Glide

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[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's a little sad when our collective culture has convinced us that any woman being unapologetically horny online must be a bot.

I've definitely seen humans "behave like this." Spend 15 seconds on any short-form social media, and it's thirst post after thirst trap post, ad infinitum. We have had posters here in Lemmy that pretty perpetually post boomer-humor style content that aimlessly sexualizes women. But a woman goes "fuck it, I want to do that," and it must be a bot, because that's the culture we've built.

Women aren't really different from men. Men act up being horny all the time. Women are like that too; we just look down on them when they do. It's about time we stop claiming to be beyond petty sexism while continuing to seperate the genders so unabashedly.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

They really need to stop devaluing the meaning of the word "racism."

Equating the life of individual privilege that the leader of an autocratic nation lives with an oppressed minority is despicable. Even from the (completely dishonest) position that leaders like Kim Jong Un are actively making their countries better, there's no perspective that allows one to depict someone in such a position of power as suffering akin to the murdered and marginalized communities that genuine victims of racism have to suffer through.

We hate Kim Jong Un because he's a fascist, narcissistic piece of shit, warping the narrative in his own country to justify living a life of luxury while his people suffer. Race has nothing to do with it.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago

Thank you.

I reread it like 3 times wondering who thinks Trump is getting smarter, and why we're worried about that.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Depends on if you place value on eroding progressive values or not. Say what you want about this Trump presidency, but he's emboldened bigots to act on their values, and you can't take that away from him.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Unironically, exactly right.

This is the same reason they see homosexuality as a sinful choice, and take issue with homosexuals just simply being alive. They struggled so hard to suppress their homosexual urges, and now these people are flaunting theirs, openly? And the rest of the world wants to celebrate this moral failure, despite it being something that everyone struggles with? I mean the mental gymnastics required to succeed in choosing to be heterosexual, while celebrating someone else who failed to do so is just absolutely insane.

You can see how this all logics together if you assume everyone feels the way you do, and you're fighting an urge to do something you see as morally wrong. Obviously, abusing your teenage daughters trust to give yourself a mild sexual release is morally wrong, but the point stands. These people play the moral high ground card because they struggle with these thoughts every single day.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ha, no, fuck off, OpenAI.

And how many times have you flagged someone for "furtherance of violent activities" that DIDN'T go forward to shoot up a school, or do much of anything you should intervene in? ChatGPT can't even brainstorm multiple choice questions on a short story without hallucinating bullshit, and you want us to believe it'd be effective as the thought police?

This is a cherry-picked argument being used to begin legitimizing AI for more serious uses, such as making legal decisions. This is not Minority Report; AI can fuck off with charging people with pre-crime.

"Never let a good crisis go to waste."

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

The political dichotomy is a myth.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I said in another post that I'm less familiar with Aristotle, but I thought that was the main divide between them, and was under the impression that Aristotle took the whole "I'm going to make own school" approach to their disagreements. Whereas Plato believed in the rule of the supposed phiosopher-king, Aristotle argued for the value of a more open democracy.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

That's because he is their guy. Remember every time he speaks: he is what Conservatives are asking for.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I misspoke in my original post and brain dead said Aristotle when I meant Plato, a mix-up which would have offended both of them.

Our governmental system is not built on Socrates' philosophies, neither in practice, nor on paper.

Alhough I am admittedly less familiar with his work, Aristotle is closer to our current (on paper) system, but I never intended to claim he was pro merit-based leadership; Socrates, as depicted through Plato, was. That's a problem, because whoever determines what "merit" is leads to unapologetic, authoritarian, often fascist, rule.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Socrates and Aristotle also believed rule should be imposed by philospher-kings. They believed in rule by merit, a core right-wing philosophy. The difference between them and modern right-wingers is that the modern ones believe wealth is an indicator of merit.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Y'know, Yog, it's not very often I see a post by you and happily read it, let alone upvote it, but I'm glad we can both be happy to see world leaders telling Trump's government to go fuck itself.

 

Apparently "nationalism is bad" is an uncivil take. Unless there's another reason someone would ban this comment... πŸ€”

 

So the situation is this: I am a junior high ELA teacher and I want to bring some videogames into the classroom. What I have to work with are the students Chromebooks. At first glance, I figured I'd throw some short, playable without install games on some flash drives and we could play through whatever game it is, and then talk about it like any other short story. Bring in the relevant terms, connect it to the course outcomes, easy. Then I began to learn the limitations of Chromebooks and how challenging it can be to run Windows .exe's on them, or find games that run natively on a Chromebook without installing.

Getting the rights to install anything on these devices is functionally out of the question. The request would have to go through the school board. Even if they agree that it's a good idea, the practicality of giving me the rights to install things without opening it up so the students can install things and without consuming an inordinate amount of class time in just setting up is unlikely. Ideally, I need games that can run on a Chromebook without running an install, or games that run in browser.

I'm googling around and considering emulator options. If anyone has experience in playing games in these circumstances, I'd love some options and insights. Additionally if people have recommendations for games that would be particularly good (narrative focused), I'd love to hear them. It's 2023; these kids don't need to learn what conflict is through short stories written by white men in the 1920s. With all the push towards student-focused learning and differentiated education, I want to start giving them choice and breadth in how they take in these concepts.

Thanks in advance for anyone who gives me their time and expertise on this.

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