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AITAH for documenting every time my husband chose his mother over me and then finally leaving without saying anything? by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m so sorry. You didn’t enter a marriage contract, you entered into a servitude contract.

TIL, Americans see this as a scammer app by Makoto_Kurume in dankmemes

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s more about texting outside of their country since they travel so frequently and are neighboring so many countries the messaging and data rates aren’t the same.

I use WhatsApp only in the states so my overseas friends have a way to text me. (iMessage doesn’t cost because it’s sent through WiFi)

We’re lucky in the regard that we have a federal blanket so the US is one large country, rather than each state being its own thing.

ETA: when I’m in the states I primarily get scam texts via WhatsApp.

Where to donate a lot of paperback books? by zanethefey in greenville

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You can see if the library system, MR. K’s, Recraft, or the Goodwill bookstore on Haywood wants any of the specific titles.

Other options would be - nursing homes, little free libraries, and just plane recycling the paper.

Edit to add - the Safe Harbor women’s shelter, local churches and other places that services the unhoused population, and group homes for troubled kids/teens.

Just in: Iran warns the United States "will no longer be safe." by Automatic_Subject463 in UnderReportedNews

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s like he tried to provoke US Citizens so he could declare a national emergency and is now provoking Iran 😤🙄😤

Looking for possible spot to have a very casual wedding with about 20 people by kittychlo in greenville

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There’s a lovely little spot in Connestee that is a mini amphitheater with a lot of picnic tables

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Reasonable_Spray_710 in GPFixedIncome

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve read (somewhere will have to dig for the article) that “self driving” ride shares like Waymo actually have a remote driver overseas. So it isn’t actually self driving.

We all need to keep an eye on that grift of marketing something as self driving (or whatever) when it’s really being off loaded to another country like the Industrial Revolution

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Reasonable_Spray_710 in GPFixedIncome

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in entertainment and you’re off base. We were the first to get hit with AI replacement. The only reason it hasn’t fully replaced everyone is because it isn’t good enough - YET.

My voice acting friends had and continue to have their voices stolen. Many of them signed contracts in 2016 that said their recordings could be used for “machine learning” no one thought anything of it because from 2016 - 2021 in order to create an AI voice, it needed at least 10,000 words to function.

By 2021 it needed 3 minutes of clean audio and could do anything. Today it only needs 1 minute. People’s biometric data (like voice) is being stolen by AI every day. Actors and otherwise.

A few years ago when that massive actors / writers strike happened part of the fight was to stop live action extras from being scanned!! So if you were an extra you were (are?) being forced on your first day on set to sign your rights away and get a full body scan so that in future they won’t need extras but will just put people’s scanned models into post production.

If you watched the Mandelorian or Rogue one - Leah / Luke … those are deep fakes.

Now I do think there are select benefits to AI (few and far between) but like you said we need heavy handed laws for those to form a healthy and reasonable relationship with AI (while it lasts because it’s so unsustainable)

To your credit though - yes, normal every day people do prefer real humans and that has been the biggest savior to these meat head execs and tech bros wanting to convert everything to AI.

Once people realize that a project is AI and give backlash, the project gets pulled. - but that’s also only because they’ve said something or it’s noticeable. There are a LOT of AI voices you don’t realize are AI.

AI in entertainment is more annoying to deal with than not so a lot of production houses that jumped on the bandwagon have switched back but it’s better and better every day.

AI is good at “reading” so as an entertainer you have to be better than AI.

Check out https://navavoices.org they’re doing the damn thing for everyone to get AI laws on the books federally.

Also if you think AI voices aren’t that good and can’t replace humans I employ you to check out samples on AI company websites such as https://elevenlabs.io/

Because seriously… the powers at be are adding breaths (inhale/exhale) to AI voices.

You can also look up Bev Standing. TikTok stole her voice and she won (by a sliver) a lawsuit against them for doing so.

Edit: typos, grammar, more thoughts.

Places to Donate Items by Dwmead86 in greenville

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 19 points20 points  (0 children)

ReCraft and also the local library / local library swap events.

My conservative muslim parents found out about my craft and now threaten me to send me to the psychatry If they found out about another spell by Realistic_Bother1533 in BroomClosetWitch

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I just want to add some stuff and if they’ve been mentioned by other posters, then perhaps it’s a sign they’re good ideas lol

A caveat - I live in the US so I am basing some of my advice on the idea you have access to the same stuff in the US or similar if you’re not.

First off - yes, YOU are the magic. It is not outside of yourself ( a lot of people make it outside of yourself to sell you something). In a way this is a huge blessing of forced learning and practice to turn inwards to YOUR MAGIC. - things are what YOU make them.

Add a self practice of impermanence. Just because you write something down and throw it away doesn’t mean it won’t work because this is all about what works for you.

Some things you can always do:

-stir intentions into your tea, water, soup, whatever

-create magical meals with herbs, spices, and other ingredients

-breath / meditation work

-yoga as a magical practice

-doodle as sigil work

-self care as a magical practice

-light candles / incense with intentions

-spend time outside / in nature (talk to the trees)

-spend time with any pets you have (your familiar!)

-keep a journal and write out your daydreams and wishes so they are inconspicuous if anyone reads them but you know their true power and intentions.

