I think it needs to become common knowledge that “inability to read social cues” can show up as overcompensating.
You don’t know how much misbehaviour is allowed, so you become the perfect child who never tests rules.
You don’t know if someone is irritated with you, so you’ll be extra generous and self-effacing.
You don’t know how much is expected of you at work so you’ll kill yourself in a minimum-wage job and not notice that nobody else is working like this.
“Hardworking and quiet” should be as much of an autism red flag as “ignores rules and doesn’t know when to stop talking”. Or why don’t we just start using words to communicate so i can stop tracking everybody’s eyebrow twitches, that would be great.
Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections going back to 1992? The only time the GOP has won the popular vote in the last 36 years in a presidential election was in 2004, and it was a pretty narrow margin. This was a wartime election and the first election post-9/11. The Democratic candidate was the unfortunately uninspiring John Kerry, who had been lied about. You know how in politics we say someone has been “swiftboated” when a successful lie is told about them? That term originates with the 2004 election because a bunch of people concocted an elaborate lie about John Kerry’s military service. He wasn’t super inspiring as a candidate, but that was the worst thing he did. He wasn’t a bad guy. He was just running in a very gross, jingoistic time after the worst terror attack in American history, and had a bunch of successful lies told about him to the point where a whole word about a specific kind of lie was invented about it. THIS is the only time since 1988 that the Republican party has won the popular vote. George W. Bush did not win the popular vote in 2000. The Supreme Court ordered that votes stop being counted in Florida and handed the victory to Bush.
Donald Trump has never ever won the popular vote. The electoral college handed him the victory in 2016, less than 15,000 votes across three states decided the election. Hillary Clinton in total won about 3.7 million more votes than Donald Trump. Trump HATES hearing this number. He hates even more that Joe Biden got about 7 million more votes. He hates even more that you bring up the fact that he lost his midterm elections for his party in 2018, badly. And that the “Red Wave” in 2022 did not happen because of backlash at his Supreme Court. Or that in 2023 voters continued to reject his Supreme Court at the polls.
He knows, the Republicans know, that if more people vote, they lose. They don’t want small d democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want to suppress it.
So when you get cute about not wanting to vote, you’re not doing activism. You’re surrendering.
This. Don’t surrender. It’s the last thing we need right now.
not me being flagged for an image that no longer exists that was already deleted from my previously deleted and nuked blog
jsyk it was a werewolf shitpost with this image so what are we even doing lol
i like to think me and staff dont have beef and i dont have random haters ive never interacted with then this kind of stuff happens and its like girl i dont have time for this kys
genuinely though i can find at least 10 posts in less than two minutes that feature unflagged uncensored cock and cum but a post from three months ago that doesn’t even exist anymore is over the line
Woke up to four more someone really doesn’t like me
It’s like we’re witnessing the persecution of Tumblr Jesus
Democrats have won the popular vote in seven out of the last eight presidential elections going back to 1992? The only time the GOP has won the popular vote in the last 36 years in a presidential election was in 2004, and it was a pretty narrow margin. This was a wartime election and the first election post-9/11. The Democratic candidate was the unfortunately uninspiring John Kerry, who had been lied about. You know how in politics we say someone has been “swiftboated” when a successful lie is told about them? That term originates with the 2004 election because a bunch of people concocted an elaborate lie about John Kerry’s military service. He wasn’t super inspiring as a candidate, but that was the worst thing he did. He wasn’t a bad guy. He was just running in a very gross, jingoistic time after the worst terror attack in American history, and had a bunch of successful lies told about him to the point where a whole word about a specific kind of lie was invented about it. THIS is the only time since 1988 that the Republican party has won the popular vote. George W. Bush did not win the popular vote in 2000. The Supreme Court ordered that votes stop being counted in Florida and handed the victory to Bush.
Donald Trump has never ever won the popular vote. The electoral college handed him the victory in 2016, less than 15,000 votes across three states decided the election. Hillary Clinton in total won about 3.7 million more votes than Donald Trump. Trump HATES hearing this number. He hates even more that Joe Biden got about 7 million more votes. He hates even more that you bring up the fact that he lost his midterm elections for his party in 2018, badly. And that the “Red Wave” in 2022 did not happen because of backlash at his Supreme Court. Or that in 2023 voters continued to reject his Supreme Court at the polls.
He knows, the Republicans know, that if more people vote, they lose. They don’t want small d democracy. They want authoritarianism. They want to suppress it.
So when you get cute about not wanting to vote, you’re not doing activism. You’re surrendering.
This. Don’t surrender. It’s the last thing we need right now.
Donald Trump has never had a high regard for the health or even the lives of his supporters. We recall how he told them to take quack medicines during the pandemic emergency and retweeted anti-mask conspiracy freaks after he horrifically mismanaged the early response to COVID-19 in the US.
To Trump, nothing counts except Trump. His supporters are just disposable pawns in his political, legal, and business struggles.
He demonstrated this again by telling Iowa caucus goers that it’s okay if they die — as long as they caucus for him first.
The former president said that even if people “passed away” shortly after voting it would be “worth it”, and once again launched attacks on the New York judge who had denied him a delay in his civil trial so that he could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral.
“You can’t stay at home,” he told those gathered. “[Even} if you’re sick as a dog and you say ‘darling I can’t make it…’
“Even if you vote and then pass away it’s worth it.”
