Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

I LOOOVE his angry lil tippy taps

they're so fucking out of it. half a thought in their head but they're trying really really hard

omg did you hear that one funeral consultant has a crush on some bard from mondstadt

Yk what I'd also like to add to this discussion? (TW mentions of dead animals)

I've seen way too many videos and "memes" and more of people just, goofing around with dead or half-dead fish. Ethical discussions about live seafood aside - the complete casualness with which people handle dead fish???

The most disturbing one I've seen was probably a guy on a boat putting his own head inside a giant cut-off fish head and wearing it as if it's a hat (and I'm 100% serious about seeing this. Tiktok is a wild place.) Nobody EVER picks up a dead pigeon or roadkill and plays with it like a ragdoll without being seen like a complete madman. Why is fish different? Why are they not seen as alive?

Now, this guy be desensitised to a sight of dead fish after seeing it often, sure. But still - I *really* don't understand how so many people don't really seem to see fish as.. living breathing beings?

Sure we eat some of them, but don't they deserve at least a little bit of respect, at least in death? Nobody is laughing at a whole chicken carcass in a super market, just because it has big glossy eyes (and nobody is displaying whole chickens with a head for sale.. almost as if it's any other animal, it's suddenly to disturbing to be reminded it was once walking around alive).

Why is fish an exception ? Why is it so completely normalised to not see them as animals? To not ever see them as alive?

I'm not vegetarian. To be clear. But I just think smth that gave its life to give me nutrition deserves at LEAST for me to not disrespect its body

When I was young my dad offhandedly told me he thought people treated fish with so much casual cruelty because fish can’t scream.

The words branded themselves across my soul.

As an adult I think he may have been joking. He payed no especial attention to any indignities fish suffered in our household but I could never forget. I saw fish in a different light after that.

Fish kept in tiny bowls, breathing their own poisons, dying by inches. Fish kept in cold tanks, casually disposed of. Fish touted as being short lived when they could outlive the better loved family dog if only they could breathe. Fish casually won and discarded in cheap plastic bags, thrown away a week later.

How they would scream, if they could.

Rainbow mo

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

illus. sowsow "Porygon 2" from Unbroken Bonds

He's very easily peer pressured

Prints!

Great job little dude, you're getting it all figured out