mrmaplebar

Fffffuck haha. Now I know why all of my relationships fissile out. 😭

• Plenty of people lose their virginity in their 20s and later, even if it's not talked about much. Try not to worry about it. Nobody is going to judge you. My current girlfriend and I were both older than you when we lost ours.
• Virginity is a social construct and (assuming nobody gets pregnant or a disease) you'll find that not much will change in your life once you lose it. I understand the FOMO, but being on the other side of it now I can tell you that it's not really worth having FOMO over.
• Odds are you could find somebody to have sex with if you were really truly desperate. But you're probably not that desperate, and nor should you be. Masturbation is significantly better than bad sex with some you don't care about.
• Online dating apps generally suck and aren't a great fit for most people, let alone one-size-fits-all. If you want to avoid the dating apps, I recommend finding other ways to put yourself out there and expand your social circle. Touch grass and get some hobbies. Do your best to make plAtonic friends and see if that introduces you to people who you might want to ask out.
• If you have someone you want to ask out, then ask them out!! I spent too long letting shyness and fear of rejection block me from making moves, but we're much better off just going for it. Rejection isn't guaranteed, nor will it kill you if it happens.

I'm not positive that you can do much outside of simply (temporarily or permanently) banning people who are acting shitty.

On the flip side, banning people because they disagree with you is how we end up with the kind of echo chambers that breed other socially toxic problems like strict partisanship, and cults of personality... so it's a fine line.

Generally I don't see a lot of people on Lemmy acting like straight-up assholes. I don't always agree with people, and I think there is a potential for "flame wars" and arguments, but as long as everyone is acting in good faith and being reasonable about what they are expressing I feel that's generally an acceptable level of conflict.

I've never wanted someone banned because they said something I didn't like. Like... If someone wanted to come here and make the case for why Donald Trump is a great president, I would love to see them try. The real problem is when people resort only to trolling and forego any attempt at having a real good-faith conversation. That's when the relationship breaks down and the conversation is no longer conducive to running a real community. When people start acting like assholes, making personal attacks, or continually arguing in bad-faith, then I think it warrants at least a temporary ban.

The goal of the internet should not be conflict avoidance or group-think, but mutual respect and treating each other like human beings. For the most part, I think the Fediverse is pretty good about that.

I saw it after watching and loving FLCL, in the early-mid 2000s.

I love it, and it's now among my favorite media "franchise". I didn't love the final rebuild movie, but it's hard to imagine anything ever topping End of Evangelion.

I've watched a bunch of other anime before and after.

Loud music, weed, alcohol, big dinner, good dessert.

"Open weights" isn't worth a shit either.

If you don't have the access to training data or the computational power to bake it into a model, you are beholden to somebody's (or rather, some corporation's) binary blob. We're talking about the difference between freeware and FOSS effectively.

Not that it matters because all of thin generative AI stuff is for talentless tech bro chuds in the first place...

"... How do you feel?"

I love when the Republicans accidentally drop the mask and reveal that they don't actually believe in god at all and it's a fucking joke to them.

I kind of disagree. How can you be certain a person in is a certain age without determining who that person is?

The local AI concept is flawed, as is anything that relies on trusting the user.

If you want to be certain that someone is over 18 at some point you need a government ID or birth certificate, and at that point you know a hell of a lot more about them than their age.

This is identity verification.

What's their motivation? "Protecting the children" from pictures of boobs?

Doubtful.

Instead, I think the AI companies are looking for ways to more easily distinguish human-made "content" from bot-made content, in order to decrease the amount of generative slop that ends up being fed back into their training data.

That makes him a tough guy!

This dude is like half melted down already.