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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • What ephera@lemmy.ml said, 100%

    I’m still an Android user, and likely will be for while, but the amount of junk Google has built into it all designed to make their ad sales what they are is just absurd. If I had total freedom of hardware, I’d degooogle as much as android allows on non Google hardware and wait for a fully daily driver ready linux phone, but I don’t currently, so I’m kinda stuck.

    Besides, options are always a good thing. There’s not really a downside to more OS options for people with the ability and willingness to change OS in the first place.


  • Dammit, if that’s not gay, it should be! Because it’s fucking fabulous!

    I know, I know, we’re supposed to say it’s fake, and it could be. But folks, never, ever underestimate the power of passion and joy. It won’t overcome everything, every time, but I’ll be fucked if it doesn’t help overcome yourself often enough that it’s worth seeking.





  • I’m going to pretend you aren’t being an asshole for your own reasons, and explain why this kind of comment is a good thing.

    What you’re missing is that shared cultural touchstones connect people. Comments like this aren’t robotic responses to preset conditions.

    They’re humans reaching out to each other through screens to connect, even if it’s only some tiny and essentially frivolous thing. That’s a good thing. It’s the entire point of being human, to connect and share and hopefully help each other get through the ugliness that life brings.

    Where you see predictability and rote habits, the rest of us see a shared experience. The other people in the thread popping off the lyrics or making related jokes, we’re all engaged in letting each other know that we aren’t alone, that there’s parts of each of our individual lived experience that can be directly related. It means we have the ability to stop seeing just words on a screen, and for just that moment see someone we’ve never met and likely never will, as part of our in group.

    Friends in real life do this kind of thing. There’s phrases, and songs, and poems and book quotes, and movie lines that can be shorthand for shared experiences. It brings joy with it. Have you never seen a group of people say something that’s seemingly random and dissolve into laughter?

    That’s what this kind of thing is. It’s strangers partaking in one of the benefits of friendship. Making each other smile or laugh a little.

    If llms acted like this, they’d be one step closer to being actual artificial intelligence because it would make them part of that circle.

    My homie across the screen. You stepped into that circle and tried to poop in it. Did that bring you joy? Did you smile? If it did, then great, you’re one of the lucky ones that can find happiness in attempting to piss on someone’s picnic. If it didn’t, then what are you doing?






  • That’s not the point.

    So, if you take new York State as an example. If the average for the state is 18 miles (I can’t see the post when replying to a comment in this app, so that’s just using the same number as an example), do the cities skew that?

    Like, if NYC and Albany have their own average of five miles, but people outside cities average 25 (or whatever it would be, I’m not doing math for this lol), that’s an interesting thing.

    That’s what I’m talking about.



  • That’s an interesting concept.

    If a real person (as opposed to anon who is obviously fake gay) has a significant dysmorphia or dysphoria, it kinda makes sense that external images of their body would be viewed as a different person potentially.

    But it would take at least a minor dissociation like in the post. There would need to be that break in the mind of “knowing” that the image is of one’s own body.

    I don’t have any kind of dysmorphia based on appearance, but I still take a second sometimes to recognize older pictures of myself. That kid isn’t me in a sense, so there’s a moment of disconnect while my brain says, “oh, wait, that’s us

    Now, all we gotta do is line up some people willing to try it out and report back.