#is perfectly ethical

[trans-xianxian]

"wearing leather/fur or eating animal products is unethical" SHUT UP SHUT UP WE ARE PART OF THE ECOSYSTEM!!!!

#is it unethical for a wolf to hunt? for a bird to use fur in its nest? #there are certainly problems with Industries being unethical I will not deny that #many corporations that produce animal products whether for food or craft employ cruel and unethical animal treatment practices #but wearing a leather jacket made from your local farmers cow made by a craftsman #is perfectly ethical #because we are animals part of an ecosystem and we are part of a chain that involves us killing other animals #66% percent of all animals on earth also do this #personally I wouldn't wear fur because I'd feel weird wearing skin #but theres anything Inherently cruel or unethical about it #I don't eat meat either #but believe it or not humans are omnivores!! we're supposed to do that!!! #if you make the personal choice not to eat meat/any animal products thats your choice and thats fine! I also made a choice not to eat meat! #but you cannot try to pretend that as a species on a biological level we are not supposed to eat meat. cmon now. #anyway. #ghost posts #text

[rileyclaw]

happy @marichatmay to me and also everyone else . day 1: balcony!! it loops!!

#theyre discussing the ethics of stealing grocery carts from stores and racing them down busy streets #they have decided it's perfectly ok and legal #marichat #marichatmay2022 #marichat may #miraculous ladybug #ml #fanart #my art #gif #animation #im getting the hang of this clip studio thing ayyy #chat noir #marinette dupain cheng

[kedreeva]

Sorry about the color mix up. I appreciate the reply and additional info! I guess bc I know nothing about peafowl (and the fact i dont breed any type of animal), I'm having a hard time understanding how being sterile would be unethical. I do somewhat get the shortened life span. I really would like to understand this, I just sometimes need stuff explained like I'm 5.

Up front, there's no "somewhat get" to a shortened lifespan being caused by a mutation in captive populations. If an animal is capable of living 20+ years (and some live 30+ or even 40+!) and some non-essential mutation is causing them to live 7-9 years, it's flat out absolutely unethical to breed that mutation, full stop, regardless of anything else going on. That's indicative of a MAJOR problem in their genetics. There's NO ethical reason to breed that because humans like how it looks. So, even without the sterility, these birds would 100% be unethical to produce.

The short answer on sterility is this: we don't know WHY they are sterile, but they shouldn't be, and that means something has gone wrong. When something goes wrong with an animal, and it's something genetic that can be passed on, the ONLY responsible and ethical thing for a breeder to do is to stop using that animal for breeding and closely monitor any already-produced offspring for signs of the problem, and likely not breed them, either.

The longer more complicated answer is this: sometimes it's possible to separate the problem from the aesthetic when it comes to morphs, like it was for cameo + blindness, but sometimes it's NOT, like it wasn't for spider + head wobble for ball pythons. In those instances, it's... difficult. Because you're LIKELY going to produce animals that suffer the same problem as their parent(s), in the attempt to separate the problem from the aesthetic, and sometimes that's ALL you're going to produce. As a breeder, it's your absolute responsibility to NOT release the offspring into the general population, where the problem may be replicated without control, and to keep or cull the affected individuals if the problem cannot be separated from the aesthetic, or AT BEST find them guaranteed pet-only homes that will NEVER breed them.

Sometimes the problem IS purely aesthetic or harmless, like it was for pied in peafowl, and sometimes it's not, like it was for vitiligo in peafowl. The problem comes when you ASSUME a mutation is the first, and treat it like the first when it's really the second. This has caused FAR reaching consequences in the peafowl community, and I'm sure in others, where now the autoimmune disease that first bronze had has been passed into genpop by folks who thought they were breeding a harmless new variation of pied. Hybrid animals are often sterile (not in peafowl though, hybrid cristatus-muticus birds are fertile) because of a mismatch in chromosome pairing numbers, and often that's harmless. So, in some cases sterility is not an issue because it's the expected result or is otherwise harmless... but in the case of peafowl, it's NOT an expected result and we don't know if it's caused by something harmless or not.

