If they tell you they love you, they love you. But there are many, many different kinds and aspects of love, many ideas what love is. If they tell you “we love you” but you cannot feel or sense this love, you are both using the same word, but not the same idea of love. Or maybe you have even the same idea what love means, but have different ways and needs how to express and experience this love.

The key would be not to doubt their love but to discuss and reflect with them what they mean when they say “We love you”, how they try to show you their love, how they want you to show your love, how you want them to show their love.

Sadly, for most people such conversations are very hard, if not next to impossible. Counseling, mediation or therapy can be helpful, if you’ve got access to any.

@gigachad@sh.itjust.works has a point, though. I agree with you that love is expressed by words, but I also agree with them that words alone are meaningless if not backed by loving behaviour.

If you want software that analyses an image and produces tags that describe the image’s content, you want a combination of image recognition, image interpretation, text generation and a promp generator to link these three parts. There is no way that any single of these applications can be “lightweight”, not to speak of the combination.

If you stop at radical acceptance, you’ll end up being fatalistic and spineless, giving up your own needs and wishes, hurting yourselve in the process.

In psychotherapy, the next step after acceptance is comittment. What do I really want? For what do I really care? What do I really need? My coworkers are morons, Ok, accepted - but what do I really need? Perhaps I need to take pride in my work, and need to commit to get a job I can take pride in. Maybe I need friends and need to commit finding friends outside of work. Maybe I just need money and can commit to just earn money. In either case I don’t have to be upset about my moronic coworkers any longer.

Just take them out 1–2 days before you consume them.

Thank you.

I think the exact magnitude of the billionaire caste illustrates the magnitude of the point.

You vastly overestimate the billionaire cast. As of April 2025, there seem to be 902 billionaires in the US. (I can’t access the original Forbes article, sorry).

Now include perclude and reclude! (Ok, I’m afraid English forgot to loot the last two from Latin’s pockets, after she robbed her in a dark alleyway)

Only for the real thing. [Reenactors]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yZusqHYkVgU) don’t want to wreck their wrist and feet and use ropes for suspension and nails for show. A pretty damaging show, still.

Well, they did use ropes, so this technique would work.

I’m not entirely sure that there are no religious fanatics who reenact the crucifixion. Using ropes for fixation and putting nails through the center of the palm, they would avoid crippling their hands severely.

If you were used to analog clocks, you’d read the remaining time just off the clock. As you would just read the time off it – no need for any translation or comparison, just one glimpse and you’d know it. For several decades this superiority of analog clocks was a main argument against the use of digital clocks. Digital clocks are more precise, though.

Well, back in the day they successfully ousted Mr. Boycott by boycotting him. So at least the first boycott successfully worked.

I’d say all of history until 1968?

Here is a good video explaining the trend: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0arvnAlV_C4

He’s talking to his domestic audience, trying to reassure them that his genocide in Gaza is not destroying the international support Israel needs to survive.

They will. Autocrats love public applause, and what public applause is greater than a 90+ % vote? Or do you know of any autocracy that does not have a ritual of approval called elections?

Well, granted, military dictatorships usually don’t do this election thing. With all this ICE buildup, Department of War renaming, declaring war on gangs while redifining the Venuzuelan government as gang, and this Chipocalypse stuff Trump is cosplaying more and more as an unhinged warlord. I’m afraid you might be right.

Next US presidential elections.

There will be elections. All autocrats love elections. Being reelected with 90+ % just feels too good to not have them.

This image is far older than generative AI.

I’m afraid another form of governing rule would not change the exploitation of the environment, animals or people - humans always exploited the environment and animals regardless of the system of government or economics. We’d need a cultural shift from an individualistic self-centered culture to a culture that accepts our position as one part of a complex interconnected ecological and social network.