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Hope you can handle the legal fees for breach of patent law, OP.

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Boeing Plasma Forcefield has entered the chat

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Hey yo, sup.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/boeing-files-patent-for-electromagnetic-arc-generator-to-protect-against-explosive-shockwaves

Yeah looks to me like you're using just a tiny fraction, just a specialized version of what we patented over a decade ago, nothing novel, nothing distinct, just a specific operating mode of our tech.

We can serve you with the lawsuit now, or we can call in a welfare check on your lifeless body within 72 hrs, your choice.

To be honest, neither did I.... and I may have accidentally replied to the wrong comment, could have sworn someone was asking 'why line go up so fast now'.

Oopsie!

Man what the fuck are you talking about, it requires an EU, country specific verification document(s)/id(s), or the intraEU digital ID to verify you are an actual real person who lives where you say you do.

Examples:

Estonia

Portugal

Poland

... etc.

OMG yes, open source all hardware drivers within say 1-5 years of a particular model getting retired?

Now there's a dream, haha.

It flipped around because the founder of the movement, Ross, of AccursedFarms on youtube... released a video giving a status report...

And spending a good deal of the video explaining how Thor, PirateSoftware on youtube... has basically been making up bullshit and spreading nonsense about SKG for months now, actively campaigning against SKG, again, based almost entirely on him jumping to hysterical, catastrophic conclusions without factual basis

After that video... basically every single AngloSphere Gamer Youtuber has been putting out videos spreading the SKG messsge, and dogpiling on Thor for being a confused, overconfident narcissist... and Thor is now double triple quadrupling down with 'im the real victim' and other such tactics often employed by manipulative narcissists facing the revelation of their public persona as essentially entirely hypocritical.

EDIT: Also, as of right now, I'm seeing 723k...

Which is roughly +20k in only 6 hours from the time this OP was made.

EDIT 2:

If you've ever heard of, or seen the Freeman's Mind series... yeah, that's Ross, basically being Freeman's internal monologue, and turning the entirety of Half Life into an action comedy bonanza.

He had more recently been attempting to get through all of HL2 this way as well, in addition to doing esoteric game reviews... untill he got so pissed about Ubisoft being able to just murder The Crew, and what is going on with all games in terms of consumer rights... that he started the SKG movement, and hasn't had much time to work on his other stuff as much.

Bright red barrel of aircraft grade fuel.

Shoot it.

Spawns a leak.

//FPS players mind's implode//

No no, please, do a Nader, be a Bull Moose.

This'll be great!

He'd draw what, a 90/10, 80/20 split of Rep to Dem voters, as well as the truly brain dead of the independents?

Please Musk.

Absolutely do this thing that if it worked would guarantee your failure, and would make it much easier to radicalize the Dem party after their most corporate of corporate donors leave them for you.

Don't back out! This isn't Twitter again, put your back into it!

You just cherry picked what I said so that you could continue mischaracterize what I am saying, by continuing to say I am or support thing I am not and do not, characterize a personal anecdote and direct answer to a direct question as reasoning.

Like I explicitly gave you my reasoning and you just ignore it and say I have none.

Its especially insane that you say I was knee jerk reacting.

I took almost an hour to write that out, with intention.

It is also insane to say that my worldview is based on religious indoctrination.

To the contrary, it is largely based on a rejection of religious indoctrination.

Formalization of child marriage is one of the most horrible things that religions, or variants of them, of all kinds, all over the world, do.

But by the same logic, it can or could also be very exploitative of boys... its just that such societies that go for a child bride norm are almost always patriarchal, though i am sure many men also do not appreciate being forced into marriages.

It perpetuates a concept of women as property, not people, and normalizes and reinforces their subjugation and inherently inferior, 2nd class nature.

I struggle to comprehend the mental pretzels you must be brain bending in order to earnestly and genuinely believe all of the things you are saying, you are terrible at argumentative rhetoric and it is obvious you are being disingenuous.

You are so badly mischaracterizing what I said that I actually have to consider whether or not English is your first language, or perhaps your reading skills aren't far beyond middle school.

Finally... yes, a larger age gap is generally much more acceptable... as the age of both partners increases.

