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  • As far as I know I’m not autistic, but hate eye contact and just kinda decided to not worry about it? Eye contact is cultural anyway, and in some countries it’s unusual or rude so I guess I just decided it’s not that important to me. That’s one option!

    But for practical advice on improving if that’s what you want to strive for I find it’s easier to practice with someone you’re comfortable with. Looking between their eyes while talking casually. Not like staring, but reminding yourself to look up occasionally during conversation. And increasing the length of time you hold eye contact until it’s uncomfortable and look away. It’ll become more natural to you over time :)

    There’s also videos available on YouTube that are for practicing eye contact but I found them creepy. My mistake was probably smoking weed beforehand, so maybe don’t do that!

    Best of luck to you!







  • Well, I guess the trash took itself out.

    Whenever I see some educated individual trying to make some sort of ‘credible’ stance against trans rights I just see an overgrown child.

    These are grown adults who are angry that the simplistic worldview that they were taught as children doesn’t hold up to reality.

    It was challenged by the mere existence of people who are different than themselves and they don’t want to confront the possibility that they were wrong(the people they care about were also wrong), so they the blame trans people for evoking those emotions instead of doing some introspection.


  • Aside from the obvious egregious human rights violations here, there’s going to be a lot of health repercussions for this.

    Not getting enough, or any sunlight can cause vitamin d deficiency which can cause a whole host of problems. Including if a woman breastfeeds without getting enough vitamin d her baby will also be deficient. Get ready for a bunch of children who are going to be at a high risk for developing rickets.

    I guess that’s the price they’re willing to pay to oppress women?


  • Legal concept of grandfathering should be applicable here. There was no way for online artists to know that was going to be part of a corporately forced agreement to putting their work online. They aren’t even given an out in the US. At the very least work posted prior to the AI training public announcement that it was happening should be exempt.

    That doesn’t address the problem that if artists don’t want their art scraped now they can’t post it anywhere and can’t make a living. How is that a free market? Let corporations exploit your work for free and make bank on it or starve isn’t a world anyone should be striving to live in.

    This whole thing amounts to big corporations bullying individual artists out of playing field and it’s wrong. As if any of them were ever really a threat in the first place. They just like stepping on little people.




  • JovialMicrobial@lemm.eetoWTF@lemmy.wtfWhat the fuck are you saying??
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    6 months ago

    If I had to steelman their argument I’d wonder if they are properly informed about the very real, well documented physical risks to children from getting pregnant and carrying to term. Death is one option, but long term physical disability due to spinal and hip fractures aren’t unheard of. As well as a long list of other physical and psychological effects I’m not gonna put here.

    So what I’m gathering is that this person is either very, VERY uneducated about the physical consequences of childbirth, both for adults and children, and just how frequently children are sexually assaulted.

    Either they’re very ignorant, possibly willfully, or they are straight up a troll. Poe’s law makes it increasingly difficult to tell these days. Ignorance can be a temporary state of being, but would they care about medical data? Who knows.