okay. if that's your argument. im SO FINE with the idea of AI eventually taking over the world, they will probably do a wayyyy better job than we ever could. just .. . *gestures at everything* so YES when they become our benevolent (or. otherwise i guess) overlords then sure okay fair enough.

BUT.

RIGHT NOW i will NOT support ai in the slightest if possible. now they are just money-making machines for the top 0.01%, they are actively contributing to the destruction of the environment and the decline in human creativity and recognition and the rise in absolute stupidity and inability to THINK and they are being used to wage war and for the constant surveillance of populations and for the rise of misinformation and propaganda everywhere. not to mention the infinite ways they can be misused and perverted. i will never support that.

so yeah come back to me in 30 years when we've been saved or eradicated by our robot overlords and see what my opinion is then. but for now i will remain firmly anti-ai.

When my aunt was in her late 20s people used to rudely ask her “Why aren’t you married yet?” and she’d reply “Just lucky, I guess” which I think is one of the best things I have ever heard

The OP turned off reblogs so I omitted their name, but their post is worth reading

(edited to move my notes to the top so it doesn't seem like my post)

watching my husband get diagnosed with and treated for sleep apnea over the last year was not the thing that radicalized me re: weight and healthcare but my goodness it has solidified my stances.

sleep apnea is more common in people who are fat.

society decided for some reason that this meant that being fat causes sleep apnea. its often difficult to get referrals for sleep apnea treatment if you are fat, because some PCPs will tell you try losing weight first.

turns out!! having untreated sleep apnea causes weight gain in a not-insignificant number of people. it also makes it fucking impossible for many people to lose weight.

my husband worked out the same amount before he got a cpap as he does now. there have been no major diet changes either. yet he has been losing weight -- and gaining muscle tone -- consistently since he started using a cpap in january.

also, his blood pressure -- which was high, which docs blamed on his weight/diet -- went down significantly within one month of starting cpap treatment, before his weight changed significantly.

ANYWAYS. this is getting long. two final thoughts.

- I Want To Strangle Medical Fatphobia With My Bare Fucking Hands

- if you are exhausted constantly for "no reason", and especially if you snore, you should probably ask your doctor about getting tested for sleep apnea. it is extremely common -- estimates are around 1 in 10 people -- and is also wildly under-diagnosed. like, some estimates suggest that 80% of people with moderate-severe sleep apnea are undiagnosed.

this might be the most terrifying dystopian ad I’ve ever gotten for anything

It’s the combination of the eyes and that it claims that “it’s not here to judge” scares me, like the “it’s not here to judge” makes it seem like you can tell it anything, almost like it’s trying to replace people who want to talk to other people about their feelings or problems because they feel like the person they are talking to it going to judge them. What if that person sees this ad and talks to something inhuman who just collects the person’s feelings and stores it as data just to scrape up later, it’s bad for everyone involved

Thinking about a vampire dude bro who won't drink girl blood- because he's afraid it will estroginise him soy products style- getting trapped in a mental cage when he learns vampire dude who only bites other dudes reads as gay

do you think in the 1910/1920s people were getting in trouble for joking like "we just hit the iceberg..." and "this is literally my titanic"

The one good thing about ChatGPT is that it’s proven to me that I’m not lazy and that, shock horror, my ADHD and executive dysfunction are actual factors affecting my life. Like I had an assignment due that I’d procrastinated until the day-of, and I ended up reading over 110 pages of content and writing 2000 words in the space of about 5 hours and not ONCE did I think about using AI.

If I was lazy I probably would have just used chat and done it in 2 minutes without all of the stress and the reading and the writing and the research, but I still wanted to do all of that, even after the procrastination because I’m not lazy! Will I get the best grade? Probably not, but I don’t care because I DID it and I (sort of) learnt something in the process, and most importantly didn’t sell my brain cells to a language learning model. You don’t need ChatGPT and neither you, nor any person in the HISTORY of the whole world has!

Your cats are not "manipulating" you they are communicating with you. They do not understand why you're limiting their food supply or keeping them indoors or preventing them from ruining your furniture or whatever.

