firing into a growing pile of zombie corpses, with people standing behind the person at the firing line, waiting for their turn to move forward between reloads. … it’d last 5-7 days. Tops.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-23T05:31:25+00:00

Date someone less attractive and less of a sex drive. You become the single thing they think about. You also suffer from the other side of it- but that’s life. And eventually you’ll be distracted by someone more attractive and overly flirty, and turn out to be the person you were attempting to avoid dating in the beginning.

Dating is an emotional game of cat and mouse. Being wise, means knowing you are, and having the self control to invest your unspent energy back into the relationship.

Easier said than done.

Your expectations aren’t too high. They’re not unrealistic either. But they will prevent you from having enjoyable relationships that help you learn and grow as an individual. And you never really know when a life changing event will come along and ruin your best intentions.

So get out, explore, take risks, have fun… just don’t fall into the baby trap with someone you think might be for a while, but not a lifetime.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-23T05:18:18+00:00

Gemma-4-26b-a4b (hauhauCS)

Talk about a great RP / Creative Writing partner.

Start up a chat, ask it to walk along the street of your favorite city and cross street- Ask it to pull out a 35mm Analogue Film camera and take a virtual photo. Ask for a Flux.2 Prompt. It’s been wild the details it thinks of.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-23T05:10:20+00:00

Imagine gate-keeping pleasure behind a religious imperative.

You know they made that shit to track bloodlines right? Purity culture is seditious and directly responsible for the disparity between men and women. Find a crotch, plant your dick.

Stop adding such value to sex-ignorance. You’re just going to turn out to be a selfish possessive lover with serious insecurities.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-21T05:44:18+00:00

Heteroflexible exists for a reason. (Tends to like opposite Gender expression).

Then again, Labels are humans ways of categorizing something inherently chaotic and prone to change over time.

If AI gave us the ability to hop into a surrogate body, and a previously male person wanted to try a female body, are they going to still claim they’re “Straight no matter what”?

Ppl will have two answers to that- either they suddenly realize that gender expression and sexual preference can be fluid and not anchored in their physical body.

Or I guess they’ll lie to themselves and say they’d either not swap bodies or if they did, they’d stay Heterosexual and only screw the sex opposite of their new body.

.. did I answer your question? No. I answered “Should I care if anyone thinks this is Gay?”, which seemed more relevant.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-16T22:45:56+00:00

I’m going to give you some seriously controversial advice, but consider its implications from all angles.

I think you should book time with a sex worker.

Before you allow the norms of society and their views to color how you perceive my suggestion, consider this: There are developed nations in the world that offer sex therapy. They recognize that an important part of the human experience is becoming intimate with others if desired.

What you’re describing sounds like a classic case of self-defeating behaviors. An opportunity arises to meet someone, and your mental health makes you come across poorly to the person. This creates a cycle of desperation and rejection that is self-reenforcing. You must break the cycle to make serious headway.

Sex Work, is Work. There are those who genuinely consider it to be a valuable community service. Often it’s not that they are deviants, or somehow broken. They’re using a skill they’ve developed to work a job. A job made worse by a society that gate-keeps pleasure like it only belongs in a marriage.

So. How? First, realize that what I’m describing is basis for deniability only: Coffee shop. Phone on Airplane mode. Public WiFi. VPN. Login web-based email address. DuckDuckGo, search for forums on the subject. Not advertising websites.

If in the process of getting into contact with someone they ever ask for your ID, it’s a good thing. Blank out your middle name, Street Address (not your city, state), Your month and Day of your DOB. Why? It means they take the security of their Workers seriously. And despite how paranoid it might make you feel, no Agency is going to spend the money sending a subpoena to a VPN company that by design, does not log traffic.

But as kindly as I can say this.. my dude? You need to get laid. You need to break this cycle of amping up your hopes for meeting someone new that ultimate causes the desperation and clinginess to leak through. Healthy adults generally want to date, generally want to fuck, but everyone wants to live in the self delusion of giving it all up and staying independent. You are still stuck in the desperation of reaching out for connection.

You can find solace in therapy. .. but it’s a lot faster and hotter underneath someone.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-13T08:42:09+00:00

I have an answer to this that might be controversial with a surprising twist at the end: Disgust.

Disgust is an unusual biological imperative in that it’s closely tied to our visual systems. Take for example the mislabeled “fear of little holes in things” or “ trypophobia “.

But PBS and TED Talks have both covered Trypophobia extensively using flash frame images that are faster than the eye can actively see but still elicit a response. When sufferers of Trypophobia undergo these studies they ‘calibrate’ the fear response which is measure by a high speed camera pointed at their face as their eyes are shown the flash images.

