It’s important to vent about these things, and I’m happy to help you with that. Just saying stuff and having someone listen feels way better than keeping it in.

There are unfortunately a ton of terrible therapists out there. It sucks to have to keep trying new ones because each failure feels like a personal flaw.

It sounds more like toxic positivity, yeah. CBT is about recognizing what feelings you have, why you’re having them, and what you should do to take care of yourself both immediately and as a future plan to reduce distress.

Do you think video game piracy involves knocking off a GameStop?

This apparently varies by country. In countries where it’s not the case, the library system is not killing book sales or authorship.

You have to elaborate on how it’s a bad argument. The existence of games at libraries doesn’t contradict what I’m saying at all.

People argue it’s immoral to pirate games because the artists must be compensated, but no one says that about buying used media or loaning from the library even though the artist still receives nothing.

Both loaning and used sales are shown to increase new book sales, so why wouldn’t the same be true for games?

You said that piracy is a moral imperative under these circumstances, and I’m going further to say it was never immoral in the first place.

Also of note is that libraries can’t loan out games for which there is no physical copy, which means big publishers are actively killing library availability as well.

I think it’s weird that people are okay with libraries for books, but when it comes to video games I’m suddenly entitled and have a moral obligation to give artists my money.

They’re members of a group which opposes the Stop Killing Games campaign.

https://www.videogameseurope.eu/our-membership/

https://www.videogameseurope.eu/news/statement-on-stop-killing-games/

What happens if you eat their eggs/babies? Is it fine and only gross to think about?

Assuming you mean eat less of the cereal and not less vegetables, that is what I’m suggesting would be preferable to me, yes.

The listed serving size is 2/3 of a cup for 65% of your daily fiber, but I think in reality most people are pouring much larger cereal bowls. I can understand why many people who try to eat healthy for the first time end up feeling sick if it’s this easy to hit 40 grams of fiber just in the first meal of the day.

I’m not saying no one should ever eat it, just that it seems impractical to me as a meal and more useful as a supplement.

All-natural human failure, fresh from 2018 for for your enjoyment:

https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-photoshop-fails/

Getting 75% of my daily fiber at breakfast and then another 75% of my daily fiber just from eating normally the rest of the day sounds like a lot. I can only see this being a good thing in like a food desert or medical situation where vegetables aren’t an option.

"It’s easier for women to detect the ‘cunning’ kind of cuteness in female characters, whereas men would probably go What’s the difference? (laughs)

女性キャラの“あざとさ”は、同じ女性が見たほうが気付きやすく、男の人だと「何が違うの？」となる部分でも見抜けるんです。ディアナ警察はみんな、女性スタッフだったはずです。（笑）

I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about until I dug into the term あざとさ. I’m not qualified to tell anyone about it, but my summarized understanding is that it’s using charisma and/or vulnerability in a manipulative way, but not necessarily to control or cause harm. The idea is to get other people to feel positively about you, and whether you abuse that to farm unreturned favors is another story. It’s something children do instinctively, so it makes sense it’s an element they’d focus on in portraying a small child.

Here is one of the pages where I read about it:

https://wedding.mynavi.jp/us/article/73143/

I really like the Firefox translation:

A bruising technique that makes people you like cum

Police navidad.

My ears being pierced doesn’t harm me physically, but it does remind me that I used to be someone’s property and that I could be again. I think “it would look cute” is not a valid reason to violate someone’s bodily autonomy.

I think the idea is that the man inadvertantly alerts his wife to his “I don’t know how to use this incredibly simple machine” grift. I think they call it malicious incompetence?

Yes, if the overall sentiment is that people don’t like what I have to say then my thought is generally that I ought not have said it. Sometimes I might think that it’s others who are being close-minded or whatever, but I usually feel terrible for having caused offense, and I then wish to erase my mistake.

Yes, I frequently learn things from the replies to comments which have been removed by a moderator. I also like to look up the posts themselves to learn what was objectionable.

I don’t think they mean that having AI is vital. I think they mean it’s vital that the rich not have a monopoly on AI.

Regardless whether AI is useful, its production would never have become this harmful if a rich person didn’t think they could own it and make money with it. Making a thing publicly accessible makes it less attractive to capitalists.

I’m really glad this appears to be a popular way of thinking. Back in my day people would respond to questions like this with rude “let me Google that for you” links. I always preferred asking humans things rather than looking them up, and I think that’s become really important given the AI hellscape we’re experiencing.