MossyFeathers

I'm trans too, so it doesn't matter how many times you say you're trans sweetheart. That's not gonna work. Furthermore, unlike you, I've decided not to let the cis people define who I am. If it wasn't the otherkin and therians then it'd be someone else they'd be demanding we remove. I remember when people said enbies weren't valid. So some people decided to try to exclude enbies from the definition of being trans and you know what happened? The leopards turned around and ate their faces once they were done feeding on the enbies.

Why do you care what cis people think? That's the only reason why you'd care. That's literally the only reason why you'd give a shit is if you think being trans is some kinda fucked up badge of pride or if you're trying to tame transness for the poor, sensitive cis people. Lemme tell you, the leopard will never cease to be hungry sweetheart. Grow up and quit caring about what the cis bigots think. Stop helping them to be bigots. They'll come for us sooner or later, doesn't matter how many people you throw under the bus.

And yes, I'm being condescending because you're acting like a child, trying to tell everyone how to play the game because a bunch of bullies once told you how you were supposed to play it. Do you know what those bullies are called? Fascists. Do you know what we do with fascists? I'll give you a hint, we don't sit down and drink tea with them. Fascists are not worth the air they breath. Stop feeding them. Until you do, you are no better than they are.

If this isn't gatekeeping, then what is it? Sparkling "just asking questions"? This is what gatekeeping is, sweetheart. It's a form of bigotry in which you tell someone, either directly or through implied statements, that their identity isn't valid. No wonder you got banned from a queer safe space. It doesn't matter how trans or gay you are, perpetuating the cycle of abuse will get you banned from queer safe spaces.

If you're unable to fathom the possibility that someone could have an identity that doesn't make sense to you, grow up. There are a lot of things that people do which seem silly in life but are an integral part of who they are. Grow the fuck up.

Edit as a warning to cis allies for this comment chain: I was a bit sloppy with my aim, sorry if you caught a stray bullet.

I was curious why you're being so evasive.

This is called gatekeeping people's identities. That is what you're doing. You are engaging in bigotry so yeah, of course you're going to get banned from a queer safe space. It doesn't matter how trans or gay you might be, if you're practicing bigotry then you're part of the problem. You're part of the reason these safe spaces exist to begin with.

If you can't deal with the idea that someone might have an identity that you can't understand, then you need to grow up.

Stop perpetuating the cycle of abuse.

The fact that someone who's supposedly trans isn't able to understand that they are continuing the exact cycle of abuse that cis people have been pushing onto trans people is very sad. How lucky you must be to have never been doubted or told that your identity is fictional.

Gender euphoria just be like that sometimes.

I want Hitman but with Mr. Bean.

Eh, I personally think it is, but you have to temper your expectations. It's absolutely not Artificial General Intelligence, nor is it as flexible or capable of rapid learning as human intelligence (or likely most forms of living intelligence in general). However, I'd challenge the notion that it lacks intelligence entirely.

AI still "learns" from what you shove into it; it's still creating algorithms to adapt to the information stream(s) it's being exposed to which is not unlike how the human brain is believed to function. As such, I personally view it to be intelligent, but not anywhere near as intelligent as people think it is, and absolutely not in the way people want it to be.

One of the big differences that I see is that, afaik, AI is unable to learn while it's running. You have to train it, run it, train it again based on user input, run it, train it again on more user input, and so on. Humans are more efficient at learning when they sleep and take breaks, but are still capable of learning things without "shutting down", so-to-speak (not that we ever truly shut down outside of death, but that's tangential).

Another difference is that, unlike "natural intelligence", AI ends up being hyper focused on a specific task. It's a bit like grabbing an ice cream scoop and removing a very specific part of the brain, let's say the part responsible for imagining images, and then letting people interface with that alone. Yeah, it's not gonna be good at parsing text because that's not what it was designed to do. That's a different part of the brain. The one you're playing with right now is only good at visualizating images, so you're gonna get pretty images, but good luck with getting it to do proper text, understanding proper body language, etc.

Finally, AI hallucinates like crazy. This is one where I'm not sure if we're really that different from AI (I'll explain in a moment); but it is a big issue when it comes to try to get AI to factually report information or perform logic tasks. You can ask an AI what 2+2 is and get 4 one day, 5 the next, 3 on Saturdays and then -2027346 on Christmas.

But wait! Doesn't that make it unintelligent?

No.

Going back to the previous statement about AI being hyper-focused, it just means you're not interacting with a part of the brain capable of logic; you're interacting with something else. Maybe the speech center, idk.

However, there's another element to this where AI doesn't have a persistent "reality anchor" like we do. To an AI, fact and fiction are purely conceptual because it doesn't truly exist in our world, it's off in its own little digital world. Furthermore, the experiences it can gain from the training set are heavily limited compared to what living creatures experience. We have a constant stream of information that reminds us about what is real, who we are, what things look like, how things move and so on; and we get that data stream in 3 dimensions (arguably 2.5, but I digress) instead of 2. It's like expecting a plant to thrive when given a trickle of water when it normally grows exclusively in a swamp. We ourselves tend to begin hallucinating when our senses become cut off from the outside world because our brains make up stimuli when the expected stimuli is missing. So... I'm not sure if the hallucinations are totally unreasonable, unrealistic or all that different from how we'd behave if subjected to the same environment; but at the very least it's something that makes AI appear unintelligent.

That's not to say that AI is a good thing or that it lives up to the hype. Fuck AI for being wildly overhyped, overused, and destroying people's livelihoods in a world where "earning for a living" is still required for some god-forsaken reason (just a reminder that the phrase, "earn a living" implies you don't deserve to live if you aren't able to make money or have someone doing it for you). At the same time, however, it kinda is intelligent. I think people are just expecting way more from it that it's capable of doing. It's like people expect intelligence to manifest in grayscale when it's more like RGBA or something.

Edit: sorry about the massive wall of text; I was fascinated with AI and its potential for a while, which meant it lived rent-free in my head at a series of philosophical questions about things like intelligence and what it means for humans that something designed to function as a series of virtual neurons would behave so similarly yet differently to humans. These were the kinds of conclusions I came to.

Nah, these guys ain't straight and/or cis. If touching their own balls makes them that uncomfy then they've got some stuff they're hiding and need to work through.

Edit: even so, tho, the OP doesn't look like they're a dude; which makes me wonder if she has a different towel for every part of her body. Like, damn bitch, granted I ain't straight or cis, but I use two towels, one for my hair, one for the rest of me. I may be a gal but I don't need more than that, and the hair one is mainly because my hair holds enough water that I kinda need a second towel.

Dude, it's a school/work laptop. If someone gets pissy about it, tell them to get over it. Alternatively, ask the administration to let you plastidip the lids so they get even wear. Plus it'll be easier to remove the stickers when it comes time to reprovision the computers because you can just peel the plastidip off if it's sticker-covered. Furthermore, it'd help reduce the number of scuffs and scratches to the laptop's exterior.

Needs more stickers. If you haven't sticker bombed your PC, can you really say it's your PC?

I'm so exciteeeddd, let's fucking gooooo. Let's hope his spine doesn't become flaccid.

(For context, furspa is a local furry spa gathering)

(Also, yes, those are dildos. Sorry to any mods if it's too lewd. I was on the fence about whether or not that image would be appropriate considering they don't look like dildos. I downloaded it to show a friend how absurdly large they are because I'm kinda tempted to get one of the huge ones, stick it in a corner and see how long it takes for someone to realize that it's a faux penis. Those weren't even the biggest ones on the site.)

Hell's Angels are supposedly allied with groups like the Aryan Nation. Why would they send a support club after a Nazi?