

I assume you realize that saying this implies you consider everything on that list weird, which makes you look like a dick.


I assume you realize that saying this implies you consider everything on that list weird, which makes you look like a dick.


see this all makes sense if you have, like, 10 accounts. But 100 accounts is just fucking strange


I’d add on that stuff like this should NOT be the default (unless that is specifically what you advertise your software for, and even then you should give a clear option to disable or change it), because users (even admins using the software for their instance) will generally not configure things much.
What should be done is have it as an opt-in, or prompt the user to pick an option.
If one believes their blocklist/filter is in good faith and beneficial to others and to the world in general, then one shouldn’t feel a need to force others to use it, only inform them that it exists.


better yet: we KNOW corporate social media is fucking riddled to the bone with filters, hell people talk about “The Algorithm” (praise be) all the time.
And it’s just considered normal. It is how it is. Who cares.

all this makes me think of is XKCD’s “what if you used a laser to vaporize the rain around you?”

i think that’s kind of fallacious, just because it’s old and simple doesn’t make it better.
What we actually need is new and well-designed things; like mesh networks, which are fault-tolerant and absolutely trivial to install, and don’t rely on any sort of central authority.

even better: the party leader started out as a hardcore leftist, so the question is how the fuck he ended up like this.

Frankly i think you can reduce this to “the human brain wasn’t made for this much news”, even after the invention of the telegraph people still didn’t get anywhere near as much news as we do now.
Return to reading the sunday newspaper

at the very least we should be able to coax the body into growing things over smoothly rather than growing unpleasant scar tissue, i’d assume.

literally can’t figure out how to raise the sails lmao

hey! it’s not the slop machine, it’s the plagiarism machine, harrumph
people have such a wildly incorrect idea of what testosterone does.
In reality it doesn’t necessarily have a big effect on you at all, and if it does that effect is AFAIK more along the lines of making your emotions generally larger, be that anger or sadness or wanting to protect people.


obligate <whatever> doesn’t mean you can’t eat other things, it just means that’s the vast majority of the diet. Cats are obligate carnivores but very much enjoy eating some grass now and then, and when catching things in the wild i assume they’ll end up eating the stomach contents of their prey (which will be plant matter).
And of course there’s those infamous clips of herbivores casually eating meat, because food is food. (they just won’t eat a lot of it, because that would make them sick). It’s like how we can eat a couple strands of grass, but if we try to make it a regular part of our diet we’ll get constipation.


the term is nonsense, but the brain stem obviously exists and handles low-level functions that directly keep us alive.


I’ve specifically tried to get in touch with my body’s feedback over the past few years, and i’m 100% convinced that the ability to sense what nutrients you get from food and then want that food when you need those nutrients, is a fundamental thing to any animal that can actively seek out specific foods.
My recommendations to get in touch with this ability is to limit snacking and try to get as hungry as possible before eating (so you have a chance to calibrate yourself, feel the difference between eating things out of habit vs actually craving them) and to try as many foods as possible even if you think you don’t like them, in as many different ways of preparation as possible.
There are so many things i thought i didn’t like until i tried them in a specific way, and there are many things i thought i liked but i’ve realized it was a very surface-level enjoyment. These days when i follow my cravings i’m filled with a borderline spiritual feeling of well-being, the food really feels like it’s good for me (and that includes desserts/sweets, because i’m very specific about which ones i like and how much of them i eat).


Afaik it’s more comparable to turkey, because of their lifestyle and whatnot.
I think ostrich is another close comparison
bull is a generic term, there were absolutely bull dinosaurs. Like there was at least one species of herbivorous dinosaur that lived in herds and had strong sexual dimorphism.
It doesn’t guarantee it’s not LLM writing but if nothing else it’s more entertaining.