In a D&D game that I got in through Roll20 matchmaking. One of the players asks if I want to join another campaign with his friends, said yes.
One of those friends is now my fiancee that I moved states for. The original guy ghosted all of us in a harsh way but I'll forever owe my new life to him.
As a Gen-Z, I feel this divide is the result of our gen growing up on the internet and Gen-Alpha growing up in the internet. Like culturally I feel Gen-Z still had roots to reality hidden behind layers of absurdism and abstraction. Gen-Alpha however feels like it's generating new cultural landmarks with no connections to reality.
Like, skibidi was absurdist humor, which is now being covered by absurdist layers. It's absurdism all the way down! It's like some twisted form of enlightenment. To clarify I don't say this in a necessarily negative light, I just think it's interesting from the viewpoint of our species as a whole.
I know Gen-Z was experiencing a stage of wanting to assert real connections to the world against algorithmic forces, before covid that is, now I think we're a little scattered again.
It has that curse of It Gets Better Later™, I say this as a genuine fan of the anime.
It goes into surprisingly poignant commentaries on social injustices like supremecist hate groups and slavery.
But if you don't like silly rubber guy doing silly things then it won't be worth your trouble.
I fully believe in using a person's preferred pronouns even if they're using it in bad faith. The flip side though is that if your identity or pronoun is very uncommon or has stringent rules, you need to accept that people will accidentally get it wrong from time to time. This isn't unique to pronouns, anything from gender, sexuality, names, politics, religion, occupation, ect. the less common it is the more confusion and explaining.
We need to be accepting of mistakes otherwise we'll be unwelcoming to newcomers and we'll fracture the different branches of LGBT over "rules lawyering".
Finally I feel like I should put in a word about my brief experience with Links. I was very against non voting and we debated in the comments, but we reached a common ground and sympathized about the dire state of everything and our fears about project 2025. We didn't change each other's mind but it was a very civil and positive end to what usually becomes a heated argument online. So in my experience I believe Links was not a bad actor and vocally shared the same concerns that the queer community has.
So they're ending support but will use the remaining users like test guinea pigs.
Great...
They will assume Skinner is the main character after the only remains being fossilized steamed hams edits.
Diogenes walking in with a bottle of Viagra and a hard on: "Behold, a woman!"
On the flipside, if the language is too casual you'd end up with people winning cases by being popular and snarky.
Part of the reason why Trump's cases have such a high turnover of lawyers. His antics just don't amuse a judge used to professionalism.
Not saying you don't have a point. After stuff like bees being classified as fish in California to protect them. It's clear to see legalese has gone to far.
The way I've come to understand it is that LLMs are intelligent in the same way your subconscious is intelligent.
It works off of kneejerk "this feels right" logic, that's why images look like dreams, realistic until you examine further.
We all have a kneejerk responses to situations and questions, but the difference is we filter that through our conscious mind, to apply long-term thinking and our own choices into the mix.
LLMs just keep getting better at the "this feels right" stage, which is why completely novel or niche situations can still trip it up; because it hasn't developed enough "reflexes" for that problem yet.
A chaser fetishize and go after trans people in the same way people fetishize asians, latinx, black people, ect.
It's not wrong to have a preference for trans people, it is wrong to reduce them to a sex object for your pleasure. That's what a chaser is.
This is about whenever contradiction show up in a system what the general responses would be, but if you want a specific example by me.
I posit that privatized healthcare is a contradiction, base capitalism relies on supply and demand and healthcare will always have infinite demand. So profit motive =/= health motive.
According to the chart, the lefist would suggest getting rid of privatized healthcare in favor of universal healthcare funded by the government without patent gatekeeping.
The conservative would simply not acknowledge any flaw or contradiction.
The centrist would keep the system and implement bandaid half solutions, like state insurance or Obamacare.
I for one believe Bugs is Cis and thus is the worlds biggest drag queen icon.