toasthaste

toasthaste wrote

Reply to i'm anti-ai but. man. by twovests

It makes me crazy because there are lots of really scary significant issues, present and likely future, with AI, and those get barely any airtime from the average anti-AI type that I see around. Just wasting so much energy on misinformation and weird fucking purity tests that cannot possibly matter. Mass surveillance and weapons! The stuff that needs that kind of focus is the huge horrible advances that have come and are still coming to mass surveillance and weapons!!!! I want to scream and tear my hair out every single day

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to I wonder what Just Post thinks of Mina the Hollower by twovests

i watched some VODs of it and it didn't really make me feel any sort of way which was surprising, maybe if I was playing it I'd feel different but-- is the writing like, actually good enough to recommend it? from what I saw it seemed like, decent writing but sparse and not something you'd be raving about afterwards

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to comment by 500poundsofnothing in In English, "horror" is a word that refers to to something that incites fears, and "whore" is a word which refers to someone who engages in sex for money. These words are pronounced the same. by 500poundsofnothing

nah in general i think it's fine when words sound basically the same but it feels weird to think someone might mistakenly think I'm saying "whore" if even for a moment. bit of a loaded word!

I do pronounce cot and caught differently but that's just happenstance

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toasthaste wrote

Reply to A cookie for allies by twovests

I do think the borderline scorn toward allies, in addition to just like kinda sucking, was a horrible tactical move that set things back pretty badly (and like tbc I was totally on that bandwagon back in the day, I am not immune to social trends).

I think there's been a lot of nuance lost in the sense of like.... "It is not anyone's personal responsibility to praise an ally for being an ally" is true, but that is NOT the same thing as "allies should perpetually be on thin ice and shouldn't get praise for anything short of heroism and if they want to feel good about doing small good things that's proof that deep down they suck actually"

To the extent that anyone "deserves" anything, people deserve praise for doing positive things whether that's doing the dishes or deciding to stick up for marginalized people whose circumstances they might not viscerally understand. We are all just silly little monkeys made of meat and positive feedback has really consistent effects on our little monkey brains! That tiny little tickle of reward for doing the bare minimum makes people want to do the bare minimum more, and makes it easier/more appealing to take bigger steps past that bare minimum!

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