dogerwaul

incredible news. i am saddened for everyone lost during the last 44 years.

i mostly visit the RateYourMusic and AlbumOfTheYear charts and occasionally i’ll check out the last.fm profiles of users i find interesting. basically, i treat music like a hobby but i do so because i desire that kind of connection. i love music so i devote a lot of time to it. i have pro accounts on all three places. luckily they are relatively affordable. i think last.fm is $3 a month lol. but yeah, i’d say if you are unfamiliar with RYM or AOTY then maybe check one out.

edit: in case you’re not familiar, all of those mentioned are music cataloging websites that you can create customized profiles on. last.fm will import your listening history and you can track your habits in real time. it’s good for finding your stats.

informal contractions are simply informal just because. there’s no real reason to consider them informal or not standard other than arbitrary rules.

“You shouldn’t’ve done that.” “It couldn’t’ve been him!” “I might’ve done that if you asked.”

oh they hate when you say that there lmao

imo reddit as a whole is conservative. the userbase is center-left at the most visible and i regularly saw progressive opinions discarded or mocked. you’d expect the liberals to defend them at the least but i’d see less of that and they’d get dogpilled too.

i was banned from reddit but had been wanting to leave for quite some time at that point, so it was a welcomed change. that’s when i learned more about decentralized social networks and stuff… glad to be here. i wouldn’t go back to reddit even if i was allowed to.

no, i just know how to write and format English lol.

my fears are many but they are all tied to one constant: capitalism

• Modern American fascism is seemingly unstoppable. The legal protections in place have been eroded and the heads of agencies have been replaced with Trump loyalists. Deportation of legal residents is currently happening and the administration is actively looking into stripping citizenship from born Americans. Trump has mentioned several times that political and moral enemies would be targets. Nobody is coming for us. Nobody is going to stop this. The average American has been pacified and made powerless; nobody believes in radical revolution.
• Every single major AI company has stated their goal is AGI (artificial general intelligence; or what we colloquially understand as actual artificial intelligence) and humanity is absolutely unprepared for it. We have no systems in place to prevent misalignment of AGI agents and our focus of profit above all else will only guarantee a misguided path.
• Genocide is happening worldwide and the majority of the world is living in poverty.
• I am a gender, sexuality, and religious minority, and my far left radical beliefs make me a target

can i resist the AI?

none of us can. we don’t control the world.

the bad news: there is no inherent meaning. the good news: this means you get to create your own. each of us do! the harsh reality is we exist against our will. nobody chose to be here and the “purpose” appears purposeless. if you ask me, there is no such thing as destiny and there is no afterlife for a soul to ascend to, so the existence you are experiencing here on Earth is profoundly unique and should be treated as your one and only. you might spend your entire life searching for a grand meaning, but the saerch is part of the discovery, because along the way you are progressing as a person, and aging and maturing through life, so you’re not remaining stagnant and unchanging. it’s okay if you never truly “know” who you are or where you’re going–just keep doing it. you’ll end up somewhere, you’ll become someone.

yes, but i am also becoming more tolerant of personal quirks as i’ve learned of my autism and how it impacts my socializing. i worry nobody likes me and tend to avoid conversation. i want friends. i have some, but more would be nice. something genuine and deep but equally as stupid and silly and shallow.

i am non-binary transfem and my living area is usually messy but nowhere near like a dumpster. however, i do have some bad habits from having ADHD and also never being told to clean as a kid because my mother was an obsessive house cleaner so she got to everything first. so while i was raised male i’m not a man but i definitely was allowed to be messy as a boy… so i’m sure that contributes to a degree. my guess is we raised boys to be less tidy because we wanted them to focus on more traditionally masculine career paths.

you can come in whoever you want

yeah you need to drop this bullshit American mentality, sorry.

i don’t understand why you’re bothered by this, honestly. sounds like you have psychological hangups regarding being given stuff for free and should absolutely not project that shame on your son.

i used to. they’re terrible. i couldn’t stand the infighting and dumbassery.