i remember my friends and i would say "he repented her" instead of sexual assault/rape because it was "lighter", and because some places like school may have banned the word.

Heyho, I recently joined lemmy and enjoy my time here. However, there are so many communities that I am sure I am missing a few good ones.

What are some communities, people are sleeping on? What communities have you found here that you didn't find in the same way on other platforms?

Feel free to suggest any communities!

I am personally interested in stuff around Open Source Tools (like cryptpad, pdftotext, gimp, trilium, drawio, ...), Magic The Gathering Commander/EDH, science news in general, ... but the answers here don't need to be limited to my interests.

Yeah, it turned out to be some kind of crap, but I tried.

edit: You can also ask questions, but on the matter, without any nonsense.

Here's a story: a girl is tired of AI-generated content, especially drawing. And so she decides to start drawing without even understanding why, she shares her crooked sketches with her best friend and got answer: why are you doing this crap? You'd better use an AI assistant! That's when our heroine thought, Why am I doing this? But I want to do it for some reason I don't know why...

She ended up spending the whole day trying to sort out her thoughts and came across posts by artists who had left, saying AI killed art, screw it all, I'm leaving.... And there was one comment that interested the girl it said, "I don't care about AI I'm going to paint myself and no one will see I don't care to go to hell AI!" The girl clicked on the plus and under this comment noticed a strange response, "I support my friend I will not give up either and I agree, fuck the AI and those who are behind it!"

This motivated the girl like never before and she continued to draw no matter what, learning the basics of anatomy and stuff and so after months she had already developed her own style and was getting better and better and sometimes looking for others like her.

After half a year of cautious searching she finally found her soulmate and as it turned out a guy about her age who also drew without even realizing why. He was also ridiculed by friends and other people sayed to him, "Why are you doing something that doesn't make sense? You'd better use AI, don't embarrass yourself!"

So they learned to draw together and shared their art and unique styles and so years later something pretty sad happened a guy and girl's style was stolen and used to train an AI model. They were in despair and how could they share only with each other, how could this be possible.

And then the girl remembered how one paranoid guy said, "don't even think about sharing your art on the Internet you will not be saved by private correspondence your style will definitely be stolen and if you don't want it you have to draw offline and share your art only in person otherwise yes your style will be stolen."

The girl did not believe it thought he was joking, what a nonsense yes to be that can not be... She started crying, complaining to her friend and he did not respond, she was first furious and then learned that her friend voluntarily left her life jumping from the 11th floor.

Would you like a sequel? Make one up or generate one. It's that easy, isn't it?

Anyway, i think it was fun.

Well, continue complaining if you want, I don't care, give me tons of minuses.

So here's what I think will happen in the worst case, but in all honesty it's extremely likely:

Live creators will leave to prevent AI from stealing their style and soul. Platforms will be filled with beautifully generated but empty garbage. And underground creators who do their work with soul will face problems, for example, there will be scoundrels who will steal or buy content to feed it to AI. Remember, this is capitalism, baby!!!

Most likely, the creators will be pestered with questions like: why don't you use AI? Are you [Bad Word] or just mentally retarded? Look how much I've managed to do with AI! And why did you do so little and put your soul into it? Don't make me laugh, in my opinion, you made some kind of forbidden crap or even satire.

In short, as you understand, this is the end of art. People have a choice: stop feeding AI out of anger, and then rejoice, watching the complaints of these consumers: why is everything so the same? Why is the Main Character invulnerable again? Why do they constantly try to deceive me, saying that a living author did this. Do you think I'm [Bad Word]? and etc. You can even give your idea how these consumers will complain lol.

Honestly, I don't see the point in trying to explain everything in more detail, because I don't want to get banned for "panicking" anymore and few people will understand the meaning anyway, and most will even forget it altogether.

Do you think I'm wrong?

Do you keep telling them they're not fat? Do you decide to just support them as they try to lose weight?

What's your opinion on this?

Too much or not enough is wrong so deduct from your personal score accordingly

If this is one of your Mind War Accounts then don't answer, it could show weakness

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33157624

As a normal person with ADHD but otherwise neurotypical, I have a hard time communicating and functioning with my partner.

How do I better deal with the communication issues and honestly she entirely lacks a way to talk, express feelings, be deeper than basic interactions.

My new girlfriend is on the spectrum not high up and at first glance functions fairly normal to onlookers.

But privately and when being close or open its like she says she has a social battery but its always drained according to her, she doesn't sleep good. Has depression and horrible anxiety. She feels scared to make moves intimately but wants to, whether it's kissing, sexual, or in general even hand holding.

But she deals with major issues of over stimulation like talking or touching when emotions get higher or more complex she defaults to blocking people out and going into herself.

Overwhelming emotions all the time that she cannot explain or process no matter how much she tries writing to me, to be alone and think about them so we can properly discuss, the only answer she comes to is IDK. It's like she can't explain emotions and feelings almost at all. Which makes any understanding or functioning insanely difficult borderline impossible due to the one way nature my input and none of her output. She struggles to explain basic thoughts and doesn't like trying or will attempt to try and get frustrated and upset or scared to try entirely. Which further increases the overwhelming feelings and discomfort. It leaves a void for us. She wants nothing but to do better and grow together but feels trapped in her autism cycle. I know it cannot be changed but I can certainly improve on how to process the situation and do better on my part.

How/what can we introduce methods to better communicate? (we tried writing letters and texting but she can't explain things and gets confused/frustrated/upset so that is out)

What systems can we introduce and methods we can try improve these feelings?

