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BluesF ,

It's not exactly uncommon for a listing to advertise the person they want, but to accept applicants with significantly less on the basis that they can get there. Nearly every job I've ever got I was not at the level advertised in something or other.

BluesF ,

I'd say if you have 80% of the requirements you might as well apply. I would frankly ignore years of experience more or less entirely.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? ( sh.itjust.works )

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

BluesF ,

It's amazing what your phone can run, even better if you have a Bluetooth controller.

BluesF ,

Sadly not compatible with everything, though. My phone is off the list ☹️

BluesF ,

Yeah I don't know what any of that means so I'm stuck with good ol' daddy Samsung for now 😂

BluesF ,

Overwatch is a particularly successful Team-Fortress-like

BluesF ,

This falls into a common trap. Because we cannot succinctly define a salad in one sentence we decide that it cannot be defined at all. This argument effectively reducto ad absurdums itself by coming to the conclusion that all foods are salad.

If we start from a position where we discount nothing from being a salad, and we have only salads (and soup, seemingly) to base our analysis on, how can we ever identify the boundaries of salad? The whole argument is based on the flawed premise that anything could be a salad.

I realise that I am thinking too hard about this.

BluesF ,

I don't need just a bit of free time one time. I need more free time always! The individual blocks of free time one tends to get end up being useless because you're busy recovering from the rest of the time.

BluesF ,

It's an interesting idea. A simulated version of me dates simulated versions of everyone else, and then tells me which ones were any good... It would save the hassle, for sure. Could reintroduce some honesty into hookups, too, less dancing around trying to figure out if that's what you're both after.

I'm not at all convinced that any company can convincingly simulate my personality though.. and there are too many layers of abstraction here, do I really trust that the AI simulated opinions of the AI simulated version of the person thst only had a simulated conversation with simulated me is really going to reflect the real situation? I doubt it.

BluesF ,

Man, sounds like regular dating all over again

BluesF ,

That might be why the other options are better. Patience is a virtue n all that.

BluesF ,

Well I'm not surprised to see that Neom is going wrong in both stupid and horrifying ways. This particular part will make it hard to be too smug about it with the Saudi fanboys though... This is just sad.

BluesF ,

Yknow, I don't think anyone's ever made a bike powered version of those insane £200 electronic masturbators there are memes about these days... Eco wank anyone?

BluesF ,

If I understand correctly something like "touch AI" is already used, at least on keyboards. It's actually very difficult to touch what you think you're touching on a phone screen, so your device does some degree of prediction of where you really wanted to touch.

BluesF , (edited )

Yes, but the point is that I will encounter thousands of men in my life, and I may be assaulted by one of them yes, but there will be thousands of them who don't.

Each individual encounter with a bear is much more likely to end in death - even though bears often won't attack you. The proportion of encounters with bears that ends in an attack is much higher than the proportion of encounters with men.

Look I have a healthy level of caution around men, I completely get why other women choose the bear. It's a fairly silly hypothetical, and if asked in the street I would probably have answered bear with my tongue in my cheek too*. However, presented with an actual bear and an actual man I will obviously choose the man because they are much less dangerous than bears.

The whole point of this "discourse" (at least as I understand it) is that men are a more realistic and present danger than bears. The fact that women choose the bear shows the level of threat that they feel on a daily basis. But trying to actually compare the genuine level of danger presented by a single encounter with a random man and a random bear, the man comes out on top. Undeniably.

*To be honest a lot of this conversation has made me rethink this position. I'm trans so I have experience of being perceived as a man... And honestly I do feel for the men who don't understand. Fear of men is justified, but I worry that conversations like this slide us further and further away from reasonable caution and towards hatred, and that makes me sad and worried for how the future will look. The more that men feel attacked by women, especially feminism, the less they will support us - and we do need their support.

BluesF ,

I was fully ready to accept that was an image of a bearded lesbian who I hadn't yet heard of.

BluesF ,

AI. It's done a surprisingly good job with the detailing on top of the shoes - they even match one another very well which is often where it falls down - but the "teeth" are all wrong, the two sets don't match and frequently they join top to bottom.

BluesF ,

Not just that, but don't acknowledge that it is a masquerade. Wrestling is "real" in that the performers and fans act like it is, even though everyone knows it isn't.

BluesF ,

We seem to be missing a key gender here

BluesF ,

I mean going vegetarian or vegan by definition reduces your options.

That said, there are lots of delicious slow cooked vegan foods. Despite what the other commenter says, there certainly are flavours & textures available that are not easily accessed on the hob, even eating plant based.

BluesF , (edited )

Obviously there's quite a difference between fucking a cow and artificially inseminating one... But IVF is consensual, I think everyone would have a problem if a doctor was forcibly inseminating women.

BluesF ,

I must admit I'm on the edge of jumping ship, even the software which has been keeping me locked to windows is getting less and less appealing.

BluesF ,

True, true. I think the chances of me doing at least some sort of installation this year are close to 100% lol

BluesF ,

Don't you basically have to have rich parents to even survive as an intern?

BluesF ,

There are also other ways to deal with mosquito populations that don't involve destroying the habits of other animals.

BluesF ,

Haha, wrong! I won't do it, but I will let worrying about it ruin today, and doing it ruin tomorrow!

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