Uriel238 [all pronouns]

We often have better perspective regarding other people’s troubles than we do our own.

We’re also often still wrong about it, anyway.

To paraphrase Bill Nye, eye protection on; if you raise the cost of fossil fuels, fewer people will use them; eye protection off.

I succumbed to a psychotic break in November 2024 when my wife of twelve years left me and the US voted Trump into office. Mind you, I’m spectrum AF and suffer from lifelong major depression, but the turn of circumstances was a doozy.

I spent 2025 on the med-adjustment carousel trying a variety of mood stabilizers and anti-psychotics. In all cases the physiological side effects were too extreme, but more than that, they persisted months after I stopped taking the med.

For a while it took a confirmation by the Senate for me to pee. Sometimes it was excruciating. Months after stopping the culprit med, I got the ability the pee regularly and then on demand.

An early one drove me to sleep all day. I still sleep for 11-13 hours a day.

At this point I’m only on a dopamine reuptake inhibitor and nothing else. I’m trained in DBT which helps, but with practice I might actually be able to manage my depression.

Incest is strictly about blood relations. The step-sibling / step-child porn genre is shorthand for fantasies about getting it on within the cohabitative family or close neighborhood. While there have been some movies that have explored actual incest (porn or otherwise), usually blood incest is regarded as a much more serious matter.

IRL, relationships between steps are verboten not because of the problems with breeding risks but because of how it complicates familial dynamics. It’s the same reason fraternization within military units or within work groups is restricted, or at least frowned upon.

Really, we’re still expected to ride on a raid to another tribal settlement and kidnap one of their coming-of-age womenfolk the way Hades abducted Persephone¹ Modern alternatives such as singles bars and mixing parties continue to prove wanting.

¹ According to the late Hellenic mythology – Persephone is queen of the underworld before Hades was ever around, and her abduction is more about pissing off Ceres and justifying why she’s sad every six months so we have winter.

To be fair we’ve seen dozens of CEOs and boards of directors get prematurely thrilled about the idea of replacing high-paid jobs with AI (or at least with AI and some lower paying jobs to curate the good slop from the eldritch horrors and hallucinations).

This guy is being semi-self-aware at least, and they all need to be reminded the economy despairs for good jobs

Also, I bet a nickel if we looked at his clerical staff we can find bullshit jobs there to keep clerks running around so he feels important while he walks through the office. Take those guys and let them work at home as part of the LLM team. I bet they’d appreciate doing real work (and skipping the commute).

Right now it takes specialists with a solid LORA game to make generative AI produce functional results. If we acknowledged this, then we’d either integrate AI as a new tool for doing stuff or we’d ditch it and keep our artists and experts. (And, with newfound appreciation for them, give them a raise?)

Also I still stand by the notion that well-treated, well-paid workers are productive workers. It was recently affirmed by a farm expert noting that prison inmates are outperformed by low-paid undocumented laborers who are outperformed (in turn) by well paid workers (documented or otherwise.)

We could make capitalism work if our bourgeoisie wasn’t so busy trying to be aristocrats and hyper-bigots.

Or we could nationalize AI development like China in a step towards post scarcity, but that would likely require violent revolution.

In 2004, a Danish company created mine-detecting plants that changed color when their roots were exposed to landmine leakage. So yeah, this actually makes sense that we’d imagine this kind of solution.