I was in the same situation as you. Just message them elsewhere and delete it. Everyone who wasn't willing to message me on a better platform turned out to not be that worth interacting with. All the real ones did what they could to keep talking to me without hesitation and respected my reasoning

basically the entire anime and vtuber "cultures" have been nothing but horny bait for years now. What really gets me is how it pretends not to be

Bro thank you for saying this. I was gonna say I'm starting to dislike this yes but person. No surprise since they're probably popular on Instagram. Not many Instagram popular people that aren't kinda stupid. Gotta be peddling stupid to appeal to a majority of that crowd tbh

Realize that this post is not made by a hexbear user, not on a hexbear comm, and being enjoyed by users that also aren't on hexbear. What you have here is actually nothing but evidence that these views are held by more than just hexbear users. Yet with your way of thinking, you somehow manage to recast evidence against your belief that "the only kind of people who like this stuff are hexbear users and all that comes along with that" as evidence for that same belief.

It would be like if I thought that vaccines are a hoax to make money, and when my doctor best friend says "actually vaccines are legitimately good for you bro" my reaction isn't "oh this is evidence against me" but I just say "ahhh big pharma mentality is leaking, they must have got to him!"

It's a subtle way of trapping yourself into an unfalsifiable belief system. Be careful!

The term used in academic literature and the field itself for that kind of technology is and has been AI for at least ten years. Intelligence doesn't imply independence anyways? And besides, even if it did, thats why an entire 50% of the term consists of the modifier "artificial". So like, you're right that it isn't intelligence in the colloquial sense. It's artificial intelligence in the technical and standardized sense, though. The use of term is pretty much totally undebatable. Just because people don't like the term now doesn't change that.

Yeah this argument is pretty much on the same level as people who say Republicans fought to end slavery centuries ago

Thanks a lot Seth

But it is AI, so it should be called that. People should adjust their simplistic notions about the term instead

Nah just last week he posted a comic with the author's name cropped out

The fact that this is essentially a swamp has to be one of the craziest things yet. in terms of life imitating art. I mean, it's exactly what you'd expect out of a book. Absolutely beautiful IRL symbolism and irony

Unironically many debate clubs practice and teach this

Oh shit it's Sanitation again. Sus indeed. Only reason I'm confused is I don't see much agenda, but also idk how not strategies work. If sanitation is a real person I'd be curious to know the rationale too.

I agree Lemmy has been weirdly different the last 3 days exactly, maybe 5? More reposts

A sufficient majority of people want to eat animals, but not a sufficient majority of people want to fuck them. Morality is indeed completely subjective and defined only by culture

Honestly suspicious and makes me think the whole site is a trap

ah shit my password

Yeah I agree, definitely such people exist and I don't wanna be running around calling everything I don't like a bot. I do respect trying to keep Lemmy saturated. But yeah either way if you're posting so often you don't even remember what you've posted before, or if you're reposting stuff posted by bots on reddit, then you essentially function as a bot anyways in terms of post quality. So yeah maybe it's just about being a little more curatorial.

Absolutely idiotic strategy to try blackmailing a company into protecting its employees. I'm pretty sure most employers would be like, lol post it then.

It's insane that they'll say it's designed to be addictive, and then just let the company keep doing that. Like maybe go after the entity producing the addictive substance directly then?

Unfortunately some of these people are True Believers (Hegseth IMO) vs pure con artists (Trump)

It's not stealing but it's an asshole thing to do with no justification and should still be condemned

Wait which references?