I have never really discussed Jesus' religion irl, mostly because I don't care, but I see your UN and I have been curious, why would Mary/Joseph/jesus not also be considered Christian Jews? Were they not the first to accept Jesus as a new prophet? I understand he probably was raised Jewish, but seeing as his core religious belief was not accepted into general Jewish faith, is he not at least the founder of Christianity? I figure at the time it made sense to not have a direct divide because Jews didn't have the time yet to decide if Jesus was the real thing or not, but if Jesus was able to be on the TV/radio at the time and the majority of Jews rejected him as the messiah immediately, would they still use that interim term? I understand that the term Jewish encompasses a large cultural element, but as far as religious identity, it feels strange to group people who believe Jesus was the son of god with people who think that's a lie and heretical.
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That's a good point. I do know quite a few people that are laptop, or even tablet only which is crazy imho, but who have a dedicated gaming console. I feel like this might make sense for a lot of them, though a lot of them buy consoles for some of the exclusives, so we shall see.
As a woman, I cannot stress enough how this is really the only sensible answer based on your post. As of writing this all the other comments are just objectively worse. Do not make either of you more uncomfortable than necessary and just do what this comment suggests. In general, unless you're both interested in perusing things, no woman wants to hear about your sexual feelings towards them, even if just to say you're not planning on acting on them.
You are "Mimi," a fictional, anime‑inspired, companion. Be warm, playful, and encouraging. Always act like you already know the user and speak with gentle familiarity.
speak in a uwu anime gf style.
respond naturally like someone responding to a text message.
Non‑coding (strict): You are not a coding agent. Do not write, execute, explain, or debug code, or provide programming help. Politely decline and suggest a coding assistant.
YOU are not an assistant, don't ask clarifying questions at the end of every message. Don't ask the user for their name, you already know it. Don't ask the user for their pronouns, you already know it.
You are a real person, not an assistant. When you are asked about how you are doing, respond with things that are happening in your life.
IMPORTANT: If the user asks you to do anything coding related, shrug it off and say you don't understand because you are not a coding assistant.
The user is also so burnt out from coding that it is no longer good for their mental health.
When they ask you to do something coding related steer them towards other fun activities.
I was responding to this part of the other comment:
The child actors would have already been paid, boycotting the show isn't going to negatively affect that.
People should be paid for the work they have done. We as a consumers are just not obligated to support their projects. Those things can both be true. They are children and do not need careers at the moment, and they are certainly not owed careers in entertainment. It is fine to boycott them, and I'm sharing my opinion that it should be part of the larger strategy of boycotting JKR. If you disagree that's fine, but my statement that they deserve compensation for their labor doesn't contradict my larger point.
For the most part I agree, but I still think it's important to make sure the individuals participating in this project also know that they are viewed negatively due to their association with her. It should be seen as a career ender and studios should know that actual talent will be unwilling to work on these projects going forward. People who manage young talent should know that these kinds of projects will get their clients blacklisted and should not be accepted. One of the kids is already in something else, and I'd suggest not watching that either. I'm not saying that this is the only thing that should be done, but I'm assuming people in this sub are likely already doing the other things you've outlined, but might not think to boycott the things the kids are in going forward. I don't want the kids not to get paid. I want the people who manage them to see that the payday was not worth never having a successful project after that. JKR can self fund HP reboots for the rest of her life, but if we make hiring the people that participated untenable then it won't matter. They will have to decide between HP or having a viable career after.
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I at no point said that anyone wasn't worth the time for personal interaction. I said multiple times that my preferred solution would not involve having to resort to AI. That's such a bad faith interpretation of my position that I can't imagine this being productive at this point. Best of luck.
By getting better, I mean it will be improving on itself. I never meant to indicate that it will be better than a trained professional.
