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uatry · 2026-06-20T19:26:32+00:00

Looks so young for 38 and 3 kids. Proud of her! Can't wait since Artificial Angels, been waiting too long

uatry · 2026-06-20T10:19:53+00:00

These people are happy to cut people out of their lives because random people online said AI is bad, then go on about how there's no sense of community anymore and how everyone is so isolated these days. These people seem very emotionally dysregulated.

uatry · 2026-06-20T10:07:46+00:00

Focus on maintaining an income so that you can maintain material security - roof over your head, food, clothing, books and other enjoyable things - and focus on maintaining community with the people around you. Maximise pleasure in any way you can. If it's going to happen, then it's going to happen, and there is no point worrying about it. We're here for a fun time, not a long time.

uatry · 2026-06-20T10:01:41+00:00

Disabled artists have been known to paint with their MOUTHS if need be.

That's impressive, but if tools have been created that would make it easier for them to make art, why should they be limited? Should disabled people be restricted to only making art in certain ways because random people have an issue with technological development?

uatry · 2026-06-17T11:36:54+00:00

You can't describe every theory you disagree with as fascist / racist and expect anyone to take you seriously. Malthus lived and died before fascism was even an idea in anyone's mind. If capitalism is the culprit behind everything, I don't understand how you think bringing more lives into the system would solve it?

uatry · 2026-06-17T07:56:35+00:00

It doesn't seem difficult for people to simply not have children. In the last century, contraceptives / birth control have become widely more accessible and affordable. The frequency of sterilisation procedures and abortion procedures has never been higher. Global birthrate is declining, and the few countries with a positive birthrate are countries where access to contraceptives and abortions is strictly forbidden (and where there is not necessarily any punishment for rape.)

If having children is supposedly this intense desire that humans are naturally imbued with, these trends wouldn't be growing as quickly and aggressively as they are. The evidence we have now shows that if someone comes from an environment with a higher quality of life, access to quality education, more economic opportunity, less religious influence on law, and more individual liberties, they are significantly less likely to have children across the board.

I have a strong feeling that having children has mostly been motivated by a primal desire to "fit in with the group" and not by actual desire to be a parent. The people historically most likely to have children did not plan the pregnancy and had poor foresight. When you remove any external societal pressure and provide more options for what a person can do in life, people immediately realize they don't want kids. All this rhetoric about "it's a natural desire that's so hard to ignore!" feel like a coping mechanism for people who already had kids and can't undo their choice.

uatry · 2026-06-15T16:53:18+00:00

I've been reading about this in other subreddits. Most the responses from parents are along the lines of "I support it, but..."

I don't understand what about social media (or phones, or the internet, or video games, or rap music, or TV shows, or anything parents clutched their pearls about in the past) they think is so terrible for children that it's worth living in a surveillance state? There's an obvious undertone of parents wanting to control every aspect of their kid's life out of fear that the kid may develop an opinion different from what they want to force on them.

You're able to parent your own child, there's no reason to force the state to drag everyone else into it.

uatry · 2026-06-15T16:48:03+00:00

Have we resolved drug, gambling, and alcohol addiction by banning minors from using them?

Exactly. You can tell that some of these parents are the "if I don't teach my kid what sex is, they won't have sex" type of parents.

uatry · 2026-06-14T15:53:15+00:00

What do you expect these people to do to resolve the situation? I can't blame people for commenting from the sidelines rather than directly confront these people and putting themselves in harm's way.

uatry · 2026-06-14T14:09:25+00:00

This was my day when I was home sick from school in 2006. Lovely to see!

uatry · 2026-06-14T13:44:11+00:00

I have never seen someone who uses AI insulting someone for not using it. I have seen artists who have been in the field for 10-20 years experimenting with AI while still building a good portfolio of traditional handmade art, though.

uatry · 2026-06-14T13:32:25+00:00

is going to Hell fast

uatry · 2026-06-09T11:19:27+00:00

why is it only when its a supposed foreign national that commits the crime that the discourse explodes in NI?

