I’ve been seeing so much AI generated content of late, any real life human doing real life work is a blessing.

Me, fucking around: Absolutely no downside

There are some notable side effects, but do not discount the power of cocaine.

🤣

If they want to beat the charges, they need to announce their own AI trained on the data several billion in Series A investment funding.

Dude…It’s a hypothetical

Okay, you got me. I don’t need a condom to have hypothetical sex.

What was once a beautiful and accessible tapestry of independent contributions

Reddit has been flooded with bots for decades. Bot engagement was a strategy the firm used to outcompetes Digg, as admins discovered any kind of engagement in comments juiced human participation.

The site’s had quality contributions in the past. I’d argue it still does, in the more neglected and low pop corners of the site. But it’s central thesis of stack-ranked engagement and search optimized meta-tagging fueled the worst kind of online participation straight back to the early days.

Reddit’s last ten years of decline has more to do with the overall decline of the Internet as a service than anything the admins have done directly. Humans have been crowded out by automated promotion tools and AI Slop everywhere. Reddit’s just a big popular spot that got hit hardest.

It was never a good site.

Checks the P/E

106

Still absurdly overvalued. Let me know when it gets under 20

Why you want their to be only two genders, mate? You want to be around more men, issit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Hamsun#Racism_and_admiration_for_Hitler

Woof.

I really want a world where we can safely set up characters for moments of failure, evil, etc, without large crowds either feeling offended, feigning offense, or worse, taking it as validation of their bigotry.

It’s a real Heads-I-Win / Tails-You-Lose game, because the White Male Anti-Hero gets the exact opposite treatment. If you make a Sopranos or a Wolf of Wall Street or a Fight Club, the very obviously corrupt and villainous lead character somehow ends up being this celebrity icon for reactionaries.

The same people complaining that John Boyega and Daisy Ridley ruined Star Wars will come out cheering for Adam Driver while claiming Imperialism is cool now.

Anything that makes a story exciting or different - the ups and downs of the story arc, characters with personal flaws or quirks, foreign settings and distinct cultures, non-English languages, non-CisHet romances - become at once implicit indictments of the out groups and charming complements toward the in-groups.

And a lot of that just boils down to the critics themselves. Far-right media amplifying its megaphone year after year, until we’re deaf from their screamed opinions. There’s no right answer for a film maker or story writer when the designated state-sanctioned censors and corporate flaks are all patriarchal white nationalists.

Turns out we’re a nation of immigrants. Therefore, everyone’s eligible to be deported.

Does raise some questions about why ICE exists to begin with and what its purpose has actually been.

but add “when the condom is not preventing anything”

“Would you wear a seatbelt if you knew you weren’t going to crash?”

I don’t know that. I don’t know the condom isn’t preventing anything. That’s the whole point. It’s a precautionary measure that let’s me enjoy sex without worrying about the consequences.

If your partner is infertile, and you know that both of you have no STIs, neither of you are going to want to use a condom.

Okay but what happens if you’re having sex under the age of 50?

70⁰F, because IQ is the obsession of American eugenists.

The world is built by normal people and ruined by “great” ones.

Do you prefer sex with a condom to sex without?

I don’t have a strong opinion either way. I like sex and I like a sense of safety. With new partners, or old partners who fear a risk of pregnancy, condoms guarantee both and that makes me feel good coming and going.

I don’t prefer unprotected sex when it leaves me paranoid the day after. There’s more to the experience than just degrees of friction.