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@drizzeltheraincat

made by a very random person 25, she her.

imagine simping for capitalism this badly

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A Christmas Carol never even says that Scrooge gives up anything at all, or even somehow stops being super-rich.  He just stops being a dick about it and starts using his wealth to help people.  Scrooge isn’t even written as an indictment of rich people, since plenty others appear in the story and are presented as perfectly nice people.  Scrooge is a miser.  He doesn’t even use his money to help himself, which is called out as the reason he dies within the year.  Learning to care for himself is just as much part of the Ghosts’ lessons as learning to care for other people.

how dare Charles Dickens, a man once sent to work in a factory at age 12 while his father was in debtors’ prison, inflict such Wokery upon us as “caring about the poor”

everytime i see this post nobody mentions the ahegao scrooge picture and it’s driving me insane

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with the whole world on fire i don’t think you should put too much blame on the man who brought out the marshmallows 

not when the man who just kicked an empty gasoline can under a bush is so very close at least

Yeah, but who's holding the matches?

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From what I understand from the article, it’s even rougher than normal content moderation: a lot of these workers were hired to train AIs like ChatGPT away from, well, all the worst that the web could provide, to detoxify it for the end users. They are specifically given the worst stuff that can be dredged up from the depths of the internet, and asked to label it - so that the AI can use that data to identify hatespeech, suicide ideation, racism, CSA, etc etc.

It’s an awful job, and some are paid less than $2 an hour. Workers have PTSD. Are they being offered counselling, support, compensation? Fuck no, they get punished for speaking up.

Good luck to the African Content Moderators Union, I hope they get the protections and compensation that their workers need.

The article is well worth a read, and yes, it's much more insidious and damaging than "people are pretending to be AI". Facebook/Meta has been using underpaid workers in the Global South to carry out the brunt of their content moderation for a long time, with no support, and it's horrific.

Some more sources on the workers' fight against Sama/Meta:

not have strong feeling about autism awareness vs acceptance because , too many people not know that people like gwydion exist let alone how treat . so need both awareness and acceptance .

easy say people " aware " about high needs children ( but : many still awful at understand and help ) . not so much for adults . and those who do know , assume adult exactly same as child , " just bigger body " .

so will force people to be aware and accept . that some adults like gwydion fuck and talk crude and exist as adults . even as nonverbal AAC user . even with trouble understand world . even when need supervision and help .

awareness still important for many .

awareness is especially important for poc autistics

very true too . not all country on same page about autism at all , and even in western world (?) many poc not proper diagnose , or label things like ODD instead .

fruit-in-jars 101 by stacynguyen

"What is jam? What makes something authentically jam? Can bacon really be made into jam?

It was all very Existentialist.

The answer to those questions is a bit complicated and non-definitive. The U.S. FDA has defined jam and jelly in very specific and mathematical terms (such-and-such percentage of juice to fruit to water to sugar = jam/jelly); it also uses jam and preserve interchangeably, for the most part. While interesting, the FDA’s definitions did not matter much to me because the FDA wasn’t really using the terms in the way that we usually use the terms. Also, the FDA wasn’t comprehensive in its definitions. It didn’t tackle other fruit spreads like marmalades or curds, for instance.

The more I looked into, the more I thought, dude, this information would make a good infographic."

Once upon a time, fruits could not be obtained at just any season, so humans had to come up with a way to contain the fruits for the dark fruitless days.

Herschel normally plays in the Large Dog group at daycare because he is Too Intense for the Shi-tuzs, but yesterday he was kicked back into small group for "Playing too hard with Big Herschel".

For context, My terrible goblin baby is a 38lb corgi "Big Herschel" is a 140lb Rhodesian Ridgeback, also named Herschel

...and by "Playing too hard" they apparently meant "Your wretched crime baby has figured out how to do a WWE-style flying tackle off the top of the sunning/shade platform (4ft high platform to dogs to lie on or under) and Big Herschel was starting to get scared to go near it."

Fortunately, there was a Basset hound in smalls to sumo-wrestle with so he still got to play but Baby dog. PLEASE.

So APPARENTLY he's been doing his Flying Squirrel Maneuver for months now, it's just never been a problem before because Charleston plays in the same group and if he sees Herschel jump off that platform he anime-teleports across the playground to counter-tackle Herschel out of midair in what I can only assume is an activation of Charlie's Older Brother Instincts.

This has interrupted Herschel's Reign Of Terror From Above on previous occasions, so the staff didn't feel the need to tell me.

But it was Warm and Sunny yesterday and Charlie could not be arsed to get up from where he was cosplaying a solar panel on the same platform. Herschel was essentially running continuous laps onto the platform, into the air, on top of the tallest dog in range (mostly Big Herschel), and back up the platform at high speed, so Big Herschel was taking a flying corgi to the face every four seconds for a bit there until someone finally caught Herschel and dumped him in with the Basset Hound.

The Basset Hound's name is Leia and she is ALSO apparently a major criminal that understands how RFID tag collars work, so I assume she and Herschel will have a Phinneas-and-Ferb style giant robot built by the end of the month.

p1ss

I DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT THIS IN DRIVING SCHOOL

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balalaikaboss

Stop says the red light, go says the green

Wait says the yellow light, twinkling in between. 

KNEEL, SAYS THE DEMON LIGHT WITH ITS EYE OF COAL  SAURON KNOWS YOUR LICENSE PLATE  AND STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

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sirtroyofbaker

THIS IS ALWAYS FUNNY

@irritatedlifeguard I agree with your tags.

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“This is a tapestry I made myself! I just finished it!” 

“…. this is…. big.”

“Eighty feet long, ten high, in forty panels! It was originally going to be sixty feet, but then the Thomas Malory Arthuriana got big and I had to put more stuff in.” 

“… Malory published in the fifteenth century.” 

“Do you have any idea how long it takes one person to embroider eight thousand square feet of tapestry?” 

“You’ve had a lot of free time in the last eight hundred years, haven’t you?” 

“Not once I took up embroidery as a hobby, no!” 

“Want to see my stalagmite cultivation work?”

Mutuals tell me the obscure hobby you would have as a vampire!

My house would be covered in crochet.

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

An actual World Heritage Post

how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it

one week until ten years of Spiders Georg

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Gov: (slides a mountain of documents across the table in a meeting)

PA: The fuck is this.

Gov: Child support you owe since 1800s.

PA: I don't have a kid.

Gov: And I don't have a father but IRS is going to cut my balls off if we don't solve taxes on this shitshow.

if they rebooted austin powers it would either be the most tone deaf unfunny incredibly offensive movie in years OR they'd do it right and really keep with the times in being very self aware and it would be one of the best films in decades. austin powers would be a massive support of trans rights because trans women means more women for him to shag

oh your pronouns are she/they? well baby lemme she/them titties shagadelic

austin powers discovers bisexuality and it blows his fucking mind