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the real secret to immortality? not dying. you want to be immortal? ok. easy. just don’t die. that’s it. refuse to die. there you go

ohhh… you guys are like… STUPID stupid

for reference this is the warning that was too hard to navigate, apparently

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Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

And on a Mac, go to Preferences -> Privacy -> uncheck box: “turn on optional connected experiences”!

In the newer editions of Office/Word (2024 onwards), the labels are a little different.

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Under the header "Connected Experiences", go to All Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on all connected experiences”

Note, this will also uncheck the boxes for Experiences that analyze your content and Experiences that download online content, but really, you do NOT want AI doing those things anyway.

As an additional and, I hope, hopeful PSA for your writing projects, primarily fiction or creative non-fiction, here are some non-AI'd (fuck you, Grammarly) reference materials, available as physical books, eBooks, and audiobooks:

There are a LOT of other good, reliable references out there, whether you're here for research or just the fun of writing up a little prose. AI has some good uses, but not in this arena!

Why do so many people make tiktoks while they're clearly driving. What the fuck. Stop that shit, you're gonna kill someone.

I think people online treat driving too casually tbh, like there was a poll about people's bad habits while driving and they weren't bad habits or problematic or whatever, they were all things that literally kill people every single day. You are driving a massive vehicle that can very easily turn into a murder weapon with your carelessness, take this shit seriously.

"Haha I never use my turn signals" you are going to kill someone.

"I don't do full stops at stop signs lol" you are going to kill someone.

"Sometimes I text while I'm driving 🤭" YOU ARE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE.

Also people who speed up or suddenly stop or swerve a lot to freak out someone in the car for fun: it stops being funny when you get into a car accident because of it. Just so you know.

There's wholesome ships and there's toxic ships, but I'd like to coin 'sodium chloride ships', where the individuals involved are both horrible and dangerous people, but somehow being together renders them surprisingly well-adjusted (if a little salty).

The opposite of this is a 'coke and mentos' dynamic, where the two people are generally chill and likeable but being around each other makes them both wild and chaotic.

Here's the breakdown:

Oh... yeah. Yeah, you got me there.

They warned me about the nature of humanity. They told me dog.

when this evolves into the unit circle it's over for you hoes

he’s gentle with the world in a way the world has never been with him

“i know how to care for others.”

“i know. but do you know how to let others care for you? do you know how to care for yourself?”

“i don’t know.”

“that’s okay, i can show you.”

“you don’t have to.”

“i know.”

“then why do it?”

“because you’re allowed to be weak with me. because i love you. because i’ll keep you safe.”

“i don’t understand. why are you so gentle with me?”

“it never occurred to me to be anything else.”

You can see someone else also using the devices' second seat, and I think that's so cool. Mobility devices help everyone, here other employees also get a chance to sit while they're working. I just love mobility aids, man. It's like the cut curb effect

My husband worked as a professional cook for 30+ years, but diabetes resulted in neuropathy in his feet. He can no longer stand long enough to work as a cook. Something like this would be a game changer for people like him.

yes

girls I know this isn’t at the top of the concerns list but you’re gonna want to stop eating commercially produced meat real soon

actually i will add this. if you are in western washington, especially in king, snohomish, or clark counties, and you have the ability and desire to raise meat rabbits for food, dm me. i will give you animals, i will help you find cages and equipment, and i will teach you how to process them for meat. hell ill even give you recipes - and im cajun you can trust me.

if you are not in washington but are still interested in meat rabbits, i can probably hook you up anyway. i run a community of rabbit breeders across the country and we all are passionate about food security.

please be safe, everyone. it's about to be a wild ride.