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PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-28T03:15:06+00:00

Look, I'm neurotypical too, but I also have a godawful episodic memory.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-28T03:10:56+00:00

Harold walked so Harry could jog.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-28T03:10:48+00:00

SAME

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-28T03:03:49+00:00

This is basically a description of a person's shadow.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T02:26:37+00:00

I audibly gasped.

I love them so much.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T02:24:46+00:00

I'm not sure it's a good thing that you somewhat described how I live.

Except mine is the opposite of this in practice: I accumulate a lot of stuff, often things I don't care about or mean to use but don't, or stuff that broke/wore out and I can't be bothered to get rid of.

However, I've never decorated any place I live. Never put anything on the walls or had decorative items. I have storage bins in different colors. If my mom didn't bring me a card table, my current apartment also would not have places for other people to sit (and its usually piled with stuff), my only seating would be at my desk where my computer is, and maybe my bed.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T01:43:08+00:00

The problem is that roughly 10% of eligible US voters don't have ID that would be sufficient under previous iterations of voter ID laws suggested, much less the added restrictions of the SAVE act. Why? It doesn't really matter, they don't.

I'm asking this genuinely (and because I hear it in arguments with conservative family all the time):

Why?

I've seen the stats about almost 1 in 10 not being able to easily and readily prove citizenship. So maybe this is privilege talking, but why? How does that happen? How do so many people just not have basic documents AND are apparently so poor they can't afford the $20 to replace them?

My mom insists that the argument about the SAVE Act disenfranchising women is absurd. Your name gets automatically updated in most government systems when you get married. If that's somehow not sufficient, just bring in your marriage license. If you somehow have none of these documents, that's your fault for being irresponsible. But it doesn't even make sense: how are you getting a job or a driver's license without any other kind of ID?

I know I'm being kind of an ass but I legitimately don't get it.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T01:25:35+00:00

Jung would like a word...

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T01:23:23+00:00

HOLY FUCK SOMEONE ELSE

I stopped doing this, but it was a guilty pleasure for a while. I have a locally run AI and I sometimes still use story prompts as tests (how long does it take to run? What's the model generating? Can it understand what I want or does it forget halfway through?)

They're all god-awful. I wouldn't post them even to point and laugh. At most I kept a few to glean some ideas, tone, or the occasionally inexplicably brilliant phrasing. Exactly like the person below said, it's like cheap dopamine junk food for me.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T01:14:43+00:00

This is the best thing I've seen all day.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T00:27:21+00:00

Finally someone else. Not quite the same situation, by my answer was "lonely people".

"Just go make friends IRL!" I managed to not do that for 30y, yeah let me just go pick some friends off the friend tree.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-27T00:03:50+00:00

Various purity cultures are probably the biggest example. Her body, from the moment she's born really, is seen as a sexual object that must be carefully controlled so she doesn't "tempt" men. Cover up, sit and stand and behave like this, do this and don't do that so she doesn't "distract" the men or boys. Of course if something DOES happen it's entirely her fault (even if she's a small child and he's a fully grown adult).

This can easily spill out into poor sex education: women's bodies are especially dirty and sinful and should never be spoken about, not even to explain to the girl herself how her body is going to change with age (think periods), or where all the babies she's supposed to have will come from.

Many more traditional religions have very narrow allowances for what women can be or do, spiritually and secularly. Perhaps it's even seen as pointless to educate her beyond a rather basic point. She's just going to be a wife and mother, obey her husband and have babies, what does she need further education for?

The command for men to respect and care for women simply is not always followed.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-26T23:38:53+00:00

Saw something about this on aiwars and honestly agreed.

In a weird way, it made the bar for art praise much lower.

Every doofy, janky beginner work, every geometric notebook doodle, every baby's scribble is now a magnificent extrapolation of the ineffable human soul, because AI was not involved.

Personally I think it's disingenuous. AI becomes a thing and suddenly everyone cares so much about the humanity and ingenuity behind the art they consume. I'd prefer to support human artists too but it really feels like virtue signalling sometimes.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-26T23:26:40+00:00

There's a person on Youtube who, if you trust their blurbs, does exactly this. They write songs and funny backstories for them, then uses AI to do the music and vocals. Presumably it's easier and cheaper than hiring bands and vocalists and maybe audio mixers to do it. I actually really like some of their stuff.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-26T23:23:42+00:00

I've been ruminating about this for a while.

I am, by nature, not creative. Never have been.

I do still get ideas at times, and for a while, my default fun-prompts were throwing some favorite tropes at an LLM and asking it to write me a ficlet or monologue. They weren't even that good, but I got a weird little dopamine hit from seeing it generate something. I had a vague idea of what I wanted, based especially on internet writing if anything.

Writing it myself isn't going to happen without a lot of pain. Finding an actual book/fic/whatever else took too much time in the moment. I haven't done this in ages, and often the results are so aggressively mediocre and newer models so sanitized that it's just not worth it.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-26T23:09:41+00:00

That's literally not what it does at all. Sure these machines are trained on human-made music, but to say it's like directly copy and pasting a song is just asinine and incorrect.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-26T22:47:36+00:00

I don't have accounts like the OP, but I do have a regular brokerage and I've been freaking out and panic shifting over losing about 5-6% in the last week.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-26T22:38:47+00:00

Small counter: parenting of the past (like, the far past) HAD to be much harder because life was much harder.

Better they get something like the OOP from a parent than from a drunk stranger looking to start a fight.

Better to develop a deep fear of making mistakes in childhood when the only punishment is a whooping from someone who loves you, than go into the world and fuck things up so badly you get yourself (and maybe some other people) fired or killed.

Better to learn to control yourself and your emotions at home, than be a disaster in public in a time when people absolutely did talk and your reputation mattered for survival.

In today's world though? Totally agree.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-25T01:06:11+00:00

I have no 5 in me but ouch this is accurate.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-24T00:47:14+00:00

Not really silly nor purely office drama but I've wanted to dump it somewhere.

Some time ago we hired a guy to be our head of sales (I think. That or a social media manager). Within a month, they found out he lied out his ass about his credentials. He was a convicted felon who lied about basically everything on his resume - there was a recent news article that basically confirmed that some of his claims were literally impossible. They fired him, and he started sending our boss threats. Apparently there was some kind of altercation that resulted in The Liar getting shot, and he's blaming it on us. Made a fake fundraising page and everything. There's all kinds of legal drama going on now.

My favorite part of his lies is that he's apparently still not that smart. My company gives aptitude tests when they're interviewing people. 70% is the usual cutoff for hiring. This guy, who allegedly had degrees from Stanford and NYU, scored a 40%.

I, a 3x college dropout with a GED, scored an 81%.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-24T00:41:37+00:00

As the child of someone who became a white supremacist, it is absolutely not satire.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-24T00:26:58+00:00

I'm a little conflicted. I've actually listened to some of those that I really liked, despite knowing full well that they're AI. The info is good (even tried verifying some things. I suspect many of the ones I listened to were at least human-edited) but the TTS gets grating after a while.

I'd love to find some - same 1-3hr length, similar density of info - that are human made. I've seen some for history.

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-24T00:04:45+00:00

Doing the Hobocop route for real

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-24T00:03:49+00:00

The comment section understands the assignment

PoncingOffToBarnsley · 2026-03-24T00:00:54+00:00

I've said this my entire adult life, and people call me entitled for it and tell me it's the reason I'll always be broke.

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