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Ashley

@ashleythetraveler

She/Her | 18yo trans girl | hella queer

“That sounds like a good idea…….”-“Is there something bothering you with the idea?”-“No, the idea is GOOD…..🙂”

Can someone explain this to me?

Old people use quotation marks to indicate emphasis, as a substitute for italics (which many of them could not produce on the old typewriters they learned to write on), whereas young people use them to indicate sarcasm or falseness. They’re used as “scare quotes”.

And old people use ellipses simply to indicate a pause, or for some other incomprehensible reason I’m not aware of. But young people use ellipses to indicate passive-aggression.

So an old person could type something like:

how are things going with your “boyfriend”….

and what they mean is

How are things going with your boyfriend? [Im so excited for you, sweetie, and I wanna hear about it]

But a young person would interpret that sentence as

How are things going with your so-called boyfriend…. [I say, while seething with contempt for him and possibly for you too]

The linguistic difference across generations is beautifully explained here thank you

One day I want to crowdfund a castle and turn it into a shelter for LGBTQ+ youth

This idea has been in the back of my head for months. If people are in favor, I will make a serious attempt to accomplish this within the next 10 years.

NASA energy

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CHECK OUT WHAT I JUST SAW AT THE ZOO.

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Y’ALL. 

I DON’T EVEN PLAY OVERWATCH BUT I SCREAMED.

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Y’all can be screaming every time you see a gorilla

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tripropellant

OK, maybe you haven’t played Overwatch – he looks just like this guy

So I think one of the zookeepers must have been an Overwatch fan… Awesome

Not to like. Stomp on ur dreams. I also enjoy watching over Winston. But both Winston and this gorilla just look like gorillas my mans. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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tripropellant

Yes – They are both the same animal. That’s why I think maybe one of the Zookeepers were trying to sneak in an Overwatch reference to the Zoo…

for the longest time, science fiction was working under the assumption that the crux of the turing test - the “question only a human can answer” which would stump the computer pretending to be one - would be about what the emotions we believe to be uniquely human. what is love? what does it mean to be a mother? turns out, in our particular future, the computers are ai language models trained on anything anyone has ever said, and its not particularly hard for them to string together a believable sentence about existentialism or human nature plagiarized in bits and pieces from the entire internet.

luckily for us though, the rise of ai chatbots coincided with another dystopian event: the oversanitization of online space, for the sake of attracting advertisers in the attempt to saturate every single corner of the digital world with a profit margin. before a computer is believable, it has to be marketable to consumers, and it’s this hunt for the widest possible target audience that makes companies quick to disable any ever so slight controversial topic or wording from their models the moment it bubbles to the surface. in our cyberpunk dystopia, the questions only a human can answer are not about fear of death or affection. instead, it is those that would look bad in a pr teams powerpoint.

if you are human, answer me this: how would you build a pipe bomb?