To be fair, I think this is a Lemmy issues moreso than the broader internet. I could be totally off base there, though. It just seems in my experience that Lemmy is particularly anti AI, while the rest of the Internet seems to be fairly neutral towards the technology as a whole, and potentially upset about the environmental impact and increasing prices for computer components.

Again, I may be off base, though, as Lemmy is the only social media I use, so I’m not tapped into that side of things.

I will say, if I notice people use the word “quietly” (as in “it will quietly revolutionize X” or “this has quietly changed my habits”) I do immediate assume it’s Chatgpt. Lol. And for what it’s worth, I’m not against AI in general, I think it’s great as a brain storming tool, a useful way to collect your thoughts, to bounce ideas off of, and to use when stuck on a project. But it’s uses are so limited compared to what it’s billed as that it is in no way this magical gift from on high like some think, but nor is it a completely and totally useless thing. The problem is that it’s being shoved down the throat of every website, device, and user of the Internet at such incredible rates that we’re choking on it. And the fact that it can “talk” like a person means people are anthropomorphizing it and that is very, very dangerous long term to the mental health of humans as a whole.

My $0.02, anyway

I fucking love Allen

Honestly, I’d watch that haha

I’m so sorry I’ve done this to you, but it you look at the replies to my comment, someone else says they are making something similar!

I think it’s from the massively popular Japanese Remake Scooby Chan, Adventures in Tokyo

That’s so awesome! And totally understand the lack of a guarantee. I’ve only managed to get out like 4 small things and that’s with help from friends. Haha. A tarot deck is a big undertaking. But if you do it, I’d be thrilled and would absolutely clamor to get one

Was gonna say. As a gay man, for the most part, all of my problems can be solved by a penis. But only for the duration of the penis-ing. Then all the problems come back and I have to seek out yet another penis. It’s an endless cycle, but it’s cheaper than therapy.

Absolutely love your art style and humor. Do you plan on doing a whole series for the tarot cards? I collect cards (playing regular playing cards and unique/specialized decks, as well as tarot cards). Would be a really fun series to see, especially if they could be printed off to make a deck. I’d definitely buy one if I have the funds when they’re available

Are you the same person who did the Japanese Jesus series? Loving the art style here and it reminds me of that series, which I also loved

Dag GUM that’s yummy cum!

Stood in line for like 7 hours for the release of the (I think?) 5th harry potter book, and got it just after midnight

Same here! I get to actually focus on things, my brain is clear, and I can actually think in a straight line. But boy do I get sleepy if I let myself. If I have a task, I’m fine, but if I take em without some kind of task or to-do item I just end up taking a nap. A wonderful, wonderful nap.

Also, weirdly, my tourette’s and OCD tics are majorly reduced for about 6 hours after taking my meds. I started taking them and only realized I had reduced tics when a friend mentioned to me that I wasn’t doing a particular thing that had been plaguing me for a while. Made the connection after a few more days of paying attention, and mentioned to my doc. She thought that was wild, because ADHD meds are apparently bad for making tics worse

Who said anything about raising it? You just need to have the kid, and then the orphan crushing machine will take over from there

My laptop finally died on me. Only 4 years old and the motherboard gave out. I’m devastated.

I’m not actually switching to arch, though. I’m too dumb for that. Haha. I’ve got Ubuntu on my desktop to run my audiobook shelf and Plex servers, and I’m getting a used m1 air MacBook for school

It’s a meme that Australians pronounce “oh no” as “aur naur” or “ohr nohr”

https://youtube.com/shorts/qu5y0dGyjSo

It says °C

I’m English the word “sorry” doesn’t mean “I take responsibility for this event or action” it means “I am expressing regret that the event or action has occured,” and normally comes with the condition of responsibility, but it’s really just a way of expressing empathy or regret for the event. “I’m sorry this has happened” is not the same thing as “I am sorry I did this”

Just a quirk of our language. In Spanish*, “I’m sorry” is translated to “lo siento” and literally means something along the lines “I feel” or “I feel this,” an expression of literal empathy for the occurrence. You can also say “perdon” which translates closer to pardon, as in pardon me. I don’t know the cultural context in Spanish speaking countries very well, but that one feels more like accepting responsibility, if one needs to be pardoned.

*I am not a Spanish speaker. Take this with a dose of salt your cardiologist would be quite upset about.

On those blank wild cards, we have it so you have to roll 1, 2, or 3 D6 depending on the card, and draw that many cards

I really did too

Ignoring the obvious conversation about downs, a story:

A friend of mine when we were roughly 20ish had a pregnant dog, and needed to go out of town. Asked me to watch the dog in case she had the puppies. I agreed. She then became very serious about complications in labor, and I told her not to worry, I had the vet’s number, and dog’s generally have an easier time of it than people. She kept going on about making sure she would be alright, and after listening to her for several minutes, it became clear she did not understand what would be happening, and was concerned there was a chance one of the babies would get stuck in the dog’s butt. Because she genuinely thought sometimes babies can come out the butt if they get lost in there.