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orphiebaby ,

I’ve been telling people for a while that I can hear it too. Nice to know I’m not the only one.

orphiebaby ,

And things even worse than slavery towards them. And that a lot of racists who would likely shoot black people still use that word on purpose. And that there’s still a lot of those people.

orphiebaby ,

From my experience, black people want to be called black. I’m a white kid, but was raised in a foster family with three black siblings and other black family, including some that lived in a ghetto in another city. It was the 90s and early 2000s, so we watched some BET, we watched the Boondocks, we listened to thug rap, we watched shows with black characters such as All That and Cousin Skeeter. Because it was all a part of my brothers’ culture, and they felt attached to it, and “black culture” was cool to all of us. And in anything we participated in I’ve never heard a single African-American who didn’t call themselves “black” and be fine being called that. Maybe there are some rich people like Obama or Tom of The Boondocks who wouldn’t call themselves “black”, but they seem to be of a different lifestyle and culture than that.

I’ve also sometimes made the argument in defense of “black”, that “African-American” is mildly politically-incorrect itself— not that I have a problem with the term, just the hyper-vigilant enforcing of it. Because it’s not synonymous with skin color itself, it’s a statement about where they came from. We don’t call white people “European-Americans”; and what do we call non-black African-Americans from, say, Egypt or South America? So… yeah.

orphiebaby ,

Yeah, black Americans have a very distinct culture. Started as slaves, were segregated in a lot of ways, they still often have ghetto neighborhoods, they created unique genres of music with strong black identity and they still have their own entertainment catered towards them. That’s America for you.

orphiebaby ,

Good news, but it’s not “AI”. Please stop calling it that.

orphiebaby ,

That sounds like the courts are fucking stupid and ill-prepared to do their jobs.

orphiebaby ,

And we’d still call what it was “Twitter”.

orphiebaby ,

I don’t know what rock you’ve been living under where you think base Firefox wasn’t ever improved

orphiebaby OP , (edited )

I tried Claude once and it was absolute garbage. Then again, it advertised that it could analyze a .txt document and send me results. It only hallucinated that it could give me results.

Update: I’m using Claude now, at least for a month.

Additionally, first I thought I liked Gemini, but I’m not interested in an AI that can’t remember a conversation. Chat-GPT could at least do that.

orphiebaby OP ,

Haha, I didn’t even notice that last part.

orphiebaby OP ,

So what you’re saying is, I can block a toxic community, but I am still forced to see when they post the same post again somewhere else.

Ugh. Can I just block literally every post with a certain word in it? Also every comment with that same word?

orphiebaby OP ,

I don’t read on my phone.

orphiebaby OP ,

So if an instance is defederated from a second, I wouldn’t see any cross-posts from the second?

orphiebaby ,

Japanese media is stupid too, Pokémon especially. South Park even commented on that when it was new. So it was stupid against stupid.

orphiebaby ,

Not all the pointing people are old memes.

orphiebaby ,

…What.

orphiebaby , (edited )

…You can be anti-Muslim without it having anything to do with other groups of people. Not that being anti-Muslim is a good thing.

God I hate the binary-thinking world we live in.

orphiebaby ,

God dammit, I just watched that movie for the first time. With my housemates, like two weeks ago.

orphiebaby ,

Just like cable! \o/

orphiebaby ,

I may be the only person who knows why you said that.

orphiebaby , (edited )

Yeah, because you’ll fall off the bottom into space

orphiebaby , (edited )

Why isn’t this illegal. Why isn’t anything that has to do with houses illegal.

orphiebaby ,

You’re not that stupid. You can’t be that stupid.

orphiebaby ,

Either they’re really harmfully stupid, or they’re an unethical bad-faith/lying asshole. Pick one.

orphiebaby ,

Wait until they learn that the thumbs-up in some countries means what the middle finger does in the US…

orphiebaby ,

GOD DAMMIT that was the first thing I thought of and I was just about to post it! Post was 6 hours ago, your reply was 44 minutes ago. I was too late.

I hate you, have my upvote.

orphiebaby ,

Some animals are carnivores, but they don’t want to draw attention to that. Also, humans aren’t carnivores. We’re omnivores.

orphiebaby , (edited )

Read all the comments in this thread that say “OP” next to the user. I don’t call people “trolls” very quickly because most of the time that’s wrong, statistically. But they are either a troll or— more likely— an annoying militant vegan.

orphiebaby ,

It’s like people who say desktop Linux is currently good enough to be mainstream for everyone, and it will any day now, please? And that it’s everyone else’s fault that it hasn’t, they’re just lazy and afraid or something.

orphiebaby ,

This is sociopathic, probably anger-fueled thinking. You don’t spend enough time around people, you don’t realize how imperfect and different literally everyone is, and you don’t really know what their problems are; so you tend to dehumanize people who make mistakes. What happened was horrible, some people may never forgive them, but they are still humans. Not to mention that you can’t trust humans in the first place to even pick the right people to punish, let alone to punish humanely. Not that punishment was ever a good response.

Or maybe you do realize these things and you’ll come to your senses later.

orphiebaby ,

That’s beside the point.

orphiebaby ,

Wow, 5 friends is more than what I have!

orphiebaby , (edited )

A bigger pi-ness.

orphiebaby ,

Dude, I just had this realization on my own a few months ago. I grew up thinking weeds literally choked the life out of grass and other plants by definition. So after some thought I started saying to myself and others “weeds are just any plant you don’t desire in your yard, they aren’t a species or group, the word means nothing”

orphiebaby ,

It’s “high geologist” in the same way as “high summoner” in Final Fantasy X. Meaning his career ends by him sacrificing himself. In this case probably via volcano.

orphiebaby ,

What does that mean. What does “the year of the Linux desktop” mean, really? And why is it different than last year?

orphiebaby ,

Cool, but didn’t everyone tell me I should use Mint, for a bunch of reasons including “it’s arguably the most beginner-friendly”?

orphiebaby ,

That’s all fair advice. It doesn’t change that installation instructions should have been a lot more thorough though. Once I get a third (or bigger primary) SSD, I’ll dual-boot Mint. I still want to try it. Regardless of my issues with it, I do know Linux is getting better. And we can see how ready I am for it now (and that’s partially up to the software).

orphiebaby ,

I see. I’ll look into it, thanks.

orphiebaby ,

Oh, thank god. Plasma looks good for me. Easy to look at and professional. Assuming I understand how it works, which popular distros can use Plasma? Update: After some quick research, I think I want to use Kubuntu? Does that sound like a good idea?

orphiebaby ,

I agree, we need more words. We lose words all the time, too, due to assumptive abuse.

orphiebaby ,

Jesus. Citation seriously needed.

orphiebaby ,

If you didn’t say it, I would have. Thank you.

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orphiebaby ,

…Yes. I do block Hexbear. That’s not what I was stumped by.

orphiebaby ,

I do this all the time, but my cat (Pixel) doesn’t leave :3

orphiebaby ,

…How did they fuck it up? It can literally do everything it used to do, just as easily as before. And now more.

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