You know what’s wild? This is the first time I’ve ever heard of men doing roller derby. I mean, I’m not surprised that men do it, I’m just surprised that I’ve gone my whole life up to this point and never heard of/encountered/or met men that do roller derby. Are all-male teams common in the sport?

I’m glad it makes sense. I’m sorry people are downvoting you for having a different opinion and/or for daring to ask a question about something you don’t understand.

It hurts when it decides to show you photos of dead pets, or people that you’ve had a falling-out with. Sometimes, sweet memories can come from it. But other times, it’s a punch to the gut.

Damn. Well, if I’ll never get to see it, I suppose I can still imagine it as some far away, legendary place where horror dreams come true.

You’re absolutely right - race is a social construct. That’s more logic talk though, which doesn’t matter to racists.

Have you considered running tours on Halloween? Throw in a few fog machines and black lights, make up some backstory about evil taking over your home or something, and you’ll have the most creative “haunted house” around.

If you ever change your mind, you can just move into my place. Nobody invited the centipedes, yet every spring those creepy bastards find their way in.

Then double their shock - a significant amount of those white people in the US will think your race is “Mexican.” Never mind that you’re not Mexican, have never been to Mexico, and that “Mexican” isn’t even a race.

Logic doesn’t matter in their argument. You speak Spanish? You must be Mexican. End of story.

Shortly after entering adulthood, I lost a close friend. He was still in college at the time, a talented, friendly, bright light snuffed far too early. He was well loved and his funeral was so packed that it was standing room only. One attendee described it as “the most depressing class reunion ever.”

His loss has never left me.

Right before I got the phone call telling me the news, I had been feeling extremely down about myself. I was crossing my work parking lot (which I had to do regularly as part of my job) without looking up for moving cars, thinking that if I got hit, it wouldn’t have mattered.

But that same day, my phone rang. It was a mutual friend, and through obvious tears and a quavering voice, she told me, “John is dead!”

With that, everything changed.

I’ll never forget how much it hurt to lose somebody so important to me. The idea of purposely putting my friends through that has kept me going more times than I can count. I have to remind myself, even in my darkest, most self-hating moments, that I’m more important to others than I realize. I can’t imagine John would have known just how much of an impact he had made on others, but I saw the proof. I felt the pain. I love my friends and family too much to entertain the thought of making them attend my funeral. And so I push on, but with one change:

I now make a point to explicitly tell my friends how much they matter to me.

It says “using only penises,” plural. I guess you’d have to give that diglett his own dick (dicklett?)

Or just make a dugtrio.

I second this. It’s a relief to be able to talk with other people and not worry about all the social performances we’re expected to keep up around neurotypicals. I can just say the things I’m trying to say and if I stumble with my words, everyone still gets my meaning. Nobody’s going to take an innocent comment as an insult, just because my tOnE oF vOiCe was “off.” Don’t feel like making eye contact? Awesome, I don’t either! If you want, we can have a full, rich conversation about our shared special interests, all while looking at literally anything except each other.

Did you read archive link with the full text? It talks about how the culture of 4chan started and then spread out across other social media platforms. Other sites weren’t always as toxic as they are today, yet 4chan began rotting much earlier on. The problem is that the rot, which originated on 4chan, has become mainstream. That’s why we see this shit everywhere now.

Who’s thinking they’re a snob? Notepad is (or had been for a very long time? I don’t know what modern Windows includes anymore) included by default for PC users.

If it’s already there and it served the purposes OP needed, they would’ve had no reason to look for an alternative. OP may not know about Metapad, especially if they aren’t “a snob about a minimalist text editing experience,” they just liked a minimalist and ubiquitous tool that worked well for them until it showed clear signs of AI encroachment.

Procrastination and anticrastination

I work with kids. If I tried that approach with some of the things I need to look up, I’d probably end up with Feds at my door.

Because it no longer uses your words to actually search through web page contents, it puts your query into an LLM and uses that to filter and lookup things.

Oh, hell no. Does anyone have a list of which search engines do that? Or alternatively, a list of search engines that explicitly don’t?

Because I don’t even know where to search to find this kind of information anymore.

If we’re all in agreement about AI being problematic, wouldn’t it make much more sense to unite us against it, than to divide us over the reasons why we don’t like it? You could have simply said, “You know what else sucks about AI?” then listed your additional reasons.

There will always be people out there who don’t know things that you know. When you ditch the insults and approach knowledge gaps as opportunities to educate, you’ll get a lot more people on your side.

I say this as a supporter, a teammate, a fellow angry autist that sees many diverse reasons to be against the widespread use of AI. You make good points that I haven’t seen raised here before, but I’m disheartened that you chose to present it in such a hostile, divisive way. In-fighting only hurts our side; it makes more sense to aim our anger at the target we can all agree on - AI itself.

Sites still add them because it makes them money at the expense of your privacy.

You can also consider it a form of advertising for the platforms. The buttons not only suggest for the user that they should use an indicated platform, but give them an immediate way to engage with it as well. It’s manipulation, all the way down.

Did you intend to write “c****s,” but the markup put your comment in italics/bold instead?

Formatting tip - if you put a backslash “ \ “ before the asterisk, it ignores the normal command to italicize/embolden. The markup commands on Lemmy are similar to those on Reddit (though not identical; Lemmy doesn’t break links as often as Reddit does.)