The documentary style quickly takes a back seat, but the interviews are always there and heavily used. Try Modern Family first and see of the Office doesn’t hit better once you’re used to the interviews there. They’re brief fourth-wall breaks and not diagetic.

e: I would say if you’re not having an absolute blast by the Dundees episode (I think that S2E1?), don’t waste any more of your time.

I didn’t get that far into the show because I was bored and lost in the space battles. Action scenes are always shakey cameras and me being confused about who’s on what ship. I was extremely interested in the human dramas, politics, and especially the mystery of the fungal thing. The acting and dialects were really cool though, and I’d probably miss out on those unless the author does a good job writing them. Does it seem like I’d prefer reading it instead? I kind of feel like I just talked myself into trying the show again. :s

I don’t live in the US, but pretending that I do, you sound a lot like you’re blaming me. What exactly would you like me to do? I can think of a number of ways I could suffer and die for the cause, but not how to actually change anything.

It would be a nice bonus if surplus American produce became somewhat affordable to Americans due to foreign disinterest.

Back in my day sugar was only C and H.

This reminds me of the ASMR video I watched where this person removed my cranial nerves for cleaning and I was so immersed that I was kind of weirded out and upset by their sudden theft.

What is this actually saying? I feel like most of the helpful things I can think of are external.

• medication
• therapy
• healthy relationships
• proper nutrition
• sunlight and/or plants
• hobbies and/or fulfilling work

Is exercise internal??

I can see some kinds of therapy being considered internal because that’s where the work is getting done, but the instructions are given to you by an outside source.

Has is occurred to you that the reason no one is arguing that Biden and Harris aren’t pieces of shit is because they are actually pieces of shit, and no one in this reply chain said otherwise? That’s why “no one said that” was so funny to me.

Ok, but no one here said that.

They literally did though, in those exact words.

I think some people might consider it too personal/identifying?

Anyway, the Slovenian pronoun system sounds fascinating. Changing how you refer to people in so many different ways is pure nonsense, but it’s also poetic, especially when synthesis is involved. I’ll have to study it sometime.

Sorry if you already know this, but it sounds from the wording of your post that you might not know that “maid” or “maiden” means virgin also.

I actually prefer it as the neutral singular, but everyone decided that was dehumanizing. To me it feels natural because if you don’t know an animal’s or a baby’s gender, you call it it.

What’s your language, if it’s okay to ask?

Everything about biology is a random effect. Even a mutation that’s selected for wasn’t planned; it just happened by chance. Like if you’re an aquatic species maybe you’ll end up being a strong swimmer over generations, but the water doesn’t pressure you towards that on its own. You have to coincidentally develop flukes that make you a stronger swimmer before those traits can be selected for.

Sometimes traits that get passed down aren’t beneficial at all because they don’t make an impact on reproduction. Think of an animal that comes in many colors like a house cat or certain fish species. In such cases it’s clear that the color of the animal doesn’t have any bearing on its ability to reproduce, so a variety of colors are passed down for no particular reason.

I don’t mean still images; I mean like visual media. Sorry if that’s confusing wording.

I would love to learn why this isn’t completely stupid, if anyone has a way of explaining. We’d be down entire genres of games if developers didn’t copy each other’s homework.

I don’t see this as being specific to AI. AI facilitates production as a tool, but the images are defamatory and contain hate speech no matter how they’re generated.

My favorite application for AI is as a search tool. I can describe concepts to ChatGPT and it will tell me what it’s called and lead me to further reading.

For example, I once showed it a picture and asked it about the art style. I told it what I liked about it and asked for suggestions of other styles or techniques that would have a similar appeal. It was a very fruitful experience that just can’t be done with a search bar.

That said, it’s Reddit. I’m sure it’ll be terrible.

I honestly found the overall temperature of the room pretty comforting, but maybe I was just cherry picking?

In some cases, like threads, there’s no searching within Discord either. And let’s say you find someone asking your same question, right? They don’t list the replies the way 4chan does, so you’re stuck manually scrolling and reading and hoping someone said something relevant. I like Discord just fine for certain applications, but why did everyone decide to use it for everything??

Also, I can’t PM people unless I’m friends with them or we share a common server. What is that? There’s literally no privacy option to let me chat with people without also accepting them into my friends, a group which obviously has more permissions than strangers. ???

Also, also, I can’t ever find a Discord server for something I’m interested in. I have to go to Reddit to find a thread containing a Discord link. ??? why