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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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there’s something about your mom teaching you one of her recipes while you’re using her kitchenware. the specific pot with only one handle she’s had all my life; she points to a demarcation on the inside that’s there from being filled to that exact spot time and time again.

“put the water to there.”

she moves my ingredients around and i protest a bit, but i let her.

i’ve never seen her quite so fragile before.

i never realized how far i would go to see her protected; cared for. how much ive been yearning to see it my whole life, going blue in the face holding my breath for a man who never would.

i think we will both start breathing again soon.

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Last night I spent 1 hour trying to get chatGPT to generate an image of Drake (it wont do any real people if you ask by name) on a bag of Lays Chips that was 9/11 (it wont do anything controversial) flavored. It took about 1 hour of associating various adjectives and nicknames tangential to Drake (Canadian rapper, from Degrassi, Drizzy, Champagne Papi) and only ended up working after I scrapped the chip bag idea and fed it a made up movie plot based on one of the previous chip bag images it made and told it to make VHS box art based on that plot, and that the movies name was 'DRIZZY CITY'

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i need to enter a toxic and obsessive psychosexual situationship with someone as soon as possible. i think thatd fix me

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i’m always saying this

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Imagine how much better the world would be if the harry potter books were never written

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we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

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ain't nepotism those bastards fthat sucked up spunch bobs hause

finally someone who knows what they're talking about!

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“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”

— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)

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"how dare you hide this in the tags" -> "you sir have won the internets"

"none of these words are in the bible" -> "thats enough internet for today"

"op check your carbon monoxide detector" -> "were you on drugs when you made this"

and so on and so forth

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english is a minefield… if someone is fucking you that's sex, that's good… but if they fucked you that's usually a bad thing… if they're fucking with you, also bad… if they fuck with you then that's good again

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Why are there like 5 daily chores where if you skip them for 2 days your life becomes a time based psychological thriller after

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The brain does not magically mature at 25. Actual neuroscientists note some 8-year-olds even have a greater "maturation index" than 25-year-olds. The myth misunderstands basic neuroscience but is still used for anti-trans policymaking like the Cass Report. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html

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come on man

#this is me