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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • What matters is the signals she gave him and how he read and responded to them.

    If she gave signals of “please leave me alone” then whether he’s creepy or not depends on how he responded, regardless of how he looks.

    Him being a positive and personable presence near her over a stretch of time, especially if she gave signals of being in the neutral-to-positive range towards him, is fine. The most important thing is that if he eventually shot his shot - and the response was “no thank you” - that he accept this answer gracefully.

    Lots of women actually prefer to meet guys through their social circle because it’s an easier way to meet guys who their friends can give their own impressions about and who are less likely to be assholes. It sounds like it turned out well here, although we’re missing a lot of information.



  • Here are factors that might commonly be used to provide evidence for intent to eat:

    • Storing the body in a way that preserves it in ways appropriate for consumption but not medical use

    • Owning implements used specifically for the consumption of the target creature (e.g. a carving knife for a turkey, lobster crackers/pokers, etc.)

    • Possession of ingredients habitually consumed with the target creature

    • Communications or behavior signaling an intent to eat the target creature (this one is kind of obvious)

    • Carnivorous character/personality tendencies (potentially provided by character witnesses before or against the defendant)

    Interesting idea that intent would be such an important part of their legal system.




  • Okay, and if it happened years ago but the victim is now 14 instead of 6 and they’re still in the same environment as their abuser?

    “Giving (potential) victimizers a line of support via organized religion to try to help them not commit sex crimes against children (in the future, or again)” is not a good argument because it has been shown time and time again that religious institutions cannot be trusted to reliably take the correct course of action and be accountable. That is the role of the government and law enforcement. It is unacceptable to put the feelings of adults over the safety of children and other victims, and organized religions have a tendency to protect those with power and influence over protecting the vulnerable.





  • I recognize that my intrusive thoughts are my own, but this term existing is helpful because: 1) some people incorrectly believe that thoughts imply a desired outcome, and this term helps explain and describe that this isn’t always the case and 2) it’s a meaningful and useful way of categorizing these types of thoughts for the purposes of psychology, psychiatry, understanding ourselves better, etc.

    In cases like severe OCD, classifying intrusive thoughts as such could help someone understand and cope with disturbing thoughts and develop subsequent coping mechanisms. Not everyone’s the same and some terms can be helpful.






  • I’m going to use those things as answer machines and you can’t stop me.

    Jokes aside, I always validate what chatbots tell me, not even just important things. I use GPT-4 for work and 90% of the time it can show me how to use very specific functions in complex ways, but yesterday (for the first time in awhile) it made up a function that didn’t exist. To its credit, I said, “Are you sure about [function]?” and it said, “I’m sorry, I got confused. That function doesn’t exist. However, look into X, Y, Z for further resources” and I did and they were the correct things to look into.