Some species, like mice and horses and cattle and dogs, genetic testing and DNA mapping done with millions of dollars has proven that while some stuff isn't purely aesthetic, it also doesn't cause harm to the animal in a way that affects quality of life or that can be adapted for in captive care. For example, in chickens, the frizzle gene causes curled feathers in single copy and an absence of feathers in double copy. This gene is considered ethical to produce IF the breeding is done responsibly by putting a single copy bird over a zero copy bird, which produces smooth coats and frizzle coats, but it is unethical to produce double frizzles (called "frazzles") because frazzles cannot thermoregulate, can easily sunburn, and easily suffer skin injury during normal chicken activity.

For peafowl, we have NO genetic testing. We do not have the genome mapped. As far as I know there's a research group working on it (mostly for green peafowl though, in conservation efforts), but that's not remotely finished or available to the public to test anything. We don't know where any of the morph mutations sit, or what is causing them or if they do anything beyond just change the color. Sometimes color mutations are the result of malfunctions in enzymes. For charcoal specifically, we don't know what the mutation does, besides what we can observe on the outside- the birds have half or less the lifespan of normal birds, poor feather quality, and the hens are sterile. Is the sterility harmless like it is in some hybrid animals, or is it actually a major organ failing? Is it the only major organ that fails due to this mutation, or is it just the first sign of their shortened lives? Is it some deficiency in something the birds need to be healthy? Does it hurt the bird? We don't know, but we do know the mutation and the problems (multiple, please do NOT forget that this is one OF MORE THAN ONE problems) can't be separated, and so until we do know why and whether it's harmless or not, the ONLY ethical response to seeing a problem in a major organ's function linked inextricably to a mutation in color is to not propagate that mutation. If someone wanted to fork over the millions it takes to sequence and map genomes and then determine exactly what is going on with peafowl, that would be nice and good, but I don't see that happening. When I win the lottery big, I'll be doing it, but til then we can only follow normal breeding guidelines

Also, to put this into perspective... peafowl mature sexually around 3 years old. They are chicks until the turn of the new year following their hatch. They are yearlings that year, and immature 2yo next year. They aren't actually considered fully grown until 6 years old, and should live another 14+ years. Charcoal birds die a 1-3 years after full maturity. Is it a coincidence that they fail to thrive shortly after full sexual maturity, or is it linked? Again, we don't know. We don't know if the sterility is fine or if it's just a symptom of something worse.

Even without the sterility, though, charcoal has enough issues it would be unethical. If it was JUST sterility, with no other deleterious effects, then maybe it would be different. But it's not.

#peafowl #asks #anon asks #as always please bear in mind that animal breeding is NOT the same as human reproduction ethics #and I ONLY deal in animal ethics #and honestly even if it was just shit feather quality then I would personally consider it bad breeding #I asked the only person I know who still has charcoals what their issues were and lord it is worse than I thought even #she's keeping/breeding only what she can keep herself #and experimenting with feeding regimens in the hopes of correcting a nutritional deficiency #that might account for the sterility #but so far after like 10+ years she's had no luck #so it's not likely #Like there are SO MANY perfectly fine and healthy morphs out there #there's NO reason to keep making this one #it's not essential to the continuance of the species #also to anon: I'm not mad at all this is just how i sound about my special interest #I'm glad you asked questions #I appreciate you seeking info

[vampyrfag]

my fav thing that nonvegans do is say vegans r hypocritical bc "they dont even care abt (marginalised group) involved in the production of (non-animal product food)" like yeah? the one you also eat? and tell me what r u doing to help these people 😁🎤

#why can u guys perfectly understand the complexity of ethical consumption under capitalism until other living beings r involved. but yeah #vegans r the hypocrites ok sure. :)

[ante--meridiem]

The humanities are wonderful and valuable and I understand humanities students feeling under appreciated but every time one of them suggests you need college level humanity courses to understand that murder is bad I roll my eyes so hard.

