I’ve always hated how especially in America we throw around the word friend like it’s kind of meaningless. I hate the idea that a friendship is less meaningful than a romantic relationship or that it has to be less passionate or dedicated. Whether we holds hands or kiss or fuck (all of which I believe can be platonic) or whether we just talk about the art we love and try to make each other laugh some part of myself is staked out for you forever, and I want you as a shared participant in my life. I don’t want to treat each other like distractions or interludes between the *real* relationships in our lives. I want friendships where we both know that even if we didn’t talk for a decade we’d always be welcome to show up at the others door, and I think even for allo nonaro people like me we’d be a lot happier and much more content in ourselves if we understood the real value of platonic relationships and didn’t rush to rank them against whatever other kinds of love we might have in our lives.
It is very important to criticize the “Why does everything have to by gay? Can’t they just be friends?” attitude that homophobes have towards gay characters, but it’s possible to do that without saying things like “This character literally did xyz for the other. Friends wouldn’t do that!” or “But character A says character B is the most important person in their life! There’s no way that’s platonic!” or even things like “Actually, they should have sex with each other instead of being ‘just friends.’” Whatever it is you think that friends can’t do, they can. Friends can think of each other as the most important person in their lives. Friends can go through pain for each other, risk their safety for each other, be physically affectionate, rely on each other, and die for each other. Friends can share beds, kiss, or have sex.
Friendship is not a tier below romance.
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There is an embarrassing impulse among center-liberals calling themselves leftists to fixate on some bilious Christian theologian and blame them for everything. The banana and the coffee you had for breakfast came to you up a mountain of corpses that you didn't ask to be born on top of, and any Leftist pointing this out is simply a SECRET CALVINIST who HATES PLEASURE.
Why I used to think handmade leather stuff was expensive: Cost of leather
Why I am now realizing it's expensive: Measure mark cut SHIT FUCKED THAT UP mark cut skive groove poke poke poke poke UGH WHY SO MANY SEAMS poke poke bevel dye dye WHY IS IT STILL STREAKY more dye topcoat burnish glue stitch stitch stitch stitch stitch RIP MY WRISTS hammer sand bevel edgepaint burnish burnish burnish
"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".
'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023
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Pride and Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright God's Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee The Green Knight (2021) dir. David Lowery
"why r u smiling at ur phone" bc my friebds 🌈🌈🥰🌞 and i love friend 😊😊😊🫂💞 Friends 👍👍🌈 And im Happy 😊😊🫂💞👍🌈
one time when i was 17 i watched an episode of doctor who (tennant years) that made me so inconsolable that i went upstairs to my mom and i sobbed like, "please don't make fun of me, i'm so upset about a fake person from a tv show right now i can't stop crying." she let me sit in her lap and tell her all about the episode and i stopped crying and said i felt so stupid and she started laughing and she said, "i once cried this hard in college over a star trek episode. want to hear about it?" i said yes and then while she told me about the episode she got upset all over again 30 years later and she started crying and then i started laughing about it so hard i started crying again
It really says something that a lot of monogamous people consider polyamorous and aromantic to be "opposites" but every polyam person I know took one look at aromantics and said "they're just like me for real"
thank u dungeon meshi for the dwarves