Forever grateful to have learned the term “Negative Affect Interference” because before I had a word for it I was just like “if you do something to make me think you are a genuinely kind and good person who wants to be around me then I will be forced to kill one or both of us immediately” like some kinda fucked up emotional misophonia
Guys I was GIDDY with excitement when I realized the stick is how they figure out the standing-up perspective!!! I always figured people doing this stuff just had magical perspective powers but that makes SO MUCH SENSE what a cool tool!!! Amazing job!
You know when someone goes “Oh, you’re autistic? You should meet my buddy Ronathon he’s autistic you’ll love him he’s great” and you meet him and he’s the fucking worst
And I should clarify the point Im making is not “I’m *special* and *different* and *better*” it’s “Autism is not adefining personality trait”
It’s like the same as “oh, you’re gay? You should meet my buddy ronathon he’s gay you’ll love him he’s great” or “oh, you’re Hispanic? You should meet my friend ronathon he’s Hispanic you’ll love him he’s great” or “oh you’re a woman? You should meet my friend ronatha she’s also a woman you’ll love her she’s great” and then they’re always totally different from you. Like, people like to go, oh I know two people with this same weird thing about them so that means they’re the same they should be friends, but that never works because your descriptors don’t define your personality and it’s super annoying that people do that.
This is a good addition but I need to add that I am Delighted you continued to use fake name I pulled from my butt. Like ah shit it’s Ronathan
congrats to Ronatha on her transition, even if she’s still the worst
not to enforce gender roles but a computer should NOT fucking have apps okay. if I wanted an app I’d go on my phone my laptop is for Programs. I mean this.
bringing the ancient meme back
really glad to see hate for this concept.
count me among the haters. i’ve been a hater since i first encountered this conflation of many different well-defined concepts into one ill-defined one
it’s part of the general trend of hiding the inner workings of computers from the user, which is something i hate since it tends to promote computer illiteracy which tends to promote incompetence and dysfunction in society as a whole
I go to youtube. Cute animal videos are AI now. I go to instagram. There are AI influencers. I go to spotify. It’s flooded with AI bands and music. I go to ebay. Every product is AI. I open netflix. Every movie has AI. I watch TV. All commercials are AI. I cancel all my suscriptions. The customer support is AI. I buy a book. It is written by AI. I talk to my friends. They tell me that AI is their new therapist. I take the subway. Some dude is talking to his AI girlfriend next to me. I go to the beach. The sunset is real. I take a pic and upload it. The photo is enhanced with AI. You can’t opt out.
Imagine being named Bobby McDonald or some shit and then living so long that both “Bobby” and “McDonald” enter the public lexicon as naughty words until you are essentially named “Penis Homosexual” and kids are afraid to write it down
This one is 2" wide, 78" inches long. I have no idea how I managed that when most of my bands are roughly 60". There’s 192 threads in this pattern. Took me about 6 hours to cut the threads and string them up on the cards. Pattern repeats took about 45 minutes each. 21 repeats for about 22 hours, probably more if you include loading the shuttle. Made with crochet thread.
The pattern is one of my own modified ones! I took a relatively simple pattern and expanded it to include 6 colors instead of 2 the first time I made it. But it wasnt twist neutral and simply reversing the pattern to make it so gave it odd spots and looked clunky. So I mixed it up to make the twists alternate directions at different times and it looks so much more natural! Especially since the sections are relatively short all considered. I was worried I was going to be unhappy with it and that’s a lot of work that I had to trust the process on. But I really like it!
trying to get better at values and painting from my brain by putting my whole computer in greyscale and having absolutely zero idea what colours i use lol
so I read the article and the story is both less and more insane than it sounds.
basically, there’s been an ants’ nest near a vent shaft of this abandoned Soviet bunker for decades. the nest spilled over into the bunker itself at some point once it was abandoned and there was no way for the ants to make their way back up to the nest, no queen but a constant supply of new colony members raining down from above, and no source of food in the bunker other than the corpses of their fellow ants.
fast forward to some scientists looking for bats that stumble on what’s basically a post-apocalyptic ant society. they go “holy fuck” start studying, and observe that, all things considered, the ants still pretty much act like regular ants doing regular ant things.
fast forward some more, and the scientists feel like they have enough data from observing the colony as-is, so they decide to try an experiment. they put a little walkway between the bunker colony and the og colony in the vent shaft so the bunker colony members have the option of leaving and rejoining the og colony.
spoiler alert: every single ant in the bunker immediately nopes the fuck back to the colony in the vent shaft. within days the bunker is completely empty. the scientists leave the walkway in place so when more ants inevitably fall back down the vent shaft they can just climb back up instead of starting up the cycle anew.
tl;dr it’s not “oh noes evil ants are on a rampage”, it’s “ants forced into a horrible situation to survive get to go home”
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