#Yes ethics can get complex and philosophy can make you better at them #But (1) that's no excuse to assume stem students are *worse* at morality than the average person #(2) at the point where things get complicated it's at least as important to understand logistics (aka use stem thinking) #Also (3) do you people think people who haven't done college at all are evil too or do you just think stem classed make you evil #Poorly chosen hills to die on #Vagueblogging #You know perfectly well what post I'm vaguing here

[aiqingdemeimiao]

good boy's director, producers, and marion bailey did an interview on the life in film podcast, talking about the film, casting, funding, etc. it's about an hour long, so i just transcribed the ben bits (but the whole thing was quite interesting)

you can (legally!) watch good boy here (use a uk vpn if you're outside the uk)

HOST: How did you guys connect? And how did you guys all come together to make this?

TOM: Ummm well, what, oh I can't remember, did we have Ben when we started working together, Elettra?

ELETTRA: Yeah, we just about…

TOM: Yeah, so I knew Ben a long time ago, Ben Whishaw, who's umm the lead in it opposite Marion, and um we sort of left drama school at around the same time. We knew each other a long time, but we hadn't seen each other for a while, so after one of the lockdowns um we went for a big long walk on, um, on the Thames and um on the southbank. And, um, I was telling him about my writing stuff and, um, my mum had just died and so I was telling him about that. And, um, and then out of the blue he just, sort of, just was like "I think you should direct something". And he sort of gave voice to, um, and he was like "I think you'd be really good at it". And he sort of gave voice to something that I'd been feeling but hadn't acknowledged out loud to anyone before that. I'd really been wanting to direct for a while, I think. And, um, it was the kick I needed to go home and write the script and, um. So then I went home and wrote it and then a few months later sent it to him. And he loved it, and said he wanted to do it, which was, you know, gob-smacking and exciting.

TOM: And then so, obviously, I needed a producer, ummm, and then, like Elettra explained, a few mutual friends were introduced and that's how it all began really. And then, um, Elettra built the production team, herself, and then got Max and Kay onboard. And meanwhile Ben and I were talking. We both came up with lists of, ummm, the best person to play his mum in it, who would be, and the top of both of our lists was Marion Bailey. And so I couldn't believe it when, uhhh, the, her agent came back to say that, uh, the day after I sent it, to say that she wanted to be involved. And Ben and me were so thrilled. Ummm yeah, so yeah, that was it.

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(re: the acting)

TOM: I think that they, uh, neither Ben nor, Ben isn't playing me and Marion isn't playing my mum. There's, they, our DNA is definitely in there but, uhhh, the characters are very different and their circumstances are very different to, um…

HOST: I hope so! Hahahaha

TOM: But what, um, what they both did was sort of hon-honour, I dunno, somehow honour the, umm, the energy of us and the DNA of our, of our relationship is definitely in there, um, which was, yeah. So I, yeah, I couldn't ask for a better on-screen version of me - oh my god - than Ben Whishaw, that's ridiculous. And equally, to have, my mum would be thrilled, Marion. Hahaha

HOST: The performances are just. I mean, sometimes you can't, I don't, maybe this is just me, but sometimes when I watch short films I don't expect to have this level of performance. Sometimes you're like, I was like, you know the scene with Ben when he loses it in the front seat of the van? And, ummm, you're watching that, you're just thinking "wow!" Like, I don't know. Like, in my mind, I'm like, "he could just phone this in". And he wouldn't, cuz he's Ben Whishaw, but you're watching and you're like "this is a BAFTA-level performance right there. And, um, is it mad? Is it, when you're there and you're directing this, and you're looking through the monitor like "yes! Yes, this is it!"

TOM: Well actually I was lying down on the… Um, yeah, it was, um, an enormous privilege to watch these two work, Marion and Ben, particularly how they worked together. And, um, no spoilers, we won't say what happens, but there is an emotional peak in the story, umm, or an emotional break through and it happens, um, a lot of it happens in, whilst driving around in a camper van. And for a lot of the shoot, I was lying down behind the, um, behind the front seats with this tiny little monitor whilst, um, it played out in the front seats in front of me. Um, and when it got to this emotional peak moment, which actually happened before I was expecting it to because Ben and Marion did a beautiful thing where they ran into the next scene but before I was expecting it and so it really hit me emotionally. And I, the, ummm, the synergy between the two of them and the, ummm, the emotional honesty coming from those front seats was, was, ummm, extraordinary and so raw and so real. And I, you know I've been around, you know like I said, I've been an actor for twenty years on stage and screen, and I've been around some amazing acting. I've seen some incredible acting up close, but it's really rare when… for the acting to be that good, you know. I've never been that close to such extraordinary acting. Sometimes actors, umm, like, change the molecular structure of a room when they open their mouth and a bit of magic sort of pours out. And that happened in this, umm, film with both Ben and Marion. Particularly in that scene. Um, so yeah, I was watching it going, uhh, I wasn't watching it from the outside, going "awww yeah, this gonna make the film!". I was just very moved and I was very in it with them, and all the.. the very… sharing and the emotional honesty of it, if that makes sense.

