I’m not sure what you mean. Try again in a week or two?

I did detect that this was about the whole “LLMs ruin everything” jerk. The thing is, they’re new, and misinfo has been around in other forms for a long time. It doesn’t negate the things you do now - like talking to me, despite the fact we’re probably in different countries - that would have been very hard in the 20th century, and impossible much before then. Relevant XKCD.

Okay, to be a bit glib, why don’t you ask someone in real life? After all, it’s all disinformation on here.

Sure, the information age comes with problems, but do consider what the world was like before. There were a lot of things people just didn’t know and couldn’t ever look up or ask about - unless they were motivated enough to dig through a library.

Too easy. It’d be like a bad GDPR window, where they make the interface as confusing, slow and painful as possible to deter you.

They say, on RoughRomanMemes.

One of us, one of us…

Wow, I’m surprised they got it up that high in a practical application.

They let OpenWhisper do the underlying protocol, so it’s solid. Beats the shit out of a plain text message anyway, and people IRL might actually have it.

Wasn’t Element going to integrate into it as well?

First few ideas: Talk about how I’m not really big on the whole “working hard” thing, immediately bring up and start ranting about weird political ideas, “I’m worth X, take it or leave it”

Lol, what is that from?

TIL. In the movies they just pull out their Luger.

Wow, Portugal way ahead of the curve. Iceland too, but that might be a size thing.

Did Germany ever do guillotining on it’s own, or was it just in the French occupation zone?

There are people who can do this, I’ve known some. It’s probably genetic, and some people vary in the other direction.

My favourite is when they use a picture of a cooling tower on like, a nuclear power plant.

Wat?

Or maybe that was his plan, but he chickened out once it got too real? You’d expect it would still change things if he was at all homophobic, though. As it is, he acted like it didn’t happen until he thought he was being lied to and decided to pull it back out.

Yes, therapists actually seem to love it when you tell them about your feelings about therapy.

(But then again, I can’t help but notice that I was socially conditioned to expect shame, punishment, and destructive guidance if I ask for help.)

This.

They’re always gentle in my experience, even when they’re trying to get you to question something you’ve assumed. Maybe they will say you should give people more of a chance, once they get to know your situation. But, if you just say no, worst case scenario they won’t have any other ideas. And I can’t imagine they’d tell you to deliberately hang around a narcissist.

Alternately, a lot of the most useful things they told me are things I hadn’t even considered, so maybe you’ll be surprised.

My folks found me looking at “objectionable” porn too. They didn’t get weird about it. The old man just talked with me about sexuality and privacy and of course God as well.

See, religious disagreements aside that sounds like a completely healthy approach. I’m guessing that’s better than most parents manage, regardless of beliefs.

Yeah, you don’t need the supernatural to fill that particular niche. IIRC people have done questionable things in the name of anarchism as well.

Even in conservative households, that’s weird. If your dad had blown up right there about the sinful things happining in the room, I’d get it more. What he actually did was inexplicable. And the older brother thing is just awful.

Since it was two incidents total, I won’t go straight for hell, though. Like maybe it was but I’d need more information.