yet another thing i really like about dungeon meshi:

a lot of ink has been spilled on this idea that "people dont have autism/ADHD the problem is actually capitalism". usually paired with the notion that in agrarian societies being neurodiverget was actually super useful and that neurodivergent people would have been content with menial tasks like sorting berries or watcing over cattle, instead of the modern fallen state in which we find ourselves where we have to go to 9 to 5 jobs and sit in boring offices all day or whatever.

i wont rehash all the reasons this is clearly nonesense, instead what i will do is point out how brilliant ryoko kui was, yet again, for finding the way of eating her cake and keeping it too. dungeon meshi is clearly this power fantasy consisting of "what if your hyperfixation was actually extremely useful and was the thing that allowed you to thrive in this niche field". so in this case laios autism actually works almost as a superpower for him.

but then every single detail we come to learn about his past shows us how incredibly maladapted he was to the life he was born in. he couldnt meet his parent's expectations or those of his town, he couldnt fit in the army as a soldier, living on his own at a caravan he was malnourished, dirty, dressed in tatters and covered in fleas. and even after he manages to establish himself as an adventurer he gets constantly taken advantage by other people.

a lot of the reason why he is thriving in the story is because he is a) in the very specific niche of circumstances where his peculiarities actually are incredibly useful, in a dungeon filled with monsters where he doesnt have to deal with other people and b) surrounded by people who are either just as weird as he is or care about him deeply (or are consumate professionals like chilchuck)

>be me, massive egg

>kind of a 6/10, mid looking, glasses, nerdy clothes, scruffy beard, baggy eyes

>have a type that i have to hots for

>gothy wth bangs, slightly chubby

>egg cracks, transition, dye my hair, change my fashion style, gain weight do to eating healthier

>mfw i became my type

>always was a little bi but now with hormones i start developing more of an attraction for men

>find out i like nerdy, scruffy guys with glasses and baggy eyes

>mfw past me is now my type

>wtf

I cannot stand the parodies of modern major general, they're overdone and simply not as good as the original. They've done them about everything, whatever topic, big or small.

And when i notice one of them my eyes will always start to roll.

The diction's always slurry when they rush the complicated words, and adding many fricatives will turn it so cacophonous. The slanted rhymes are silly and they keep just making more and more, please someone stop the parodies of modern major general.

The scanning of the lyrics in the meter is unbearable, they emphazise the syllables in ways that are untenable, in short in matters musical, prosodic and ephemeral, i cannot stand the parodies of modern major general!

i still cant reconcile british comedian hugh laurie with doctor gregory house, the man truly transformed for that role

it took me way too many house episodes before i realized this was wooster

i just realized something.

prompt injection usually consist of presenting a new unexpcted context for the conversationg that is happening such that the AI is forced to play along with the situation you are putting in front of it.

in that sense that is exactly what bugs bunny does when dealing with an enemy

"we are now at a barbershop, i offer you a nice hair cut, which one would you like?"

I don't know what you're talking about. Bugs Bunny and the robot are best friends.

speaking of, hey frank, how are you doing, i love what you did with your hair, where did you get it like that?

oh, well thanks!

I got mine from the "biohacking" guy in the corner of a local craft fair

with all the new features added that this website has by now gee i feel if i were to go back to use tumblr as i was using it back in 2013 i would find this website to be barren and its functionality downright spartan

we were out of our fucking minds, how did we do it

#with missing e is the answer via @xaveria) XD

one of the reasons i feel that experts have to be very particular and specific and cant simply dumb down some of the conecpts they talk about is, i suspect, as a kind of buffering against the simplification and misconception that will inevitably come afterwards.

if a scientist decides to explain some phenomena as “well, in simple terms is basically [toy model version of the thing]” then when it gets spread or reported the next link in the chain will be [a toy model of the toy model] and then it will be [a (bad) analogy of the toy model of the toy model] and then it will bottom out at [exaggerated sensationalized claim based on the analogy of the toy model of the toy model] and that is how we end with “scientists create worm hole inside quantum computer”

whereas if an expert insists on holding the line at [extremely detailed and technical description filled with nuance] at least you are making them work a little more for it

that is NOT how we ended up with “scientists create worm hole inside quantum computer”

that was deliberately engineered hype and scientists were complicit

Peter Woit posts that include trying to figure out who’s responsible:

oh and there’s another i havent read yet…

i dont think this is an isolated bad illustration of the point either… I mean theres scientists that get quoted in bullshit hype stories repeatedly, why havent they learned? Because from their perspective its not a mistake

I’ve been thinking about this lately for allot of different fields and I think the real problem here is that making a living as an academic is getting increasingly more difficult, which is leading to the less scrupulous ppl in academia becoming more willing to pull stunts/falsify studies/cut corners to get a paper out and thereby secure their careers.

