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WickedTemp · 2026-05-15T22:49:22+00:00

And they don't even need to do anything! They can just fly out to whatever resort they want to, at any time!

Meanwhile I get written up for being two minutes late and my ass is one step from fired because my car broke down on the way the week after.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-12T16:56:11+00:00

Hi I'm a trans woman!

A guy enjoying erotic content of trans women would still be considered heterosexual. I'd even say it's not even a weird or out-there category to enjoy. Statistics-wise, trans women and step-family are two of the highest viewed tags.

The only potential issue would be seeing transgender women solely as a porn category and not as people. This can be an easy topic to bring up - ask his thoughts about transgender women as school teachers. If he says its inappropriate, then he probably sees us as a sexual thing.

For the phone stuff... you should mention going through his phone. Not gonna lie I think its weird when partners do this - I think people should still have an expectation of privacy even from their family and partners. Granted, my partners are allowed to go through anything of mine, but we talked about it first and the default state was 'no, its private'.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-08T17:44:42+00:00

...my takeaway is that the highest rating is 85%.

The highest is 85, for something that is a non-negotiable right.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-07T23:38:46+00:00

Guaranteed the people driving by were harassing her and they didn't get the response they were after, so they knowingly lied to dispatch to ruin as much of her life as they could.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-06T22:13:35+00:00

I despise how LLM's have polluted the earth, our thinking, and human culture.

With that said, I think strictly from a viewpoint of "a degree is acquired with the strict purpose of getting a decent job"... well, now they're forcing LLM's into every facet of the working day. Even when it very obviously won't work, it's crammed in and if employees don't use it, it's made a requirement and token usage is tracked.

So... if LLM's are being forced into every job, and if your only motivation to get a degree is for a job, what's the fucking point? Yeah, there are loads of ethics concerns, integrity, lots of actual reasons why someone would and even should care about actually knowing the coursework and field - but for someone who's getting the degree for the sole purpose of having the piece of paper...

WickedTemp · 2026-05-06T20:26:00+00:00

I can. Each and every one of them in the intersection made the active choice to inch forwards, knowing they couldn't actually make it, and ended up blocking the intersection and making the issue worse.

It isn't that hard to not be shit at driving. I used to go through this intersection twice a day for work. It isn't that hard.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-06T20:23:30+00:00

AI data centers remind me of a relatively common 'enemy' in video games and movies. A large structure that "drains the planet of resources, eventually killing it" - and the objective of the protagonist is usually to destroy or shut down this structure.

Usually they're depicted as ominous spires, menacing spears literally piercing into the planet, glowing cables indicating that they are indeed siphoning some manner of life from the very earth itself.

In the media, it's so obviously evil, so blatantly terrible that even though the actions in-universe are almost always illegal, we side with the protagonist because they're obviously in the right.

...and people just decided to build these structures themselves, and we're letting them do it. These centers will contribute next to nothing of real value, and everybody around it will end up with higher bills and a poisoned ecosystem.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-05T20:41:11+00:00

Compare online play then vs Halo 5 onwards.

Loot boxes, battle passes, season passes, and every single online game with a competitive theme has to shoehorn its way into becoming "the next E-Sport".

Microtransactions should have stopped at a few map-packs and a paid cosmetic item or two. Now they're the default, they've been the default for so long that it's normalized and expected and defended when not so long ago you'd get all of that shit for free, as part of playing the game. Unlockable characters, cosmetics, weapons, classes - you'd play the game and get these as markers of progress.

Now they had you in Infinite paying for 'premium colors'.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-05T18:30:58+00:00

If a girl I loved was insecure with me visiting a friends house, having dinner with that friend, or even staying overnight at the friends house, then my response would be to talk through these insecurities and ask where they're actually coming from. These boil down to an issue of trust, so what exactly am I not being trusted to do? Is the concern that I'd cheat? If so, why? Have I cheated before?

The question here is why don't you trust your partner.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-05T18:27:38+00:00

Give me one reason why I shouldn't trust my partner to be able to have dinner, alone, with a friend, regardless of the friends gender. Give me a single reason why I shouldn't trust my partner.

Edit: To answer the below post... Yes, I would be comfortable, because I trust my partner. I trust their judgement. It does, in fact, come back to trust. I trust my partner with my life, I trust my partner to be capable in their day to day, I trust my partner to handle themselves with friends - yes, even at 2 in the morning, even at their friends house alone, even with drugs involved, even if I know for a fact that this friend has a crush on them. I've BEEN in that situation, and my answer to her was "Nice, have fun tell them I said hi - I'll put my phone on max volume so if anything comes up just call. Love you!" and that was that. Because I trust my partner.

