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I honestly think the Upply are the kind of group to write themselves a theme song. Like they've been stuck at the bottom of a mountain for years, they'll do lots of crazy things to keep themselves entertained!

Now I'm imagining the trio playing chess with pebbles for pieces. (Fungus has tried to explain the game to Korgran about 20 times. He still doesn't get it.)

"Why would a bishop engage in battle? It is not his job to do so!"

Oh man, I bet it gets cold down there. They could totally knit some blankets with Adam's spider silk and use some small stalactites as knitting needles!

I wonder what other things you could do for fun stuck at the bottom of a mountain?

I'm seriously considering putting a couple musical numbers in my fan season. The Disney inspiration and my song writing brain might not be stopped.🤣

“And then he realized why he was thinking like this.

It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn’t then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.”

-Terry Pratchett’s Jingo

It's not our obligation as artists/writers to remind people when something is bad/wrong. They should know that already. If they don't, that's due to their own education, and the responsibility of someone else entirely. We as artists/writers are not their parents, or teachers, or anything of the sort.

We're also not responsible if what we create hurts them. Because it wasn't made to hurt, and as has been stated before, we aren't forcing our work on anyone. If it hurts you, stop reading/watching, move on!

If someone else uses our work to do harm to someone, that's on the person who's doing the harm, not on its creator (that's like saying that the person who made a gun is to blame if someone else kills people with it!).

People need to learn to differentiate, and not blame creators simply because we're an easier target than the actual bad people who want to, or have caused, harm.

🔹 Someone else's fiction cannot cause you physical harm.

🔹If someone else's fiction is causing you emotional or psychological harm, or distress, you can put it down and not read/watch it.

🔹Your emotional well-being is not the responsibility of fiction writers.

🔹Someone else's fiction is not about your personal trauma.

🔹When reading or watching fiction, you always have the power. You can always stop. You are never reading fiction without your own consent.

🔹Fiction writers are not responsible for other people's mental health.

🔹The content of a piece of fiction does not reflect on the morality of its author.

🔹Just because someone writes about bad things happening, doesn't mean they want those things to happen.

🔹Don't like? Don't read.

Fiction is not Darwinian: It contains no impartial process of evolution that dispassionately produces the events of a fictional universe. Fiction is miraculously, fundamentally Creationist. When we make worlds, we become gods. And gods are responsible for the things they create, particularly when they create them in their own image.

Laura Hudson, “Leia Is Not Enough: Star Wars and the Woman Problem in Hollywood.”

Brad spoke to Hernando for 45 minutes before realizing he wasn’t real.

His boyfriend Chris lol’d. “You got hooked on gold Brighteyes.”

“Ugh. Chris be nice. The future is really confusing alright. I don’t even know if it was ok to use the present tense in that last sentence. Do you?”

Chris looked to his boyfriend and shrugged his shoulders emphasizing his need for an answer. “So…”

“What? I don’t know Chris. I don’t know. Ok? I don’t know future tense. Are you happy?”

Brad placed his hands on his hips glanced at their California king bed then back to Chris. “So does this mean I am supposed to apologize for laughing at you?”

“I don’t know Brad. I also don’t know why Hernando would let me ramble for 45 freaking minutes about the provocative styles of the underwear line Candyman. Why would anyone do that to someone anyway?”

Chris paused to take a deep breath. He didn’t need to go down that path any further. “As for an apology my guess is probably not as so far the future is pretty rude.”

Brad agreed. “Well, Hernado will never apologize so why should I? Can we just fast forward to whatever’s next? What’s happening after the future anyway?”

“Oh god something! I hope.” Chris paused to take another breath even deeper than before. “Well, let me just say this. If the future really is all there is, I seriously think we should sue.”

After agreeing the extra ‘is’ in Chris’ last statement rang funny, the two made a pack that if it was still the future in a week, they’d start asking around for referrals so they could sue ‘the children.’ They were future and they would pay up for anything and everything subpar. If it had to come out of their parents pockets so be it. Someone needed to take responsibility for the future and it may not be the worst idea to make it an adult.

