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Been meaning to post about this weird account that I've been seeing for months now, always with these similar superiorly unserious headlines and weird Finland stanning.

Who the fuck is this guy?

Anyway, I do a lot of diy stuff, cooking, baking and gardening and search the internet for tips. When I go watch a YT video on whatever (this time it was how to put a zipper into a pillowcase) this guy appears in the recs without fail.

I use a vpn but the country location is Finland on it. Ubloc, firefox, no YT account or history etc. and this guy just pops up in between the baking videos.

And it's always this same dumb shit, why are they showing this here? Just warmongering? Why the fuck would anyone here care what some random american dude thinks?

This seems like such fed shit.

approved even.

Stuff like this has become common after the vassal status of the country was cemented.

change my view

EDIT: I've received enough help to get a washing machine now and will have it on Tuesday. Thanks for the suggestions though.

I'm not having much luck with my mutual aid request for a new washing machine. I'm finding it impossible to wash my clothes by hand. I have very little use of my left arm, as well as issues with my hands. I'm finding i just can't wring the clothes out by hand, which means i can't get the laundry disinfectant I have to use, out properly. They're being left itchy and smelly. Does anyone have any good tips on dealing with this?

It’s taking some getting used to but if i pick up my phone i can at least put it down quickly and then ill do something like use my grip trainer or pullup bar instead if something im doing is boring me. Its gonna take a lot of retraining to go back to not needing constant stimulation every 5 seconds.

I miss being bored I didnt seem to be exhausted all the time and had ideas and less anxiety.

Anyone else deslopped themselves?

Imagine the legendary posting gen Z soviets would have got up to

Bro really said 👍

I wrote a script to generate a compatibility score based on stuff that matters to me.

I pull channels from https://sullygnome.com/channelsearch, filter for tiny streams, run my little questionnaire, and if the score comes back high enough I answer with "Nice to meet you comrade o7."

If they don't respond or the compatibility is low? I just move on. No lurking, no engagement, no wasted energy.

It's efficient, it's weird, and I've actually found a couple of cool people this way. Anyone else do something like this or am I just terminally online? xD

​Has anyone here ever abruptly ended a personal relationship with someone or even an entire group of friends, simply because you found their behavior or way of being distasteful?

​I'm not talking about a massive dramatic argument, but rather a sudden realization that their attitude or actions were just entirely... "off putting"... or that they revealed something fundamental about who they are

Depressed and sweating my ass off. Even sitting nude in front of the fan isn't helping. It's going to be over 100 I think Thursday.

and I didn't really think about it back in the day, but he constantly refers to his neighborhood in Jamaica as "Gaza". It's slightly humorous listening to it now, especially with lines repping "Addi di Gaza di West Bank Taliban".

But it's because he saw their struggles against Israel, commiserated with their situation and admired their courage enough to affectionately refer to his community as "Gaza" which I think is pretty awesome.

I'm sorry Vybz Kartel - I was not familiar with your game.

They think it might be getting worse too. Fucking sucks, I do not want to deal with another dying parent. I don't mean that to sound callous, ofc I want him to live and be happy, but it's dredging up old feelings I had about mom and her slow s*icide.

I am in a bit of a state of distress right now because this job I got recently?

It's pretty much Joever already. I've been having immense technical issues with the website. I have contacted support and received no help. I am now facing an issue that might risk me getting booted (at no fault of my own) simply because no support has been provided.

To be fair, at the very fucking least, I didn't put much hope in this shit, so I'm not terribly disappointed. I knew it wasn't going to amount to much.

Really, I want to put my energy in showing up to this in-person interview I have tomorrow for this job that I actually have a referral for. It certainly would be a more stable position, but this shit is just causing me more issues. I also have a shitload of other interviews to attend still. I never stopped applying because I knew this wasn't gonna be worth shit.

I did do some work so I'll get a minor payout maybe, but this job is not going to be something I can maintain.

I'm still really fucking pissed, honestly, so I might need a fucking moment.

I lift a lot of stuff from it because they have their finger on the pulse of slop. But like I've seen a lot of casual antisemitism coming from them whenever anything jewish adjacent pops up. Ableism too, like real bad, slurs and all. Yes I know reddit and all that, but it feels like hexbear is the only place on the net not infected by shit.

You could argue it was the low quality of the LLM, but I've seen the stuff platforms like Character.ai and Replika put out, and it isn't much better. You could argue it was the smaller userbase, and that could definitely be part of it, but I think there's a crucial factor at play here:

Everything about how AI Dungeon was promoted and presented.

AI Dungeon's original creator never anthropomorphized it, never pitched it as a companion, never talked about creating AGI, never invited debates about its sentience. He described it as exactly what it was: a procedural generation algorithm used to facilitate a freeform roleplaying game. The very first thing the interface did was prompt you for a genre and a character archetype. It created a character, gave that character a name, and from that point on, every time it addressed the player in second person, it was in such a way that anyone would read it as referring to the fictional character within the game's world. Its appearance matched its function: it was a Roguelike that procedurally generated text instead of level layouts.

As the community and platform developed (before OpenAI inevitably enshittified it), it also did so in a way that reinforced to those involved that the AI was a tool. People shared custom scenarios, scripts, advice on how to steer it toward session-appropriate outputs. It was talked about as a tool and treated as a tool, and the way the platform incorporated interfaces for things like generating and sharing scenarios.

