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They’re also the smartest, and are an excellent way to work toward wearing down visceral fear toward spiders. Their personalities and forward-facing eyes make it a lot easier to understand them. You can see what they’re looking at, and their observant little movements make them come across as curious in a way that’s absolutely adorable once you get used to the legs.

I would strongly urge anyone who is fearful of spiders to have some interactions with jumping spiders. It can go a long way toward making you feel at peace with animals that are always around us and mean us no harm.

The amount of hyperbole on this topic certainly isn’t helping. People either see it as a singularity waiting to happen or insist that it’s literally nothing but a spell checker. Why on Earth would any executive who has seen a sliver of what these models are actually capable of listen to sentiments that they do nothing useful at all?

The number of arguments being made by critics who actually give the subject an honest and informed judgement is vanishingly small from the general populace. No one is going to see this and adjust their position at all. The lack of nuance will be met with immediate dismissal, and even more considered arguments may be collaterally ignored as a result.

When everyone seems silly and unreasonable to everyone else, nothing is going to get done.

Imagine how much good will and long-term profit any given manufacturer could generate right now just by creating consumer-facing parts at a reasonable price and refusing to cater their supply lines to datacenters. The right move now could buy loyalty for decades. People remember.

What did you do to Zhaan?

Art. Do something creative for its own sake. Play some music, draw something, write something, glue something silly to your wall. Remember that not everything you do has to come with purpose or justification.

You’re alive, and at this very moment aren’t being physically consumed by a predator. Take it in and let yourself enjoy it.

Y’all are burying the headline. This person has multiple groins.

Edit: Today I learned that groins are the armpit of the legs and I have two of them.

Thankfully we can at least provide somewhere to go for many of them, and we will continue to serve as a rallying point for developing better policy at the national level when the opportunity arises.

Well, if every state had the same laws we wouldn’t have a fallback position. We thankfully have the option of pushing to change federal law when the opportunity arises, but as we’ve seen since the election there’s a degree of flimsiness there. Having strong state-level legislation in places where it isn’t too controversial preserves better policy through bad administrations. We can continue to serve as an example and build support, and it gives people somewhere to go if they need to get out of their own states.

Without more atomic and variable state laws, it would be much harder to make real progress at a national level. The EU’s model of smaller nations banding together lends itself to a similar strategy. It means you can build consensus at the local level, show that what you want works, and build out from there.

I’d love to see more of the policies we have locally applied to a national level, but they certainly wouldn’t get there if we didn’t have a more isolated arena in which to develop them. Conservatives can take advantage of localized political development too, but they lack the benefit of not being evil.

I mean, personally I’m glad I at least have rights in my state rather than being stuck with the lowest common denominator of bigoted shitbag decision making.

Doesn’t Lemmy have crossposting so you don’t have to double-post into the feed in order to cover multiple communities?

The idea that you can do anything you set your mind to can be an incredibly useful motivator. It still requires meaningful action to accomplish your goals, but it can help people be more willing to expand their own potential.

What’s harmful is the idea that asking an AI to do something for you has any relation to you actually doing that thing.

Chess I think.

Except that every one of these games will eventually be emulated on PC.

Trolling is interacting with people, usually disingenuously, with the goal of eliciting a specific, usually negative, reaction. It certainly is possible to troll people by telling the truth (or without saying a word) and it’s certainly possible to be aiming for a reaction that isn’t negative, but usually there’s an element of being disingenuous to piss someone off.

Trolling is inevitable. Sometimes it’s politically motivated, sometimes it’s for fun, sometimes it’s literally a game with actual points. Some trolls are obvious, some are nearly impossible to tell from the genuine article.

The impact of trolling varies based on the subject, the target, and the method. Usually I find it’s best to ignore the possibility of trolling unless it’s obvious, simply due to the fact that assuming people are trolling may interfere with genuine communication, whereas assuming people are being genuine only interferes with meaningless interactions. Some say it’s better to ignore trolls, but personally I think it’s better to focus on content rather than intent. Interact when interaction is called for, ignore when it isn’t, and don’t pull your hair out wondering whether it’s a real conversation.

You do realize the issue is not the billions of people occupying the planet, but the handful controlling the wealth those people create, do you not? If the business interests of the richest people on Earth weren’t a factor in decision-making, we could do much better with our 8 billion.

Decent argument for F.

Another example of failed satire that just gets people echoing fascist talking points for laughs. Like, literally, saying the fascist thing is just the whole joke. Hilarious.

Definitely no connection between the rising popularity of franchises like this and actual real authoritarian sentiments. Nope. No glorification here.

It would be nice if they could pass it in time for it to still be relevant.

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One step closer to roleplay servers that would actually get me to pick this game back up.