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22 days ago“the healthy thing I’m doing that my parents didn’t do is that I assume every adult who wants to be part of my kids life is a pedophile”
Yes… Very healthy attitude!.. Good job I guess?
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11·2 months agoNo war but the class war. Every fight is the good fight in the class war.
But he previously said “Sex is for making children. Any man who has sex with women because it ‘feels good’ is gay”… So that doesn’t seem to match with him saying you’re supposed to have sex with many women for fun… What the hell is he saying!!!
If you’re looking for inclusive spiritual community you can look for Unitarian Universalist congregations. They’re all over Europe and North America. They’re based on progressive values instead of Scripture so you bring your own deity/pantheon/no deity. They’re basically a spiritual community for the left from Pagans to Christians/Jews/Muslims to atheists and agnostics and everyone else.
In my area there are a lot of ageing hippies and a lot of millennials and Gen Z looking for community for their children which is a delightful mix. Lots of LGBTQ+ representation as well.
Could be a useful place to look!
18·3 months agoYes ravens vocalise… That doesn’t make the original videos not AI slop.
Thanks for finding a real video of a Russian crow. Maybe you could have posted that instead of slop. It’s not the same crow because this one is clearly real. The channel also doesn’t have your “new” video so I’m not sure why you’re claiming it’s the same crow. Neither the humans, nor the background, nor the vocalizations, nor the crow are even similar.
This is AI. The background is weird, especially when it’s close to the lady or the Raven. You can look up this video and it’s a dozen different YouTube channels with less than 1000 views with the identical clip.
Fundamentally this gift is replacing something that has sentimental value to OP. That’s not usually a desirable gift. If someone got you a gift that replaced your favorite [thing] in a way that replaces it you wouldn’t want it either.
Cheerfully accepting a gift you don’t like is dishonest. Other replies have great honest and tactful ways to accept or reject a gift you don’t like. Op’s approach was hurtful to their partner which isn’t great.
Returning a gift is normal, that’s why stores issue gift receipts. However, it is a situation that requires tact since it’s easy to hurt someone if done poorly.
In the long term, it should be easy for you and your partner to do something special for each other where no one has to fake enjoyment. In OP’s case, effort spent communicating now will bring a lot of enjoyment in the future and save a lot of pain.
Nobody is a bad person here and both of your feelings are valid.
As others pointed out, your partner likely put significant effort into the gift and is hurt that the effort was in vain. Compounding that is the fact that you didn’t seem to acknowledge their effort or treat their hurt as valid.
Your hurt is valid. You got given something you don’t want and now you feel pressured to accept it to appease your partner. It’s in certain ways worse than getting nothing.
The situation sucks and you’ll both be hurt regardless of how you resolve it.
It’s probably going to be very important for you two to work out gifts or gift giving occasions. What do you like to do, for yourself or with your partner. Maybe the answer to that question can be part of the solution.
For the time being you have a few options. You can keep the gift like the others have said, maybe as a backup. Or you can return it. I suggest that if you return it you spend the money on something you both enjoy, maybe a nice date to sooth the hurt.
Let your partner know that you appreciate the effort that went into this gift. Let them know that you know you’re a hard person to buy for, especially because you’re not very consumerist which means that the things typically for sale won’t appeal to you. Let them know that it’s important for you that you’re both able to express love towards each other and that you want to make sure that the next time your partner expends significant effort for you that they’re able to create a situation which is rewarding for the both of you.
Then sort out what you’re going to do with this gift. Maybe explain your feelings about using the old device and how the new one can’t do that for you.
Then make a plan to work out the line term goal of how you’ll give each other gifts/experiences in the future. And actually do it. It might be a lot of work, but it will probably create a lot of joy in your relationship in the long run where there might have been even more pain.
Oh yeah I’ll drop it… With my NO ARMS … you insensitive piece of poop
I know I’m a terrible human, all I could think of was this skit
The minimum liability insurance isn’t a scam. If you hit someone and cripple them you’ll be glad for insurance to pay their medical etc…
Comprehensive is absolutely a scam. Just take the money and save it, maybe buy some bonds. Then when it’s time to buy a new car (or when you get your car totaled) you’re already half way to a new car.
But don’t stay TOO far away, otherwise you can still be a victim of arrows. There is in ideal distance to THAT GUY to minimize your arrow related risks.
202·4 months agoLooks like Stanford disagrees, 13% of entry level work has been replaced by AI.
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Canaries_BrynjolfssonChandarChen.pdf
Genuinely: magic mushrooms. That’s what it feels like after a trip. All the bullshit is cleaned out, the depressive recurring thoughts, unhelpful beliefs… Just a clean brain ready to get demolished again by our cruel capitalist neoliberal world.
The energy math doesn’t make sense for grid scale applications with solid objects.
However if you can get water between two places it can work quite well. You need to live close to a big change in altitude and do a bit of geoengineering to create the upper and lower reservoirs, which can be destructive to local ecology, but not as much as a dam.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity
You can also use pumped air underwater with higher energy losses than pumped storage hydro because of compatibility of air.
Yeah our “Liberal” PM was asked by the conservative government 13 years ago to be the finance minister. The Overton window is completely fucked up, we have neofascism on one side and the opposite side is neoliberals who are okay with neofacism as long as it keeps the progressives away from taxing the rich and regulating multinationals. Any suggestion that the systemic problems destroying society should be addressed with structural solutions, or even that genocide and ethnic cleansing are bad, has now become tantamount to terrorism.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-stephen-harper-1.7460897
Ranking free speech above tolerance is what causes this. He didn’t tolerate others, he actively argued that people, including children, should die for various terrible reasons. He broke the social contract. He was no longer entitled to tolerance or protection from being killed. You lose that protection the second you say someone else should be killed because of who they were born as.
This free speech supremacy nonsense is garbage. White supremacists should not be tolerated in civil society. People who advocate for others to die (based on who they were born) deserve people advocating for and pursuing their death in return as self defense. You don’t get to get away with stochastic terrorism then pretend you didn’t do anything wrong.
At home both of those are invalid. You close the lid before you flush so you don’t spread particles everywhere (among many other benefits)
Everyone opens the lid/seat to the desired level. Everyone does their business. Everyone closes the lid. Everyone flushes and washes their hands.
True gender equality!
It’s shocking how we put in laws to prevent the surveillance state, but the laws didn’t restrict corporations. So now corporations have become the new surveillance state.