What are some of your best advices and methods for a normal person to be educated and productive when dealing with an autistic person? So I can be a better partner too.

I am struggling to understand, communicate, and find ways to function cohesively together because for me it's like... why can't you try to explain things so we can improve but it always lands into a negative set of emotions. Where she feels sad, cries, gets mad, blames me, depression, anxiety, she's constantly never ending overwhelmed.

I greatly appreciate the help. I will have open discussions with each of you as needed. Thanks for taking the time to help a normie out!

Edit: Perhaps that was way over stated. All our interactions are not negative but for the sake of the post I was focusing on those aspects to find tools to improve myself and her ability to communicate more effectively.

In no way shape or form are our interactions as basic as that sounded. We function almost entirely normal. Do normal activities, go places, hangout, work and hobbies. When I meant basic interaction I don't mean she sits on bench and cannot function. I just meant anything outside of typical day to day like intricate displays of emotion or communication about our relationship issues is where the wall hits. Its not trust. Or as dead sounding as that seemed. Its that she lacks ways to articulate her emotions and what to say. Has issues processing.

I was looking at for tools like the emotion wheel. Similar methods. Not a psychological breakdown of her and I.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49006511

I saw someone with "inner-child-abortion-clinic" on tumblr.

i love making picrews with my sona (self-insert) and my oc, her gf luna. i'm fully aware that luna isn't real but i think it's fun to use my imagination and have a fictional gf my character can date <3

I look at these works of art created by artificial intelligence and I think: yes, it's beautiful, yes, it's good, but... What's the point? Where's the story, where's the work, if everything is so simple, then what's the point? It's no better than a store where you come and buy, although no, you come, take everything you need for free and leave. I don't see any value in it, it's just boring.

Things look bleach And every decision I make gets harder. I should work out to feel better. But what would make it easier just tell someone

Peridot is an expert in gem development. She could correlate factors in Amethyst's hole with her body just from a glance. I understand her not displaying this power with Steven, because he's human and she doesn't understand that. But if she had met Rose Quartz, would she have been able to tell something was funky with the lie that she was just a quartz? Would she have been able to tell she was a diamond?

I'm not depressed (at the moment, well maybe a little), just feeling philosophical.

Edit: the idea of this came to me because I was pondering why people fight so hard to beat diseases and live a few more years. What are they planning to do? Why exert effort just to be here longer when you don't have a reason?

Just why?

It's happened again, I've come back from a walk in the (light) rain and the left shoe of my current pair has just sprung a leak. This seems to be part of an annoying trend over the past several years, where after 2 to 5 months of buying a new pair and wearing them about daily at a primarily office job, the left shoe will develop a leak. The right shoe always emerges unscathed. I'll always avoid puddles if I can help it, so it seems as though the water just gradually seeps in as I walk. If I can get back home quickly, I try to dry them out, but sometimes they develop a mildewy smell and it's just never the same again.

I have a few theories, but none really convince me:

• I walk fast, am left leg dominant, and my left foot is ever so slightly larger than the right. Maybe more strain on the left shoe? The sole does end up slightly more worn than the right.
• But the same shoe size still comfortably fits both, so is there even a solution to be found?
• People travel on the right where I live, maybe there's an asymmetry of the walkways?
• I'm cheaping out and can't justify buying shoes over $80. In half of the cases, I notice the sole starting to separate from the upper part. But again, why the left in particular and why only these past few years?
• Or I'm meant to wear heavy boots. The only kinds of shoes that have escaped this fate in recent years have been my snow boots and steel-toe boots, which I wear almost daily in the winter.

Would be interested to hear any similar stories or better reasons from those more knowledgeable about shoes and shoe defects than I am.

This might seem as counter intuitive, as there are folks that hijack ideas for a living, But hey, F*IT; lets hear your craziest plots you can concoct. We'll be the judge of them.

I'm down for a good laugh.

Hi all,

I like programming and do a lot of hobby projects. But I don't really do web development, or android, which seems to be what most work are about.

I like making desktop applications, computational projects, etc. i also like problems where I can solve/automate tasks using programming. I have like 100 projects in GitHub now, and I love contributing to open source community. But it sometimes makes me feel like I could be using that time to do things that could make money instead of working on projects that noone will use.

I'm looking for small jobs, independent tasks I could do for minor income. But if it's in python or rust, I am open to a bit larger projects.

I'm just asking, let's do it without outright lies, as if everything will be fine. I am very interested to read your sincere answers. You can write to me personally if you want.

Had read about them recently when looking up about bookmarklets:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Userscript

Which userscript manager do you use? What are your opinions/advice on security of using them?

Also, are there other similar things like bookmarklets and userscripts that regular people can start off fast?

Are there any lemmy communities or resouces(wikis, forums, youtube channels etc) that are on the topic of simple/beginner-friendly automation and customisation?

Thanks in advance

Have you ever had a job or gone for an interview at a workplace you realised was a scam? What tipped you off? When did you get out of it?

Good, trusted sites where I can hire front-end developers and designers?

I have this project that I need help with its front-end. Due to some reasons, I am not willing to go to LinkedIn, Upwork and Fiverr. What are some sites where I can just DM developers. Escrow is not necessary but would be appreciated.

Suggestions? I am not tech oriented.

Any language, explain what it means if it's not English.

For example (as a non-native speaker) I've always liked the English word 'unprecedented', mostly in the context of fiction. Especially if it paints some entity to be really mystical or wondrous or it's own never before seen order of magnitude in any way.

i tend to say "YAYY" a lot when something good happens, if that counts, but i say it like a lot.