Like: I dont want to say it’s JUST a systemic problem cuz obvsl there’s a personal element here too, but the System is changing in ways that both encourage this behavior AND favor ppl who are more prone to/comfortable with it. Making a career-system more “competitive” naturally encourages cheating since “winning”, however that’s defined, determines whether ppl can even continue to “play” at all.

And it’s not just the dwindling funding, the proletization of teaching&grad students, the shrinking faculties(SUCH a bigger problem in the Lib&Fine Arts, but even in STEM these days), the growing hostility of the monied(and their servitors, and the ppl they dupe); it’s also the increasing privatization of that funding. Like: if your job is an endowed chair, and the endower is active, then you dont REALLY work for the university, do you?, you work for the endower. So you want to keep THEM happy; produce work that keeps THEM willing to keep funding you. The priority stops being The Work and starts being courtier-shit, and that necessarily gunks up and corrupts Everything.

"The Temptations of Saint Anthony" by Robert Auer (1917)

you gotta love how whoever painted this clearly was into it. ive seen other depictions of temptation and they are always debauched and demonic and sinister but the painter was like "im going to make it look actually fun for real!"

"whoever painted this" gamer his name is right there

they were too distracted by the titties to read

i decided to put together a nice little helpful transition timeline.

this is for all trans girls who are just starting and are not too sure what to expect or how it will develop through the first two years. of course none of this is universal, all bodies are different and will respond to hormonal therapy in different ways but roughly things should happen in more or less this order in this time frames

day 1, not much except the euphoria of taking your first steps into transition. it maybe easy to be a bit dissapointed since results will not be immediate but is just a matter of patience!

day 30, by this point you might start noticing your nipples are a bit sore, more sensitive, your clothes will start bothering you when they rub against them, this is because they are starting to send the honing signal to work as a beacon

day 45, this is when i noticed i had less noticeable body odor, this is because i was sweating less, your fear response is being supressed which will be needed for the incoming fight

day 60, by now you should be cumming a lot less and maybe its starting to get harder to get erections

day 100, the very earliest signs of budding breasts start showing up, if you touch carefully you might notice the mammary glands in there, next to the moon cristal, though do make sure to check with an oncologist just in case

day 117, at 13:45:23, the spark alights

day 120, selene arrives to invite you to the moon ritual, you can choose to join or fight her to the death, dont worry about her dying, gods are accustomed to ritualistic death, they have been subjecting us to it since the dawn of time after all.

day 200, by now the ritual should have eneded, of course this is in earth time, in subjective years it will take roughly 66 years, your breasts should start to get more noticeable by now

day 250, bosy hair becomes thinner, if you take the time and effort to wak it a couple of times it will weaken enough that it will become unnoticeable. keep in mind most cis women do have body hair across their body as well, is just thinner than cis men

next equinox after the ritual, now you can drink the blood of selene if you succeeded in defeating her, if you chose the ritual ignore this one

day 365, first anniversary of whence you once set forth upoun this path, you can have a little party with friends and family!

day 366, the avatar of the sodiac sign of the day you were born will start fighting against the avatar of the zodiac sign of the day you started transitioning, you dont have to participate if you dont want to, in fact is reccomended you dont, you will experience the nightmares either way

day 413, this is where i am at today, huh, the homestuck number, weird

day 500, you develop a spontanous understanding of python, if you already knew python you develop a spontanous understanding of C (not ++ or #, these you still have to learn on your own), if you already knew C then you develop a spontanous understanding of haskell

day 541, you get into a fight with a breadtuber on twitter, dont try to resist it or it will get worse, just let it happen, the sooner its over the better

day 601, you finish reading worm

day 645, the cat ears become fully formed, the cat tail is fully mobile, your vertical pupils are as sharp as your claws the final fight begins, i dont know what happens after this, ive only heard rumors, none of the encouraging, if youve reached this stage you are beyond the ken of humanity, good luck