Covers all of Ventura county, just north of Los Angeles.

Bless that person’s heart. Of course sci fi & trek loving women exist in significant numbers. Men just tend to gatekeep them out of their fandom spaces so women just create their own circles.

I would love to see those recommendations. I have one of those finicky yarn winders. It would be nice to find something that requires much less…intervention on my part

Amen to that. A couple of friends and I adored Star Wars. We devoured the Legends novels as they were released. We happily geeked out with the male SW fan friends who could be cool with us. It was just that far too many guys were the worst kind of gatekeepers.

I keep having the thought it being a Gaming/NPC worldview. When people treat life as a video game to beat, all of the people in it are just NPCs. Sometimes useful, sometimes even “beloved” but always just objects put there to serve the player in some way.

I hate coming to the end of a reliable series that is good for background watching. My background shows in the last year have been Midsommer Murders and Brokenwood. But I have run through all of both.

Every time these guys answer questions/concerns about LLMs it just makes these models seem more and more like a collective of dystopian nightmares from literature in a trench coat.

Sadly and terrifyingly it seems we are moving in that direction.

That is why “wellness farms” are in quotes. Of course it is a euphemism for forced labor/concentration camps. Just like “dangerous to the community” will be used to imprison people with ideas they don’t like. Did you honestly think I supported or was falling for this shit?

No kidding!

If only that label was actually applied to the truly “sexually dangerous”

This is so wrong on so many levels. Commitment has been historically abused to disappear folks.

The part on the Atty General identifying “sexually dangerous” people is particularly troubling. With their views of sexuality that is vague enough for them to weaponize this against the LGBTQ community.

RFK Jr. already imagined “Wellness Farms.” What are the odds that this is an attempt at for profit slave labor camps under the guise of “treatment”?

I was in High School but it was just a 1 semester class so it ended up being only really a brief general overview of the topic.