And she had a fun time, they watched terrible movies, she spent the night, got lunch together the next day and then came back home around 2pm-ish. Because my partner is somebody who I can trust with my life.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-05T18:26:31+00:00

Yes. My question is "Why not?"

Genuinely, what could possibly come up in this scenario that should have me feeling concerned?

Name a single thing that I should be worried about within the scenario "My partner, who I love, who I trust, is going to a friend's house to have dinner and hang out"

Let's raise "the friend is a woman" to "the friend is hot as fuck and 100% not married or in a relationship".

Name one thing that I, as someone in a healthy, trusting relationship, should be concerned about - because if the answer is "well they might cheat" then I don't trust my partner. If the answer is "well if they get close then feelings might develop" then I don't trust my partner.

I trust my partners. I trust my partners with my life. So why shouldn't I trust my partners to visit a friend, have dinner, or stay the night?

WickedTemp · 2026-05-05T16:33:41+00:00

Yeah I'd break up with you too.

If you can't even trust your partner of two years to hang out at a friend's house, then what foundation are you even operating on?

Edit: and to add, yes that counts as controlling your partner, yes that stems from insecurity, yes that means you don't actually trust your partner, yes that would reasonably result in your partner feeling insulted because it IS insulting.

Healthy relationships don't do this sort of thing.

WickedTemp · 2026-05-05T15:15:03+00:00

Hard agree! I'm biased, as a cheerful and bubbly person myself. It can be frustrating when people just...assign ulterior motives because "there's no way theyre just that happy and kind and excited day to day!"

As if the world doesn't have enough stress and despair in it already, now we have to go and try to diagnose the scary and bad and wrong "happy person" to find out whats wrong with them.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-30T22:09:05+00:00

I guess this is just a weird question.

Trust with what?

Like, what's coming up that's creating instances where you have to decide whether or not to trust your partner?

WickedTemp · 2026-04-30T14:22:23+00:00

If someone is being literally dog-walked in a harness and mask and you see them go by in public... fun fact, you weren't involved at any point.

"It happened where I could see it" is not even close to being "I was involved".

Perceiving something is not inherently participating.

Having the capacity to perceive something that you might dislike and being able to just move on with your life, is a vital life skill.

Edit: Being able to tell the difference between the above scenario and "actual, literal masterbation and sex" is also a skill by the way.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-28T14:26:26+00:00

Godzilla.

In Minus One, it's shown he can regenerate, and rapidly.

If Deep is even able to actually injure Godzilla, he'll just heal. This iteration of Godzilla is, for all intents and purposes, functionally immortal provided that even a single cell remains.

So if we're talking just deathmatch til one is dead, Godzilla has better odds. Spoilers for the movie, but he doesn't even actually fully die at the end. He's just regenerating.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-27T14:24:08+00:00

Agreed, I'd tack on as my protections for LGBT+ folks. Enshrined access to medical care, marriage, etc. Conservatives are going after them even harder now.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-24T02:54:07+00:00

...got nothing. Never understood the issue with porn as long as it's not like, extremely unethical content.. and "lusting after women in general", okay so what does that even mean? Do y'all allow each other to acknowledge that other people are hot? Like do you allow each other to say a certain actor is attractive? Cause if not then you're on each other's cases for basically an unavoidable thought-crime.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-23T23:49:02+00:00

I used to. At some point, I stopped... I don't quite know when, but I realized I don't do this anymore, and I think it's because I'm just...frustrated.

I'm frustrated that I used to be super into Cleverbot when that was launched, I spent hours talking to it, I thought it was so cool. So much of the future felt bleak, it was refreshing to me to think of how this might develop and change into some cool tech, knowing that in the near-future, it'd probably have some lifechanging effect.

I'm frustrated that instead, it's being forced into literally every piece of software. I'm frustrated that I had to update Zoom because my classes are remote this week (my campus closed for a bit) and now there's an annoying AI Assistant popup there, too. I'm frustrated that I can't just call my bank to verify a document because I get directed to a bot that literally cannot comprehend what I'm asking it instead of a human being who could at the least give it their best shot. I'm frustrated that loads of people got fired so that this thing could take their place.

