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  • 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.





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    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.


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    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.



  • 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.




  • Did you? They spent the whole post arguing that a trans woman is not a woman. To clarify, a cis woman and a trans woman are different things. Both of these things are women. Cis and trans describe the women.

    Some trans women may identify with having once been a man, but it’s hardly the case for all of them, especially the ones who recognized their mistaken assignment early. She was always herself. She was never a man unless she herself identified as one.

    The wording “used to be a man” and “used to have a penis” makes me wonder if this person is using genital surgery as a determining factor. It’s thankfully becoming very acceptable these days to be a girl with a penis or boy with a vagina, so that such surgeries are more of a personal decision rather than a means of legitimizing oneself to society.









  • Do you think its alright to use dumb and stupid? […] I imagine Idiot is ok because it comes from the greek for common man.

    It’s not so much what words I think are bad, but what usage is hurtful or unconstructive.

    For instance, thinking Trump is an idiot is a fine gut reaction to have to the latest dystopian headline, but I think his actions go well beyond simply having a low IQ. There are lots of very nice stupid people in the world who don’t deserve to get thrown under the bus with someone who’s actively malicious.

    Or say you’re arguing about something and think to yourself “Wow, this guy is fucking stupid.” Maybe they are a stupid person, either by disability or lack of education, but attacking them over it seems purely cruel to me. It also undermines your own argument by creating an emotional distraction.

    A thought can be dumb

    The difference between calling an idea stupid and a person stupid is a pretty key part of context in my opinion. It’s still pretty charged language though, so I hesitate to talk that way with strangers. I’m more free with people I know well who won’t feel attacked.

    Somebody cuts you off in traffic you say motherfucker and you feel kinda better for just instantly getting it out of your system instead of keeping it bottled up

    I think you kind of hit the nail on the head there by using motherfucker instead of an intelligence-based alternative like moron or similar. But even if you do go after their intelligence in the heat of the moment, that doesn’t make you a terrible person. Being able to later reflect on internalized ableism and how prevalent that language is in society is a good thing, imo. You don’t even need to feel bad about it exactly; I just think it’s a good thing to be conscious about your internal thought processes.

    you don’t sit there and go through a Buddhist podcast about forgiveness and suffering and think about how difficult life must be for that motherfucker that cut you off, and how she probably was distracted by her kids or stressed about something.

    I think you should though, sometimes. (You don’t have to be perfect all of the time.) This is part of cognitive behavioral therapy and can help alter your thinking patterns in healthy ways. Being empathetic towards others is not only good for them, but also good for you.

    (I realize in the course of this that I’ve been intolerant of people banging their own moms, and I’m okay with that position at this time.)