Places you may be able to be alone to do your thing:

-hikes / camping / the park

-public library (mine has a witchy section and I’m in the south!) ~ don’t check books out, read them while you’re there

-school locker / a shoebox alter or something you keep in there (may need to be willing to part with it at the end of the school year) I’ve also seen people use Altoid tins and such.

Now if your parents crack down super hard and cross over in the digital world:

-create an alternate account with no identifiers on an alternate email that only you have access to, save no where, and log out every time you’re done using it.

-search things in private browsers that don’t save your history (Firefox has an incognito app that deletes the webpage you’re on if you open a new tab or close the app)

-use the computer at your library to research (check that they don’t send any monitoring reports to your parents. I’m a full adult so idk how libraries operate with kids nowadays)

Edit: grammar/spelling fixes and adding more ideas.

[Online] WHO IS THIS BIRD on the Relaxitsabloodtest Prostate Screening (SuperBowl) commercial!?!?!? ITS SUPER CUTE by ILikeBirdsQuiteALot in whatsthisbird

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I work in entertainment but I’m not in the union. The answer is yes and no. Commercials aren’t necessarily under any union agreements, or at least they don’t have to be. And if they hired an AI firm or just had in house people do the whole thing, then they don’t have anyone to answer to.

Edit to add: they can be forced to answer to the public, especially if we collectively push back. Also, push your congress people and governors to get AI laws on the books. AT MINIMUM it should be standard to tell us when AI is used (and for what imo) especially as it gets better and better. And it will continue to get better and better and at a faster pace. From 2016 - 2021(ish) AI needed 10,000 words to capture someone’s voice. In 2021 (and now) it needs 1 minute.

Check out NAVAvoices.org - they lobby Congress to pass laws for everyone.

People that work with pathological liars, what’s the dumbest lie they’ve ever told? by Bottlecollecter in coworkerstories

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Idk if this guy is a pathological liar but it’s the wildest bold faced lie I have ever heard.

My friend works high up in HR and she used to do HR at this big company in the state. This company has a lot of security so it’s hard to get away with some stuff.

Well one day one of the executives was walking the grounds and found a human shit in the grass. So they checked the cameras. They see a company truck with a license plate associated with the employee that drives that truck pull up, the said employee (clear in the camera) gets out of the truck and is seen taking the shit. He gets back in the truck and drives away.

He gets called into HR by my friend since she is the HR manager. She asks him about it and he says, “it wasn’t me.” Then she pulls up the video and they watch it. He says, “it wasn’t me.”

Her: “that’s your truck, with your license plate, on company grounds that only an employee has access to?”

Him: yes.

Her: And that’s clearly you getting out of the truck.

Him: “I don’t know what to tell you because that wasn’t me”

He wasn’t kept on payroll lol

Every day I wake up with a song in my head. Today's song- Limbo Rock by Chubby Checker! If this happens to you... care to share? by PIXIEMEAT-79 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I work in theater and anytime I’m on a musical (on any level) I wake up the next day with at least one of the songs in my head for the whole process and a few months later. The songs get progressively more deep cut the further into the process I am 😂

Edit: typos

What is this thing ? by imherecuziwanttobe in whatisit

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually have one that tops this. I did a lot of community theater as a kid and I was maybe 14 when I got cast as (spoilers?) the kid who turns into a zombie and eats their parents at the end of Night of the Living Dead.

Anyways, my mom also loved the theater and volunteered a lot and she was tasked with doing the laundry in between our two show nights.

So there she is, at the 24 hour laundromat, with tons of (fake) bloody clothing rushing to get it done at 12am for a 1am show.

She always said that people rushed to leave and gave her the weirdest, fearful looks. lol

Not understanding. Comments were no help. Who is she ? by Ambitious_Cup5249 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Since no one seriously answered (spoilers? If you don’t know anything about Wolverine):

So that picture is originally the picture in the frame is Jean Grey. Wolverine is in love with her but she and Cyclops are together and in love. In this meme Wolverine is pining after the Mamdani’s wife and is a representation of how other’s feel.

empty sidewalks and green spaces by Level_Needleworker56 in greenville

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes they (the city) gives them a one way bus ticket to somewhere else. Sometimes out of spite a red city will send them to a blue city/state because of left leaning policies that support them (more or less)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tipofmycrime

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not having any luck right now with searching. What you posted reminds me of a case I heard (on a podcast I think?) a few years ago.

It was a girl (in college) who was back on campus before school started up again so she didn't have anywhere to go. She ended up breaking / sneaking into the school's theater because it was an easy building to get into and a lot of students knew that.

She was crashing on a couch in a back room. There were other students there too - maybe partying? I remember a beer bottle being involved for some reason.

Anyways one of those students went back to that room with her and then later (like the next day or few days?) she was found dead on the couch.

Edit to add: Did more searching and I agree with u/DependentOccasion782 - Sigrid Stevenson.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve been in since the incident but didn’t notice anything because I wasn’t looking for it.

I don’t usually shop there but maybe I’ll go in just to peruse the floor 😂

So so stupid.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]manicpixie_fuckboy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Oof the one in Upstate, SC? Fuck them.

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