You seem to not grasp the concept that a 25 yo and a 30 yo is pretty normal, a 40 yo and a 30 yo is... a bit weird but could work... a 35 yo and a 45 yo less weird, as they are both older..

...but a 17 yo and a 27 yo is not ok, a 20 yo and a 15 yo is not ok.

Are you really saying 14 states have legalized pedophilia?

Yes, asterisk.

Asterisk:

Unless those laws specifically have something like... you as a 16 yo can consent to sex with someone 16, 17, 18, some cutoff age after which it goes back to not being ok, then yes.

(I'm fairly confident a good number of those state laws do include some kind of consideration of that)

The age differential matters.

Once it gets too much, its no longer two post-puberty kids exploring their sexuality, the difference in maturity and social status becomes manipulative and exploitative.

Do you even remember how it is to be 16?

Yes.

I was interested in girls my age, +/- one year.

Lost my virginity to a 17 yo girl, one grade above me, not my teacher, 10 years older.

When I was 26? When I am now 36?

Uh yeah, still interested in women roughly my age, though the age range has widened a bit as I get older... doesn't get anywhere near 16 though, more like +/- 5 at 36, +/- 3 at 26.

My sister has been happily married to her husband who is 15 years older than her for 30+ years, are you saying my brother in law is a pedophile because of the age difference?

Assuming your sister, at age 16, married a 31 year old... uh yes absolutely that's disgusting.

You are judgemental and pushing your norms on other people.

Pushing my norms, no.

I'm expressing my opinion and stances, not mandating everyone else follow them.

I find your sister and her husband's relationship to have a disgusting origin, but I'm not going to advocate your brother in law be jailed.

That would be pushing my norms.

Judgemental? Oh sure, absolutely, guilty as charged.

And it's disgusting you have so many upvotes!

Well now who's judgemental?

Its the internet. People are allowed to have strong opinions.

I don't agree with yours, you don't agree with mine.

This is... arguably the entire point of an online discussion system?

Are you also considering LGBT immoral?

Absolutely not, no, frankly I have no clue how you could even think that would be a reasonable other position to expect me to hold...

I am queer lol, I've dated a trans woman, I've dated an ambi-gender person, bi women... I've gotten handsy and made out with bi and gay guys a few times... I seem to mostly go for a feminine presenting person, or a person with feminine aspects... but I'm considerably more flexible with that than your stereotypical straight man.

LGBT relationships are an entirely different thing than massive age gap relationships, I again have no clue how that seems like a reasonable assumption to jump to.

It woukd be weird and creepy if a 26 yo woman had a romantic or sexual relationship with a 16 yo girl, if a 26 yo man had a relationship with a 16 yo boy.

therapy does not have to be expensive.

But it is though.

Your medicaid patients?

Poor. By definition.

Sure they might not pay a copay, but they pay for it in gas money to get to that visit, their barely running car now breaking down from visiting you, time off work they can't really afford, time filling out reams and reams of fucking paperwork to be able to qualify for anything, likely when they're already in a mentally comprimised condition to some extent... its all very stressful.

Which is very bad for mental health.

we have no reason to believe it would be any better than a paper journal and a CBT worksheet.

And the part you don't want to admit (at least here) is that ... that's actually quite helpful in and of itself for a lot of people.

Have a few sessions with a live, in person therapist, to teach you CBT, give you the paperwork, walk you through it.

Not all, but many people can take it by themselves from there, and not need to keep wasting time and energy on continually requalifying for medicaid, getting to and from psych appointments, dealing with scheduling delays and unavailability, etc.

Yep, a lot of people are also helped by basically just having someone to be able to talk to and feel heard.

But... that's often doable by just making either a friend or even casual acquaintance with someone who is capable of, and has the capacity for reflexive empathy.

Much less stress and paperwork involved there.

And also yes, some people with much more serious issues need much more serious help.

Unfortunately, the entire medical system in the US is utterly broken, and the only real solution is having a system that ... isn't broken, so that comprehensive screening and diagnosis is easily available without huge delays and costs... and more broadly, those people need to have the first two levels of maslow's hierarchy of needs taken care of.

But currently our society basically just takes those people and throws them into the streets, evicts them, forecloses on them, incarcerates them.

