Thought provoking comment, thanks. If I’m interpreting what you’re saying correctly, there are people who find rape attractive, where they get off on the idea of raping someone. But a person feeling that way should not be called a rapist, because that’s a term that should be reserved for those who have actually committed the act of rape. Perhaps some psychological or medical term should be used for the rape-attracted instead?

That’s interesting, and complicates my worldview slightly. To shift topic, I’d begun to separate the idea of a pedophile from a child rapist. Because if someone has attractions to children, it’s not the same thing as that person being sexually involved with them. At first this seems to reinforce what I interpret you’re saying. Where the same term “pedo” is inappropriately used for both those who have and haven’t hurt children.

However, in the “pedo” case those who haven’t hurt children had the name first, and then that name was extended by popular culture to also mean those who have hurt children. Whereas with rapist it’s the reverse, where the common term is for the person who has committed the act, but there isn’t a common term for one who hasn’t.

And there’s a third case. In some cases we’ve begun to separate actions and defining a person by them. For example, “alcoholic” vs “someone with alcohol use disorder”, because someone can receive treatment and stop using alcohol. So, is there a potential third term for someone who stops raping? I think not, at least not anytime soon. There’s no known effective treatment for having attractions. For example, conversion therapy to “cure” homosexuality was nothing less than torture and also a complete failure. Chemical castration doesn’t remove attractions either, just sex drive. Modern therapy for various attractions involves helping the person accept the attraction not trying to remove the attraction. Therefore, if someone rapes once does that mean they should be forever defined as a rapist? In the present day, I’d say yes. Perhaps in the future we’ll have advanced our knowledge of medicine and the mind to be able to change attractions, but right now that’s simply not possible.

So if horses someday are commonly dressed and then one day in that alt-future timeline we see a horse undressed, we all become Mr. Hands? I don’t think that’s how that works.

Not that it should have to be either or, but I’ll take less leg room over their gross smoke-filled cabin any day.

Was rewatching TNG and came to Hide and Q. There’s a shot where Wesley finds himself back on the bridge, just after being stabbed. He looks down at his chest and is feeling around for a sign of the wound. I’d say he definitely remembers it. Now, there could still be in-universe ways around the flub. In the Voyager episode Unforgettable, the Ramuran emit a pheromone that causes memories to fade after a few hours. And if they can do something like that, so can Q.

Maybe there’s some way, but Google didn’t want me to know about it. All their docs made it seem like I would have needed to have an enterprise version (no clue what they call it but you know what I mean) of Google services to get it to work, not the free version. I tried for a couple days anyway and couldn’t solve it, so I figured it was a good opportunity to de-google my email. Once I switched to Proton I had it set up in hardly any time at all, and all the different authentication protocols too. Longest part of the process was simply waiting for record propagation.

Don’t taze me bro.

That works to some extent, although certain receivers like Yahoo will bounce messages because it breaks sender authentication protocols. I had to switch from Gmail to Proton (paid, the free version doesn’t allow it) to fix that.

Since when do AI projects respect licensing or copyrights?

And the types of anime/manga you’re allowed to like on Lemmy is also very narrow.

Same. But I’ve had a couple breakthroughs: I enjoy it if I’m looking to buy something for someone else. And also when it’s random junk: thrift stores, flea markets, yard sales, bin stores, that kind of thing. With those it feels like I’m exploring, not just shopping.

Dancing. And even something like swaying or tapping one’s foot to a beat is hard for me unless the song makes it super obvious. Most people seem to just intuitively get all of this. Plus I don’t have good coordination or spatial awareness, where I still routinely run into doorways in my home and such. And then add social anxiety on top of all that. A nightclub might as well be a torture chamber.

My theory is that organized religion is lessening over time (and to some extent organized sports too), but people still need that cult fix. Politics has become their new religion. Thus they can take a hard line stance on everything and ignore all the gray areas in this world.

It really depends. Some things certainly are inexpensive, like canned black beans, or especially some bags of frozen food. But if I want a burger then a McDonald’s McDouble is a cheaper option, especially with the add-on’s I can get in the app (McChicken).

WF?

TV dinners still exist and they’re surprisingly cheap.

You seem to be assuming that the food someone would make and eat at home is automatically healthier than fast food. I wouldn’t say that’s a given. The recipes that people show on social media are super fancy and using all sorts of expensive ingredients and cooking tools. It’s basically just another form of elitism, but now it’s rich people judging people for what food they can eat and where they get it.

• Galaxian (5200, 1982)
• The Dungeons of Moria (DOS, 1983)
• The Legend of Zelda (NES, 1987)
• King’s Quest IV (DOS, 1988)
• Microsoft Solitaire (Win 3, 1990)

Honorable mentions:

• Centipede (1981)
• Shinobi (1987)
• Doom (1993)
• Day of the Tentacle (1993)
• Myst (1993)
• Tie Fighter (1994)
• Minecraft (2011)

Painting. I’m too worried about messing up. So instead I don’t do it and it looks bad anyway. Somehow knowing that still doesn’t help, though.

Sorry, what were you saying again?

I wouldn’t doubt it was siphoning up all sorts of data. And I’m convinced that the AI did also have access to the message contents. The spam contained specific details about an upcoming event (time, location, etc), and it wouldn’t have known them otherwise. Plus it was a last minute rescheduled event, so if it had extrapolated from previous events it couldn’t have predicted the new date.

So with iLands can you feed the agents a lot of extra information? Usually there’s some kind of context window limit. Part of what I was hoping to find out is how automated the iLands agents are. Like do you just give it some generic prompt and it starts its spam and scam operation, or can it be extensive with customization for specific spam targets? I suppose I could just sign up on iLands and find out directly, but hell no.