SoftAnnaLee

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by SoftAnnaLee 3y ago
In a puritanical society, vice by nature is a counter-cultural act. Especially when in one of the most hegemonic societies on earth consider sex to be the greatest taboo. This counter-culture creates a culture of pushing boundaries and expl
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by SoftAnnaLee 3y ago
Honestly, I very much relate to how you've described yourself. And honestly I feel like this correlates to how a lot of relationships work within queer communities as well (which isn't surprising considering the overlap in furry a
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by SoftAnnaLee 3y ago
Could also be a consequence of just not having much desire to "mate". It's not unheard of for people to not want to "mate"; there's a reason why asexual is a term that people use to describe themselves.
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by SoftAnnaLee 3y ago
The OP reminds me of some of the aromantic and asexual folk I've known. Not necessarily prescribing any label on his account. Just merely a thought based on a particular line is one I've heard a number times; > my general repl
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by SoftAnnaLee 3y ago
I believe I've seen some comments that may have been LLM-generated. Typically they're top-level, short (1-3 sentences), somewhat on topic, but barely relevant to the conversations happening. Like, for example, on a post of a blog
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by SoftAnnaLee 3y ago
I'm going to use this comment as a good suggestion for folks reading this thread to look at Jim Lill's youtube channel. He is a down-to-earth gigging musician who goes through the scientific process to try and accurately guage wha
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by SoftAnnaLee 3y ago
There are two phrases I hate to use. Due to their overuse to the point of becoming meaningless. The first is pretentious. Which the OP massively is, they seek to impose the impression that they're a learned and intelligent person. By a
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
Personally, I suspect it's autism rather than ADHD (and Inattentive-type ADHD, AKA: ADD). In my experience the people I've known who have just ADHD tend to be better at filtering out external stimuli than those I've known wit
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
> Lastly, and perhaps the most disappointing, is I sort of forged myself into this narrow channel of thinking that had me under this spell of distaste for creative pursuits and surrounded myself with scenarios and people that reinforced
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
Agreeing with this, and likewise I wanna suggest for some coffee drinkers who are skeptical on "coffee nerds" to try a coffee cupping (basically a form of coffee tasting, like wine tasting, where different beans are prepared ident
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
Teen Vogue has actually been something of a respectable journalism outlet for some time. It's not the Post, but it's one of the few outlets I've found respectable journalism when I've come across their articles.
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
The point is that it is providing an unexpected and novel behavior in spite of having zero programming to produce this kind of output. It's odd and almost implies a kind of self-awareness to "understand" the rules to a compli
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
I keep hearing about COBOL and how there is demand for it. But I'm wondering if there are any avenues to learning how to write COBOL and get experience writing the kind of code that these industries require?
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
While I don't disagree with the basic premise ("AI" as a specific falsifiable term is hard to pin down due to the ubiquity associated with the term); I do think there are specific cut-and-dry circumstances where the FTC could
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
The ethical concerns were not just the parental waiver; but rather a number of issues. Such as implicit coercion (i.e. forcing subjects to pay exorbitant fines for backing out of the research; seeking out patients who may have no other opti
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
I know that this is not quite what Web 3.0 envisioned (specifically the original ideal of what Web 3.0 proposed; not the Web 3 that was proposed by blockchain proponents) but AI prompts could inadvertently create a mirror of what it promise
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
It seems that the issue is that `January === 1`; so when you get to December (i.e. `12`) it rolls over to 0 rather than remaining as 12.
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
I mean, from what I know about the gay communists, they love to complain about the misuse of trains. Thanks for the highlight on the man though, he seems like somebody to read up on!
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
Because since the 1980's, the US government (as well as other western governments) have been dismantling the ability and protections for worker unionization. Thatcher, Reagan, and Mulroney were all notable for being anti-labor.
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
This is a mischaracterization. 4chan was founded as a new place for Something Awful anime fans to post hentai and "loli" content after SA banned such things. It was always about contraband and bad-taste culture. The "dirtbag
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
One of the best insights I ever received as to the popularity of Freudian and Jungian psychology in spite of discrediting is how well Psychoanalysis analogues commercial storytelling. In both you take grand events, gestures, or themes. Weav
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
Honestly, I'm genuinely impressed. I even searched something that I would think would trip it up, "transgirl puppycore", and it managed to not only give several songs that are extremely on-point but likewise has a bunch of ne
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
I would say that Canada managed to stay loyal to the crown because for two major reasons. The first being the founding "myth" of Canada being the British loyalist colonists of the US migrating as a result of the US' revolutio
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that 88x31 was done because Netscape distributed similar buttons for webmasters to include on their webpages if it was optimized for the Netscape browser. Buttons which were arbitrarily 88
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
I believe I have been to the same restaurant you're referring to, and honestly I believe that the WNFA chicken is likely to be a psychoactive substance. I've only had the barest bite of it, and it is enough to scar me mentally; an
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Running Mac OS 9 on a Wii(hackaday.com)
32 points by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago|2 comments
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
> Here’s a modest proposal: No more than half of any screen we see at any given time — be it on desktop web or a smartphone — should contain ads. I have to say, we have gotten extremely complacent if “half” your page being filled with ad
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
Increased understanding of autism on a societal level. 20 years ago autism was just, 'weird savant kid who screams and everybody can't understand why they can't <XYZ>,' disease. 10 years ago, we saw depictions of a
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
The purpose of the article is to talk about the arbitrary and sometimes cruel nature of the legal system. They have power because they are known to have power, because what lawyer will overstep the boundary implied by the almighty power bes
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by SoftAnnaLee 4y ago
The thing with authorization is... well... you can have authorization to go to a public park. But carving up a park bench is very much not authorized. You can be "able" to do something when the public has access to it. However the

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