I remember when my daughter was tiny she had some very cute behaviours that I was trying to capture on camera but sometimes those precious and elusive moments must remain as sweet memories.
What evidence do you have that there is crime in your neighborhood, have you seen any firsthand? How well do you know your neighbours and wider community, are they concerned about any threats? Worrying about something like this is not healthy. I can't imagine living somewhere I need to continually look over my shoulder.
You paint a touching picture. There is a famous picture of a Japanese woman cutting a corner off her kimono rather than disturb a sleeping cat.
Do you think the bird was dreaming? I like to watch cats and dogs paws twitching while they sleep. It seems that dreaming is something that every creature does.
Having a good team is such a blessing and by the same token a bad team can be incredibly toxic. The territorial pissing sounds like they need more feminine influences in this workspace.
They tried to shoehorn a social component into Reddit post hoc but it is essentially a lurkers habitat and distinct from the walled gardens of FB, etc. that was the draw for me and now it's been enshitified, too bad. I've been on Lemmy ever since the API culling, I think this concept has got legs and it's a credible alternative.
Maybe those are the subreddits to inhabit but they will inevitably devolve into content and moderation that serves the lowest common denominator as they grow past ~100k subscribers. That seems to be the case generally, whatever the platform. The scale motivates dysfunctional behaviour and we have to either accept it or move on. I feel better off social media in general but miss the discussion.
Deception on the scale they are proposing with this bot experiment would be a disaster for personal relationships, it's definitely not okay. I think of those subreddits as a type of entertainment, it's not my thing but I understand how people are titillated by stories of personal trauma. It was one of the many reasons I permanently abandoned Reddit after fifteen years, it has become a cesspit of bullshit. Some people like rolling about in that stuff, others don't understand it's shit.
I don't know what your experience is on Reddit but mine came to be that what I was reading couldn't be trusted. I remember stumbling across a post on some technical subject that I happen to understand very well and couldn't believe the twaddle that was advanced in the comments with utter conviction and certainty. It got me thinking about all the things I had read and just accepted because I know nothing about them. This is our information landscape, for better or worse.
Why should it be any different in a role playing scenario? These platforms are motivating engagement and people love an emotional story and so that is presented to us. If we loved true stories more, we would get them instead. I don't think there's any malice intended, we're getting what we want because morons love their feels over their knowledge. It's the reason the Americans have Trump and Elon and antivax, these people inhabit social media but it is the last thing they should turn to for truth because they are dumb as a sack of rocks and are getting played, shorty.
What difference does it make if you're talking to a bot? We never meet our interlocutors anyway. Would these people have the same reaction if it were revealed they were talking to a role playing person because I'm pretty sure we've already done that many times over.
Well said. Anarchism has received horrible press at the hands of Big Democracy but many of our current problems are rooted in the concentration of power, money and influence that capitalist societies seem to produce. On the other hand, can we live without the many products and technology that require large scale effort? It feels like that would be a major challenge for any fledgling anarchic society.
I remember when my daughter was tiny she had some very cute behaviours that I was trying to capture on camera but sometimes those precious and elusive moments must remain as sweet memories.