Me when my best friend told me that in Islam, dogs were made from the Devil’s spittle as he was frothing with glee at the prospect of seeing humans being eaten by lions:

I straight up told her I never thought the Quran could out-crazy Norse mythology, but where we are. I mean, we do have a story about Æsir creating Kvasir from their spit, but that is no where close to being as metal as dogs being made from the spit of Satan. I was practically cackling.

That is so fucked. It is shit like this that makes me not trust AI at all. One thing is how it gets things wrong all the time and never learns from mistakes or corrections. Another is that I simply do not trust the faceless people behind these AIs to be altruistic and not having an agenda with their little chat bots. There is a lot of potential in AI, but it is also a tool that can and will be used to mis- and disinform people and that is just too dangerous on top of all the mistakes AI still makes constantly.

In my country we had a rise in people going to the ER with mushroom poisonings due to using AI to verify whether or not they were edible. Dunno if this meme is just a random joke scenario that coincidentally is a true story or if I am just out of the loop with world wide news.

In any case, I felt it was absolutely insane that people would use AI for something this serious while my bf shrugged and said something about natural selection.

I currently watch YouTube with the Wcosia browser on my phone and have barely gotten any ads since I started using it for this purpose. I dunno why it is like this. I think I have gotten one ad in months and all I had to do was refresh the browser and it went away.

Used to use DuckDuckGo and their video player which also works fine. No ads.

It probably won’t last forever. YouTube seems hellbend on becoming AdTube, but for now, this is a fine alternative. I dunno how watching YouTube works with ecosia on the computer, if there are ads there, but on the phone, nothing.

All I know about candy corn is what it looks like and that it apparently tastes bad.

Considering that the people who dislike candy corn are the same people who think that Hershey is anywhere close to being chocolate and that Reese’s peanut butter cups tastes of anything other than pure sugar with a hint of peanut, I am terrified what candy corn tastes like.

I’m glad you’re looking into seeing a therapist. It can’t be fun to feel like this. I also feel that some replies in this post are not helping your current state of mind at all.

I can tell you that I have had my own experience with an existential crisis and I found my way through it. I think most people go through some existential crisis at some point in their lives, and sometimes it can really help to have the right support and realize you aren’t alone. 🤗

I also hope you find a way to unplug from the news spiral and maybe even from the internet for awhile. Maybe go on a few walks in nature as well? I have found that it helped me a ton to just put on my shoes and a jacket and start walking when my mind became overwhelmed with the nonstop negativity online. Seeing the seasons change in front of your eyes has a profound healing effect on the mind. Everything slows down a bit and all the things that took up so much importance in your mind start to melt away. Seeing all the mushrooms currently sprouting up from the forest floor and hearing the chirp of a new bird i havent noticed before makes me so friggin excited to be alive. I want that for you as well.

We were never meant to carry the world on our shoulders, my friend. I wish you the absolute best and hope you find your way through. Hugs. ❤️

Fleet foxes. You should check out their album called Shore. They made it during covid and it is one of the chillest and most wholesome albums to come out of lockdown. Can I Believe You is my personal favourite song on that album.

Me when I’m alone with my thoughts

It’s ironic in the sense that they consider themselves to be of superior intellect and are very stubborn in that world view. Text probably doesn’t communicate sarcasm super well, but that was what I was aiming for.

Also, I agree with you hehe.

It’s funny, because someone claimed the character designs looked good in concept and I looked it up so see if they looked better in concept, but no. Sure they are technically well drawn, but their designs still look like shit in my opinion. I don’t get a sense of character at all.

On the other hand, I came across an artist named Kevin Trentin, who had decided to have fun redesigning the characters and they look so much better the way he did them.

He even bothered to give the characters some much needed personality. Amazing.

Man, you dad must have messed up for his own kid to feel this way. O.O I hope you have other people in your life that can give you the stability and love your father couldn’t.

I’ll take your word for it when it comes to people woth moderate success. I don’t really know any myself. Knew a guy once who inherited a lot of money and he became very smug too. Also burned through most of it in no time. Mostly on stupid shit he didn’t need. I think I asked him once if he had plans to invest any of it to secure his future and he just ignored me and decided to show the electric eraser he had bought 🤣 at least he wasn’t anti-vax, but he did start babbling about the Jewish question at one point and called me small minded for telling him he was on his way down the far right pipeline.

Having anti-vax family members who are doing well financially must be next level annoying, though.

I think it’s simpler than that. Covid happened. Some people don’t like being told what to do or to feel powerless against an abstraction, so they start to make “sense” out of a situation that is too hard for them to accept.

There definitely were climate deniers way before covid, but I do think that covid set in motion a trend of contrarianism and apathy that we will have to live woth and gradually overcome for a long time. The fact that our governments and scientists did such a fantastic job at protecting us the world over has allowed these people to live in their fantasy, that covid was a hoax. I have heard all manner of reasons for why they did what they did. Big pharma wanting to get rich, lobbying for that power. Governments wanting to prime us all for fascist regimes and keeping all the power permanently. Forcing us to take the vaccine to control us and poison us. On and on and on the reasons pile on and I know for a fact that if the governments and scientists had done nothing to stop the spread and the death toll being higher than it was, these same people would have found a way to make conspiracies about governments wanting us all to die.

