HenchmanNumber3

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

This isn't a smoking gun.

You can't trust that ChatGPT is telling the truth, but also the use of copyrighted material is acceptable under a fair use standard written into US copyright law. Whether it is fair use or not is up to a court to decide, but "without permission" doesn't automatically mean "illegally."

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Driving predictably. Millions of people do it every day and it prevents accidents, which saves lives.

[–] [email protected] 168 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Add time tracking for time tracking with every other task.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Find a student at a university whose student accounts get access to jstor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I completely forgot about that game until you mentioned it. Fun times.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's not enough information that I'd be comfortable drawing conclusions about this. One person's past flame can be another person's one who got away. It's entirely possible she's keeping tabs on you online in a method you're not aware of, but if you don't know that she's intentionally moved to be close to you and she hasn't done anything concerning like made threats or faked a pregnancy or created circumstances that compel you to interact with her against your normal inclinations, I wouldn't guess stalking. Some people do coincidentally reconnect.

That said, the important question is whether you want to engage with her or not going forward. If you don't, I wouldn't lead her on by giving her any more attention. Make a clean break and just tell her you're not interested. If she reacts with melodrama or stalking behavior, then you'll definitely know you made the right decision.

If you are interested in possibly pursuing something with her or at least giving her a chance, be honest that you're a little freaked out about how she's previously behaved. You shouldn't proceed with her thinking that the behavior was not concerning. She should respect your comfort levels if she wants a relationship. If she's dismissive of your concerns and comfort, it's a big red flag that you shouldn't engage further.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is less of an issue if you judge everything that isn't first hand from a known friend or family member as suspect or at least just a waste of time. Facebook used to be a place to talk to people you knew in the real world. You could ignore anything they reposted and still engage with the actual examples of their own experiences that they posted. But now it's so flooded with ads and listicles and clickbait and video clips that it's not even worth trying to keep up with the people you actually know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's still not stealing. It's plagiarism or fraud or any number of other terms, but stealing necessarily requires the deprivation of a limited, rivalrous thing, like money or property. You can't steal fame or exposure or credit, except poetically. And by that point, the word becomes so watered down that it's meaningless. You might as well say I'm stealing your life seconds at a time by writing this extra sentence.

The purpose of using the term stealing here is only to borrow the negative moral connotations of the term, but it doesn't communicate clearly what exactly is happening.

It's perfectly valid to say you consider it morally equivalent with theft, but it's not stealing.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Also you can't just make your own micronation wherever you want. It has to already exist.

This kind of makes the concept of a micronation useless. The point is that anyone can make their own nation with their own rules wherever they are or go. If you have to pick someone else's, then it's no different than picking someone else's recognized nation.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

It's possible that they thought the first one didn't post and kept trying. Sometimes you get a timeout error and return to the editable text with the post button again but the post already went through.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Superman problem. Main sources of conflict tend to involve depowering, fighting another godlike, or threatening people they care about. Over and over again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

even their title is creepy, Human Resources

The only appropriate use of the term is when your cat is talking about you to other cats...

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