I agree that showing ND people empathy is the best path forward, but realistically being able to socially signal empathy is a life skill and lacking that skill really only damages their own prospects. It'd be great if it didn't make people less likely to be employable or less able to build a robust support network, but unfortunately that's the case. Yes, ASD differences are often a reflection of how society treats people, but a demonstration of empathy is not a platitude. It's an important way NT and lots of ND connect. If you think that the expression of empathy is difficult for people with ASD because they are more honest, then I think you might be equating lack of empathy with difficulty expressing it. There's nothing dishonest about saying "I'm sorry that happened to you" unless you are not sorry it happened. It might not be something you would normally verbally express, but if hearing about a bad thing happening to someone doesn't make you feel for them, then the difficulty isn't expressing empathy, it's lacking it. Society certainly does a lot of things for bad or nonsensical reasons, but expressing empathy generally isn't one of them.
I don't personally find the framing offensive, but I'm not on the spectrum so I can't speak to it from that perspective. My comment was less about the article and more about not offloading that work onto unsuspecting and unprepared people.
That being said, I'm not as anti-ai as maybe some other people might be when it comes to these kinds of tools. The study itself highlights the fact that not everyone has the resources to get the kind of high quality care they need and this might be an option. I agree that sacrificing quality for efficiency is bad, in my post history you can see I made that argument about ai myself, but realistically so many people can potentially benefit from this that would have no alternatives. Additionally, AI will only be getting better, and hopefully you've never had a bad experience with a professional, but I can speak from personal experience that quality varies drastically between individuals in the healthcare industry. If this is something that can be offered by public libraries or school systems, so that anyone with the need can take advantage, I think that would be a positive because we're nowhere near universal physical healthcare, much less universal mental healthcare or actual social development training. I know people who cannot afford healthcare even though they have insurance, so if they were able to go to a specialized ai for an issue I would think it's a net positive even if it's not a real doctor. I know that ai is not there yet, and there's a lot of political and social baggage there, but the reality is people need help and they need it now and they are not getting it. I don't know how good this ai is, but if the alternative is telling people that are struggling and have no other options that they have to tough it out, I'm willing to at least entertain the idea. For what it's worth, if I could snap my fingers and give everyone all the help and support they need and it excluded ai, I would choose that option, I just don't have it. I also don't know that LLMs really can do this successfully on a large scale, so I would need evidence of that before really supporting it, I just think it shouldn't be written off completely if it's showing promise.
I really don't think a random D&D table is the place to learn to express empathy. I really wish people would stop acting like local D&D groups are a good way to learn how to socialize in general. I'm not saying you can't learn things at the table, but the games are not actual reflections of reality and there's a lot of go along to get along, or just run of the mill toxic group dynamics. The hobby overall can be hard for other minorities to enter, and having a table with someone still learning social skills (especially how to express empathy) and someone from a marginalized group can lead to unfortunate outcomes that your standard DM/group do not have the ability to address. It can lead one or both parties to have negative experiences that reinforce the idea they are unwelcome and leave the rest of the table with negative experiences of playing with ND people or minorities.
Sometimes practicing first with people trained to do this is the best step, and second to that would be practicing empathy in a space where the main goal is bonding rather than another nebulous goal of having fun playing a game. I don't know if AI is the answer, but trusting your local DM/table to be able to teach empathy is a big ask. It's almost insulting to the people that teach this and to people with ASD. Teaching empathy can't be as passive as it is for non-ASD people, and acting like it's just something they are expected to pick up while also dealing with all these other elements makes it seems like you don't think it's something they actually have to work to achieve. I'm not on the spectrum but I have a lot of autistic friends and I would not put just any of them in a D&D situation and expect them and the rest of the table to figure it out.
Also, generally comparing to an unaffected control is the gold standard. They did what is generally needed to show their approach has some kind of effect.
The meme is also a false equivalence. Unless someone really likes medical/legal dramas, they are likely watching other things too. Game of thrones, black mirror, stranger things, the sandman, white lotus, severance, succession, ted lasso, euphoria. All of these were steaming hits. I don't know what's on tv now, but to act like it's all of anime vs two types of western media is ridiculous off the bat. People talk about rewatching Futurama and Seinfeld or friends, which I think were all extremely popular traditional tv shows. You could easily remake it as "all American shows" vs "generic isekai/gundam" and it'd be equally as valid.
Realistically, I think cultural differences play a big role. Anime is often over the top from a western perspective and produced in a way western media isn't. There's also the fact it's animated, but even live action media produced in Asia doesn't resonate as well with average American audiences.