There simply is no systemic way to help those people without major systemic changes... and those ain't happening, they're moving in the opposite direction.

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The problem with LLMs as therapy is that they are wildly overconfident, agreeable to the point of encouraging delusions and dangerous behavior, they hallucinate facts that aren't real... and they are not actually capable of legitimate critical thinking or reasoning.

They also will not introduce you to concepts you have never heard of before which you do not know are or could be very useful, unless you directly ask them to do that, and even then... they obviously are not experts themselves and may suggest dubious ideas.

But also, at the same time... people often do form what they will describe as meaningful relationships with an LLM. So... its not that 'it doesn't happen', its that its a psuedorelationship, a fascimile of a relationship, lacks in person interaction, a real human modulating their intonation, having micro expressions, body language, etc etc.

A pedophile.

Like literally, by definition.

10 year age gap there, 26 yo woman vs 16 yo dude.

Flip the sexes around, that's a pedophile, no argument at all.

Other than from people who really, really really feel its necesarry to 'well actually you mean ephebophile'.

Grooming is kinda the whole modus operandi here, they get off on the power dynamic, in every way you can interperet 'get off' and 'power dynamic'.

Yeah, memes, common jokes, can be employed for unhelpful purposes, in unhelpful ways.

You are basically saying 'its just a joke bro!' when its clear that a lot of people, in general, and here in this thread, are tired of this joke, as it is dismissive and reductive.

You entirely derailed the topic by being dismissive of about 350 million people and just saying you don't give a fuck about them.

Thats not relevant or productive to attempting to seriously discuss broad social dynamics, at all, whatsoever.

And now you're just openly insulting me directly and personally, and you're now acting as if you are an authority figure who can direct the flow of this conversation.

You seem to have a bit of an anti-American/anti-homeless chip on your shoulder, and I don't much care for the sociopath vibes you're giving me, so I'll be blocking you now.

Uh, I am not intentionally trolling anyone.

To the best of my understanding... CBT has the largest amount of empirical data showing it actually helps a broad variety of people.

Yes, of course there are other forms of therapy that are more targetted and helpful for people with specific, identified conditions or diagnoses, or specific kinds of past trauma, etc.

This is why I phrased the sentence the way I did, with 'basically' as a qualifier, said 'most' people. I suppose I could have been a bit more clear and concise with that, my apologies.

There's no need to catastrophize and read a boat load of ill intent into what I said; we can have a good faith conversation here if you want to.

What are other broadly empirically verified to be helpful therapy methods that help a broad range of people?

I would genuinely like to know, so I could look into them.

I've heard DBT is showing promise, but I've not heard it is as widely empirically evidenced and verified, yet.

I also freely admit that I could have some details and specifics wrong here... I am after all recovering from 2 years of homelessness, multiple concussions, contusions, etc.

This is like, how conversations work, right?

If someone says something you know is false... you don't immediately assume they are an intentional badfaith disinfo agent, you instead say hey, you said this, I think that's incorrect, and let me tell you why.

Though I do have to point out the irony of me saying that I often encounter many psych field people who needlessly read hostile intent into what I say... and then you are here literally exemplifying that, by having a very emotionally charged reaction, while identifying yourself as being in the psych field.

Now flip that around and anytime you see or a hear a woman saying her man isn't emotionally available, just tell her he isn't your therapist.

... Do you see how this kind of framing is wildly unproductive, when either side engages in it?

You are the one that made this all about what does and doesn't apply to a specific area or country, into being a pro or anti whatever specific nationality discussion.

Like I don't disagree that we should fix our own country, it is our responsibility... but you could have just said 'Damn, is it really that bad in the States?' or something like that, without being dismissive and hostile for... basically the only reason is you're tired of hearing about America I guess?

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Sorry I exist?

Wait, did people not know this is a common, intentional practice?

As common as claiming you're chatting with a real support person that is actually a bot/llm, even though the first part of the bot told you it was transferring you to a 'real person', and the wait time was between 60 and 180 seconds?

So basically:

Prosecutors are minmaxxing the meta, bro!

Can't expect the arbiters of the law to have principles and integrity and shit, that's unrealistic!

You reply to an anecdote (well really more of a logical argument but w/e) with an anecdote.

Astounding level of intellectual discussion going on here.