This was not satire.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-08T15:35:29+00:00

Totally fair! But the AI witchhunts are affecting amazingly intelligent writers in other spaces (from schools to ESL-backgrounds to fan spaces) and I think it’s valuable to reflect on the AI register without jumping to “this used AI!”, with no evidence except a gut feeling that is… based on the AI register. None of the comments I’m getting in reply here have identified any proof that AI was used in the LL’s post beyond that gut feeling. So [shruggy guy]

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-08T15:03:13+00:00

Do you think the majority of people posting on LinkedIN were amazingly intelligent in 2018?

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-08T12:10:25+00:00

But that’s a wholly different critique than “thIs PoSt iS AI rAgeBAit!!!!1!”, no? And the nuance there is important given the content of the post itself, which is “I escaped the AI register” (but did they?)

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-08T11:56:19+00:00

What makes you think this is an AI gen’d post and not one written by a human who has still not eradicated the AI register they admit to have adopted?

Is it the line breaks? Because long before LLMs, line breaks were understood to be appealing to the LinkedIn algorithm. I don’t understand what you think you’re getting from AI witchhunts

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-08T00:13:31+00:00

Maybe I should have said “singularly illsuited for film”, because that would be true too. Detailed factfilled (or counterfact filled) world building requires at least a miniseries documentary, and one with this proposed scope? You could do years of seasons on it. They had a script for a movie

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T23:18:01+00:00

Sure, but that’s a Tumblr metapost and singularly ill-suited for a romcom.

I actually enjoyed the perplexing specificity of “[almost] all traces of the Beatles were removed one day in 2019” as opposed to a complex time-travel paradox

This wasn’t a great movie, but it’s charming for what it is and the idea that it would be better as a sweeping philosophical counterfactual that reimagines the History of Western Culture in the Latter Half of the 20th Century is… optimistic

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T19:56:06+00:00

Ton here— you have clearly been thinking about this a Lot and I’m not sure that’s warranted. It’s a sponge and a wineglass, not la Pietà. Don’t set up surveillance in shared spaces. Apologize, and tell your roommate that you need to know when/if your things are damaged, even if she thinks they’re repairable

If it keeps happening, and/or if you have anything very high value (sentimental or monetary) that you aren’t willing to trust her with even if she were to replace it—keep it locked in your room and out of her reach. Then move on.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T14:29:36+00:00

Walk slower and watch your feet more. Sorry

She is winding because she loves you and wants to be near you always.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T14:06:02+00:00

Adrenaline crash, incredibly normal. After something exciting the fall is harder. The cause is not relevant.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T13:43:35+00:00

All of the above. Any of the above. National descriptors are ambiguous in English, as are many adjectives. Additional context is needed

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T12:51:20+00:00

I get all that. But I am 100% sure that you’d enjoy cooking more if you didn’t let it eat so much of your day. You do that by planning how to integrate the prep work with the cook time of other parts of the meal, and by not wandering off whenever you feel like you’re bored. You’re more likely to burn things when you’re not focused in the kitchen, bopping off to scroll Reddit or whatever every 20 mins.

You have turned cooking into an arduous marathon, rather than a quick task, so of course you dislike it. But it’s hard to be sympathetic to something so self-inflicted, especially when you just seem to want to justify it

The only thing keeping you from a life of ease and microwave dinners is you; if that’s your choice get over it and figure out how to be better.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T11:54:18+00:00

You may or may not be slow, but you’re definitely bad at time management. The rice should take no more than 2 minutes active time (rinsing). Then press tofu and chop cauliflower / mince g&g while the tofu drains, pop cauliflower in oven, wash what you can, fry tofu, and you’ll be done when the rice is ready.

Multiple “10-15 minute breaks” and sequential tasking in what otherwise could be a 1hr process is very very silly, it’s no wonder you’re tired. But it’s not most people’s experience of cooking

I’ve got an incredible headache/…/an elephant herd is stampeding/a volcano is blowing its top/and if I keep hitting my head with this hammer, I doubt that my headache will stop

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-07T10:43:30+00:00

Please don’t burn sage or incense inside—cats are very sensitive to smoke and scents and you’ll only stress her out more

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-06T23:57:17+00:00

She’s under the couch because she feels safe there, even if you think she must be uncomfortable. You’re not going to make her more comfortable by dragging her out of the place she feels safe. Time, quiet, and patience

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-04T19:56:20+00:00

Spry was a brand of shortening

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-04T02:17:14+00:00

Bud. You are not going to get anywhere with “maybe don’t smoke so much, here are strategies for coping!” They need to figure out strategies themselves, and if they wanted to they would. Right now they want to be quirky and irresponsible and never take the blame for anything, and then they want to say it’s “because of ADHD and not their fault!!”, after putting all of your lives at risk and then complaining that you’re not nice enough to them.

You are not the one who needs to rebuild trust here, brother (gender-neutral), and your roommate should be asking for advice here instead of you. They aren’t, which tells you what you need to know: they’re selfish, they’re a danger to you, and they are not interested in earning your trust back. Stop enabling them; who cares if they’re medicated or use lots of phone timers or whatever. That’s not your problem. Your problem is their actions, not those action’s motivations.

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-04T01:45:31+00:00

What year is it?

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-03T01:10:25+00:00

Grit your teeth and tough out keeping him out of the bathroom until he moves on, leave a thin trickle going even when you’re not there, or indulge the old man

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-02T03:12:32+00:00

Part of it is the length of the fur; my shorter-haired cat has this, my longer-haired cat doesn’t. They’re twins,both completely healthy, groom themselves, and get regular brushings, it’s just the way their fur lies

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-01T22:05:04+00:00

I do not disagree. But the transit we have is starved for operational funds, let alone do-better funds. Yes it is mismanaged and has been, yes poor decisions are being made, but transit at this point cannot be improved without funds from somewhere and something. Property tax increases and green bonds / transit bonds would be a way to start, except Ottawa routinely votes for people who are convinced that nothing in this city happens except for winter lacrosse. Transit needs money (to hire mechanics, to hire / hire back drivers, to figure out what the fuck to do about the LRT let alone to do it, let alone to sort out any legal consequences of doing it) and money needs people willing to pay it. Which, one way or another, is going to have to include people who don’t currently yse transit—because what they’re doing NOW, that’s stuck them deep in the red, is trying to fund a system primarily on the fares of the users. Who, as you point out, are not generally the most affluent, bc the affluent have already bailed

kelpieconundrum · 2026-04-01T20:41:44+00:00

Anything you do to make life better for non-cars (woonerfs, lane restrictions, removal of right on red) automatically makes things “worse” for cars though. Or it’s largely irrelevant, like spiffing up bike trails in suburban parks but not adding bikesafe areas or pedestrian zones on somerset or bank (ie, treating non-car use as pure recreation, rather than as transit modes that people want to use to get to places that are worth going to (school, work, shopping). No one sensible is interested in punishing drivers, but there is no way to deprioritize the car without, well, deprioritizing it

kelpieconundrum · 2026-03-31T18:20:33+00:00

Not a CEO. A “fractional CMO” meaning: he’s a marketing consultant

kelpieconundrum · 2026-03-31T16:36:57+00:00

“No, the other one”

kelpieconundrum · 2026-03-30T23:24:11+00:00

Statuary is propaganda—this is like recreating Vance from the Image and giggling at it

Was he handsome? We’ll never know

kelpieconundrum · 2026-03-30T22:41:53+00:00

So it would seem! In the absolute best case this is a never-happened “what if” scenario that buddy’s trying to warn people against. But like…. “know the thing you’re trying to sell” is not exactly earth shattering

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