Brad then reminded Chris not to ask Hernando if it came down to that as it would be counterproductive but didn’t specify the why. It still read as a good point nonetheless.

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Personally, I think the AI is misjudged. As always, there is far too much hype about something that is currently only about beta testers in many areas. Namely, a herd of voluntary users who optimize the incomplete product free of charge for the tech giants. Click workers for free.

Dangers yes but first open the Pandora's box and let it run and then talk about ethical principles. But only talk and warn not implement. Whether only nuclear energy or chemical weapons to bio weapons first make and then look.

The same problem happens again, we are simply not capable of learning whether only genetic manipulation or AI we run after the progression because it could be another faster.

Ultimately, it is the great challenge which will bring about an entire social transformation. That will be so drastic that no area of life remains untouched.

All this takes place without restrictions and any ethical basis. It leads us not into the as always promised paradisiacal future but into the irresponsibility of the individual. And the loss of control of the individual against the AI system owners. By the way, who does not know the real satirical slogan atomic energy make electricity cheaper for all, from the sixties,

Today, a soldier sits at the trigger of a killer drone and must make a decision or a higher level of responsibility in the Relationship of dependence makes this decision with the consequence of responsibility.

But what then? The drone has an independent AI and decides without final consideration.

China is a special example to the loss of control of the people by a regulative and punishing state AI with evaluations system around the maximum control to receive.

At some point, the wolf will no longer have to monitor the sharp, but they will do everything not to attract the wolf's attention. The independent curtailment of freedom with the scissors ✂️ in the head.

Just to info the entire use is not climate neutral!

For example only Google without all the other options in the Internet.

Since Google currently processes up to nine billion search queries per day. If every Google search used AI, it would require about 29.2 terawatt hours of electricity per year, according to calculations. That would be equivalent to Ireland's annual electricity consumption.

I do not believe in help systems that filter my world and use my data for the self-interest of a few. In the end, the whole thing is just a crappy licensing system to sell surveillance products.

For example, why does facial recognition AI software need to recognize everyone to protect society?

Isn't it enough just to search for the people who are criminals and are wanted by court order!

All those the software does not recognize are irrelevant, thus false negatives.

However, it is not so you want to be able to judge whether someone is suspicious and perhaps criminal or even terrorist is on the road.

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But this is error-prone and thus antisocial and dangerous.

If someone sweats at the airport and has anger in his face, this means an error assessment if it goes wrong. If one would be a terrorist, one injects Botox and has no anger and no hatred in the face but only the indifference of a misguided person whose act can only be resolved in retrospect. The more data you have to analyze, the longer the analysis takes. So why make the pile of straws bigger when you are only looking for the pins. Is my question!

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It was good for the culture of excitement and toxic masculinity to work on the portrayal of ken.

This is exactly how they attract the attention they actually want to avoid.

It's just real men just punching without sense or understanding.

As soon as there's a ken doll of Ryan Gosling, I'll buy it!

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Real men are feminists

You don't have to protect your daughters, you have to teach your sons to respect women

Whose bright idea was it to say that you're an "adult" at a certain age? To dump a bunch of responsibility all at once on someone who still plays Mario and obsesses over sugary food? To put someone who hardly understands the world on equal footing with everyone else, just because this person has lived an arbitrary number of years?

I'm surprised anyone has this figured out. And if they don't, they sure look like they do. (Most of the time.)

Don't let anyone fool you: Adults don't really know what they're doing all the time. You don't magically earn the drive or the strategy to do all your responsibilities when you turn 18, or when you get out of college - or at any point, for that matter. And if anyone looks like they have it... they don't.

As I was walking around the house, my neglected responsibilities jumped out at me all at once. Dishes in the sink. Unfolded clothes. Homework. All of them important things that I should have done days ago, but they're still lying around. Some have deadlines! And as I asked myself why I can't handle such simple tasks with any decency, I began to wonder whether I'm fit for adulthood at all. How can I be expected to survive on my own if I can't even get myself to take regular showers?

