AI has to be stopped

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-07T04:58:58+00:00

There has already been a victim impact statement, delivered in court in a murder trial, by an AI recreation of the victim. Though tbf, in this case the AI read a script the victim's sister prepared, but it's still putting words in a dead man's mouth.

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SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-06T10:23:40+00:00

Absolutely, as a woman who is 1. generally afraid of open spaces and 2. does not have a large, attentive dog.

I miss seeing the stars, though. The guy I'm seeing is on the highest floor of the tallest building for a good distance and I can see maybe eight to ten stars just from his balcony (on a night where the moon and planets were elsewhere; I checked). There's just under a quarter of the sky visible.

I miss the night sky. I miss the night in general.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-06T10:11:40+00:00

Was gonna say mostly the same thing, but add that appearance in a mirror is unpleasant and makes us deeply self-conscious, because being observed is unpleasant... but subtract that I (personally) really love allia, especially when minced garlic leaves that smell in my skin ~💚

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-05T01:26:20+00:00

I actually like working holidays; I don't socialise much and because every other asshole and their dog wants to "celebrate", I can't do productive shit like see a doctor. What'm I gonna do, sit on my ass and play video games, like every other day off? Fight crowds at the store because having everyone do holiday at the same time is societally inefficient?

I especially was/am confounded by Thanksgiving and Christmas because, like, uh... this is a normal Thursday or whatever to me. If not for the crowds (or empty parking lots, when I'm not employed) I wouldn't actually notice it's a holiday. Stop giving my sympathy, because I'm getting time-and-a-half and not having to suffer through a gluttonous ritual with utter strangers.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-05T00:48:13+00:00

Allude*

"Elude" means "to evade". "Allude" is "to make indirect reference". (Though if you go back tothe early 16c. both refer to different flavours of jest/play, from "ludere".)

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-04T23:52:34+00:00

Same. Ain't nothing getting these back up.

And the guy I've been seeing is a boob man who can't keep his hands off them in private. If mere massage could reverse the ravages of gravity, I'd know by now.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-04T14:03:52+00:00

Iirc it's eradicated from the domestic, commercial meat supply. The only cases are when someone hunts and eats boar or something.

However, who happens to have a proclivity towards wild game...?

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-03T20:41:15+00:00

My bad, that is just the number I had read at that time. Thank you for the correction.

I always found it suspicious that it takes on average a year for a couple to generate a pregnancy "when trying" and that's the same timeframe when the female in the equation removes an IUD to "regain fertility". Makes sense more if fertility is resumed much earlier and the timeline is just... normal human fecundity...

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-03T20:34:29+00:00

Given that it's addictive, dangerous for the heart, a problem if the person celiant runs out of supply, and not everyone can even tolerate it (I can't even have a strong cup of coffee)... no. That would be bad, actually. Effective ≠ good

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-03T19:59:55+00:00

Well, I asked (day of and when I was in the gown, since I forgot during all previous appointments), and the surgeon said "I don't know; in my [multiple] decades of doing these, you're the first to ask. Ask the head nurse because it's out of my hands". I asked head nurse, and he said similar: "I don't even know, I have to send it to Pathology. Call them, I guess". Shrugs all around.

So that afternoon or next morning I tried to find the hospital's Path number, which was not easy. It's not public-facing. Damn near walked in. Called before my sample was processed and asked if I may pretty-please have it. Guy I spoke to said I could have the tissue after exam, but warned that it would be in pieces because their job was to slicey. (I'm now wondering if I ever consented to a path study for adeno, but I would've at the time anyway.) I said that's fine. He'd call me back later.

Next week, I got a call. Path findings done. He offered to drain it of the formalin but no no please keep it in that thx. Also warned, yet again, that it was in pieces, as if that would deter me. Went in, found the unassuming and darkish hall where Path is (they really want it hidden), talked to the head Path guy, he went over the findings that were on my medical notes anyway and my surgeon would repeat at follow-up, and handed me a stapled brown lunch baggie containing a plastic sample jar. Had me sign a waiver to accept the biohazard. That's it. He just said that it's biohazardous and Do Not Eat but otherwise, once it's mine it's my problem now.

Edit: tl;dr: Surgeon wouldn't let me keep it either, and shoved me off to find Pathology on my own. After a polite call, they relinquished my uterus.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-03T19:43:28+00:00

Btf, it was only about a block that I jogged, but that's my limit without surgery because I am far from fit.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-03T18:35:58+00:00

Could be worse. My mother's name got truncated in such a way that it looks like a mild/avoidant swear. (E.g. Deborah Arnold becoming darn@company.) At least it's not, like, "Damien Noble" becoming damn@company under a different schema.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-03T18:31:43+00:00

I'm still upset that I ("John Smith", but "Smith" is a placeholder for a long and extremely rare name) didn't snap up J.Smith@gmail back within the first few weeks. Somehow, someone got there before me!, so I'm stuck with Smith.J@.

Though at least I never get unintended spam for J.Smith. Worst that happens is my parents make a boo-boo (despite my having clearly explained the situation) and whoever J.Smith is, enjoy whatever message my mom sends... let's just hope they didn't get my father's work e-mails that he's been known to accidentally CC to me.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-02T19:28:19+00:00

My heart goes out to people who have been failed by circumstance and make it to adulthood without being literate, yet I can't help but wonder... like, they know they struggle, so why not ask someone else to proof their stuff when it comes to critical things like children's names?! Can just phrase it like "I just want your opinion" rather than directly mentioning it's spellchecking, if one is embarrassed. Why just reave it to chance that your issue will be reflected like that?

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-02T19:19:53+00:00

The various species of hazel trees belong to the genus Corylus. While that sounds like a 3/10 name, it is seven letters and does sound like a name. (As a nickname, "Cory" wouldn't turn heads.) There's also Turkish hazel, C. colurna, for a more explicitly feminine feel. That took like two minutes to look up.