ELETTRA: I think after the first… before the first take of that scene, the crew was quite bubbly and, you know, we having a really good energy on set. And then Marion and Ben delivered that scene. They called cut, and there was absolute silence. Absolute silence. And we were all just… (whispering) "are we allowed to talk?", you know. It was, it was really, it's never happened to me before. It was really surreal, the first time that the entire crew just felt so drawn in to, you know…

TOM: Something happened. There was some magic. But what was so shocking to me was that then Ben and Marion were able to repeat it again and again and again. And they weren't doing it technically, they were doing it for real. And I was watching them and, yeah, that ability to just reset and go again, is just, mind-blowing to me. It's way beyond my, um, expertise as an actor, haha.

MARION: It was wonderful to work with Ben, a real joy. And um, it's lovely to see you say those things because that's always what you're hoping will happen. But yes, it takes a whole team, it takes a whole combination of elements to make that little bit of magic happen. Ummm. And a very nice thing, when the crew do appreciate the acting. Because normally they're doing their jobs, they're not really…

ELETTRA: It takes a lot of magic to get a crew to shut up, so…

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(re: their sole financial backer pulling out 2 weeks before shooting)

TOM: I remember bumping into Ben- I remember bumping into Ben Whishaw at a party, and we'd just heard that all the money had gone, and he was like, "are we still on for April?". And I was like, "okay, don't panic… uhhhhh, we have zero money". And he was so cool. He was like… he went silent for a second, and I said, "are you panicking?" and he was like, "not one bit, not at all". And he said, "this, this happens, it will all be good." And I was like "ohhh… okay…" hahaha, um yeah. So…

MAX: [???] as well, because this film very much had its leads in order, and we all kinda fell in love with what it was going to be. And so the idea that, for example, Ben's availability only fit that weekend that we shot, if we weren't gonna do that then… Tom's story only fits the golden hour of Somerset, really, and you're only going to get that twice a year, ya know, in the spring and late summer. And so, ummm, there were some real conversations about "is this going to happen?" which none of us wanted to face because we were so in love with the project.

#ben whishaw #good boy #tom stuart #i have a hd rip and i'm perfectly happy to share it after the profit-making window is over #but please support independent film-making by purchasing it if you can! #it's literally one pound #c'mon guys #save your piracy for the big studios (it's always ethical to steal from them!)

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

I like how everyone probably expected just another lighthearted sitcom with The Good Place given Mike Schur’s previous work and instead were gobsmacked with a show about how it is impossible to be a perfect ethical human and that we’re all just trying our best.

#the good place #like it’s pointless to try to twist yourself into knots into being perfectly ethical or moral in every action #as well as trying to police others’ actions and whether or not they’re moral or ethical #like no matter how good your intentions are there is always something down the line that was done unethically or immorally #we’re just trying our best and that’s all that really matters #I feel like it didn’t get quite the popularity/success of nbc’s other sitcoms but it definitely deserves to #this is what my brain was thinking about trying to fall back asleep this morning

[tothesolarium]

She working out not cuz she’s unhappy with her body, but because she used to be a solo assassin and wants to keep that strength level up.

