I don’t think things will get better, but I don’t think I would leave anyway. Fighting is both necessary and I love doing it.

I probably haven’t studied this topic enough, but it does seem like other cultures at the time had a better handle on hygiene than Europeans. I’m sure part of the issue was the feudalism, but idk

19% of Americans have interacted with an AI meant to simulate a romantic partner.

I mean i tried Replika to see what’s up, but i wasn’t trying to date my phone. I just played dress-up and shot the shit for like 30min before I got bored and deleted the app. I think this phrasing overstates how many people are actually doing AI relationship stuff. I mean, i see the Twitter anime avatar people getting freaky with it, but they were kinda already trying to date jpg files

Lunch was meant to be shared! Dig in comrade

The best thing I did in the last year was joining an org and specifically looking for friends that spend their time in radical spaces. I felt a lot of bitterness too before, but spending my time studying with comrades and trying to do the work has done a lot to reshape my perspective. I’m not any less passionate about freeing Palestine, but I’m not drowning in despair and kicking the pricks in frustration anymore which helps a lot. I still get frustrated when I have to talk to liberals, but I’m trying to learn to get better at raising consciousness in a way that doesn’t sap my energy and motivation.

Being isolated among liberals sucks. I hope you find some community to help you out.

I’m just a proud citizen of the people’s website

I’ve had to rebuild my social circles a bunch of times in my life (my family moved around a lot and I’ve kept up the tradition as an adult) so I’d rather just put it all out there so I can find people I click with sooner. To each their own tho.

i love the goofy new trek stuff. its cool to explore the post-scarity utopian future in a way that isn’t centered on sci-fi military porn.

I mean basically, just be yourself. if there’s spiritual stuff that you’re interested get into it and share that or just play along with astrology if you aren’t interested in pushing against hegemonic monotheism. I like to challenge people and push a polytheistic worldview, but I’m also comfortable with not being accepted so it isn’t for everyone.

I’m stuck inside the future and life is chaotic

The government is psychotically racist and robotic

The matrix of entrapment is socio-economic

Erotic conspiracy theory becomes reality

Life is war, and every day’s a battle to me

I’m on the brink of insanity, between extreme intelligence and split personalities

But I elevate to the point of reversing gravity

Revolutionary conceptuality spitting out of me

Even the dead people in my family tell me they proud of me

Stupidity’s not allowed by me

Cause I don’t got time to play

I’m the black whole lyricist that’ll take your shine away

Darkness at any time of day

I’m the Technique and your nobody so what you trying to say

Stellar density becomes your physical alignment

1.8 billion tons per square inch confinement

yt

this song often comes to mind, but I usually just play along. ig it could be kind of alienating to some people, but idgaf so its fine. plus they should be impressed at my delivery. i may not be able to freestyle well, but i can spit decently.

if they seem open to actually talking spirituality i’ll bring up santa muerte, but it can be equally uncomfortable.

cars will have self driving soon, dw about it /s

I’m not gonna judge people for having imaginary friends, but idk why you would pay to use a generic generative imagination sim when you could just use the one in your own head.

There’s only one solution to earth’s pollution: intifada, revolution!

no, wrinkles, no sad

I married a coffee person because I love autism

Well it was really to share my insurance, but the coffee and weed autism is really endearing and I love her for a lot of other reasons too 😍

Ugh reading that thread gave me psychic damage 💔

This is the most correct take in the thread tbh

Aren’t the incels pushing AI waifus? If anything, banning OF should encourage people to go fuck each other consensually instead of spending time alone with a rectangle

the western mind can’t comprehend going on a date and spending the night in an affordable apartment in the city

at least for me, the joy of art is in the process. if you want to replace personal development with a slot machine, feel free i guess. every artistic or musical piece that I make leaves an imprint in my mind and manifests a physical object or vibration in the real world. you could say that AI can take your desire and manifest it, but without the internal struggle between your imagination and the medium the art won’t change anything about how you see or understand the world. you might even miss getting a deeper look into what your actual desires / dreams are / mean.