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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • You could compare it to something in the same environment instead of something that comes across as misogynistically charged.

    Using makeup and bra styles as your example, even if you aren’t intending any slight by it, evokes the constant societal effort to police women’s bodies. This is a huge discomfort for a majority of people either because they are women who are subjected to this, or they care about women who are dealing with it.

    A great example for less charged comparisons would be existing propaganda, things like the “got milk?” program, the push to use of Vegtable oils after WW2 when the government had a surplus and needed to do something with it, or even the decades long campaign to frame fat as the cause of the obesity epidemic everyone knew it was sugar. All of these have a very similar tone to AI suggesting to glue your pizza or cook your pasta in gasoline.

    You could even site actual fake things. Our health department is currently lead by an Anti-Vaxxer. We didn’t need a data center to make that lie stick.

    Communication is a big part of all this, we don’t know what your feelings are, just what you said. We have to guess from what you say and what was said paints you in a bad light.


  • I feel the same as OP but it’s not due to lack of knowledge, it’s good threat assessment. My political ideology is anchored entirely in the idea of empathy and being left alone so foreign actors trying to radicalize me isn’t going to go far. Data about my political leanings are going to be an anomaly on the graph so it won’t help anyone trying to sway a nation that already doesn’t want any of my input regardless of who’s in charge.

    As for corpos, I would gladly buy all of my stuff internationally if it got me a better price, but now all it gets is slower shipping. Meanwhile, the local corpos actively spy on my every move so they can better rip me off. It’s, a good idea to be worried about a gunfight happening down the block, but it shouldn’t distract from the gunfight in your yard.

    Yes, the best practice is to sure up against every threat, but in a practical sense, worrying about an international body harvesting my data is like watching a burglar open your front door and deciding you need bars on the attic vent.


  • Meeting myself in any variation.

    I have no idea why, but I’ve always had this idea that if I met another me in the world it has to end in one of us dead. Doesn’t matter on the origin, clone, copy, alternate timeline, time travel, doppelganger, replicant, don’t care. There’s absolutely no way around, it’s on sight and to the death.

    This is one of my most consist feelings in life and I often wonder if it’s because I consumed my twin in the womb. As a child I came up with an arrangement that if I accidentally time travelled I’d be able to use to contact myself indirectly so that we can’t cross paths.

    Of course, the chance of any of these things happening is insanely low so it’s kind of dumb to have a plan in place for its eventual occurrence.


  • I’ll be your new person to meet for today.

    I’m spiritual but still atheist and my family has been agnostic atheist for 3 generations. Back in the 80’s my grandfather started celebrating the winter solstice because he wasn’t happy celebrating holidays for a religion he didn’t agree with. He picked it because it’s the longest night in the year and that’s a good reason to give a gift.

    40 something years later, I’m raising my kid to celebrate the solstices and the equinoxes. Winter is a quite calibration of your closest people and you exchange gifts that will help them through the next year. During summer it’s a celebration of the people you know and everyone gets together and brings everyone they know to eat and party with the goal of meeting some one new. Both equinox are a celebration of the community and we go out to do community service.

    That’s 4 generations of non Cristian celebration.