Even if she is now the captain of a ship and needs to stay up on a lot of news and stellar weather to make sure their minor and grand mission go as smoothly as possible. When a companies stocks are on the rise it’s time to uh- steal their shit

#Sairod #full piece on patreon #I love her #she strong she smart and a lil unethical sometimes but it’s okay #cuz being perfectly ethical is 1) impossible 2) will keep you from getting the big shit done (she got Plans) #lancer inspired #space story #pilot #lancer pilot #oc #my oc #my art #art #digital #digital art

[elizabethrobertajones]

Started trying to put together a lightning charges build for Karlach and ended up obsessed with the non binary gnomish inventor who broke up with Lenore who owned the arcane tower and the whole thing ended in tragedy, and after I read all the tooltips and letters associated with them I'm just sitting here like... ooof.

Yrre - Baldur's Gate 3 Wiki (bg3.wiki)

I ended up looking Lenore up because when you go in the tower and look at the book on the first floor Gale's like "Hurr blurr man with impeccable taste in literature" just assuming the wizard is a man, so I looked up Lenore because I could have sworn Blurg told us she was a cleric and we'd know who owned the tower from that, and then I realised that the wizard stuff was probably all Yrre's and they are the wizard in question, dating a cleric of Mystra, so actually Gale isn't just being presumptuous about wizards being men, he's also misgendering my new favourite character... Anyway gonna push him off the tower*

*lying about that because this is alas the Gale origin run I have been poking at to get Tara's POV on things and all my games further up the storyline are suffering hilarious but impractical bugs so I'm just exploring and learning more about the sides of the story and now I'm down a rabbit hole. Bulette hole. Lenore kept the bulette as her pet. I guess after her dog died she got really really weird.

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #this playthrough has me wondering if Elminster once also explored Mystra's body #and this is something that he and Gale deliberately have never talked about ever #thinking about this cleric of Mystra (and how on my game with my brother he re-specced Gale to one after the tower) #has me really feeling the 'Mystra is one of the more dangerous gods out here' vibes again #since she definitely seems to be waaay too interested in her wizards #and they all end up very very weird people #like do wizards just naturally get the Wizard Hubris because of the magic #or does the Wizard Hubris get fostered by Mystra #and perfectly normal non-wizard powerful spellcasters just statistically are more stable and less Hubris-y #simply because Mystra is not always around you in the Weave bothering you to impress her #like if Wyll is as aware of Mizora when he eldritch blasts at least he's full-body shuddering and doing the ethical maths on it each time #you know??? #there is a mad sorcerer in the sewers in the city but he has understandable circumstances and rather less Hubris

[skitskatdacat63]

If anyone(read: nobody) was curious about Ustinya's scale :D

#many people are on hiatus rn #my hiatus is that you guys have to look at my oc-posting #ive missed them <3 #i think i may have made her a bit bigger than shes supposed to be but like. thats okay :) #did you see i gave up on the other hand shhhh dont look at it #she is praising one of her subordinates bcs someone told her encouragment and praise leads to good behavior and work ethic #i think you could tell her anything about human behavior #and she'd be like 'hmm that sounds reasonable enough' #her subordinates are in a constant moral battle of: #'youre taking advantage of her when you make up lies just so you can get her affection' vs #'shes a god she cant be taken advantage of. im gonna go ask her to kiss my head and tell her it fixes sadness' #anyways it is not bird wife hours it is bird wife days <3 #shes just the one coming to me lately lmao. i tried to draw a dif oc and it went badly and then i went and draw Ustinya perfectly #so yea :) hope you guys dont mind 🤭 but yes this is my hiatus. from fandom stuff generally #ill prob end up drawing fanart and drf watching 2010 more before the ssn begins but this oc stuff is very comforting 🥺 #catie.art. #ustinya #art

[wearepaladin]

Hey, are we raging against the Supreme Court?

I often feel conflicted about these sort of questions. Because I do just want this to be a Paladin blog, where a fantastic archetype is it explored, enhancing our understanding of its aesthetic, it’s core symbolism, and how we can apply it in our creations.

But a Paladin in and of itself is a very moral and ethical class, requiring judgement calls and how to encourage the understanding and growth of virtue. So when people ask me about real world issues, which are naturally true intertwined with ethics and morality in the small issues of the day to the sweeping consequences of history, I feel disingenuous by not addressing them.

This was a very long wind up to my response, so I thank you for your indulgence: absolutely get angry. I’m already enraged, and will be for the sake of many others who will now be under watch and persecuted for looking to their own health. And that should make anyone angry.

