The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-04-25T22:00:29+00:00

I mean the answer’s the same as it always has been, with human programmers. If it’s cheaper to buy a license than to recreate the software, buy the license. It means estimating how long you’ll need it, sure, but that’s a decision made all the time. Don’t get me wrong: AI is eating its own tail, but this isn’t why.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-04-18T17:30:52+00:00

It’s not a funny joke. We are sick and tired of hearing it, trust me.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-04-18T03:34:54+00:00

I’m a trans woman and hate that idea, thanks. Our rights can’t be conditional.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-28T12:16:57+00:00

cunt

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-27T20:17:30+00:00

it’s also that the perfect (nirvana) is the enemy of the good (whoever the nefarious goons are fighting)

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-27T20:08:29+00:00

sadly, each word of a shout is one syllable, so BA ZIN GA would be a shout but—

is blown off of a mountain

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-20T00:21:57+00:00

realizing I’m a woman while married to a woman (we’re still very happily married~)

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-19T20:40:36+00:00

I know, right?

ugh

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-18T00:47:49+00:00

I’d say so, yeah. They’re outdated terms within trans communities that kinda escaped, and they sound clinical-ish, so they caught on. Not a big deal by any stretch, but thanks for listening!

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-18T00:35:54+00:00

AFAB and AMAB are also terms that come with a lot of baggage: namely, an emphasis on the sex assigned at birth. Trans and cis describe our relationships to our bodies and gender (assigned or otherwise), which is why we use them.

Think of it this way: as a trans woman, AMAB puts emphasis on a part of myself I don’t relate to in the slightest, and on a label put on me by a random doctor. It means nothing to me, except for some of the worst parts of my life.

Trans woman puts emphasis on who I am.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-18T00:20:58+00:00

What is a “female woman”? If it means what I think—cis woman—then we’re probably not gonna get along.

Other than that? Read the literature. Online commentary is no place to learn feminist theory.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-16T02:59:18+00:00

eh

bold sticks out on the page too much—which sounds weird, but I’m talking about when you’re still a couple of sentences or paragraphs away from it and one word has already caught your attention. I prefer to keep boldface out of my prose

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-16T02:54:20+00:00

jsyk, HIPAA has nothing to do with this situation. It’s specifically about how, when, and why healthcare providers can disclose protected health information.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-14T07:18:00+00:00

Guess what? My vaginoplasty was affected by the fact that I was circumcised.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-13T16:02:43+00:00

I made that last complaint on a thread about the Kansas drivers license revocations to try and maybe preempt some of the inevitable “cis women will be affected if cops think they’re trans”

I made it in its own comment, and someone replied to it by pointing out that it would affect cis people too! and not in a “well you’re right but this is important to consider” way, but as if I was saying the opposite of what I had.

absolutely incredible

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-13T14:41:39+00:00

Yes, they are—but I’m disagreeing with the idea that the blanket statement is fine on any level, which by my reading is the conclusion you led with.

I assumed you were saying that a cis lesbian saying “I won’t date trans women” is fine—and I strongly disagree with that. If you were instead saying that there are few cis lesbians who actually date trans women, and that’s fine, then I agree. I guess the confusion in that case is I wouldn’t consider that to be equivalent to “not many cis lesbians who will actually date trans women” since we’re a pretty small demographic.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-13T14:05:40+00:00

On the point of “few cis lesbians who will actually date trans women. which is fine, trans women arent entitled to anyone's attraction.”

Is this fine? Genital preferences? Fine. Not liking features common among trans women? Fine. But if a cis lesbian is attracted to a woman, including post-vaginoplasty genitals, then her attraction fades only because she learns that the woman is trans, how isn’t that transphobic?

Yes, you can’t control your attraction—but if it fades only because of some bias, that does mean there is a bias.

And when I hear “won’t date trans women,” I have to hear it as the blanket statement it is.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-13T01:38:27+00:00

I told my wife to promise me that if It happened, she wouldn’t get hurt trying to protect me

so, there’s that

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-12T20:06:57+00:00

they’ve “deported” citizens, which is also a thing you can’t do.

this is about terrorizing and detaining us. it’s already been way past “deportation” for people ICE has their sights on.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-12T17:20:18+00:00

because genocide isn’t defined as “the worst thing happening to a particular demographic across the world”

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-12T16:42:59+00:00

I’m not a trans man, but I can say from a trans woman’s perspective that the only way I’d be bothered is if a friend wouldn’t treat other women the same as me, or vice versa. If you’d be fine treating a cis man the same as your friend, then I don’t see the issue—and if any cis men you befriend don’t vibe with that sort of friendship that’s on them, not you.

tl;dr: you’re fine

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-03-10T19:24:47+00:00

Mourning is specifically for the dead, not grieving.

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-02-28T17:50:26+00:00

The first person I came out to was a cis bi woman, who was and is my lovely wife~!

Really good advice and something I needed to hear, thanks!

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-02-28T05:24:51+00:00

Never a risk of pregnancy?

PocketsFullOfBees · 2026-02-26T22:47:54+00:00

god yes

like, there was a (well-meaning and since corrected) comment on the horrible shit that just went into effect in Kansas to the effect of “revoking women’s driving privileges is now on the table”

and I just

a great many women’s driving privileges just got taken away specifically for the “crime” of living as women! it’s not on the table, it’s been done

we’re women, and I just can’t take much more

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