By France, do you mean Paris? They’re the worst.

Lyon ain’t much better.

I think pixelfed is getting the embrace of death right now

This didn’t start happening for me until I started HRT. The first time this happened (unconsciously mirroring the emotions of a character), I suddenly realized why people like reading romance novels. If you can vicariously actually feel like you’re falling in love with somebody, why the hell would you not want to?

Previously I had enjoyed stories, but plot-driven stuff like mysteries and heist movies, or idea-driven stuff like hard science fiction.

Yeah if you think he’s gonna cut subsidies to BP you’re dreaming.

Betteridge’s Law applies here.

This dude sucks. Didn’t Labour have an actual socialist leader before this?

I guess it would be impossible for it to be farther away than I think…

Well that’s, like, your opinion. Lotta people want to dig out that Picussy.

Have you spent any time at other places on the Internet?

Yes it’s very important to accommodate genocide and climate denialism. 🙄

Me, but with sumo wrestlers.

This is a good discussion about the original tests Turing discussed, as well as a very fun interview.

https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2024/4/4/the-turing-test-is-bullshit-walex-hanna-and-emily-m-bender

And yet here we are days later and I see people apparently very upset about pronouns because they know drag doesn’t really mean it.

If drag is a troll, take a second to think about who is feeding the troll in these threads…

If somebody asks me to refer to drag that way, I’ll just do it. Why not?

If drag’s fun to be around, I might hang out, if drag sucks or is boring, I’ll move on and talk to somebody else.

I wouldn’t take multiple days out of my life to scream about how “they don’t really mean it” or how it breaks a rule my first grade teacher taught me about grammar.

If this is what he says in public, can you imagine what’s going to come out in discovery?

I used to work in the valley. As a general rule, the higher up in the org the person is, the more relaxed they are about a little lawbreaking.

Yeah people drastically underestimate the gulf between randos and anybody who’s had even a little decent training.

Well, Frances Haugen left a while ago. Some people did go.

And, well, the best time to leave Facebook was to never join. The second best time is now.

Larian isn’t making another Baldur’s Gate.

Slight quibble: in BG3 you can have sex with a bear (who is the shape shifted form of an absolutely beefcake elf druid).

Would, and did.