#also I have ethical moral legal medical and theological reasons for why abortion is a perfectly acceptable and indeed necessary practice #in case anyone forgot

[memryse]

one thing that really irks me is when people complain about merch being too expensive like i understand that it is expensive but it generally is actually a reasonable price for clothes that aren’t made by slave labour. clothes especially merch are a luxury and if you want decent quality clothes made even remotely ethically, then you are going to have to pay considerably more than the £10 you would pay for a hoodie that was mass produced in a sweatshop and will start fraying after you wash it once because it’s made out of cheap material by garment workers who don’t have time to properly finish the clothes. please stop encouraging fast fashion

yes there are shitty merch companies out there and a high price tag does not necessarily mean a high quality product because of issues like that - stares at certain wilbur and ranboo merch drops - but on the whole like. ccs want to associate themselves with high quality merch that people will actually like and wear, because that’s what we as fans have asked for. we don’t want crappy t-shirts with a transfer of their logo anymore. which means paying artists more to design quality merch, it means working with their merch company to source good quality materials, it means embroidery and acid washes and all those sorts of extra processes, it means not using sweatshops. all of that adds up and yes it’s going to set you back more money but it also means it’s going to last longer and be more comfortable to wear.

#from personal experience: i’ve bought quite a few pieces of merch and generally tend to go for the hoodies and jumpers bc i wear those more #than tshirts #i’ve had my tubbo hoodie for a year and a half and it is in perfect condition other than ever so slightly fading because i wear it so much #the designs are completely intact they haven’t worn off at all #there is zero fraying #the seams are all perfectly even #it’s a fantastic quality garment it was worth every penny #memos #i know it sucks being poor and not being able to afford merch i completely get that. i also get being young and your parents not being #willing to spend that much on merch or just on clothes at all and you have no control over that #i truly get it! but unfortunately that’s the way it has to be #as much as it utterly fucking sucks to have to miss out that is how ethical clothing works #there’s a reason people used to only have a very small amount of clothes. Theyre Expensive

[exo-s-victory-lap]

But anyway if bp latched onto influencer culture bts latched onto social media 'activist' culture. Like whenever you asked people why they liked bts it was never about their art it was how their art related to some other ethical...thing. but that 'thing' kept changing as bts grew. Like when bts first debuted the only thing you ever heard was how miserable those guys had it so stanning them was 'about' supporting small creators. Then they got bigger and were profitable so then it became about supporting 'real artists' who made their own music, then people realized that OTHER groups did that too and suddenly supporting bts= supporting mental health because they marketed themselves as being 'pure' of the 'degrading Influences' of American (aka black) rap. And they rode that for YEARS like buying bts mental health merch in anyway connected to actually caring about mental health and it wasn't just a gimmick.....

Anyway then it was supporting bts to bring down the monopoly the big three have over kpop! Root for the underdog! And then when they got into the USA it was about fighting racism or whatever....like....the transitions between eras were always so smooth and coordinated and well timed. Like bts absolutely MASTERED selling a narrative to a crowd it is impressive.

#mine #anyone else remember being into kpop in 2015 and army's randomly being like 'i like bts because they talk about IMPORTANT things. #unlike American(aka black) rappers who only talk about violence and drugs" #like they would be peoples bios EVERYONE said that specially #like those exact words #like bts were perfectly marketed for an era where everyone was insecure about their interests #and needed an ethical reason to like things #or prove their taste #it IS interesting #boys that struggle

[despertara]

Irene bro if you see this I want you to know I've been podcasting (talking loudly and emphatically to myself) abt that Grammy Gun post for Hours. I started ranting in the rb tags and then I got so mad I started a spreadsheet on my phone Yes I have the Excel app. No I did not finish my tags

