If you're okay with second or third hand discussion, read on. Otherwise, ignore me. I block all the image and video based nsfw communities (well, almost all, the ones that are art based I keep in). So, grains of salt.

But, what I hear from people offline and online privately is that the fediverse is a disappointing place for spank banking. Too much junk, bad gifs, and hassles combined with spurts of spammish posts when a new community starts.

So even people otherwise engaged on the fediverse just don't bother you try and engage with lust here because it feels empty.

Hell, part of the reason I block them as they show up is that so many are just random porn gifs and stolen pics. Which is fine for what it is, I guess, but certainly nothing to engage with. You know damn good and well when that's the posts that most of the people posting just aren't going to have a good conversation. The gone wild style communities should be different (and I've heard they are, though too damn many onlyfans models that aren't there for the community, just the the free ad space it amounts to).

I dunno, there's also the way that lemmy in particular skews a little older and more settled. As people age up, the horny becomes less something to chat about and more something to actually participate in when one could be chatting. So you end up with a smaller segment of the user base that will do more than just vote and masturbate.

I suspect part of that is also the reddit exodus. Reddit was getting spam driven in terms of adult content, outside very niche (and often quarantined) subs.

In other words, people are still horny, but the fediverse just isn't the place to actively pursue it.

Well, kinda.

The problem is that it isn't a 1:1 thing.

Hormones, insulin sensitivity, neurotransmitters, gut biome, muscle mass, brain activity, there's a shit ton of factors that go into exactly what that break point is. Worse, that break point isn't even 100% stable. People like to think it is, but it isn't it can change as often as daily, and at the lower end of that point, a deficit is extremely difficult for patients to maintain healthily.

And yes, it is sometimes less healthy to eat less than it is to carry some extra fat. It's not like vitamin supplementation is ideal, even when you know for a fact that what they're swallowing is mostly bioavailable.

And, frankly, that bullshit of "enough energy on your body to not eat..." is utter bullshit. Starvation does jack shit for a bariatric patient, period. No, the energy burned absolutely is not enough to maintain a healthy body and metabolism for days. I don't know where people got that idea, but it is malarkey.

I strongly urge people to go and consult with a specialist if they're having trouble reducing their body fat. It is not wise to believe the random internet stupidity that can't be bothered to stay up to date on a subject before prattling on. Fuck, I haven't even worked in two decades, and I'm more up to date than random assholes, and I know I'm behind current bleeding edge in that specific field.

Fuck, I swear, people's blind fucking cruelty trying to feel superior is disgusting. Fucking h lf assed sound bite garbage.

That's dedication

Homie shit in their front yard, then settled down behind their camera watching it long enough for a butterfly to flutter by and land on their butt chocolate

Jfc, I literally just had a dream where I was taking care of a baby during custody issues in court, and the baby babbling and making noises had everyone in the entire building stopping by to act silly for it, including the judge leaving their place to come ask if she could hold the damn baby.

No fucking clue why I would have that dream, never had a baby of my own.

But I'm sitting there in a dream court, and the proceedings are interrupted by a judge needing to play with a damn baby.

What's worse is that I was equally enthralled by the little mindflayer monkey.

Which has nothing to do with the fact that if a toddler comes up to me and extends a little hand, opening and closing their fingers in a "come walk with me" gesture, I'm going to play hell not doing so, no matter how much common sense tells me that it's a trap because toddlers don't just appear out of nowhere to ask you to walk with them.

Changes hormone cycles too, plus other things. Likely mentioned in the article I haven't read yet.

Not all, but yes that's a term I've heard for it

Alas, saying that is so moronic that my irony detector exploded

Fwiw, what you're talking about is not unknown. Even people that aren't autistic experience it, though it does seem to happen a lot more with neurodivergence.

From what I've heard and read about it, it isn't even considered unhealthy by doctors and psychiatrists.

More anecdotally, I know a handful of people that have the same, or similar enough, experience of identifying with an external character to that degree.

Dunno if any of that is useful to you, but figured anyone needing to get it off their chest might benefit from at least knowing they aren't alone.

At least three times a day

Ima jump on her back, put my thumb up her arse, and see what happens

Man, I can't say I'm not a little crushed by the price being so far outside my realistic reach. But I'm damn glad it's finally open for orders for those that can get it. It really has a chance to shift "couch" gaming away from deeply proprietary machinery.

No clue about Grover, but the piping plover is a sweet voiced shore bird with bright yellow legs

Acetylcholine.

There's plenty of things that can trigger it being dumped into your system. It's a neurotransmitter, and works throughout the body like most of them do.

One of the things that triggers it is eating. You eat, it gets released. It gets released and fairly quickly hits the receptors that are open to it.

One of those receptors in the gut then increases bowel/intestinal motility.

Thus, you wake up, and your body starts pumping out fresh chemicals. You eat, and the chemicals related to that crank up. Then, poop happens.

There's a shit ton of things besides eating that can get the job done, but it's extremely common for a post prandial poop to pop.

Me? IBS has fucked my shit up for ages, and I can usually time when that first rumble will hit after I start eating. Fifteen to twenty minutes. It isn't always urgent as that's determined by a wide range of factors, butt it'll definitely hit in that time range if there's no stimulants involved (and I'm real sparing with caffeine). So you aren't alone at all :)

That's fucking sick.

I tried decorating shoes for a while, and my inability to get even close to this level of cool is why it didn't last long lol. Legit, shoes are hard to work on, and getting something that works this well? That's some serious craft to layer with the talent

That one's a keeper!

Golf fuck

Hypothetically, any time you'd not be able to have a person do it.

Thing is, all the current models out there are built on stolen talent. So you have to decide if that matters to you.

Me? I don't hate generative software per se. I think it does fine for the exact cases you mention.

Being real, this is why I fucking hate the bullshit, corporate greed hype of LLMs and generative software. All the "bubble" shit? It tars all versions of the technology with the same brush.

This? This is exactly what it should be used for. And, ffs, earlier speech to text was really the same fucking thing in essence. Software that took input in the form of voice, compared it to a set of data, and made a best guess at what you meant. Yeah, the details are different, but it's the same concept.

This? This is fucking awesome. Locally run, and doing a job that's vital in accessibility, with the side benefit of being useful to others. Assuming canonical is being honest anyway.

But this kind of thing should be the way things are done.

Always. It eats at my soul the way LGBTQ people get treated, and trans people in specific.

Nah, it isn't. Intelligence implies independence. What it is is a fancy algorithm with a big data set.

It doesn't have to be general ai to be called ai, but so far none of the models I'm aware of have reached a standard to be called intelligence in the colloquial sense for sure