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i’m simon, i’m 24, i’m irish and live in scotland. the three pillars of this blog are wizards, muppets, and trans sex. i softblock minors who follow on sight so don’t bother
I was feeling agitated and artblocked yesterday so I decided to give my brain a rest by watching TV and then the next thing I knew these were in front of me
i made a grindr and in under 24 hours i got the most insane unsolicited nude to ever exist. hes fully nude on the beach and in his right hand is a black tipped reef shark i could not make this shit up if i tried
artistic rendition
i fucking wish i had a way to prove this but a) passing around nudes is wrong even when its a 40 year old nudist shark freak and b) he unsent the messages bc my silence made him nervous ig. wish he was instead nervous about sharks around his panenis but im not his dad
btw another pic in the set he sent me was essentially the same photo but the shark was a fishing spear and his penis was erect this time. do you think he meant it as a metaphor thats kind of poignant symbolism
he looked almost regal in a florida man way
actually fuck do you guys think i ghosted Poseidon on grindr be honest its hurricane season and im on the gulf i mean did you SEE what that guy did to odysseus
Imagine fumbling a 40 year old nudist shark freak this bad
the thing about adulthood is when someone says something extremely rude to you, you can either turn the other cheek or calmly & firmly correct them. The third option is to tell them “say that again, I’ll bite you” & everyone sort of nervously laughs and tries to move on from your little joke. Which is why I think it’s very important that when they do say it again you follow through. Nobody actually expects you to bite them. We should be biting more. Also if you’re with the county health department do not read thi s post
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NO WAY
Ok sorry one more time
I use conditioner all the time every time constantly
I regularly use conditioner
I sometimes use conditioner
I rarely use conditioner
I never use conditioner or have used it like a handful of times my entire life
other / I'm bald / infinitely nuanced answer
I'm team 2 in 1 shampoo and body wash btw. what's a conditioner.
was considering ramping up the horny on my twitter for attention but now my gf’s mum follows me so i can’t
Do you mute the music in video games and listen to your own stuff instead?
Yes, always
Usually, but there are exceptions
About half the time, but it depends the game/my mood/other extenuating factors
Not usually, but there are exceptions
No, never
I mute the music and listen to absolutely nothing, embracing the silence
After a weird revelation on my discord, I want to know how many people do this. Please reblog this, I want a bigger sample size.
ive complained about this so many times in the last five years i cannot comprehend why youtube pulled community captions
it's already garbage ai generated captions actually 🫠
so you're partially correct here, but i think you're misunderstanding jacob's last point. at the moment, youtube autocaptioning uses machine learning to automatically transcribe and translate the audio of a video. machine learning is AI, in that it's an algorithm that has been trained to spit out certain results upon receiving certain information. in this instance, it's been given a corpus of audio and linguistic data in order to automatically transcribe and translate content, similar to google translate and probably using the same API (i've tried to get confirmation on this, and they've never stated it that i can find, but google does use this API for many other services, so i think it's fair to assume they use the same service on youtube as well).
to be clear, i am deeply critical of machine translation; as someone with a background in linguistics and translation myself, i think it fails in any kind of systemic way to translate accurately. human translation is the ONLY way to translate with accuracy and with proper cultural context. however, machine translation is deeply useful and very accessible, and i don't see anything wrong with people choosing to use it in informal, casual situations. it should never be used for official materials and should not be held as 100% accurate. but if someone cannot afford to pay for professional translated captions on their videos, i don't see an issue with them keeping youtube autocaptioning on. people should be aware, while using those captions, that they're not completely accurate, but i think most people already are. i would rather have somewhat shitty auto translations than no translations at all, personally.
regardless, in this instance, the concern, to me and i assume to jacob, is that google will, in an attempt to market some new service or continue to dickride generative AI, try to add some feature that does NOT use google translate's neural machine translation (which uses extensive corpus data, which, inaccurate as it can be, is more due to the inherent limitations of machine translation and not because google translate specifically sucks) and instead something far inferior and far less developed.
so yes, youtube auto-captioning already runs on AI, but the concern is they will swap to a worse type of AI and make everything even shittier, or try to charge for machine translation services that are inaccurate and worse than the free community captions that existed back before 2020.
my problem isn't with ML translation, but rather with the fact that tech companies are acting as if auto-generated captions (that aren't checked by people or edited by people) are sufficient from an accessibility standpoint. like if you click on a the subtitles section of a youtube video, it'll say that closed captioning is available but when you turn it on it's only the auto-generated ones
a bonus problem with this is that autogenerated captions automatically censor swearing even if it’s left uncensored in the audio track, which is massively infantilising to those who require subtitles as it implies they Must Be Protected From Bad Words At All Costs
Btw feel free to hold my paws whenever you want
Like this
Hey OP what's with the bo-
who give a shit
