An ad hominem would be if I said something like ‘nobody should listen to this guy because he’s a sociopath,’ it’s not just a retort for when anyone makes any uncharitable characterization of your argument. (It’s also not even evidence that an argument is invalid, that’s called the fallacy fallacy)

Which, if you want to accuse me of committing an ad hominem by characterizing your argument as ‘fuck them kids,’ you might not want to immediately go straight to how they deserved it for living in a red state.

‘Cheer the deaths of children because it hurts their parents who might have voted for Trump’ is disgustingly low, congrats.

Oh, I knew this was a real exhibit so it didn’t even occur to me that AI might be to blame for the weird image artifacts! I tend to assume bad cameras.

I’m going off news reports where the LAPD has shown up to kidnapping calls and kept the crowd back so they could abduct people.

They are explicitly instructed to ‘keep the peace’ as ICE abducts people.

If you have any examples of this actually doing anything other than giving cover to ICE I’d be open to seeing it.

The victims of the vote manipulation aren’t a random accident, it’s mostly leaving Republican voters standing by design. If legislation swept through other states that put the same voting requirements and gerrymandered districts as a lot of southern states have in place, they would probably also start to become real Republican shitholes without anyone’s values or voting patterns changing.

TIL flash floods selectively target Trump voters. Or are we doing collective guilt now? Fuck them dead kids, am I right?

That’s exactly what they do every time they show up when people call them. All you’re doing is calling for backup for them.

I wasn’t aware that summer camp had kids that all voted for Trump. Those dead kids really got what was coming to them!

Guess what! People in the south frequently can’t do shit about it either. If you would like to blame this on the people who live there for not voting correctly, please explain to me what you think ‘gerrymandering’ and ‘disenfranchisement’ mean, and what the average person living in the south is supposed to do about this shit being greenlit by SCOTUS.

You are writing fanfiction. First you made up that these home owners live rurally, then you made up that Charlottesville is somehow expanding beyond the borders of the town?? Being able to read doesn’t help you if you have no reading comprehension.

🥳 Thank you both!

Thanks for saying this a lot nicer than I could. To add to this, the ‘just do therapy and schedules and reminders and and and and’ people hate to hear it, but sometimes all that works is the drugs.

I live in the US and there have been horrible shortages of many of the most effective drugs for ADHD (amphetamines and its variations). My spouse spent nearly 2 fucking years without the medication he’d been stable on for years and it was a nightmare. He was trying SO hard to keep on top of things, have a good sleep schedule, and there was just no way he could do it. Like, borderline suicidally depressed about having his ability to be functional taken away. After his pharmacy started getting shipments of his old medication in again, it was like a switch flipped.

You don’t get like that because you’re a lazy dumbass who won’t get their shit together, and people are way too casual about ignoring that ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder.

This is what I imagine those people who go nuts from ChatGPT see when they actually read the shit it puts out, lol

Why would rural homeowners be filing a suit about a 10 square mile town they don’t live in?

The population density for Charlottesville is over 4500/sq mile. Nobody there is living rurally.

I think it’s a mistake to treat (potentially hypothetical) AI cultists like rational actors, but you’re probably right

I’m 50/50 on whether this is a creative writing exercise or not, just because of how many people LLMs have sent off the deep end.

When a reusable pad is full you just put a fresh one on, wash the dirty one, and let it dry on its own. If you’re out you just put it in a plastic baggie for washing when you get back home. Putting a wet one down your pants would be horrible, haha

I’ve heard two pops and that’s about it… I think most people in LA (at least my area) are still a little too traumatized by the fires to want to play around with fireworks. They’re doing drone shows in a lot of areas now.

Yay, thanks!

Also, May 1st is when the US officially recognizes (although I’ve literally never heard of anyone celebrating) Loyalty Day 🤮