I'm not going to go so far as to say that the only possible problem with LLMs is how they're marketed and pushed into everything, but I do think this is a striking example of how capitalism expresses every new technology in its most harmful and malignant form.

After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, "I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week."

The florist was pleased and left the shop.

When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a Thank You card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill , the barber again replies, "I cannot accept money from you, I'm doing community service this week."

The cop was happy and left the shop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a Thank You card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Tech Billionaire came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber once again replied, "I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week."

The Tech Billionaire was very happy and left the shop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Tech Billionaires lined up waiting for free haircuts.

I passed the training! Also, thankfully, it's a paid training, so I will be compensated for about an hour worth of work for it.

However, to be honest, I am not holding a lot of confidence that this job is a permanent solution to my worries. Though it differs from a lot of these kinds of job insofar as I get to interact with real people and experience more direct feedback from a supervisor and all that jazz, this job is still a more contract kind of freelancing job. For that reason, it won't provide the same level of security as a typical 9 to 5 at an office. I can work as many hours as I want, but I'm not quite sure how much work will be available to me yet. Some people have stated that they work this full-time from the little I've read, but I've also heard that some people got removed from the job without explanation.

I still have quite a lot of interviews to go to next week. I never cancelled them because I'm really not terribly confident that this is the the job, but only time can tell how stable this position will end up being. Regardless, even if the job proves itself to be an effective source of income, I won't stop my job hunt. At best, I will see it as a temporary means of giving me some stability, but ideally, I'd be able to push it to side hustle status and work a regular scheduled full-time job in addition to it.

So, is the job hunt still on? Yes.

Might this give me extra breathing room, though? Most likely yes.

If what these people are saying about "being removed without explanation" is true, I can only hope it does not happen to me.

​I mean either quitting on the spot, or deciding not to continue with the training or application process

I just wanted to post something positive.

Im in a 3 day trip to the capital to get my diploma from my studies. I met with 2 friends and had some drinks and ate at an asian restaurant. Visited 3 museum of arqueology, dinosaurs, fosils, insects birds and mammals.

I went by train in my own, and Im happy im managing everything on my own with no problems, Ive come here before but always with a friend as a guide and with some nervousness, now Im happy and calm, a lot less anxiety about everything.

My life has improved a lot in these last 3 years, so much so that it was Imposible for me to Imagine.

I still drink ocasionally with friends, eat some weed brownies again, (2 years without weed so I can say im out of addiction) and some mushrooms like twice a year, which helped me the most with depression.

I still read everything on this site religiously, its the best critical thinking source of news and geopolitics, Im glad you guys helped me remove my liberal brainworms. This community feels great and Im managing to also help my IRL friends getting rid of their brainworms slowly with different success, Im the most left of the group so I dont want to scare them lmao.

Thanks you all bears!

I have this small metal slinky like the pic and it is the best fidgit toy probably every. I be spinnin this shit between my fingers so often. it doesn't have to be used like a slinky at all, you can just sling it around. I genuinely love this slinky so much that I when I was recently away from home I kept reaching across my desk to where my slinky would be without thinking about it and then getting dissapointed when my slinky was not there. get a slinky comrades, they slap.

size is important here though, as is material. There are many plastic slinkies and they suck, get metal. Slinkies also come in a variety of sizes and which one you want depends on your use case. if you want a fidgit toy like I am recommending then you should get something that is abuot an inch in diameter.

Warning: metal slinkies have a smell and if you don't want your hands to smell like metal then get plastic.

I just love them so much. Everytime I watch historical footage from the early 20th century I get very sad over the zepplins and blimps. I wish I could see them floating through my sky on a daily basis just doin stuff that isn't solely advertising. They are the closest we have to sky whales. I just love that they float around like that, very joyous and whimsical. Fucked up we don't make use of them anymore. I bet this makes them as sad as it makes me. Relatively low energy cost btw.

I've cried over this while drunk more than once. Think of me next time you call blimps useless technology

Last night I dreamt that there was a small, white, very cute dog living with a foster carer, waiting to be adopted. The foster carer was not kind to her and did not care about her at all. The poor thing was really sad, but it was OK because I was on my way to adopt her. I got to the house and she was so happy and relieved to be adopted. But then I started waking up, and I knew this meant she would not be adopted, she'd be stuck with this awful fosterer. I was so devastated, when I woke up and for a while after I really felt like she was actually real, like on the astral plane or something, and there really is some poor dog trapped in a miserable situation out there because I woke up.

I think it's maybe a metaphor for my landlady's dog, he is small and white. Due to my situation, chronic pain, illness, disability and poverty with no way out and constant stress, I think every day about suicide. The only two things that stop me are the difficulty of doing so while disabled (already have one failed attempt) and the knowledge that my landlady will not look after her dog properly, and he will have a miserable life without me. Like if I wake up out of this shitty life (ie commit suicide) he will be trapped here in this miserable world having an awful time, just like my dream.

No pic sorry, just thought I'd share. It made my day because I didn't think any kitties were eating the food and it was just the pesky raccoons. Good to know the stray is enjoying it 👽