I agree that AI can be helpful for bouncing ideas off of. It’s been a great aid in learning, too. However, when I’m using it to help me learn programming, for example, I can run the code and see whether or not it works.

I’m automatically skeptical of anything they tell me, because I know they could just be making something up. I always have to verify.

So, let me get this straight…you “thirst for an answer”, but you don’t care whether or not the answer is correct?

The problem with getting answers from AI is that if they don’t know something, they’ll just make it up.

The people who are funding Netanyahu do represent me. It isn’t that difficult. Do you need me to draw you a diagram?

I found this from earlier this year…so, yeah, basically stalled in Congress.

Wasn’t there a bill recently to get rid of DST, and it got stalled in Congress or something?

Daylight Saving Time. No second S.

I recently saw a photo on some website. It was from a Trump rally, and people had these freaky, ecstatic looks on their faces. Somebody commented that it looked like AI. Other people soon agreed; one of them remarked on the bizarre, “alien” hand on one of the babies in the crowd. That hand did look weird. There were too few fingers. It looked like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle hand.

The problem was that this image was originally from a news story that was years prior to ChatGPT and the current AI boom. For this to be AI, the photographer would’ve had to have access to experimental software that was years away from being released to the public.

Sometimes people just look weird and, sometimes, they have weird hands, too.

Also, being a “furry” is remarkably easy. Are you a fan of anthropomorphic animals? Congrats, you’re a furry. It doesn’t require you to wear a fursuit or anything else. That means that if you’re in the fandom of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc. You. Are. A. Furry.

The US is far from perfect, but at a baseline we don’t have overt state sanctioned ethnic or theologic cleansings.

We do, though. That’s what’s happening in Gaza.

Abuse doesn’t have to be physical, though. It can also be emotional.

I’m not saying to drop your friends and family at the first signs of negativity. There are people, though, who are not good for you, and nothing you can do can change that. The sooner you figure out who those people are and get them out of your life, the better.

My friends are not MEANT to make me happy. They are meant to be there when I’m unhappy.

What if they make you feel worse when you’re unhappy?

I mean, it looks like we agree that friends should, if not make you happy, at least make your life better in some way. I’m talking about the people who are making your life worse.

Sometimes they’ll have to “make me unhappy” to make me realize my mistakes. That’s what friendship is all about.

What if you don’t agree that they’re mistakes?

Would you really maintain a relationship with somebody who made you unhappy? Somebody who abused you? Somebody who didn’t respect you? And if so, why?

People can help people, yet lately they only think of themselves.

Why “lately”?

It’s not only thinking of yourself. It’s thinking about yourself and the people who aren’t fucking you up. If somebody has a history of toxic behavior, then you have to take that into account. If you let that affect you, you’re A) harming yourself and B) are less able to help the people who actually do love you and respect you.

Xi, Putin, and Netanyahu aren’t US politicians. They don’t represent me. Harris does.

I will happily call Putin and Netanyahu war criminals, but I don’t know how I can affect them over here in the US. (I don’t know enough about Xi to say that about him.)

“Going through a mental crisis” doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re treating your friends like shit. If you treat your friends like shit, and that drives them away, whose fault is that?

There are, of course, exceptions, but those have to be people whom I care for and love very, very much. And even then, if the toxicity is too damaging to my own mental health, I have to cut them off for my own good. At the end of the day, all human relations rely on a cost/benefit analysis. If I’m losing more than I’m gaining from this relationship, why should I continue it?

I also don’t think you’re doing that person any favors by ignoring their bad behavior.

Or, worse, the essay doesn’t support their argument at all. Because they didn’t actually read it in the first place.

You should be able to explicate your own argument, though. “Read this book” isn’t convincing on its own.

If we can’t get rid of the electoral college entirely, electors should at least be proportional. For example, if Kamala Harris gets 25% of a state’s votes and Trump gets 74%, then Harris should get 25% of the electors from that state (instead of zero).

I think that supporting genocide makes you a terrible person. I agree with the rest of that, though.

Oh, no! Not Portland and Seattle! The horror!

How is that better than a web browser? Web browsers were supposed to be the “everything app”.