If back to the future was made today it 100% would be a Cybertruck, the Delorean occupied the same cultural space of “That weird looking piece of shit car”

Oh 100% agree, and personally it’s really annoying they took our term that I have to use for real things

The term "neural network" is primarily marketing term, as is "AI" itself.

I will say as a neuroscientist, it is a term we use, literally referring to the organization of neurons in the brain and how different areas connect to each other

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I’m with you. Especially since 2020. I see lots of people with similar material conditions to me who have access to all the same information as me and largely are exposed unwillingly to the same shit as me. How am I the only one in the group that came to the conclusion “Getting covid 1000 times is bad” for example?

How are you like “idk maybe I should support Kamala Harris” when I know what your instagram feed looks like bc you have the same friends I have? Do you just care less about the dead children you keep seeing?

It’s honestly difficult to see people land where they are when given the same access to things as I am, and not be like “Damn, maybe I’m just smarter and have clearer morals than you.”

It’s been shocking recently to realize how cheap it actually is to buy off an American politician

Like with the influence AIPAC has, you’d think they’re throwing around tens of millions, even billions of dollars at candidates. But most of the time it’s like, they gave this house member 5 grand and now he’s Israel’s lapdog for life.

Like if I got a few friends together we could scrounge up enough money to buy off a politician apparently. It’s baffling.

Aren’t DJI drones used by like, every emergency service in the US with a need for drones?

For those of us who don’t remember high school US history very well:

[Passed in 1930] The Act and tariffs imposed by America's trading partners in retaliation were major factors of the reduction of American exports and imports by 67% during the Great Depression. Economists and economic historians have a consensus view that the passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff worsened the effects of the Great Depression.

Maybe it’s a hot take but as a grown ass adult I have little interest in romance stories about high schoolers.

Which is why Nintendo’s lawyers deserve barbara-pit

Hell, most lawyers in general, but especially IP lawyers.

Like, this would mean that if I took a rom for Super Mario Bros and hit ctrl-c ctrl-v 10,000 times you could say I have 10,000 video games. Thats insanity.

Around 12,000 consoles with 47 million games

No. That is incorrect. Each console had a few thousand games, and you did bullshit math to make that sound worse. Each copy of a rom does not count as an individual video game, that’s an insane way to measure things.

Holders of any elected office, from President to Senator to county dog catcher, should be completely banned from owning any sort of stock, investment, or businesses.

You get to purchase US bonds. Thats it. In fact, you shouldn’t be allowed to own things once you’re done being in office either. If you’re ever found owning another kind of investment, 20 years in prison, no exceptions.

An elected official owning stocks or even worse, their own business, is pure corruption. It’s inherently corrupt, even if they are super well behaved about it.

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This is fucking insane

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Am I overreacting to my girlfriend's experience of assaulting homeless people in the past?

I am not The OOP, OOP is u/Silver_Effective_441

Am I overreacting to my girlfriend's experience of assaulting homeless people in the past?

Originally posted to r/AmIOverreacting

Thanks to u/soayherder for suggesting this BoRU

TRIGGER WARNING: >!physical assault!<

Original Post July 24, 2024

So I've been dating my gf for like nine months. She just recently turned 26 and we were celebrating her birthday. At the end of the night we were both kind of drunk and were talking about our craziest stories from college. She said that her boyfriend at the time and a friend group of guys and girls would sometimes go out at night and "mess with" homeless dudes including beating them up with bats. She also referred to them as junkies and generally dehumanizing terms about them and she even mentioned that it was great stress relief. She can get pretty crazy sometimes and has a bit of a mean streak honestly, but it really shocked me when she said this. I thought she was joking because she was laughing while telling the story. But as I acted skeptical she kept affirming it was true. I just played along and kind of laughed thinking she was just drunk.

The next day it still bothered me subconsciously so I asked her again about it casually and she said yeah it was true. The thing that disturbed me though was there was no remorse. She told the story like a "lol good times" kind of story. I think if she was embarrassed about it I would have felt different. I still tried to ignore it over the next days but I obviously wasn't able to because I ended up researching online for information about similar crimes in that city at that time (I didn't find anything btw). Unfortunately I definitely believe her at this point though. She never does these kind of elaborate jokes over days plus I can just tell she's being truthful just knowing her.

Anyway, like I said it continued to bother me so I brought it up one more time a couple days later. This time I was more serious, basically just straight up asking how could she not feel bad about that. I was honestly just curious. She got kind of pissed this time. She asked me if it turns me on and that's why I keep bothering her about it. I said no but I just couldn't imagine doing something like that myself so that's why I'm asking. Then she started saying stuff like "why are you judging me about stuff that happened years ago" and saying it's none of my business who she slept with back then or anything else about her life. That's when it occurred to me that she might have thought I was jealous or something about her ex, since he was apparently one of the guys in that group. She might think I'm trying to guilt trip her out of jealousy related to him or something, which I'm not. But anyway, that was how it ended and I'm obviously not gonna bring it up again.

Even though I honestly considered breaking up over this, I kind of saw where she was coming from in that it was a long time ago and maybe I'm being kind of a dick for judging her over this? What do you think? I'm no saint at all but I can't help that it bothers me. I can't look at her the same way now and I really think it might be over. Thanks for your advice.

