It’s not fun when you give me permission!!
Mentally ill woman in her late 30s. Quit my jobs with DIDDs to go to work a retail job and go to school.
I’m here to help!
Formerly @kbin.social.
It’s not fun when you give me permission!!
*You must face the gazebo alone. *
You aren’t supposed to use the cards as a template!
Sam Whitwer’s voice does things to me.
Oh, no, I have a prescription for ADHD medication. I’ve just always been curious about whether I’d have that experience.
I haven’t done it by now and I’m pushing 40. Don’t you worry about me.
I have pretty crippling ADHD and I always wanted to try cocaine because of all the stories of ADHD folks trying it and feeling calm and normal.
Just curious to see if I have the same experience.
“Indians” don’t merely exist as a cultural concept in spaghetti westerns, and even if they did, fantastic racism is still racism.
Buuuut for fun, I’ll engage with your pivot to definition, and I’ll just add this quote for context that appears in the link you provided. Juuuust below your listed definitions.
Dictionaries are often treated as the final arbiter in arguments over a word’s meaning, but they are not always well suited for settling disputes. The lexicographer’s role is to explain how words are (or have been) actually used, not how some may feel that they should be used, and they say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word, much less the significance it may have for individuals.
Isn’t that amazing? “They say nothing about the intrinsic nature of the thing named or described by a word.” Your authority explicitly states that they shouldn’t be used as an authority in this context! Remarkable…
And now, in addition, I’ll provide the rest of that passage, which is also the absolute end of me interacting with you in this manner.
When discussing concepts like racism, therefore, it is prudent to recognize that quoting from a dictionary is unlikely to either mollify or persuade the person with whom one is arguing.
Not only not meant to be used as an authority, but also unlikely to settle any dispute you might have about the word.
I’ll take their advice. You can reply however you like- my interest in this conversation has vanished. Hopefully someone more patient will come along.
Racism doesn’t have to have intent. Racism can’t exist in a vacuum- that’s true- but the only context it needs is the concept of race.
A fantastic example would be rolling up all the Native American tribe into one group. Or attributing anything, even conceptually, to that group.
You don’t have to be aware that this is incorrect for it to qualify as racism, and you don’t have to have an intent about making that attribution to be wrong in doing so.
This argument holds no water.
The idea that it’s exempt from accusations of racism because it’s unaware that it’s being racist just doesn’t track.
My Dad died almost 20 years ago and I went NC with my abusive mother at about the same time. I never knew my grandparents.
I wanted to add my data to the set, even if it doesn’t help much.
I just got a job at a place that does batch interviews. You go through the process, then they tell you they want to do an interview. You get a text or email with slots available and you and every other applicant fights for one of 50 interview slots available.
It’s a competitive job so you have to click the link within 5 minutes or you don’t get a slot.
I missed the first one (slots were all full) but I got the second round. Came in with all the other applicants, did the interview, got hired.
It’s certainly degrading and dehumanizing to go through this process, but for companies who have tons of applicants, they can get away with it.
Sure, they take years to ban things like r/jailbait and all those fascist subs, but people with rooms to jerk off in a step too far.
I have zero interest one way or another in people who have the resources to devote a space to this, or the ego to want to share that space. It’s a completely foreign interest to me. But to ban people on the internet for being sexual in a way you don’t understand is equally beyond me.
I think the thing I hate the most about LLM stuff isn’t even how awkward it is. It’s how it’s all so blah. Like having cream of wheat for dinner. Sure, it qualifies as food, but you’re definitely not living.
Even when it references pop culture or memes, it does it so… lame.
That monkey that turned around to reveal a second anus is absolute nightmare fuel.
“There’s only two in the world”
“Health benefits of using these flowers”
Uhhhhh
Here where I’m from in the US, you occasionally hear a “y’alls” and now I’m going to start using it as a cultural gap between your dialect and mine.
I did not have the brain power to reply so thank you for doing it for me and all of those of us who find it too “normal” to try to answer this for the like 20th time.
I am dashing your hopes by replying! But I want to say you’ve grown up so well and have lots of stuff to be proud of. Maybe things didn’t go the way you hoped, but you did the best you could with what you had and what you knew at the time, and that makes you a good person in my book.
I also blame this for why my sense of civic duty exists, despite the obviously flawed and ofte. monstrous system I find myself in.
That’s the beauty of the internet. There’s always a competitor. I don’t have to use someone who had a bad reputation at one point but is fine now. I can just use someone else.