I think the issue is that you’re out here having opinions on trans people/issues when you don’t really know that much about the topic at all. I mean, you’ve got “the surgery” and “transgenderism” in your post history, and you’re arguing in favor of keeping trans women out of women’s restrooms. A lot of what you say is just kind of casually transphobic in like an ignorant way, but I feel like you probably don’t mean to contribute to bigotry, right? I wish I had some reading material I could recommend. Check if your local library has a rainbow shelf?

Gonna echo the disappointment that they’ve elected to copy Duolingo’s translation model instead of a more immersive model like Rosetta Stone.

“I is middle country person,” is a perfectly sensible translation in my brain, but Duolingo and its clones are obsessed with getting the particulars of English correct. The mindset of Mandarin grammar is exactly where I want to be, and the insistence on returning to English is very disruptive.

Search engine is one of my main uses. Traditional search engines are worse than they used to be at a basic text search, and ChatGPT has the added bonus of being able to parse complex text and “figure out” what you mean when describing something that you don’t have a name for. You have to ask it for sources rather than just reading whatever it generates, and/or do traditional searches on the keywords it provides.

Making users feel better is one of the usefulnesses of this technology. Factuality and scientific rigor are not something text generators are capable of due to the nature of the technology itself.

I would instead argue that being overly agreeable and not challenging the user may conflict with making the user feel better long-term.

Thank you. <3

There’s already so many animals out there that only eat one specific type of leaf for whatever reason, and it’s not to do with lack of other leafs. I never thought about it before, but it makes sense in hindsight.

I was thinking about that the other day, the moral dilemma of whether you’d kill baby Hitler. But then I realized suddenly that you don’t have to kill baby Hitler at all. You can just kidnap him away to some other family or any number of other non-baby-killing interventions.

The character in the first panel of that meme is Tomoko Kuroki from the anime “Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!”, commonly shortened to “Watamote”.

This is my punishment for trying to avoid making a post just to ask what show this is from.

Is that soil? The bags say cow manure. (I don’t know a hell of a lot about gardening. Maybe that’s functionally the same thing??)

Also they’re at Lowe’s.

I think it matters in terms of psychological health. Internally thinking that an older teenager is attractive is a pretty normal thing that might happen to an allosexual human, whereas the same attraction for a younger teen or child is clear “get in therapy now before something bad happens” territory.

Please note that I have specified internal thoughts and not making gross conversation about how hot young people are and/or approaching them with sexual intentions.

But I agree that this is really not the context to bring up the difference.