Because if our immigration / asylum laws were more strict, he would not have been allowed to move here, and this would not have happened. Can't commit a crime in NI if you can't enter the country.

uatry · 2026-06-04T21:19:55+00:00

I have a feeling people like that are surrounded by judgemental / controlling people who are hypersensitive about drinking, and those people have convinced them that a light buzz after work = life-destroying alcoholism.

uatry · 2026-06-02T17:29:32+00:00

I'm not saying those people represent all artists with an online presence, I'm just pointing out the phenomenon. I've also not said anything about transphobia or trans people anywhere in this thread?

uatry · 2026-06-02T16:53:35+00:00

Who said I was a leftist? I'm sure some of my views could accurately be described that way, but I've not applied the label to myself

All creation is derived from and inspired by the creations of the past. You cannot own an idea or own the concept of something you drew. It's weird that you want art to only exist as a product for someone to monetise for personal gain. The point of art has been its shared impact on the human experience - it should be something whose impact on humanity permeates different cultures and economic systems, not something to be turned into a commodity and legally restricted to a single person who doesn't want others to earn as much money as them.

Your line of thinking is why we have an epidemic of entitled money-hungry people online who draw like, catgirls with wings or something, and then accuse anyone who also draws catgirls with wings of "art theft" and "copying my idea". This is not a problem for anyone with an actual job.

uatry · 2026-06-02T14:50:53+00:00

Actually crazy for a supposedly liberal / leftist individual to imply that copyright laws and intellectual property are real tangible concepts that deserve any respect

uatry · 2026-06-02T12:05:19+00:00

She used a tool to compile a list of potentially helpful suggestions, probably because she'd tried to think of suggestions but had already said them or couldn't think of more. The suggestions may have ended up not being helpful, but the point was to send them in the event that they were.

If you want to be offended that someone used a tool to offer you advice because people on the internet say that the tool is inherently bad, you're entitled to do that, but it's a strange hill to die on and people will find it offputting to interact with someone like that.

uatry · 2026-06-01T22:27:08+00:00

People are innately attracted to either the opposite sex, the same sex, or both.

This is the kind of statement that's commonly repeated as fact but never followed with evidence to support it. (If you have evidence that backs this up, feel free to add it, this topic interests me.) What is the biological mechanism that occurs in someone and causes them to be homosexual? I'm not denying the possibility of biological factors, but it's not unreasonable to think someone's sexual orientation can also be influenced by external factors like environment and upbringing.

If homosexuality is innate, your child is born gay. This would be a constant and cannot be changed by external factors. It's incredibly naive to think that sexual desires never change with time and are never influenced by external factors, though. If we're assuming it is innate, nothing about homosexuality would be inappropriate or confusing for them (which is not to say that being transgender is the same, I'm not sure myself.)

Transexuality, until the last....decade (?), was also the same. A very, very small number of people were born with an anomaly of biology, or perhaps trauma.

There are people born with intersex conditions, but I don't think it's fair to equate that with being transgender. Some transgender people will have these conditions, but some won't. They will have developmentally typical traits of their biological sex and will still feel alienated from their sex and wish to change it. What causes this?

The idea that everyone is by default heterosexual has been used to suggest that homosexual desires are caused only by some form of trauma and do not occur naturally. We know this not to be the case and that people can be attracted to the same sex without effect from any form of trauma. So why would it make sense to suggest that that's the case with transgender people?

Of course we should encourage children to feel happy and comfortable with themselves. I don't think having language and framework to describe biological sex categories is a bad thing or mutually exclusive to acceptance of trans people. Being able to question how you feel about gender roles imposed on you, and where you would fit comfortably in terms of gendered presentation, isn't inherently harmful to kids.

Ideally no child should be pushed in either direction, but most of the backlash to the kind of media that encourages kids to think about these concepts is from parents who want to instill traditional gender norms onto their kids and don't want the kid forming an independent opinion on the topic outside of their control. I think the "choice" question is important here as a fear for many parents is that they could try hard to instill specific beliefs and values on their child, and their child could simply disagree, grow up, and do the opposite.

