what if you got on a plane and it started going down the run way and started speeding up and then it turned into the interstate and just started driving to your destination
I don’t know if it is funnier to imagine it driving very quickly or just at regular car speed
You say that it’s fucked that gingerbread men live in gingerbread houses, but to a gingerbread person, gingerbread is as inscrutable and fundamental as carbon. The people and homes are no more alike than humans are to diamonds. Only we, their gods and creators, can see the horror
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#seventh dimension guys watching me live in a house made of wood: what the fuck what the fuckkkkk
The gingerbread man’s world is fundamentally Aristotelean. Candy is the basic stuff of his world. The hyle or prime matter of his reality. Having no properties or relations, prime matter is fundamentally formless and imperceptible. A pile of gumdrops next to his home, or even a chocolate bar leaned against body are meaningless, invisible, and inconceivable to him as matter without attributes is to most of us.
It is only when matter is defined by morphe or form. In this gingerbread man’s world (as perhaps in our own) granted by the artistic intent of his maker, that they become comprehensible and recognizable, as stones, or roads, or walls, or his fellow beings, gingerbread human or otherwise. Beings as distinct to him as we find our own flesh to be from stone and stardust.
If plague doctors hadn’t been a real thing, and you made them up for a speculative history/fantasy story, people would complain that they’re implausibly advanced and way too cool.
Like you’re like “yeah there’s this super lethal illness and nobody actually knows how it spreads so just to be safe they’ve got these sick gothy fucking hazmat suits. No Greg shut up they totally had all the materials to make them, you can make fabric splatter-resistant by waxing and oiling it. And the mask is because of the- guys shut up, let me finish. The mask is- there’s scented- guys shut up. They didn’t have germ theory but they figured it has something to do with the air smelling- No shut up, you’re a fucking furry. The beak makes it cool. Jerks.”
From what I understand from the article, it’s even rougher than normal content moderation: a lot of these workers were hired to train AIs like ChatGPT away from, well, all the worst that the web could provide, to detoxify it for the end users. They are specifically given the worst stuff that can be dredged up from the depths of the internet, and asked to label it - so that the AI can use that data to identify hatespeech, suicide ideation, racism, CSA, etc etc.
It’s an awful job, and some are paid less than $2 an hour. Workers have PTSD. Are they being offered counselling, support, compensation? Fuck no, they get punished for speaking up.
Good luck to the African Content Moderators Union, I hope they get the protections and compensation that their workers need.
i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror
“WHO TAUGHT YOU LIGHTNING BEFORE BASIC TELEKINESIS. LOSING MY MIND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU JUST DID IT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAST WITH YOUR BARE HANDS”
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT YOU’VE ‘HACKED’ MANA DRAIN
WHAT DO YOU MEAN ‘DRINK SOME JUICE’
WHAT IS ‘LOW BLOOD SUGAR’
WHY IS THIS WORKING
I HATE YOU SO MUCH
Okay but other direction can ALSO be a lot of fun
“What do you mean I don’t have to burn half my blood to create a fireball?”
“Why can you teleport more than once without vomiting? WTF is ‘quantum displacement awareness’???”
“You know HOW many spells? HOW? … What do you mean ‘my spell book’?”
“Ooooh, you’re just summoning water portions from the Plane of Water… Lol I thought I HAD to combine hydrogen and oxygen molecules to generate water in small amounts. That’s so much easier then what I was doing!”
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