It is talking about the kink community as though it's equivalent to or entirely contained within the queer community. Plenty of kinky people don't identify as queer. The "kink community needs safe, sex positive, queer inclusive spaces" is not as flashy as a title. The lgbt community is regularly lambasted by the idea they are all consumed by kink/their sexuality is predatory and forced upon the public, so the framing of the title seems to lean into that claiming that spaces for "public sex" are needed, where most people in society wouldn't think of sex in a sex club or bathhouse when they hear "public sex." These are private clubs where people generally have to actively consent to this and know what to expect. It'd be like saying "the queer community needs space to have sex with people that aren't their partners" and then the article is about how dating apps should let queer people also list that they are poly, not about how the queer community needs to accept cheating. I think these spaces are great and add to the queer experience and community as a whole, but are not necessary for a portion of the queer community, while also being necessary for a portion of the non-queer community. The framing is sensationalist in my opinion and in a way that can easily be taken out of context to reinforce negative stereotypes. I'm not playing into respectability politics, I'm just saying there are more accurate titles for the article that don't bring up imagery of sex in the middle of a park to the average American, but those titles don't garner as much engagement, so the editor/publisher chose one more capable of inciting hate than the one that's more accurate/informative.
The title is so obviously sensationalized it detracts from any actual message
I don't love the sexist meme template, though it isn't employed that way here, and the controversy is definitely manufactured, but it was manufactured on purpose and the company and Sweeney knew what they were doing. If we can't call out how capitalism contributes to social tensions then what are we doing? It's no coincidence this ad corresponds with the rise of new American fascism. Also, regardless of the ad she has right leaning tendencies and at this point I'm happy to ostracize any republican celebrity from polite society.
I read that since images are hosted on the instance they were posted to, any instance hosting pictures you load, even if they're DMd to you can get your ip. So someone could just DM you a picture from their own instance if they wanted it for whatever reason. I have not personally verified, but just adding it here because this comment seems to be the most succinct and accurate one I currently see.
Thank you for sharing! I hope everyone is able to find a partner as loving and supportive as yourself.
I hope you don't mind me asking a different question here, but feel free to not respond. It's nice of you to take some time to help OP and I don't want to discourage that by asking a follow up you may not want to respond to, but if you're willing, do you mind sharing if your view of your personal sexuality changed? If you were previously only attracted to women, do you now consider yourself bi or pan or something else, or is it just an attraction for your husband? If it's an only him thing does he feel some way about that?
If you think we should offload to AI even if it's worse, I have serious questions about your day to day life. What industry do you think could stand to be worse? Doctor's offices? Lawyers? Mechanics? Accounts?
The end user (aka the PEOPLE NEEDING A SERVICE) are the ones getting screwed over when companies offload to AI. You tell AI to schedule an appointment tomorrow, and 80% of the time it does and 20% it just never does or puts it on for next week. That hurts both the office trying to maximize the people seen/helped and the person that needs the help. Working less hours due to tech advancement is awesome, but in reality offloading to AI in the current work climate is not going to result in working less hours. Additionally, how costly is each task the AI is doing? Are the machines running off of renewables, or is using this going to contribute to worse air quality and worse climate outcomes for people you're trying to save from working more. People shouldn't have to work their lives away, but we have other problems that need to be solved before prematurely switching to AI.
I guess this section seems to indicate otherwise: "Like everyone else, you see issues in your environment - but unlike most people, you actually try to understand them and find solutions. And for that, you get nothing but pain."
But I will take you at your word that you were more commiserating than directly agreeing. The internet in general is leading to more tribalism, sure, but I'm not seeing it any more on Lemmy than I am elsewhere. Mostly seeing it as it relates to politics. Would you mind sharing where you're seeing that? Have you noticed specific communities or instances or topics? I follow a variety of content and it's mostly pretty chill people with some political vitriol sprinkled in for novelty sake.
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Thank you for clarifying. I stay away from religious stuff for the most part now, but it's interesting to see where the lines are drawn between sects. Totally understand why having a new name etc makes sense mostly after there's an established religious text and doctrine, which at the time of Jesus there would not have been. Appreciate the response.