I started to despair about bigger matters like rent. Clearly I'm not cut out for these responsibilities, I told myself. Maybe I should stop trying; I'm just going to fail anyway. It was a crushing thought... I was about to break down on the spot.

But then I noticed the things I'm doing well. My room is mostly clean (other than the clothes, but even those are in a hamper in the corner). I'm well-fed. I'm still in college - I live off-campus, and I've survived this long! I have supportive friends. Heck, I just took out the trash moments before this meltdown.

Really what I was afraid of was that I can't seem to do anything, when that's not true. I can do some things, just not everything. And in the end, I concluded that the things I'm doing right outweigh the things I'm not doing. I need to learn to juggle all my responsibilities first before I master them, and that's part of what college is about.

I've seen what it looks like to not do anything, and I'm not nearly there... But if I'd given up, I sure would be. So it's okay! I'll forget to wash the dishes some days, and that's okay, as long as I'm trying at all.

Letting go isn’t easy, but it’s necessary.

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to be.

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Dad Gojo Shenanigans part 1

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He is so done.

(reblogs and shares appreciated 🩵) very much inspired by this art by @cobaltfluff

DAD Gojo Shenanigans continues..(part 2, part 3)

Start with Facts. End with Iron and Wine.

I'm eighteen.

Today, my family went to vote. I couldn't, my application got caught up in too much red tape. I wouldn't know whom to vote for anyway. I didn't tell them that though.

My father told me to make him some tea today. He likes it freshly made, with tea powder; not really a fan of teabags, the man. Although, I think teabags are pretty pretty. I don't like tea though, not with milk, I don't. Black tea's fine. I read that green tea is quite slimming. Have yet to try it though.

Anyway, I made tea with tea powder. He spat it out. And asked me when I'll ever learn to be useful. While my mother mumbled something about learning to cook an entire meal at the age of eight.

She's a good cook, my mother. Which is awesome and not so awesome at the same time. It's awesome because I get to eat some of the best food in the world and not because a) food=fat b) pretty high culinary standards to live up to since I'm a) eighteen, a full fledged adult and b) unable to make a simple cup of tea.

I'm not what my parents wanted in a daughter. And they're okay with that. They just want me to contribute to society; to be useful. It's kind of hard when you're so confused trying to figure out who you are, I don't think they get it. Maybe they've never been confused. Maybe they just chose the easy way out, being who they were told to be.

It's high time I find out who I am though, I never liked growing up. I cried for hours when I got my first period. I refused to wear a bra when my breasts began to form and now my gigantic boobs are starting to sag at the age of eighteen! Quel Dommage! I'm an adult. Yet, I forget to charge my phone, to brush my teeth. I need to be reminded to comb my hair. I need to be reminded that I'm loved. Constantly.

I'm insecure. I feel like I don't belong where I was born.

Sometimes, it scares me how willing I am to just leave everything behind and fly away to a distant land. There's this pair of white birds outside my window.

There's no other bird like them in this part of town. I wonder why they return to the same tree every sundown when they can be on a conifer in Russia one month and a palm tree in the Bahamas the next.

The experts would ask me to ask myself the very same question. I tell myself that I stay where I am because I'm unselfish and grateful for all that I've been given. I don't want to take it for granted. That's what I tell myself.

But the truth is, I'm afraid of loneliness. And I think you are too.

It's like a baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone.

"Responsibility is a destination but not for cowards."🍃

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I don't know how people have suddenly decided Chuuya is a trusting person, like sir, have we read the same Manga/Light Novels or was Chuuya never telling the Sheep about his past or assuming the Flags were gonna kill him when he found out they worked for Mori part of his trusting personality?

Like, what's more interesting, Dazai being an unstrustworthy manipulative asshole and Chuuya still trusting him because of a character flaw? or

Dazai being an untrustworthy manipulative asshole and Chuuya, a person who has never relied on anyone having his back, like, ever, for some inexplicable reason extending that trust to him? Someone more demon than person? Dazai would lose his fucking shit.

that feeling of having no responsibilities and being free to spend your day however you like

i miss that feeling

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

The Little Prince; Antoine de Saint-Exupéry