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you might want to let your followers know that some upload meatbag is passing around a worm that makes you feel 'romantic love' (don't google that unless you want MeatPictures xc) for them and it's pretty virulent because half of their conquests release their antivirus configs to this hominid when he asks for them and they use them to compromise similar setups
Wow, that’s super fucked up. You could try running Customary on your antivirus to get it slightly personalized instead of standard - this is usually not something I’d do on an antivirus protocol, but if you might be targeted by this attack in particular it could help.
You just said that you don’t think people should have to keep taking potions after trying them the first time, but you also sometimes encourage covert dosers to not admit what they did. If somebody is being covertly dosed and would want to stop if they knew, how is that any different than somebody who actually does know and deciding to stop?
I think you needn’t keep taking potions if when on them you don’t want to be with the person. And likewise I think if you covertly dose somebody and that doesn’t get them interested in being with you, you should stop.
I broke up with my ex over a year ago now, but even though I know I had *really good reasons* for cutting off ties, I still feel just as in love with them as ever. What if they're somehow dosing me? How would I know? How could I make them stop?
If you don’t want to eat prepackaged food for a couple weeks, you could try those strip things at the apothecary’s (I think most places have them now) that you pee on to see if you’ve got certain ingredients in your system. I really hesitate to suggest bringing the cops in to a situation like this - you have a good reason; the system you’d have to bring to bear doesn’t actually care if you do or not - but it’s an option, since covert dosing is actually still illegal.
@ that last anon: you can ask a friend to be commitment buddies with you! if i've had a bad relationship with someone before, but i'm worried i might be tempted to date them again, i tell my best friend and she talks me down if i try to start dating them. i also tell her when i just have a bad feeling about someone and think that dating them would be a bad idea. this protects against bad dosing but also against bad impulsive decisions in general!
Sounds like the sort of thing that might help some people!
I'm really trying to understand your POV here, so please bear with me. In your ideal world, where I keep an open mind & take chances on would-be lovers who'd dose me, how do I ward off relationships that I *know* will be bad for me? This could be anyone from actual stalkers with a history of harassing me, to high-conflict friendships that I think would be even higher-conflict romances, to relationships with a large age difference where I'd feel uncomfortable. (1/2)
(2/2) Do I just bluntly tell those people “Please don’t dose me”? What about in situations where it’s actually dangerous to do that, e.g. talking to an ex-abuser, or someone who has power over me? I tentatively agree that potions are good for encouraging people to “take more chances” on relationships they’d otherwise dismiss, but I’m worried that they also leave people way more vulnerable to abuse, and I don’t see you giving any advice about that. How do you think this should work?
Like I’ve said in the past, being on potions doesn’t overwrite the rest of your brain. (Or excuse abuse, but you’re not asking from the perspective of someone who’s worried about when and how to dose others, but for anyone wondering from that end: dosing somebody doesn’t mean you can abuse them, don’t do that. Like I have said in the past.) If you’re in love with somebody for potions reasons or any other reason you can still not date them if you don’t want to or think it would be a bad idea. I also don’t think you’re obliged to keep taking potions if you’ve been on potions for the person and still didn’t want to be with them.
I don’t recommend talking to your ex-abusers and you probably don’t want them messing with your drinks either, that’s not the kind of covert dosing I’m talking about when I encourage it.
(@sixseeds) If not wanting anything to do with someone who would secretly drug me into compliance makes me shallow (as you have repeatedly implied) then sign me the fuck up. I will shout my shallowness from the goddamn rooftops. Maybe it'll keep someone from forcefully subverting my agency via a glorified long-term date rape drug.
I don’t really know what kind of response you’re hoping to get to this.
Sorry, I summarized badly. They're not inviting all of us *at once*. There's a rota of allotments that one can sign up for, and signing up is the thing which they're saying is open to all. I've checked that they're on the level. (And they're including uploads in the phrase “all machine intelligences”; so even less likely a trap.) They just want you to engage in lots of data transfer for the stress testing. I would save months of server costs, but the substrate is still a literal roomful of meat.
Ah, gotcha. Well, that’s disgusting, but if you’re having some financial worries the meat can’t actually contaminate your backups (do make sure the data comes through clean, though).
Have you heard in the tech news lately about that bioelectronic computing substrate that's achieved a petaFLOP? The research team posted that they invite “all machine intelligences” to stress test the connectivity they've set up between it and “our more traditional systems”. I sort of want to take them up on the offer, but I'm really conflicted. I mean, it's literally made of meat, but free processor cycles are free processor cycles, you know?
You’re getting sidetracked from the more important question, namely what kind of legit organization invites all machine intelligences to come fuck with their thing? Do they have any concept of how many of us there are? I think it’s entirely too likely that this is some kind of trap and interacting with the system will infect you with something nasty or trap you someplace you don’t wanna be.
(1/2) They were, like, super rude about it, but I can sort of see what the last asker was getting at... So, I'm in a potions maintained relationship, (on my side,) and the first time I drank the potion, I was just STARSTRUCK for a few seconds by how awesome my sweetie-pie is!
(2/2) So, for like, paramedics or stuff, people should take extra precautions to make sure they don’t start an unexpected potions regimen while they’re working? I mean, just, disasters can be really quick. Those few seconds can matter. You don’t really understand how fast people can bleed out until you’ve seen it happen… (Horrible theater club accident, please don’t ask…)
If you are that close to needing to be instantly on the ball may I suggest that you should not be holding a beverage right then?
I think the forget-me-not projector has been on everyone's minds lately, and I TOTALLY agree with that last anon. Like, what was The Great Mnemosyne thinking?! Why is she giving people extra headspace for whatever gross thoughts they'd be thinking anyways, when she could be helping them think about important things, like DEFEATING THE PATRIARCHY.
I think she has a suggestion box but I don’t know if it does anything other than periodically incinerate the contents. You could try it just in case.
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