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There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy. Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they've already enlisted in the cause. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.

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  • This is a perfect example of why any labeling, whether it be for sexual preference, political, religious, or whatever, will always have gray areas of misunderstanding. It's necessary sometimes to make it easier to convey meaning, but it also can be very vague and inaccurate. And as the comments show, people have different interpretations of the same label, so the point of a label is a bit lost.

    I think it's even more problematic here because we're talking about two (or more) different things. There is preference, and then there is actual activity. And there is also the fact that people change over time, so you might not have been one thing before but are more in that area now due to interest and/or desire.

    I'm not a fan of labeling. I like the discussion of ideas, and the breakdown of your interests is much more clarifying than if you had called yourself one thing or another, or even if you had said you're lesbian, but with some bisexual tendencies.

    What is disappointing is that a group of people who are part of a minority that gets shunned and resistance from society still would turn on someone just because they don't fit perfectly in their own vision of what a lesbian is. They should know better and accept anyone who has any degree of qualification, even something as simple as a woman who has never been with a woman but is having some feelings. Why do persecuted minority groups do this?

  • You're right on all accounts, and I have NO idea why I put Dave. Lol. I blame AI. Oh wait, I can't, given my previous post.

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  • They always had to build the massive rocket, hoax or not. And the catering costs...

  • Heresy, using an actual AGI example. Also, HAL did nothing wrong. It's always the humans that screw things up. (2010 for reference)

    Unpopular opinion - both SkyNet and the AI in The Matrix were also not in the wrong. I think The Animatrix documents why that's true in that particular franchise. Again, it's the humans. Hell, maybe even Ultron had a few good points, he just went insane in the first microseconds trying to rationalize it all.

  • I hope not. If they ask it to summarize the email that Houston sends them, it could be a disaster.

  • May be the endgame. While the Southern Strategy was all about securing enough voters in a functional system through various means, the next step is just removing the voting issue altogether and gain even more power.

  • When you stare hard enough into the Void and realize it's really a foggy mirror.

  • Wow, totally out of character. Who would have guessed?

  • My wife's laptop has always had those lovely features with Win10. She'll be doing normal Word stuff, some browser tabs open, and suddenly Windows decides to do something in the background, fans kick on high, even her mouse becomes sluggish. I had hoped that moving her to an SSD and 64GB(!) of memory would remove any of that, but nope, just Windows being Windows. Meanwhile, I have btop open all the time on my Linux machine, and my memory and CPU are always where I'd expect them to be (except for Snap stuff, I need to do a bit of extraction there for the rest of my normal apps).

  • People seem to have a variety of experiences here because of the way federation works. I've seen people complain that there's no activity, or that they only see one type of conversation, but it's clearly because of how their instance is set up, since there is constantly new stuff to see on others' feeds. Reddit being in one place did make finding lots of niches easier once it matured, but it's having it in one place that caused the problem. Now that federated platforms have caught on somewhat, it will be interesting to see what it looks like in a few more years, if the content compares to Reddit at its height of effectiveness.

    It's changed since the first migration. For the better overall, even with some of the drama and technical hiccups. In the end, most of the complaints I see, usually referred as "Lemmy" problems, are simply issues that have been around since people have been discussing things online, back with Usenet, AOL, Compuserve, and Q-Link. No technology is going to keep people from acting as they do, but the tech can protect the ability for others to defend themselves and still have a voice by decentralizing, as the internet was designed to do.

    I will say in the early days the adult level stuff like nudity spam was pretty bad, but at least from my pov that hasn't been a problem in a while, so thank you, moderators and instance owners, for what you do.

  • In my experience it's far higher. That and "rouge" seem to be very common misspellings.

  • Miniclover maybe. There's a few varieties. I totally didn't buy some bags a few years ago and accidentally dumped them in with the grass. That's what I'd tell my HOA anyway. This year it's coming back again slowly again.

  • That's a lot more feasible. It's not about the initial damage, but the consequences and the effect on public confidence in security. Which isn't that high anyway.

  • This, other facts about Trump (impeachments, felon, etc), or simply just marking through the signature. Such actions have been done for years to protest the "In God We Trust" violation. Marking a bill is legal so long as it doesn't attempt to change its value.

  • When you have that kind of money and power, you can do really dumb things, including being a huge narcissistic idiot, and not have any consequences worth losing sleep over.

  • Overthinking it. He wants media attention. Just like Trump, he wants to hear his name mentioned.

  • The other comments have the question on pregnancy covered, but no one has yet addressed the root of the problem, your last question. And it's a difficult one to answer on a forum since we don't know you except for what you post. So while it may sound both cliché and passing the problem onwards, I'd say get some therapy. Not because there's anything wrong with you, but you do seem to acknowledge that you're getting into situations you don't want to be in, and don't feel great about it. Just talk therapy could help, let someone guide you to figure out the real issues that are driving you to this. Perhaps there's specialty therapy for sex-driven behavior - a therapist would know if you need something more than general aid.

    Use this as a wakeup call and a motive to change, and get help in figuring out what needs to change, and why you're in the spot you're in. You aren't alone in this, you just need to ask for help.

  • Now do the Nvidia DLSS 5.0 version.

    No, j/k, do not do that. Pixelation, imagination, and simple but unique gameplay are what made those games great. Even back in 2000 for EverQuest, I said I would trade the graphical improvements of the game for the alpha test version's blocky low textures and simpler animations if we could have all that its marketing demo had suggested would be possible.

  • -- since 1967