You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still
So I’ve seen the post going around that’s kind of like “kids should be able to read whatever they want and not have their choices censored by adults” and I largely agree with one caveat which is that children need to be able to opt in. I remember being 12 and sneaking some dirty books, and being interested and excited to read a book with something more sexy in it, and no one died, and everything was fine, and I was not forever scarred. However I do remember being shown a a horror film at seven by a babysitter and not being able to sleep for three weeks, and if I’d known how scary the movie was I wouldn’t have wanted to watch it.
Kids can usually know what they can handle. Kids cover their eyes at scary points in films, kids read past stuff they aren’t ready for. But it is good to be clear like “Oh that book might have some scary parts you might not like, are you sure you want to get that one?” Or “Oh this book has some grown up things in them that you might have a hard time understanding, I want to check that your okay with that.” Like give kids the warnings and options and they will probably make a safe and informed decision. It doesn’t have to be either or.
I also think kids should be allowed to be wrong about what they can handle without getting in trouble for it. They should be able to go to the adults in their life and ask for help processing what they saw or read without fear of judgement or punishment.
jesus fucking christ trump has just kidnapped a world leader
apparently this post is how people are finding out. the president of venezuela and his wife have just been kidanpped and taken to the usa. this follows a sudden invasion and bombing of venezuela
I need people to know this is not the first time the US has done this and it won’t be the last. The US has done this in Latin America many times before and it will continue to do so because this country does not give a fuck about Latin America and sees itself as having the right to interfere with every nation in the Americas.
If someone hired an Etsy wish to curse me can they please undo it? I’m still recovering from the fractured toe and then last night I hit a deer so my car is fucked and as I was typing this something just fell off my desk. Please…
I love trans Neil headcanons for a number of reasons, specifically how funny it would make how everyone reacts to him having a secret identity is
His father being like “I don’t care that my child is trans, I will respect his pronouns, I’m just going to kill him for unrelated reasons”. Also the idea of him finding out Neil is trans and being like “Oh ok. Your new name is Nathaniel, after me, obviously. Anyway, when you’re dismantling a body your instinct will be to go for the joints, however-“
Riko, and by extension Kevin and Jean, just seamlessly accepting Neil’s new gender into their fucked up codependent evil situationship without missing a beat because Neil’s gender doesn’t matter so long as he’s good at Exy. The others being like “Wait you knew Neil used to be a girl and didn’t mention it?” And Kevin just being like “What does it matter, Exy is a unisex sport, he would be allowed to play either way” and that’s just as far as his brain got
Andrew hooking up with Neil and getting his hands in Neil’s pants and internally going “Well that’s unexpected but honestly still probably only the third most unexpected thing about him” and then just carrying on
And most of all that it would be in character for Neil to not mention it as a narrator because if it doesn’t pertain to Exy, the mafia, or Andrew and Kevin then he’s probably just not even going to consider it relevant
Today Jeremy will upload a tiktok with the caption: “In your early 20s you will get a call from a friend asking if you’re willing to take a Raven defensemen for your Exy team. It is very important that you say yes” and the next picture is Jerejean wedding
Andrew posting a reply that just says “Instructions unclear, results may vary” and it is a slideshow of Kevin drunk and asleep in increasingly insane places / poses.
It’s funny because if these ‘ai artists’ put the same effort into learning art as they do into defending that generated slop, they’d actually be able to create many different anime girls with big titties without wasting half of a city’s water supply in an hour just to last 30 seconds gooning to that shit
Coca cola’s ai Christmas commercial took 70 THOUSAND prompts to generate, and I cannot recall a single scene after watching it because it was just generic slop with nothing authentic or memorable. the worst part is that the amount of time it took for editors to stitch it together could have been used to employ people who could probably use the money before the holidays AND their creativity wouldn’t be limited by what ai can recreate. not like they can’t afford it with their trillions of dollars in revenue.
look I’m not saying ai isn’t fun, it can create some unintentionally funny content and some of the art it recreates is cool. I can see the appeal of using ChatGPT for fast information rather than searching the web for hours, I see the appeal in roleplaying with it when you have no friends or you’re embarrassed. I’m saying that it goes against my morals. People getting put out of jobs, the water usage, mental health issues it causes, stolen artwork, the study that’s coming out showing we are losing a part of our brain function because it no longer has to work as hard, all of this is why I choose not to use ai.
