is it a hot take to say that i think you need to understand why something is bad, not just that it simply is?

this is a part of the problem

you need to be able to explain why you shouldnt use ai rather than “oh well its obviously bad and you shouldnt use it or else youre a bad person” because that isn’t logic. “ai generates child porn based off of real children and whether or not it does is entirely up to how it is built and if pedophiles are able to find ways around those safeguards, because ai cannot in itself discern right from wrong” is a genuine criticism. “amazon tried to build a data center the size of tuson outside of tuson just to power their ai that would’ve increased the inability to stay alive outside in parts of arizona” is a genuine criticism. even “using generative ai teaches you not to learn how to do things yourself even when they’re difficult, devaluing necessary skills out of practice” is a genuine criticism when you look at the amount of people who think they are able of doing a difficult major when they couldnt write their own papers in high school.

but “ai is just bad because it’s bad” will convince no one and is a morally lazy position to take. about anything!

you need to know why reading someone’s diary is wrong if you want to learn about privacy and respect. you need to know why child sexual assault is wrong if you want to be able to help children form healthy age appropriate relationships. you need to know why capitalism is bad if you want to replace it with something else. you need actual concrete ideas and ideologies rather than “you should agree with me because i have the right vibe”

Apolitically killing bandits and savages in my video game with no messages

I think every movie regardless of time period or tone should have at least 1 (one) trans person in it. Like at the beginning of The Godfather some Sicilian tgirl should come to Vito and be like “Godfadda, I need money for my breast implants” and Vito should be like “I’ll never forget what you’ve done for this family. I’ll find you the best surgeon in New York”

you dont actually want to see fat tgirls you still just want to see your idealized bbw

love her with cellulite or you do not love her.

love her with small boobs or you do not love her.

love her with stretch marks or you do not love her.

love her when shes trailing behind and slow down for her or you do not love her.

love her with a double chin or you do not love her.

love her by making space for her. she has been made small her whole life. or you do not love her.

love fat trans girls when they are not available to be sex objects for you or you do not love them

thats right~! or you do not love her!

Guys if you want queer shit written by queers on our own terms you're going to have to start seeking out weird independent media. I'm sorry that's the only place you can regularly find it idk what to tell you, we can't keep acting like there's nothing if we're not getting blockbusters and triple A titles or whatever it is we're waiting around for. The thing you keep saying you want is already being offered for free by one person making a passion project on the internet and you would both benefit enormously if you interacted with it instead of lamenting that the only options we have for representation are pandering afterthoughts from corporate shit

can non natives stop acting surprised and performatively jokey "uhh what lol!" about ice going after native americans. theyve been doing this for years and it ramped up last year and i had to hear all the stupid "uhhhh where will u deport them to 😜 silly republicans!" comments as if its not always been about detaining torturing murdering using as slave labor scattering communities through fear and intimidation etc. be an adult and act with maturity please. its not quirky or confusing its directly in line with americas racism and white supremacy to make sure native americans are eradicated

it’s strange with how often the bg3 fandom discusses grooming and sexual power dynamics that wyll is skipped over so frequently. his dynamic with mizora and her coercion and control over him is pretty explicitly sexualized. she calls him “pet”, “naughty boy”, takes his physical autonomy, alters his body without consent, and delights in publicly humiliating him. she had unfettered access to him from the age of seventeen, when he was recently maimed, disowned, and banished. he is the only companion whose abuse is actively ongoing during the game’s events, and whose abuser still has constant access to him. but he rarely gets the kind of attention or analysis of trauma as other companions.

its an interesting look, I think, into what we see and validate as victimhood.

gotta be honest I think a REAL juicy dynamic is when someone has a True Love and a Soulmate and they are two different people

see this person is the love of my life I would follow them anywhere every day is brighter for having them in it. and THIS bastard shares a soul with me we'll find each other in every universe and understand each other in ways no other living being could. neither of us are particularly thrilled about this

They're calling it the most liberal Tweet to ever be Tweeted

Does he have "nonbinary vibes" or is he just east asian

Important addition

I am so very serious when I say that minors should have a legal and easily reinforceable right to say "I don't want to live with my parents (or other adult caretakers)/I don't want to be around that person/I don't want to go to that place" and actually get their wish accommodated. So much childhood trauma could be avoided or ended if children actually had the right to leave the situation or the person hurting them.

January 6, 2026 - Well over a thousand people marched to Pentonville Prison in London to demand justice for the Palestine Action hunger strikers.

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life could be so much easier if i could oscillate between a pussy and a dick at will but im sure many people feel this way