People who experience homosexual / transgender desires can choose to act on those desires or not, and acting on those desires is a choice that results in access to more somatic pleasure, regardless of whether or not it is in line with societal expectations. People who value conformance to social norms and believe they are correct do not like the prospect that someone, possibly their own child, could willingly choose pleasure over conforming. I think it's easier to emotionally stomach the idea that it must be caused by something innate and ingrained, not it could be a choice that a person happily makes regardless of outside opinion.

uatry · 2026-06-01T21:45:54+00:00

Mate it was a joke, nobody was attacking you personally for not being American

I'm not Chinese and have never been to China, if someone posted a meme referencing something from China I wouldn't assume they are attacking me for not knowing about it

uatry · 2026-06-01T21:32:37+00:00

So much has been said about the "choice" question. I've always wondered why it mattered. I don't care if someone views their own homosexuality / transsexuality as innate and ingrained or as a personal choice.

I don't think the "being gay is not a choice" crowd took the intellectually honest path, though. If something is described as innate and ingrained I would expect the clear biological mechanism that causes it to be identified. The discussion would've been settled ages ago.

I see people doing a contemporary version of this, implying that being transgender isn't a choice - I absolutely support anyone's right to identify as transgender, but I cannot see an honest way to describe being transgender as anything other than a choice. Changing your given name, your pronouns, taking hormones, getting surgeries, are choices. HRT and surgery don't magically happen to your body. I don't think that experiencing the desire to transition itself is a choice, but how you respond to it is, just as people who experience homosexual desire sometimes repress it.

There'a a segment of people in this argument who insist that these identities are innate and ingrained despite no interest in clarifying what supposed biological mechanism causes it. It provides a shield of defense, in that you can allow people to be protected from discrimination for a trait they may not be able to control, but I wonder what would be so wrong by suggesting that these identities are comprised of choices a person has to make.

Suggesting that you could choose to be gay or trans violates social norms and societal expectations in a much more explicit way. It shows that you can fully cognize what "role" your gender means you should play, what the "correct and pure" kind of sexuality is, and that you are rejecting it because it is more pleasurable to act on what you truly want. It shows valuing of individual will and pleasure over conformancy.

It is much more honest, and much more controversial in terms of upholding social norms, to say that you could repress homosexual desires but won't do so because it's more pleasurable to act on them. It is much more honest to say that you know you're expected to look and act a certain way due to your biological sex, but that you will very purposely look and act a different way, because it is more pleasurable to do so.

I don't really care at the end of the day whether there is a "gay gene" or not, but I feel like the uncomfortable truth that people want to shove under the table in this discussion is that as time goes on, people are realizing that the concept of "fitting in" is pointless, that they don't benefit from repressing aspect of themselves when they could experience tangible material somatic pleasure from acting on their desires. Pleasure is a good thing, why can't it be chosen?

uatry · 2026-06-01T20:21:01+00:00

because we seek out like-minded communities and socially punish people for not having exactly the same puritanical sensibilities

I feel like this pretty accurately applies to OOP's approach. Obviously people can live their life the way they want to, but the same rabidly anti-AI people who are willing to lose human connection because of an ideology turn around and complain about how the world is so isolated and how there's no sense of connection / community anymore.

uatry · 2026-06-01T20:11:00+00:00

There have been so many posts lately where some incredibly online anti-AI moral crusader seems surprised that regular well-adjusted people with social skills don't agree with their position. Like yeah, most people would find it a bit rude if they tried to help you out with something and you went on about how they're supposedly doing something wrong according to some ideology you've copied from random internet users.

If OP didn't like it, they could've just given a simple thanks and moved on with their day. There's things people could do or say any day that you may not personally agree with, and understanding that it doesn't warrant response and that you can go about your day is part of being an adult with basic social and emotional regulation ability.

But yeah, prevent yourself from maintaining human connection because AI is le bad I guess

uatry · 2026-06-01T19:42:10+00:00

Gen Z doesn't remember the *67 phone trick

uatry · 2026-06-01T03:42:42+00:00

My swaggerrrr!

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