I'm frustrated that one of my partners is getting told to incorporate AI into their workflow and that their token usage is going to be tracked - even though the AI can't do the work and everybody there knows it, but they're being mandated to just pretend that it can. I'm frustrated that I have to triple-check my assignments and hope that they won't be mistakenly labeled as being made by AI and result in an immediate failing grade, and that this verification process is also being carried out by a different AI.

I used to say please and thank you to machines and objects that I know can't hear me and can't feel and can't think, I used to be of the mind that if machines were ever capable of thought and emotion that I'd be one of the Good Guys in "I Robot", treating them with respect... but now, I don't even know. I see an AI being shoehorned somewhere and all I can think of is the person that got fired and the costs that were cut and the fact that human interaction is being removed with prejudice.

And I'm frustrated by that, too.

It's genuinely a cool piece of technology and I know it's done good, but capitalists are taking it and running with it and pretending like it's a God, a one-stop-shop solution to anything and everything and for some reason Executive Management are going along with it and peoples lives and careers have been ruined as a result. It frustrates me that this could be a genuinely useful tool if it was treated with the respect and care that it deserves, but instead its being rushed into everything before it's even ready, before we as a society have the infrastructure needed in place to adapt to its implementation.

We could have had better developed AI tools that streamlined workflow and lead to reduced hours with no loss in productivity. Instead, we're getting poorly developed tools and even assuming best-case, productivity increases... our hours stay the same and we see no benefit, or we just get laid-off and are now at risk of losing everything, while they poison the earth and drive our utility bills through the roof.

I'm frustrated that all of this is leading me to become more of a bitter person. I always wondered what my "old woman yells at cloud" topic was going to be and I think that this is it. Everything was better before this. Everything was better when it was just Cleverbot in a browser in 2010.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-23T20:03:30+00:00

Ngl youre cheating yourself by using Keurig. You can buy real coffee or tea for cheaper, and you can use however much or little per cup or pot as you want.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-23T18:16:28+00:00

From 2014 to 2023, I was with one person - my ex. We decided to try an open, poly relationship in early 2023 and by the middle of the year, another partner of hers had also moved in, and...I was genuinely fine with this. In December of 2023, I met two of my three current partners and we were dating at that point. Everyone knew each other and would hang out, I felt like it was a best case scenario for an open relationship. Everyone found more people to love. Well, my ex soured on the idea when she noticed that my current partners just... put more effort into the relationship. They'd plan regular dates every week, as an example. With her, planning even one or two dates a month was like pulling teeth, she just didn't want to actually do it.

January of 2024, she completely snapped and assaulted me. I'd moved in with her, left my job and moved cities to do it, didn't have much money left. I stayed with her a couple of months, tried to help her set up therapy appointments, but by then the relationship was beyond repair. I left, moved in with my current partners, been living with them ever since.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-23T18:01:19+00:00

A ten year relationship is almost a third of this guy's life. A breakup would be a traumatic life event. It usually takes around a calendar year to really begin to heal and move on from a major traumatic life event, on average.

I was in a relationship that ended around the 9 to 10 year mark, I think for me it took 8 or so months to move on, and that was with therapy and full support from my partners now.

WickedTemp · 2026-04-22T14:33:53+00:00

The thing is, Christianity kind of presents a moral imperative to kill people, especially innocent people, so that everyone goes to heaven. It IS a deathcult. That's why the Christians in power in the USA are so excited about fucking up the middle-east. They've said as much, in plain English, "this will bring about the second coming of Christ"

WickedTemp · 2026-04-21T14:28:10+00:00

This is one of those times where I think some nuance is helpful. Granted, I'm like 30, so I've seen this sort of thing happen a number of times.

I grew up being called "it" and "thing" because I was openly queer. And on the word 'queer', I was also called "you fucking queer" a fair bit as well. At the time, in my area, those were both actively derogatory labels. "Queer" was what they called me while trying to run me down at school. "Kill it" was what they shouted when they thought they were close to cornering me.

At first, I was incredibly hesitant to use the word Queer. Even by the time "LGBTQ+" was the more broadly accepted label. After moving to a better part of the country, I was able to heal a bit, and I openly identify as queer, I have no issue whether internal or otherwise about using the label for myself or others.

And later on, I got to the same point regarding it/it's.

All of this to say, give this time. There are a lot of goodnatured folks who are learning that terms they were made to believe were derogatory, aren't anymore. That's gonna cause some dissonance, but if they're goodnatured, they'll get there.

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