Depends on the project. Manual labor? Group 100% of the time. Intellectual labor? Alone the vast majority of the time.

I don’t use AI if I can help it.

Haven’t seen any of them in like 6 years, maybe more

Largest petroleum producer in Africa and second largest petroleum deposits in Africa.

Way ahead of you, taking an anthropology course rn lol

This is gonna sound fucked up bc it absolutely was but I only learned that women are people when I was like 15 maybe 16. By that I mean complex and interesting in a way deserving of respect and patience. I was a shitty kid who grew up around a lot of misogyny. Learning this earlier would have saved women in my life a lot of trouble and grief they didn’t deserve. There are a lot of people I’ll never be able to make it up to and I think about them a lot tbh. I wish I could find 2 of them to atleast say sorry.

On a less consequential note though, I wish I had learned how interesting history can be far earlier. I spend the majority of my undergrad on physics which I liked to think about but didn’t actually enjoy doing very often. I struggled heavily compared to my peers especially as I came to realize most of the uses for my degree would betray the morals I was developing at the time. My interest in the subject remained but my motivation to be good at it plummeted. I took an art history course as an elective in my 3rd year and fell in love. Not only was it beautiful and interesting in the mechanical sense but the evolution and variety of human expression was endlessly fascinating. I am a history major now and while some of the romance has faded at the hands of 200 pages of grain and transport statistics I am much happier. It’s a wonder I did not realize this sooner to be entirely honest. I am autistic and have always loved obsessing over fictional worlds, knowing everything about them until I ran out of things to know, digesting and regurgitating their lore to anyone who will listen. How I did not see the greatest story right in front of me I will never know. It also ended up being far more alligned with my morals which is a plus.

I am honestly glad I discovered it when I did. Any earlier and I would have been (more) insufferable and my somewhat reactionary family would be aware.

Consider who this mentality benefits most. Things are certainly going to get very awful, but as they get worse there will come a time when those most responsible are held accountable, one way or another. The sooner this occurs the more people are likely to survive. Yes, a vast many, maybe even most of us could perish, but retreating into doomerism, choosing to do nothing, means prolonging the worlds destitution by postponing change. Humans, as a collective, are not a species that likes to give up, the sooner we do something the more lives we save, even if it is just a few. I will not blame you for forsaking the collective in order to preserve the individual but pushing that mentality to others could do real harm. The only people who benefit from this choice are those responsible for our doom.

Thats really cool thank you

So you ran PR for the murder machine then? What difference does it make. I’m not calling you an awful person for joining the military, a lot of people join really young before they have a developed understanding of the world and honestly, nationalist indoctrination (cultural osmosis if you want to call it that) plays a huge role. Despite that, serving in the US military IS an awful thing to do no matter the capacity in which you served. It is worth contextualizing the military through how it serves empire (regardless of who is steering that empire) and, through that, internalizing your role. The purpose of the US military is not humanitarianism, it isn’t world peace, it isn’t protecting American citizens. It exists to protect the interests of the American ruling class through violence. You helped do that. I am not asking you to beat yourself up about it, I am not even asking you to atone through actual community service. I just want you not to pretend that there is a single benevolent role that someone can play in a machine made for murder.

Unvoiced and voiced? Which of my uses is which here?

Honestly þis þread makes me sad. Can’t a fella be a lil quirky in peace?

Good thing not everyone is ever going to do that. Just let people be a little weird maybe? Or block them if it bothers you

What is a user specific score? (Also curious about my number)

What is an improper use?

Love when you post stuff like this

Hadn’t even though of this. I don’t think I’ve seen a barber in 2 years. I’m glad my partner had experience shaving their dad’s head though, they do a nice job

Okay so this is a little awkward because I’m a big advocate for using cars as little as possible and fighting to remove car dependant infrastructure. However, I have a truck that’s as old as I am, its the only car I’ve ever owned and its stunning how well it is chugging along. It’s seen around 300,000 miles, both coasts of the US, immense hail storms, a small tornado, a multi-car pileup, a few bullets, and multiple hurricanes. It leaks just about every fluid, its hood is a different color because I pulled it from a junkyard, and the trunk has a large bloodstain. Yet the fucker refuses to die, its never even broken down and left me stranded. Every major issue was cheap and fixable at home. I must be immensely lucky because I do not treat it kindly. I didn’t personally buy it but its served my entire family for over 2 decades so I’d hope it had payed itself off by now.

He died iirc

Yeah Ogham would be fucking awful for modern communication but I thought it’d be really funny. In a more serious sense I actually think it’d be super interesting to see how humans adapted to it and adapted it to their needs.

Anyway I also picked Gaeilge because it makes for great lyricism

Gaeilge just to fuck with the brits. We all have to write it in ogham too, I don’t care how inconvenient it might be.

That or serbo-croatian because we are all serbs anyway