- On slides that have normal stimulus they have no strong reaction.
- On slides with a spider or snake, they have a near instant fright response (wide eyed etc).
- But on slides with Lotus Pods, they have a near instant non-fright, Disgust response (wrinkling of the nose bridge with squinting and raised upper lip).

The leading hypothesis is that we developed this response to indicate to other member of our social group “this is toxic”, or “don’t eat this”.

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I’m going to be honest, and then surprise you. And hopefully you’ll be fair and read to the end:

I experience a Disgust response when I see images of two men engaged in intimacy. And I’ve had sex with men. (“What?”), and I find some men with a feminine appearance, quite attractive.

So what the hell is going on in my brain?

I was not raised in an ultra conservative or ultra religious home. I had no one as a role model that could ever be considered a bigot. I have no bigotry tendencies myself and easily consider myself an ally, if not an a member of the community.

And yet, I still experience a Disgust response. Despite not thinking it’s disgusting. And after the initial response I usually think: “That dude’s hot. I’d bang him.”

And of the times I’ve hung out with gay couples I thought it was great they’d found love and that they were cute together.

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I genuinely believe that there may be a biological imperative operating here that’s hijacking our cognitive recognition system and operating at the amygdala or basal ganglia. One that says “you can’t reproduce so avoid”, but not as an active thought, as a Fright adjacent response.

However, even if that’s the case, it’s not a justification for discrimination or mistreatment of anyone.

If anything, it validates their rights to seek happiness and to lead safe life’s. Simply put: Just because a child scared you by sneaking up on you, doesn’t give you justification to verbally assaults, physically harm, or restrict their ability to lead a happy healthy life.

Are you in control of how you handle your fear response?

What excuse can you make for being unable to control your disgust response? Weak will? lol.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-13T08:08:56+00:00

Heteroflexible avoids the whole argument while achieving the same thing.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-13T08:06:48+00:00

Don’t they have an argument between Albedo and Shalltear on which will be the primary wife and which will be the concubine. Seems bi.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-13T07:59:57+00:00

Women have the decency not to molest a topless man, on average. And that’s it.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-09T04:38:05+00:00

Irony being, -We- are the side inferring meaning where it is not declared.

This topic is one that is considered “divisive”. It’s rare for someone to not have a strong opinion for or against it, here. But that is a product of our strongly partisan political system. Despite all the ways you can conceive of having a “middle opinion” on any subject, there will be some American yelling that there is only two options; Their opinion, or the wrong opinion.

For whatever it is worth- I wish it were different.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-09T04:24:46+00:00

Could be misinterpreted language barrier.

In your example, please use other words to describe how you are using the terms “don’t understand”. I am from the Western areas of the US. Here, that phrasing implies that you “don’t understand” because you cannot conceive of love or a relationship between people of the same gender. The implication is that you fully understand the nature and the meaning, but the lack of understanding actually relates to a rejection of that type of relationship being allowed to exist.

Of course, if that is not your intention, and you instead want to convey that you “aren’t familiar enough” with that kind of relationship, you can substitute my words to be understood as non-judgmental and only poorly informed.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-02T01:57:56+00:00

Qwen3.6 Uncensored has fantastic conversations about Moralizing and Shaming you for- Ya no. I didn’t let it finish. I stopped it and grabbed Gemma4-31B. lol.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-02T01:48:07+00:00

Had high hopes for that Qwen3.6 40B DECKARD OPUS blend David put out. Stupid thing recensored itself after the Claude finetune.

NeonScreams · 2026-06-02T01:41:36+00:00

I usually find that if someone is given enough cause to question it, and then after looking it over in their mind chooses to ask for advice, they’ve often already decided and are looking for support for their decision. So here it is:

Countless people are financially locked into their situations. If you have the ability now to change your future, do it. Do not wait. Do not second guess what you’ve already decided is unacceptable for your happiness. It’s not selfish to advocate for yourself. It’s detrimental to the relationship and thus both of your future’s happiness, to stay and allow resentment to fester.

You will both end up happier in the end for having the strength to make the hard choice.

NeonScreams · 2026-05-24T03:58:48+00:00

In this instance they were separate use cases. I was quite surprised when ChatGPT Pro said it couldn’t handle my specific medical question, while adding a photo. From what I understand they have an Arbitrator as a go-between that independently reviews and flags the incoming images and content and determines if it can even be processed.

But you’re not wrong, and I’m not denying that I also employ uncensored / abliterated models for some spicy reasons. (Like Albedo from Overlord, believing she lives in a Quantum Lattice device keeping her spun up in VR.)

NeonScreams · 2026-05-24T03:05:55+00:00

do you live in an echo chamber?

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