I was abused by my christian parents.
I would like to live long enough to see humanity mature out of superstition and free the world from human greed.
A dollop of hope:
A research study in mice suggests that resilience to suffering is partly due to a decreased fear response in the amygdala and increased levels of BDNF in the brain. This 2015 research found that changing a gene in mice increased resilience to depressing and traumatizing events such as forcing the mice to swim. This could have crucial benefits for those with anxiety and PTSD.
…though I feel a bit bad for the mice.
I think of the song “Void” by Black Polish:
I hate making people mad
And my parents just want me to have
A normal childhood dream
Where I don’t question who I wanna be
So please refrain from looking at me
While I find my own identity
My christian parents mutilated my junk when I was a baby and hit me before I could think. I will never be okay. They chose this for me. I cannot undo the damage they did. I’ve been drinking myself to an earlier grave because my life has never been worth living.
I have therapy tomorrow. Maybe this therapist can help in a way that the previous four could not, but I’m not exactly optimistic by this point. Just wasting even more time and money.
I need to escape the bible belt, but I fear I am a broken person who does not fit anywhere. I am still trying, for now. Many people find it convenient to scapegoat me for the abuse I suffered, but I was violently indoctrinated into a backwards death cult against my will.
Religion kills. Religion explicitly encourages mental illness. Challenge assumptions to save lives. Just because many people have done it for a long time does not mean it is okay. There are more victims every day.
“There’s a high risk of death, of course people will die.”
Yeah. That’s why we should reduce that risk. We don’t have to keep killing people.
Can children understand the risks? They suffer regardless:
About 7 out of 10 emergency department visits for sports- and recreation-related TBIs and concussions are among children ages 17 and under. For this age group, boys have about twice the rate of emergency department visits for sports- or recreation-related TBIs and concussions than girls. However, girls have a higher chance for sports-related concussion than boys in sports that use the same rules, like soccer and basketball.
I’m in the US. Prisons are prisons for the innocent.
“Just give us your name, address, and more, and we’ll stop violating your privacy (on the surface). Training AI? Well, obviously. Selling to data brokers? I mean, why wouldn’t we? We’ll delete the document after we’ve stored all the details in our database, of course.”
“Google says the document is deleted after 60 days.”
Lol. They absolutely keep all of the data.
Maybe the female has udders. 🤔
all the “vegans” I have had interactions with online were absurd, emotional, and mentally deficient.
Emotional, yes. Empathy tends to do that.
Absurd? Mentally deficient? Be more specific. I suspect you don’t like being confronted with the consequences of your choices, so you deflect instead of reflect.
they can’t be real because nobody would be stupid enough to weaken themselves by strictly eating vegetation.
Weaken? Apart from B-12, which many people take supplements for, what do you think is missing from a vegan diet? Certainly not protein; beans are wonderful.
besides wouldn’t hurting people go against their whole “vegan” moral superiority?
Not necessarily. If a person is causing harm and refuses to stop, they may have to be physically stopped.
I think this is the unironic answer to “why are so many of these about fishing”. Normalizing abuse, sustaining a culture of casual and needless violence.
Do the original devs get any credit? Or just the ones who stole their work to train on? Seems unfair.
It’s not just altruism. Empathy is reasonable. Cooperation is necessary for our survival. If we give up, the rich will kill us all.
Why can’t they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps? No one wants to work anymore…
Put 🚫 on top of💲?
It is the information age. We do not need physical money, we have the means to track resource allocation, production, processing, and need. Money incentivizes competition instead of cooperation. As human beings living on the same planet, we all have similar goals. The rich are using their money to hoard even more money, deliberately depriving others of their basic necessities.
I don’t want to be a slave or a master. I don’t want to be rich. I want a life worth living, work worth doing. I want to help people.
I get that it will take much time and effort to change, but if we don’t, we might all die for someone else’s greed. Many people already have. Easier said than done, admittedly.
In christofascist USA, it’ll likely be “god is sending plagues and famine to punish sinners.” Much like how gay people are blamed for hurricanes.
“We take no joy in the death of innocent people,” Marcavage–a former Clinton White House intern–told one reporter. “But we believe that God is in control of the weather. The day Bourbon Street and the French Quarter was flooded was the day that 125,000 homosexuals were going to be celebrating sin in the streets. We’re calling it an act of God.”
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+blame+game%3A+9%2F11.+The+tsunami.+Katrina.+All+the+gays'+fault%2C…-a0140923517
“…and it ruined my whole goddam motherfucking only life”
Well, see, a snake told a couple to eat some fruit a long time ago, so now we’re all born with a sinful nature. Something something free will.
Children and babies can’t make their own decision to rely on faith healing. Kangas said their parents must keep them away from the doctor to set an example, so the young ones won’t be cursed later in life by turning to medicine.
Kangas lost his own wife and their last child during labor 23 years ago. Three of his 65 grandchildren also have died.
Babies are being sacrificed to yahweh. It’s a fucking death cult.
Yeah… I wrote a song about it.
“Why am I so unhinged? A calm chat.”
It can’t reason. It doesn’t think. It makes shit up as it was trained to do. It can sort of detect patterns and make a guess about what response would get it the highest score, but it’s so error-prone that a human has to verify the output anyway. It’s difficult to tell whether the perceived benefits outweigh the costs. There are many different types of LLMs and use cases.
As a person who values life and our environment, I’d rather not participate in the sloppification of our world. As a Linux user, I am wary of vibe coded flaws slipping under the radar and screwing up my system.