you now know more than zero French 👏

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+1 for this

what’s the point of that? I’m sorry, I just don’t understand - is it so it can reference your transaction history and help with budgeting or something?

financial services … like investments? I’ve heard of people using LLMs to get advice on how to invest - but I’ve also read that this rarely goes well

I have the great pleasure of saying I have no idea what openclaw is - is this the agentic AI that just does a recursive prompt loop so it’s talking to itself to give it “agency”?

If we don’t program it to do something, it won’t.

yes, the only caveat would be that people could hook AI up to things that they shouldn’t and not provide sufficient oversight to ensure it is acting reasonably … but the same could be said of cruise control in a car, for example

I do wonder what scary things a text-prediction program will be capable of that has everyone so worried … it’s as simple as just not using it further. LLMs have no agency or independent intelligence.

The harms and concerns are many, but not related to concerns about its intelligence.

it’s 4chan’s trans community, their board was /lgbt/ and the joke was that there weren’t a lot of lesbian, gay, or bi people, it was mostly trans people, so instead of lgbt it was just “trans, trans, trans and trans” (hence /tttt/ instead of /lgbt/). It started off just as a joke about the over-representation of trans women on the 4chan /lgbt/ board.

see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki//tttt/

yes, there was actually a recent case of someone posting about their DIY orchi in a 4tran community on Reddit - I think they were in Europe.

But regardless, the 4tran community seems to talk about and “support” DIY surgery to an extent other trans communities tend to either not or actively suppress, at least from my experiences in online trans communities. It’s not like the community is delusional about the risks, but there is a respect for people who go through with it, and a tendency within the community to share resources on how to go about DIY surgeries like that.

I’ve also seen trans men express frustration with their situation and inability to go through with a DIY orchi the way trans women would be able to, etc. - again, interactions I’m not seeing as much elsewhere.

In general, 4chan is more “id” and these sorts of topics that would be taboo elsewhere are free to find expression.

not sure, tbh - but I think they keep to separate corners and the freedom to post problematic stuff is probably a major motivation - a /tttt/ or 4tran kind of community isn’t welcome in most online trans spaces (whether Lemmy or Reddit) because the mainstream trans culture (at least online) is hostile to the enbyphobia, the toxicity & criticism of trans subcultures, the excessive and unchecked brainworms, the DIY surgeries, etc. that go are common in these communities.

yeah, I don’t know who thinks /tttt/ isn’t cringe, lol

I tend to think of it more as a kind of black-pill space where people congregate to bond over their shared misery, social alienation, gender dysphoria, etc.

I think their hatred of others is symptomatic of their self-loathing more than anything.

it really does matter, though - the fact that it’s not a choice is an important fact in arguments supporting legislation banning conversion therapy, for example - if it were a choice, conversion therapy would at least be plausible for people who didn’t want to be gay, for example. If it weren’t a choice, legislation banning conversion therapy would have less justification as it would be a valid choice for some people to not be gay and to use therapy to change. Conversion therapy doesn’t work because it’s not a choice, and that makes it a dangerous and pseudo-scientific practice, which justifies banning it.

Christians (esp. fundies) really don’t work with the same concepts as everyone else

for example, homosexuality is now known to be mostly a matter of biology (of course, a repressive environment might lead people to suppress, but I’m doubtful that is relevant to the underlying question of their innate sexual orientation, which remains unchanged)

but for science-denying Christians who are taught that homosexuality is “sin”, they are mostly taught that sexuality is not anything innate or natural but entirely a matter of behavioral choices (similar to how shame about masturbation frames sexuality and sexual desire as wrong and a matter of self control and making “good choices”).

So, in that context something like “I don’t agree with homosexuality” really just means they see homosexual “acts” as wrong, and so they don’t endorse people who indulge in those behaviors; they aren’t really thinking about sexuality in the same way.

Most people chose their name, sometimes choosing a name similar to their real name, sometimes choosing completely different names. The only time I saw someone assigned a name was when their name conflicted with another student’s.

I find opiates kinda boring tbh, and while they can be euphoric (sorta mixed for me) they can also make me feel sorta ill, so I don’t really like to take them.

When I was depressed, though, that was a dangerous drug because I had so little “happiness” and it felt like a special treat - so I could see it being very dangerous if I didn’t have other sources of happiness / mental well-being.

So glad you got that corner room and you had a good experience, that is such great luck and so heart-warming.

Also probably worth mentioning that recreational drug use of heroin is probably dosing more than the hospital is giving, if I had to guess - so stronger euphoria, but also stronger depressant effects, etc., so I’m not sure how accurate your hospital experience was to what recreational users are experiencing.

I kinda hate how quickly dilaudid fades, tho - but I have never had morphine to compare against, so 🤷‍♀️

but yeah, it’s annoying having to ask the nurse to administer another dose of dilaudid so frequently, I think I had to do it three times when waiting in post-op to be discharged, and even then it was only moderately helpful - maybe my doses were too low (I should go check the paperwork and see if I can figure out how much I took).

EDIT: I was given 0.5 mg each time, and I had to request another dose roughly once an hour (it was administered by IV) - so, I don’t know how that compares to your dose / experience … I think the max amount they would allow was 2 mg.

cute wittle toes tho

EDIT: I would kiss them, but just to be clear, I don’t understand foot fetish - I just can’t make my brain work that way

with enough tequila that becomes a suitable chaser

they’re not too noisy in my experience - but it absolutely is an adjustment to sleeping with them

they also really help with overheating in the summer compared to most other kinds of pillows, they breathe much better