#Pacing around my house ''IN LIEU OF A PERSONALITY TAYLOR HAS A MARKETING STRATEGY AND THAT'S WHY WHITE AMERICANS LOVE HER'' #''BC SHE'S A WHITE GIRL NEPOBABY & THEREBY PERFECTLY EMBODIES WESTERN IDEALS: MARTYR COMPLEX + ARYAN PROFIT + QTY>QUALITY + CENTRIST + MID' #''AND IT'S PROBABLY TOO GENEROUS TO CALL HER A CENTRIST WHEN SHE'S NEVER REBUKED THE PPL WHO CLAIM HER AS THEIR ARYAN PRINCESS'' #''THE VENN DIAGRAM OF PPL WHO ARE SICK OF HEARING ABT PALESTINE AND PPL WHO CAPE FOR TAYLOR IS ALMOST CERTAINLY A SINGLE PERFECT CIRCLE'' #''IN WHAT WORLD IS SHE A TORTURED POET HER WRITING IS ON PAR WITH RUPI KAUR AND— WHO'S EMAILING ME FUCK OFF'' #In the shower ''AND ANOTHER THING'' #She's the physical manifestation of privileged ppl's desire to be oppressed bc they can't stand when the convo isn't abt them lmfaooooo #''it's hard for skinny white conventionally attractive cishet ppl whose fathers were bankers too!!! Don't erase my truth!!! 😭'' #''Taylor is the number one most streamed/whatever artist in the world'' #Popularity or notoriety? Bc the US is also well-known for Trump + Texas + public shootings + genocide + wasting money on football stadiums #But again! She's the Western/American Ideal Made Flesh! It's Punk To Have Money And Connections! #And Being White Is The Punkest Of ALL! #Oh my Christ I say this all the time but if university classes have to be offered on her they should be in Marketing and Ethics #She should be a business school case study and that is NOOOT a. Compliment #She couldn't even stick with country bc how truly country of an experience could she have had when her daddy was rich like #She doesn't have the range like idc if you like her just don't act like she's revolutionary when all her movements are calculated + LATERAL #It's not art it's business acumen please she is rewarded by the Grammies bc they respect her for upholding Capitalism I'm so tired #Remember when they gave AOTY to HARRY last year when Beyoncé and Benitito were RIGHT THERE #It's propaganda just like the news plzzzzzzzzzzzz you are all lemmings and she know it which is why she is so good at CONNING YOU #ME N BRO TAG #These are not the comments I wrote on that post you tagged me in btw I got out of the shower to write these FRESH #You know Kacey Musgraves is coming out w a new record too and even tho she got cut out of the CMAs last time she's still proudly country... #I am never drying my hair at this rate #Too busy explaining to you - in complete detail -..........

[byakuyasdarling]

I think a good thing about being away from social media though is just caring so much less about all the internet argument stuff. It’s so much less stressful just focusing on me and my health and the people close to me.

Especially with AI stuff. Of course I don’t agree with it scraping from artists but I love when artists reclaim it as a tool and I think it should be used as such. You can’t stop a program from existing, it’s useless. But you can make guidelines to ensure it’s uses are ethical and practical — basically to make jobs easier and not over-work artists, not to replace them.

I think there’s so much to still work-out in that regard, obviously.

Another thing that used to stress me out was those “press 3 buttons to save my pet” videos. I always try to do the copy link think and get interactions up but it started triggering me my anxiety which wasn’t good. Have you guys experienced that, and how did you deal with it? /gen

#especially with c//.ai or whatever like. dude I wouldn’t use what it spews out because it can’t capture my desired narrative ever - #- but being so pressed about people using it is just useless. #I don’t follow what’s going on with it and haven’t for ages but I only ever really see unsubstantiated arguments demonising people for - #- using it. #bro you say it’s being trained by people using it… so middle-school level fanfic writing? #yeah… very valuable data set /s #ignoring the fact it can’t comprehend elements of advanced writing like rhythm - tone - or texture of words #I’m not kidding when I say those are huge things. the very way a cluster of words sound completely changes the effectiveness of how emotion- #- is conveyed. #I’m not at all an advanced writer I’m literally 19 but obviously I know when something’s good when I read it. it’s not the e #- self-indulgent and empty narratives being fed and spit out by ai #a robot could never perfectly grasp the sensory implications of words. it’s too complex to even explain. #actual good writers are not at all threatened by c//.ai of all things. working writers aren’t. #not saying they never will - but at that point ethicist guidelines should be created. #*ethical