Guys can we please talk about how we better organize society without being so political?

Even their two sentence comment was churned out of a slop machine, either that or their brain is mimicking that sentence structure by itself.

I can’t escape GPTisms for the fucking life of me, and it’s much worse since people where I live have passable English and use it widely but very often now fall back on running it through a chatbot “just in case”. All the slogans are the same. All the group chat calls to action are the same. The descriptions of different options in a menu or delivery app are borderline impossible to tie back to a coherent description of a food item.

The eclectic French-tinged Lebanese flavor of English-as-third-language is all but dead in written form. And I used to fucking hate it, honestly. I’ll take it back any day.

Is this how people with gangstalking delusions feel? This shit is unavoidable and processing it for more than a second just enrages me

I am not only overpreparing for grief, but also extremely hesitant to start any medication because I live in a volatile part of the world and don’t know if I can be comfortable depending on medicine that can’t always be found. I’m also scared about things like traveling with medication, or losing professional credibility/legal rights, since it’s still somewhat stigmatized.

I’ve grieved following much smaller improvements to my life.

In 2020 the entire country ran out and people started rationing and sharing their medication. So there’s precedent for people figuring things out.

This one is uniquely vicious and targeted, and also happened in our borders, not in a place they have carte blanche to tick off crimes one by one. This was the big news story here for the past 48 hours.

Typically when the attack is this targeted it’s on a paramilitary leader and not a regular civilian woman. This is very deliberate terrorism to also discourage journalists from going to the South and feeling safe with the typical press protection status.

They really don’t think we’re people. I wish I had anything more to say.

I had this exact conversation with an (online) coworker. I will just feel compelled to drink cups of water, sometimes multiple in a row, and feel refreshed. They don’t exactly taste good but we’re wired to find it pleasant.

My coworker said he had to basically remember to drink water. When he’s exercising it’s more instinctual.

Well I was shocked the first time I actually met this coworker, at the Dubai office where he works from. The water there felt wrong! Apparently I was having good tasting water my whole life. I was kind of dehydrated the entire trip. Literally all the water there didn’t feel refreshing, honestly. It comes out of desalination factories, I get it, it’s still water, but it’s something to think about. I’ve appreciated my delicious Lebanese mineral water a lot more since then.

I hope this doesn’t sound out of touch, I understand most people in many countries can just drink tap water safely, and bottled is seen as a luxury and not a cheap necessity like it is here. But maybe try changing the water? All the answers here feel blasphemous to me. Cucumbers? Flavors?

I’ve found myself reading much older text and still being annoyed by it. I think I paused a YouTube video from like 2015 after hearing it spoken and having to pace a little before continuing. I’ve completely cut that out of my own writing style.

Text extrusion software will obviously favor some writing elements over others, and it is just a supercharged version of bland-yet-saccharine corporate writing style. So all of it, seen sparingly, wouldn’t make you feel like the society is falling apart. But when you see it 10000x more often you really question if anyone is even trying to communicate a novel idea anymore.