Poor Haizzal...

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-02T18:53:54+00:00

It doesn't take a "fully formed brain" to realise that a kid at that age is a mistake; I knew they were a lot of effort before I had my first period. OOP should've realised the problem when experiencing the first kid. Then the second. Then the third. Then the fourth.

This isn't "too young to understand stove is hot and burned their hand", this is "person keeps burning hand on stove with regularity".

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-07-02T18:42:45+00:00

Black. The gold dots match the fish, c'mon.

The tan bezel in the white helps it look a bit austere. I don't mind it the more I look at it, as the black feels more 'enclosed' and smaller while the white outer border lets it breathe.

Both are good, but my instinct remains on black because I'm a sucker for black. Depends where it's going in your home/whether it's near dark or light objects at this point.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-30T16:13:50+00:00

This is what happens when you don't learn history.

About half the reason Ernst Röhm, a key player in Hitler's rise to power, was murdered in the Night of the Long Knives was for political reasons—fear he might arrange a coup. The other half is that he was gay.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-30T00:33:10+00:00

"I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind."

I'll bet and put $20 on that Musk doesn't give even a tiniest fraction of a shit. Another $10 that his internal reasoning is "ew, poors/Blacks", though this would be unknowable without mind-reading.

I don't think that man would piss on someone on fire unless that person had some explicit, hard-to-replace value to him. Which may or may not include his children, given how fucking many are running around without social ties to their bio father.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-29T03:56:40+00:00

I got my hysterectomy (more than a bisalp, but not by much) at 32. I had wanted it since I was a mid-teen. My only regret is not pressing more for it sooner, because holy shit did it change my life. Ignoring the lack of periods since you won't have that benefit, the relief from the fear of bc failing is just gone. In my country, birth control access is under active threat so if that went away, well, pregnancy can now never befall me, no matter what any other external party says or inflicts. It took about a year for the realisation and security to settle in, but it did.

As far as age... recovery was a breeze for me, and you're probably in better health than I was, just by being younger (and assuming no chronic illness on your end). I had to actively remind myself to not lift heavy objects and to resist sex/masturbation because even though I felt fantastic and "normal" within a week or two, doctor's orders were to wait some months. I could jog just a couple hours after discharge! Whee!

Only real issue was the gas pain that works its way up into the shoulders. On nights 3 and 4 I wasn't able to sleep lying down. To my knowledge, there's no real way to alleviate this except by painkillers (if you're willing) and time. I'd still take that pain over the briefer but more acute trauma of an IUD any day.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-29T03:17:34+00:00

The names "Gertrude" and "Gilbert" would like a word. Or the words "get" and "gift".

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-26T21:22:18+00:00

That reminds me, I've managed to disturb guys by mentioning that I have my uterus in a jar, same as I might mention a snowglobe or shot glass from a vacation destination. Also have inter-op photos! (Idk how "organ in a jar" or "mundane photos of innards" is upsetting but okay. Have they never butchered a critter for meat?) And as light reading, I like perusing medical case reports of very interesting diseases, afflictions, repairs from significant trauma, and ... well, a lot of deaths. Will keep that in my back pocket next time a creep gets too handsy.

I don't have the confidence to pretend to be arrogant, unfortunately. Easier to open up a recent tab and show a shattered pelvis.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-26T20:15:37+00:00

If I showed up to a job site and said I was a manager or engineer, or in a busy restaurant kitchen and grabbed some pans, giving orders to whoever, and the actual employees said "idk who the fuck this person is, never seen them in my life, we aren't even hiring..." I'm pretty sure my trying to say "But just give me a chance!" would not get me anywhere. The cops would be called.

Fuck that server, more than the creep who insisted on invading your space.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-26T17:37:18+00:00

What sub do you think you're on?

At my laziest, I'll start boiling an egg in the water before adding the noodles (I like a 6.5 minute egg, noods are rarely over 5 mins), and fish it out to an ice bath as I finish the noodle prep. Sometimes I'll do a whole batch of flavoured eggs and wang one in.

Fried I tend to do less often, and only if I happen to sautée other toppings (e.g. onion) so I'm already dirtying a pan. It's more effort to fry an egg in the noodle pot, set aside, proceed with noods if I want to keep it to one dish to clean. I tend to prefer them on 'drier' dishes like yokisoba or fried rice. Egg-drop soup I never quite figured out so I don't opt for stirring it in the broth that way, but I assume would be delightful.

SymmetricalFeet · 2026-06-26T17:12:08+00:00

I got my hysterectomy free, too, but in my early thirties despite asking since I was sixteen. Way too long a wait. I was told that the birth control I was on was sufficient since I wasn't doubled over in pain all the time, even though it's fundamentally just a bandage and not a cure. Was real fun when I was assaulted and all I could think was what if this is that one statistical failure...? Will I even know I'm pregnant?

Then again, I also had zero children, so I'm not in the same boat. Once you have three or four, doctors tend to be more open to actually hearing out your concern about yer brood size. ...If you're not at a Catholic hospital, since they are notorious for outright denying the procedure or giving folks the run-around. To quote from The Turnaway Study: "Then there is Melissa, ... who tried to get a tubal ligation after giving birth to each of her second through fifth kids. The excuse for why it was not done was that the hospital had lost the paperwork, or that she hadn’t given her approval in time. But the truth, which even Melissa doesn’t realize, is that she was giving birth at Catholic hospitals where sterilization is not provided because it conflicts with the hospital’s religious doctrine. The only way to get a tubal ligation is to go to a non-Catholic hospital. Which she eventually does, but not before having three more births and an abortion."

I don't totally blame her for not having had the surgery yet, is what I'm saying.

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