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pixiekaela

nor but why wasn’t this a deal breaker for you????

OOP

I think it was. I'm just saying I was second guessing it. It's hard to process.

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Virtual-Discipline-1

Why the fuck are you with a evil person like that damn bro your a POS also

OOP

Sorry I'm not trying to justify it it's just really hard for me. But people do change. I was a totally different person in college too. This would be so much easier for me if she was just sorry about it.

pontoponyo

But she’s not sorry. She’s mad you keep bringing it up and is acting like the dude she did those horrific things with is the problem, and not the assault and battery on innocent people.

This shouldn’t be hard dude.

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Mountain-Guava2877

She’s a psychopath. She admits to violently attacking people.

Your aren’t married. You can leave.

Knowing she is capable of this, you are underreacting by staying with her. One day she could easily do something like that to you. So take precautions when you leave.

Update July 31, 2024 (1 week later)

I just wanted to let everyone know that I broke up with my girlfriend. I absolutely do not condone any violence against unhoused people. That's the reason I asked about it because it seriously shocked me, but then everyone turned it on me and acted like I was condoning it. I'm sorry but it just takes a lot of time to process when you're in a relationship with someone. You can't just end it like that. Plus you know I try to be really mindful of things like shaming women for past mistakes and relationships. The last thing I want to be is one of those guys. And when she accused me of that herself, I started believing I may be wrong.

But anyway when I told her we were gonna have to break up because of what she told me, she actually looked shocked. I think she believed I was joking at first. But I straight up told her how wrong she was for doing that, which I hadn't had the courage to do before. I said how she could have even killed one of those guys and not known it, etc. She didn't have much to say, just looking really angry honestly. But anyway once I showed I was serious she started guilt tripping me about how I'm trying to shame her for her past etc. The same point she had made before. But in the end she started insulting me really harshly and eventually turned it around on me and it was like she was breaking up with me instead. However she wants to think of it is fine with me. Some of the things she said were really hurtful if I'm being honest but I know she was just angry and I just have to keep reminding myself that I did the right thing.

As for reporting the crimes like some people said, I did try but I had trouble talking to a person at that police department over the phone (it's across the country from where I am). The phone recording tells me to file reports online. The online form asks me if I know who did the crime and when I check "yes" it tells me I have to file the report on the phone or in-person. Anyway I'm still working on that but it seems like there's a lot of beauracracy to do through. Sorry for not responding to a lot of you before but I was really overwhelmed. Even though this isn't my main account I want people to know I did the right thing. Take care.

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My partner and I recently started playing again and are looking for a guild or just a smaller group to play with who don’t suck

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Found on their change.org petition

gamer-gulag

Edit: Another one

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Give me suggestions for mobile games that don’t suck ass

Currently the only games on my phone are

Reigns: Her Majesty - Card based roguelike, you’re the Queen pick between decisions to balance the favor of different groups, progressing through a larger story over multiple lives. Sequel to Reigns which is also great.

Baba is You - Puzzle game, push words and objects around to change the rules of the world the puzzle is in to complete the puzzle.

Polytopia - What if Civ was so simple it wasn’t very fun

Pokémon GO - hillgasm

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The IP address is 158.69.8.170:25599

Discord: https://discord.gg/MTJAk7t3DD

You need Vanilla Minecraft Java 1.18

Edit, 1:12am 12/11/21: We now have a whitelist to avoid wreckers. Everyone who’s already been on the server should be fine. If you want to be added to the whitelist, either message me on here, or message on discord and send both your Hexbear and MC username :stalin-approval:

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This started as a comment in the megathread but got long so I decided to make it it’s own post. Obviously covid makes this different, but for general purposes, I’ve said it before and I’ll repeat it till I die, please don’t homeschool your kids

I was homeschooled from early in elementary school until halfway through my sophomore year of high school. The reason I joined high school is because I was so depressed and lonely I wanted to die, and I knew my education had been neglected for years, so I begged my parents to put me in public school. Basically the only thing my parents kept up with was math and that’s only because they had me in online math classes.

And of the homeschooling parents I knew, mine were some of the best ones as far as actually educating their children go. Mild neglect with some basic math and science from atheist parents is worlds better than the psycho Christian “education” some people I knew got.

But even with all that the education was the smaller problem. Turns out math is the only thing that actually builds on itself over time in the American education system, everything else just restarts but slightly more complicated when you get to high school.

The bigger problem was how alone I was and how stunted it made my social skills, something I’m still dealing with now and I’m in fucking grad school. Kids and teenagers need to be around people their own age. I straight up did not learn how to function properly in social situations. I almost got the shit beat out of me in my first week in high school for calling a football player a dumbass. If adults said things to me that were mildly accusatory I’d cry, but also I had no concept of not saying shit so I’d call out adults for any minor system issue or other problem completely out of their control which most people just found annoying. I had so much trouble understanding fairly basic social interactions.

My younger brother was homeschooled from after kindergarten all the way until his senior year of high school, which he then dropped out of. He was more stunted both socially and educationally than I was, and started smoking weed nearly every day when he was around 15 to cope. It also definitely didn’t help that my whole family is chock full of mental illness. I think he did just start at community college though, which I’m super proud of.

So yeah. Rant over. Don’t home school your kids. It’s shitty.

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