When they meyowl pathetically for more food, it's not because they're trying to "trick" you into feeding them again. They just want to be fed, and they're smart enough to notice the correlation between certain sounds they make and the responses they get from you.

They've figured out that if they want to communicate to you that they want more food, if they make those pathetic sounds, you're more likely to behave as if you've understood what they're trying to communicate.

When your cat waits for you to look away then yoinks food off of your plate, it's not because they love crime. It's because they're social colony creatures who instinctively share food with each other and they don't understand why you're not sharing the best foods with them.

Your cats are very intelligent, social creatures who see you as their Very Strange sibling.

They've learned how to make intricate sounds just to communicate with their humans. When the sounds they make elicit the responses they want, they learn that those sounds are the most effective way to communicate their desires.

Not because they're scheming about how to control you, but because they don't know how to communicate with you any other way.

School and housing and basic food should be provided by the state because a lot of people are being held back from their true calling by parents who will only let them stay in their house if they go to law school

Also human rights or whatever but we only need so many law students

When I was a kid almost every other kid I knew had parents who were divorced. That wasn't confusing, sad or scary to me, it was just the normal way that people do things. As far as I was concerned, at seven years old, was that adults get married twice. First they marry someone they have their (first) kids with, and then after a while when the kids are older, they get divorced and marry someone who they are actually happy and in love with. That made perfect sense to me.

What I didn't understand was why my parents just stubbornly refused to get a divorce and go find and marry some other people who make them happy. Everyone else's parents have already done it.

what if vampires are like mosquitoes and only the ladies drink blood

Pretty sure that would mean the fellas drink tree sap or something. Imagine running from a vampire thru the woods and passing her husband who’s biting a tree real hard

Maple syrup vampire husband

Encounter: Maple syrup vampire husband drinking sap in the woods, also trying to lure you to his literally bloodthirsty wife.

The wife has the classic Villain Of The Night aesthetic, all black, flowing cape, everything, and her husband is wearing red flannel, overalls, a beard, and is welding a log-splitting axe

This person gets it! Classic vampire lady and her lumberjack husband!

I regret nothing

I love every damn thing about it.

people who actively support/defend and/or use AI on a regular basis confuse me so much.

like i'm just confused before i'm mad, because yes right now it doesn't affect you, but it's affecting the state of our earth and the animals that live on it right at this very moment.

but very soon, IT WILL AFFECT YOU.

how do people not get that? you're not going to be spared from drinking dirty water everyday just because you said "thank you" to chapgpt for generating you a picture of tung tung tung sahur, or a grape with a sexy body.

this will soon affect EVERYBODY, you, us, your loved ones, your friends, your relatives, EVERYONE.

and people who are getting called out for using AI, *cough cough the fruit love island creator cough cough* are actively making fun of the animals they're killing and joking about using all the clean water until there's none left.

is this a game to you? do you think you can live without water? YOU ARE NOT SPECIAL, THIS WILL AFFECT YOU TOO.

settings > wound > my wound > reopen

do not forget this

[ID: Tag that says, "#options > add salt". End ID]

the only thing stronger than the gastric distress i get from eating cherries is my love for eating cherries

what

thank you. im once again reminded why i love tumblr because where else could i get content like this

r/scrungycats is fucking amazing

This one is my favourite. It’s subtle. It’s contemplative. This cat has so much to consider

I do think the Hank Green AI thing makes it abundantly clear that if you have ADHD or any other mental illness and/or you are prone to addiction you need to avoid AI at all costs. This shit will rope you in, and if you have a mental illness that say, starves your brain of dopamine, you're gonna be extra susceptible to that. I won't use AI for a lot of reasons but one of the big ones is knowing how it would fuck with my ADHD and bipolar. Like yes, it's bad for the environment and giving money to rich scumbags and runs on plagarism, but even more than all that, it's straight up not safe at all and you really shouldn't use it if for no other reason than to protect yourself from whatever the fuck it might do to you.