At least 1 of my 300 kids is going to eventually run into some insect smut I commissioned and recognize my username.
“I always thought I never wanted kids, but then I took an arrow to the knee!”
I would assume a sperm to the crotch, but what do I know about humans’ reproductive strategies
“The internet is and has been a net positive for the human race.”
Trying to reform society without critiquing capital?? Seriously Grandpa?
I’m one of the oldest millenials and critiquing capital is basically 60% of my personality
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That one question from the Elder Scrolls class/Personality quiz was uncomfortably prescient:
Question 4: There is a lot of heated discussion at the local tavern over a group of people called ‘Telepaths’. They have been hired by certain City-State kings. Rumor has it these Telepaths read a person’s mind and tell their lord whether a follower is telling the truth or not.
Combat Response: This is a terrible practice. A person’s thoughts are his own and no one, not even a king, has the right to make such an invasion into another human’s mind.
Magic Response: Loyal followers to the king have nothing to fear from a Telepath. It is important to have a method of finding assassins and spies before it is too late.
Stealth Response: In these times, it is a necessary evil. Although you do not necessarily like the idea, a Telepath could have certain advantages during a time of war or in finding someone innocent of a crime.It looks like the kids these days are all mana-slingers lol
Which game was that ?
The quiz shows up in multiple games, I thiiiink this question started showing up in Morrowind though, iirc.
The Patriot Act of Tamriel
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They just transplanted a genetically human kidney grown in a pig into a human being. Pretty sure we’re only a few decades from being able to do a lot more.
Remember that guy from ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’? The one with two heads? That’ll be common soon enough.
Can we also get a 3rd arm to help with our ski-boxing?
You can’t have any more arms until you finish your soylent green!
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Growing up r***** was a pretty common phrase, that’s definitely something some millenials have had problems removing from their vocabulary.
I also don’t think our social comprehension of gender has finished evolving yet. So everyone alive to read this comment will eventually have to revise their understanding and look back on their cringy previous views.
Just say retarded u friggin retard.
u
I see where you lost the high ground in the discussion.
Just say fucking instead of friggin, you fucking spastic.
Fuck i really must the spastic cunt.
Are we censoring the word racist now? We can’t call it what it is?
Promoted from your desire to censor yourself, kids won’t understand and be exasperated by my refusal to censor myself online so some website/content creator can more easily make ad money.
And no, fuck that noise, I will not bow the fucking algorithm. I will curse and speak freely.
Ohhhhh I thought you meant the phrase was “growing up r*****”. Took me five minutes to figure out what you meant. It’s just the one word, not the whole phrase. 😆
For anyone else confused like me, it’s the pejorative word for a person with a mental disability.
Thanks for the explanation because I was confused too. Good example of why commas matter.
Growing up r what ? I don’t understand
Thanks for the thorough context !
Retarded. He’s censoring the word retarded, for anyone also confused.
You can say retarded. Especially when literally referring to the word itself? No one is going to arrest you.
For the record the new offensive phrase is “sped”, because the euphemism treadmill doesn’t stop and focusing on words instead of subject matter is pointless.
It’s a well cut jib, methinks
Doesn’t show removed on my end, but wouldn’t surprise me.
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Ah thanks
The censoring works so well that I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Some people just aren’t brave like I am. The word they’re referring to is rigatonni
Rigatoni
You’ve just doomed us all
I like how the punctuation failures totally change the assumed meaning of the sentence.
I’m of the generation which has kids old enough to talk.
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
They are angry that the environment is still being destroyed even though grown ups know better.
Not sure what will embarrass them when they’re older - at the moment it’s our clothes, shoes, music, and slang.
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
So they use Tiling window managers and vim-keys? The future is bright!
The future is bright!
Well they’d look ahead, but it burns their retinas.
Hey there, I’m 18, and I can tell you in my university’s CS department, a ton of students using Linux are on Tiling Window Managers.
A lot of students and lecturers use (neo)vi(m), and I use Emacs with Evil-mode (vim emulation), so yeah. Keyboard-driven for the win!
They are exasperated that we use computer mice.
What?
Do they know being frustrated by mice makes them boomers?
So, it’s a generational sandwich. Gen Alpha and Boomers are the bread, and the mousers are the meat?
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So, we’ve all accepted ‘mousers’ as a generational term?
I have an old computer set up with a bunch of games for my kids that teach them how to use the mouse and keyboard. I think part of the problem is that kids aren’t really taught how to use computers anymore. I remember going to a computer lab in grade one and being taught how to use the mouse and keyboard, how to save files (to a floppy disk), how to close windows and open programs, etc. Apparently they don’t do that anymore. They just expect kids will figure it out on their own. My kids still definitely prefer touchscreens, but they don’t mind the mouse or touchpad either.
coordinate mice? how many mice are your kids using at once?