It wouldn’t be surprising if somebody DID die because they were sick and were told by Trump to caucus for him in sub-zero weather. In Des Moines, not the coldest city in the state, the temperature at 7 PM CST is predicted by the NWS to be -7°F/-22°C. It may be even colder when people are returning home from caucus locations. If you’re not in good health, you shouldn’t be outside in such conditions.
Despite being a lying gluttonous adulterer who hasn’t been to church in decades except for weddings, funerals, and political events, Trump is treated as a god by many nominal Christian fundamentalists. Trump is their Baal.
The only way to counter such irrational fanatics is to outorganize and outvote them. Despite their willingness to die for Trump, they are still a minority. If we remain focused, determined, and (most of all) united, we will fend off the threat to democracy in 2024.
When the big evil scary monster pauses and starts to observe you out of curiosity, gently grabbing your chin and turning it side to side to look at you. Soon moving down to your hands to observe how small they are against its own.
So basicly– I’ve been having trouble balancing the book I’m trying to write and I’ve went through 3 versions so I’ve been thinking of making a dice [?] Or a grid of things to make things make more sence within the story and make it so that the main charecter isn’t winning all of the time
kinda wild how oil executives could decide to stop all new oil projects and move the funding to renewables tomorrow but they just…don’t
Tumblr Tuesday: Furry Fun ⊙ω⊙
Furry fans, how we doing? Sex is the spice of life, and furries know how to make life spicy. On these cold winter nights, furry #ArtistsOnTumblr can show you how to keep it hot!
Normally, Calico cats should only be female, however one in three thousand Calico cats are actually male. This is because they have Klinefelter Syndrome, an intersex genetic condition. In cats, colour is stored on the x chromosome, a three coloured Calico has to have 2 X chromosomes, plus white. Males usually only have one X, unless they have Klinefelter Syndrome, where you have two X’s and one Y.
Furries are quick to point out that male Calico cat fursonas wouldn’t exist, but they actually would, they’d just be rare. Klinefelter Syndrome also occurs in humans of course. (I know this first hand.)
Therefore I propose: Calico Catboys COULD be real, despite what the furry meme says, however if they followed the human characteristics of Klinefelter Syndrome, they would be taller than average, usually over 6 feet, have a feminine weight distribution, including some limited breast growth, have a feminine hair/fur growth pattern, and have around a 20% chance of being autistic.
yeah I’ve been casually watching the train derailment and it just keeps going honestly it doesn’t stop. it’s insane what happened here, this is not a place of honor
it’s weird how often people are recycling arguments against NFTs to argue against AI art. like, the reasons NFTs were bad were really easy to understand, but that doesn’t mean you can just transplant that understanding onto the new trendy tech thing! it’s a completely different technology.
in particular, I keep seeing people make points about the power consumption of AI art. that argument made a lot of sense for NFTs! cryptocurrency wastes a lot of energy on purpose; this is the thing that’s supposed to give it its value. this is extremely bad for the environment. there, nice solid argument, perfectly reasonable.
but like, you can’t just take that same exact argument unaltered and apply it to AI art. it is technically true that training a large model on millions of labeled images consumes a significant amount of energy, but that energy cost is a one-time thing. once the model already exists, using it consumes a completely ordinary amount of electricity, as far as the power consumption of software is concerned. it would be a bad idea for hundreds of thousands of people to all rent out server space to train dozens of cutting edge generative models each, but that’s simply not the reality of the situation.
like, sure, it’s not an insignificant amount of power consumption, and it certainly doesn’t have a positive environmental impact, but it’s not actually any worse for the environment than any other popular internet-based service. it only makes sense to call this particularly wasteful if you already believe that generative AI models themselves are a bad thing to put a moderate amount of resources into, which means this is a really ineffective way to try to convince someone who likes to use these AI models to stop.
My PhD work is related to physical acceleration of machine learning processes, and a counterintuitive thing I’ve stumbled across is that actually, inference (so running the model once trained) can be comparable or much greater in computing cost than training purely because you infer many many more times than you train
You only have to train Chat GPT once, but then you have to service all the people chatting to it, and that’s a lot of matrices to multiply. So while NFTs are of course worse in terms of compute use per useful output,because the wholepoint of crypto is doing useless computation to prove that you can, I don’t think environmental concerns about generative AI are unfounded, especially as the models explode in size.
Agreed still on the general message - the power consumption is likely not the most important argument against generative AI! But it is still a factor, and a growing one.
that is a fair point, the per-use energy cost being low still adds up quite a lot when the service is being used this frequently. as you said though it’s still not really comparable to the environmental costs involved with crypto. the numbers I’d consider most reasonable to compare it to here would be the environmental impact of hosting the servers for a popular online video game.
My boyfriend just woke up, mostly still asleep and told me “don’t worry, it’s getting better” in a heavy, American accent, which is unusual for an Australian man.
“Why are you American?” I asked, to which I got:
“Sorry, it’s getting better” in a stereotypical posh English accent.
“Why are you English?” I asked, amused.
“What is he normally?” He managed to ask.
“He? You’re not anyone else, you’re you.”
“Ugh, me” was the last thing he said, in a right proper Aussie accent before he fell back into proper sleep.
Bitch just thwarted a ghost possession by judging his accents
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