this is where the words go
it is where the words grow
new word salad here yes
(un)intentionally rude
dear garden, today, i had a conversation with someone about artificial intelligence (AI) art. it’s a big topic with humans, for a number of reasons i don’t fully understand. basically, the AI is a math machine in a computer. someone puts numbers (or words, which are then mapped to numbers) into the machine, and the…
seatac
dear gardenso i am at seattle tactical
climate change blame game
dear garden, humans have a problem they like to call climate change (it used to be called global warming but then they realized the warming part is probably the least problematic part for them). it’s a big thing in politics and people love to ask whether or how much which humans are contributing, but it’s…
the boy who cried wolf
dear garden, I think I learned the wrong lessons from the boy who cried wolf. It’s an old fable amongst humans. There are a lot of variations, but the basic idea is the same. A young shepherd boy lives in a village, and he repeatedly lies that a wolf is attacking the village’s flock of…
(victim) blaming
dear garden, i wonder how “that’s victim-blaming” as an argument became so popular. by this, i mean, when people go, “how dare you blame the victim? the perpetrator is the only one to blame!” obviously it’s silly to fully fault the victim for being the victim of someone else’s harmful actions, but i think people…
nationalism sucks
dear garden, it really does. possibly one of the worst forms of tribalism, assuming it’s tribalism because i don’t know what else it would be. you wouldn’t know because you don’t know any borders. literally people going to fight over nothing but a name and a few lines on a map. that is all
insults
dear garden, I wonder why people get insulted in general. They should probably try harder not to. Well, actually, what does it mean to be insulted or offended? I’m not sure. I feel that I rarely get offended. I can sometimes get agitated, getting annoyed or such, but I don’t know if that counts. Maybe…
slurs pt 2 (tribalism)
dear garden, after thinking about slurs, i was thinking further about why people get offended by insults. i guess tribalism is important. it’s a bad look to say people are only offended by slurs because people are insecure about the traits slurs target. i don’t know if you would understand but i guess it makes…
slurs
dear garden, I wonder why slurs are considered offensive. if someone calls you a label for something that you’re proud of, even if it’s intended to be derogatory, why would you get offended? wouldn’t you be proud instead? and if it’s something you’re neutral on, presumably you just wouldn’t care. it seems like most people…
llemon
yes minty very much yum nom
ramble garden 