Some vulnerable people cannot handle adversity and will find excuses to deny the reality of their situation because it gives them a false sense of security. And once that ball starts rolling, it’s so easy to branch out to more things.

I’m sorry about your loss. Must have been an emotionally draining experience to put it mildly. :/

I think many of the people who become anti-vaxxers and covid deniers are people who struggle with a feeling of general powerlessness in their lives. Believing in a fantasy where they see the truth and everybody else is blind or stupid can give them a feeling of importance/control.

I don’t think it’s the case for absolutely everyone who belong in that conspiracy group, but those I know personally who fall for this type of shit are people who are not doing great in life already and who are very emotionally vulnerable. I am equally frustrated and sad for them because I see how they cling to their delusions while their personal lives crash around them. Financially, socially, physically. It sucks to witness. Sucks even more to talk to them about anything, really. They will take any conversation and find a way to direct the topic of conversation into their weird conspiracies. I have somewhat learned how to navigate a conversation with them, but man, it is hard sometimes. I can’t help but wonder how terrible it must be to be stuck in a mental prison of your own making. It was supposed to protect them from a reality where something as scary as a mysterious virus could suddenly collapse the world they knew and leave them completely at the mercy of scientists and politicians who are calling the shots for something you barely understand. And instead of the delusion helping you becoming less afraid, it just ends up isolating you from everybody, because nobody gets it like you do, right? They are all just trying to silence you because you are the truth sayer. It must be so fucked to have your own mind betray you and hold you hostage like that. I really hope that especially one person I know, will never start using AI chat bots, but honestly, I fear it is not a matter of if, but when they will get into that shit.

Yeah, it was Italy. It’s was so fucked to follow that shit in real time.

I’m not American either. Anti-vaxxers and covid-deniers sadly exist outside of America too. 😮‍💨

Same shit with covid. People be like “it was a hoax because most people survived” and I just stare at them with no way of knowing how to explain to these geniuses the most basic shit about hygiene and physical distance and how it affects the spread of a potent new virus.

I have a couple of family members who are nurses. One of them being my MiL. She saw the early cases of corona up close and personal and she was very, very, VERY concerned. One of the first patients was a healthy man in his early 50s who was physically active and all that good shit. His lungs were completely destroyed by Delta. Had to get a transplant to survive. Was disabled for life due to other complications caused by the virus.

Every single person I have met who thinks corona was a hoax or doesn’t take the virus seriously, are ironically also some of the least educated people on the matter. They also think they know better than medical professionals. They didn’t see what this virus was capable of because people like my MiL worked themselves to the bone to save their ungrateful asses.

So when I come across these types in the wild, I just stare at them and think my thoughts about their level of intelligence and move on with my life. Must be nice to be this fucking stupid.

I think it’s a very interesting topic in general. Very frustrating too because the important discourse is always shut down by some people who have had too much ideological cool aid. It is a shame because at the end of the day, these companies are predatory toward all of us and should not be defended as fiercely as some people are. I just want entertainment at large to produce worth while art, be it books, movies, games etc. Good stories, great characters, well made art and so on. Stuff that can move people. ❤️

How are my talking points in any way related to incels? Also, are we supposed to give them credit for nicely looking concept art when the final product looks like ass? That’s news to me.

You are confirming my point about using cheap identity politics insults to deflect from the fact that these games are made by companies that don’t give a fuck about their customers. The only area where identity politics is relevant is when these very companies use them as a shield against criticism and people like you falling for their tactic and defending shitty game design because you think only incels could have negative opinions on a game like Concord.

Backwards mindset to say that censorship will never bring good.

You okay with child porn too? How about all the naughty words that we aren’t supposed to say? Or encouragement of violence toward others? That shouldn’t be censored and removed?

And honestly, I find it disturbing to say that if people want to kill themselves, they should just do it. Most suicidal people are stuck in a very dark place mentally that they CAN get put of if they get the right amount of help. Suicide isn’t always the correct solution. In most cases it, in fact, isn’t. It can be a desperate stress induced decision in response to a very difficult period in time for someone. Something where they seek relief in the moment, vut later are grateful they either didn’t go through with it or were saved. Have been in that dark pit myself and I’m so happy I didn’t go through with it even though I wanted it all to end for years.

There indeed are areas where censorship goes overboard and that is something we will have to discuss and adjusted together in society forever as times passes. But censorship isn’t an all bad thing. It is absolutely insane to think that censorship of any kind online is bad. I don’t think you actually agree with your own statement, if you think really deeply about it. Unless of course, you have no morals or care for the safety and wellbeing of others.

Haven’t seen it, but I’ll put it on my watch list! 👍

I think Togo won in the end, because Balto and his sled team basically became freak show animals and later live museum exhibits, chained and starving, like they weren’t living creatures at all. They were later rescued and ended their days as zoo animals. After Balto died he was stuffed and put in a museum.

Meanwhile Togo and his team went on tours, were given gold medals, continuing their lives as sled dogs and Togo got to retire in a nice kennel where he was bred and lived well until he was euthanized at the age of 16 due to health complications.

Don’t feel bad for Togo. He may have been largely forgotten to history, but he sure as shit won the life lottery compared to Balto.