True, I just assumed that reflection was required in order to give the AI the prompt, and the AI was mainly used to format it correctly. I might be talking out of my ass here since I haven’t used it extensively.

I mean good moments are just things like “romantic moment with someone who ghosted me a year later”, or “meeting a baby relative who I see three times a year”. Don’t get me wrong, they’re lovely and important moments, but there aren’t moments so good they change a person’s day-to-day life.

But bad moments obviously impact your life every day. You can’t walk correctly anymore. Someone you love is dead. You botched an opportunity so you’ll never escape poverty. Et cetera. Those moments obviously have a bigger impact because every single moment afterwards is determined by them.

I wish I knew. People keep telling me to “organize” and “strike”. Like yeah a Walmart full of 60yo conservative white people is going to strike over this, fucking idiot.

Wayyyyy too many variables. Are we talking weed or meth? Sexual assault by an adult, or by an abused child repeating behaviors? Is the DUI just barely over the legal limit or is it egregious? Is the theft a colonizer stealing land or a beggar stealing bread?

I can’t with moral absolutism.

Mixed feelings. I decided not to study graphic design because I saw the writing on the wall, so I’m a little salty. I think they can be really useful for cutting back on menial tasks though. For example, I don’t see why people bitch about someone using AI for their cover letter as long as they proofread it afterwards. That seems like the kind of thing you’d want to automate, unlike art and human interaction.

I think right now I just kind of hate AI because of capitalism. Tech companies are trying to make it sound like they can do so many things they really can’t, and people are falling for it.

My beloved teaspoon… When I’m too lazy to fish the tablespoon out of my coffee tin and clean it… three teaspoons

I would truly starve to death if I didn’t have a teaspoon

I have less money and customers are meaner, I guess? That’s how literally every new development affects every working class person

I’d want to pirate every drawing program I never got a chance to try, plus the fancier writing software. Gonna have a lot of time to learn both.

I’ve seen shockingly few movies and TV shows so maybe all the media I can get my hands on, too.

Yeah same, I live in a small town and in addition to marketplace, I need to check it every couple months to keep up with local events. My town has a website with a calendar but they never add anything besides “weight training at the senior center”, no matter what else is going on

Not really. I find when people are jealous they either try to cut you down in subtle ways, or they self deprecate and guilt trip just because you happen to have something going right for you.

I’d like to be admirable, I think. I’d prefer to rub off on people in a positive way than a negative one.

Am I missing something? This explanation actually seems reasonable. I swear I saw a couple people last election complain they were suddenly following Biden, because they were following the POTUS account.

I’m not trying to defend the fash propaganda that is Facebook, but also its users can be pretty dense.

Graphite on paper :)

When it comes up, I prefer to just describe the symptom currently at play— e.g. “no it was funny, I’m just slow to get jokes”, or “I need to step outside, crowds stress me out”.

It’s not a big secret or anything, but I don’t want every slightly awkward moment to turn into a big conversation about my neurotype. Besides, I am how I am, it would be fine even if I didn’t have a reason. I don’t want people to tolerate me because I have a disorder to “justify” it.

Wow, this whole thing was stupid. I guess it makes Trump look like the good guy, if you’re an idiot, so thanks, Bytedance.

Consider: floating in a bowl of milk like cereal. It’s one big piece but you still have to use a spoon.

Had to specify “boy” because Pippi Longstocking is clearly the strongest.

I get the point but “criminal” isn’t a moral label. Cops are monsters even if they don’t break the law. Similarly, if Luigi did it, that means he committed a crime but it still doesn’t make him the villain.

Gotcha, that’s a reasonable question. I’m not able to answer, unfortunately 😭

I do have a friend who’s aro/ace and has zero interest in sex, but they’ve written a lot of romance. It’s not their main thing but they still seem to really enjoy it. I think well-developed characters can make any kind of goal interesting, even if it’s not one you’d ever have. I don’t know how many romcoms bother with that level of development, though.

Is it a legit term I haven’t heard for aro/ace/agender folk? Or do you mean like a Ken doll (no titties, no nipples, no genitalia)

People use social media for different things. I never used Instagram to meet people, personally. I’ve posted art and I’ve uploaded photos just as a way to show long distant friends what I’ve been up to, but those friends and I mostly talked over text so I don’t know if I ever even looked at my DMs.

I do actually think social media has made me bad at talking to people irl though, but for different reasons. The way I made friends on Tumblr was I’d post a character design and wait for someone else who designs characters to comment, and then we’d talk back and forth about our characters for hours.

Now I’m trying to remember how to make friends in person and it’s so much more intentional. You have to actually ask questions and broadcast your interest in people instead of assuming they’re going to infodump on you. You can’t take five minutes to think up a reply because there’s no going afk. You have to have interests other than a gay man you made up.