Like a first time ice skater flailing on the ice except this time they have ice skates on both arms too lmao
Like a spider on rollerskates
My dad told me when he got his first computer (1997, I was a young kid then) he was worried he wouldn’t be able to coordinate his mouse with the onscreen pointer. 😅 He’s almost 70 now and pretty much the nerd king
Sample size of two, but mine don’t seem to have strong feelings on them either way. Although the older one (still in single digits) prefers Minecraft on the pc to the Switch, despite starting out on the latter.
IPad babies
In the beginning of this school year my youngest told me that he’s the only one in his class who passed a computerized test because nobody else knew how to use the mouse of the school PC. Other kids also don’t know how to touch-type, so it takes them ages to answer non-multiple choice questions using the keyboard.
There was a panic as the school management scrambled to introduce a PC literacy class into the curriculum.
The iPad generation
Back in my day we couldn’t walk or bike to the grocery store because the streets were so dangerously designed
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I think people in the future will look back on how we raise livestock today as barbaric.
I hope so
Worrying about online privacy. Kids will accept that online privacy simply does not exist. They’ll have the mindset that OF COURSE the government/corporations spy on us, and people who are concerned about it are quaint, clueless, and exasperating.
I’ve heard not being on social media is a growing trend with young kids because they want privacy. A lot of them have had their parents oversharing their entire lives and they don’t want to do it anymore. I’m old though so who knows how true this is.
It’s disturbing how common this mindset already is.
AI rights.
I’ll say something like “I don’t see why a fancy python script should be allowed to vote” and the youth will be like “that’s so fucked up in so many ways”. “My best friend is an AI why are you so prejudiced”.
Oh weird I used to know the guy who played the AI there. Not close or anything. Friend of a friend situation. Saw him on the street last year and had an awkward “…hey” moment and everything.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/KiPQdVC5RHU?si=MUtgNdbiHGCVNHTV
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
When I read the Lambda transcripts of that Google employee (priest?) who tried to whistleblow that that Google’s AI was sentient… I mean damn, I read those transcripts, it sounded real as hell.
Stochastic parrot or not, I think a significant part of my own consciousness goes towards predicting the next word in a given context.
IIRC, consciousness is really, really complicated. We might not be capable of knowing if we are LLMs in meatsuits. An LLM might be a highly vocal infant, and we simply wouldn’t have a great way of really making that judgement. Shit, we still can’t define consciousness in humans–or other animals–in any meaningful way.
Agreed. I think it’s a spectrum, and even a chair (an object that forms a feedback loop of forces with its surroundings that depends on its previous state) is conscious to a degree.
I don’t think there is a line
anti-natalism
It’s low-key ecofash.
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“To reduce global suffering” yes that’s the eco-fascism. Population control is the eugenics equivalent of austerity. You don’t get to tell anyone for any reason if they’re allowed to have children or not. That’s not your call, that’s not anyone else’s call but the parents’.
Not only is it deeply immoral, like all fascist pseudoscience, it also doesn’t work. Just ask China’s population control policy how that went.
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My stance is unchanged. Anti-natalism is built on a foundation of population control, regardless of what it claims to be.
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Fuck right off. Sorry your definition of fascism gets you and your friends off the hook. I deal in the real world where shit has consequences.
I look forward to getting to a point where people just casually try it out for a bit to see if they like it.
I try to emphasize this point to people who are dispairing over the current political climate. Public opinion towards gay people also had a backlash when we demanded rights. Many countries have moved beyond that fairly quickly. I am still not dropping by Uganda anytime soon, but at least I feel fairly safe in my own country.
Transphobia is much less prevalent in the younger generations, just like homophobia. It will literally die out.
But…like…aren’t we still dealing with homophobia from the olds? It definitely died down and has morphed into mostly transphobia now, but it’s not like everyone is cool with it these days.
Sure, and it will be a factor for a long time. But it should be considered in comparison with similar historical processes. Think civil rights for Black people in the US. I’ll pluck a few dates:
- First slaver ship, 1619
- Abolitionist movement starting in 1688
- Dred Scott decision 1857
- American Civil War 1861-1865
- Jim Crow laws beginning in 1870’s
- Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
- Brown v. Board, 1954
- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Crack epidemic and subsequent mass incarceration, 1980’s and 1990’s
- George Floyd murder, 2020
And after all that time, Black people are still disadvantaged as a whole relative to white people. Compare that to the modern LGBTQ movement. The modern movement really began in earnest with the Stonewall riots in 1969, but it has roots dating back to Berlin in 1897. Gallup has poll numbers going back to 1977 for various questions. Around 70% of Americans believe same sex marriage should be allowed. Attitudes towards equal job opportunities are nearly unanimous in favor, 95%. That said, it’s notable that most of these questions are about policy, so they may treat gay people poorly in their personal life. So whether you’re measuring by Stonewall or by Berlin in 1897, progress has been relatively rapid. Not that it’s ever rapid enough for people suffering under oppression, but progress runs on a generous dose of hope.
