Used to work at an animal shelter, and I can count on one hand the number of cats we’d ever had that were anything other than “D(S/L)H (color and pattern)” or “(pattern) Siamese”

Me with anime

Granted I watch mostly >decade old stuff dubs, so it’s mostly the same 30 VAs in every show

They’re on that fuckin grindset, workin eight 16 hour days a week lmao they don’t have time to step on a bus or walk down the street

I use the em-dash a lot. It’s not just about the presence of one, the issue is that LLMs know they exist but don’t know where they go. It’s sort of like a semicolon, which goes where neither a comma nor a period feel right. An em-dashes simply goes where neither comma nor period nor semicolon feels right

Edit: I should clarify, that’s simply how I use them. I’m not smart enough with words to know stuff like “parenthetical clauses” or w/e. Point being, AI just throws them in like they’re sentence enhancers

On my keyboard, I just click the button on the bottom left to see punctuation, and then long-press the hyphen

He has to read it, but he doesn’t have to interpret it. It’s like the mental equivalent of those floating chairs from Wall-E

You wanted to find “KSP ssto tutorial?” Are you sure you wouldn’t rather rewatch a Technology Connections video you watched last week?

Hot take: gamepass is preferable to a digital storefront. Any game you “buy” digitally is only somewhat less temporary than gamepass. At least gamepass doesn’t fool you into thinking you own the games you’re playing

Buy physical. If you’re buying digital, only buy from GOG. Pirate everything you can, and seed that shit forever

Downvoted for no reason. Like, Clair Obscur was free on Gamepass. I ain’t hearing shit about how it isn’t worth the price tag

Yeah women have famously never had really really bad times with marriage

You know how the suicide rate among women plummeted when no-fault divorce became a thing? Total coincidence

Ooh I wonder if any of these 59 comments are from dudes who think this is an actual product and not an art piece intended to spark discussion about the importance of consent

As they should, literacy tests are subjective and designed to allow the proctor to pass or fail based of arbitrary personal biases

This reads like a description of the D&D PHB.

…is that why so many people think they get an extra attack when they do something other than an Attack action? Yes, that includes the Ready action. You get one hit if you ready an attack.

My point is that we were never alive at all. We have no consciousness because of determinism, we follow a path that cannot be changed.

This doesn’t follow. Consciousness does not necessitate free will. Just because it’s an emergent property of a complex set of deterministic chemical reactions in our brains doesn’t mean it somehow isn’t real.

What we call “unconsciousness” is really just a state of reduced consciousness. Your mind is maintained throughout, and you’re still aware of the outside world, just to a lesser extent.

No it doesn’t. What we call “unconsciousness” is really just reduced consciousness. Your mind is maintained and you remain aware of external stimuli, just to a much weaker degree.

Hi, I’m a naturalistic determinist atheist. I won’t be taking a teleporter. The problem is that my body (which my continuous conscious experience resides in) will get erased if I do.

Replace “dismantled by the teleporter” with “shot in the head,” and it might make it a bit more obvious why it matters that the original you dies. I wouldn’t want to be shot in the head, even if I knew there was a perfect facsimile of me being constructed the moment the bullet entered my brain. The fact that this me would die makes intuitive sense to me.

There will be a you, but it’s not the same you. If you read my exchange with the other guy, then what are your thoughts on the “shot in the head” topic? Would you be okay with this you being killed in a very real and visceral way, as long as a you would be reconstructed elsewhere?

Your consciousness doesn’t stop when you’re asleep. Evidence: alarm clocks exist

I hate this comic. Your alarm clock is proof that you don’t truly lose consciousness in the way this comic implies when you go to sleep.