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Humane's Ai Pin and other AI wearables are difficult to recycle, threatening to worsen the world's global e-waste problem

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Humane’s Ai Pin and other AI wearables are difficult to recycle, threatening to worsen the world’s global e-waste problem.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Okay I am gonna get very real with you for a minute:

    Ever since I got cancer I feel like I am going crazy/getting dementia because I constantly replace words I mean to use with similar but not quite the same words. Sometimes I literally know a word but when I am actually speaking out loud cannot force that word out of my mouth, I am just stuck, blank, unable to speak suddenly.

    Your inner pedant doesn’t know what’s going on in other people’s lives so maybe take a minute and think “maybe I don’t need to remind this person they are going crazy” and spend three paragraphs chiding them for something they cannot fucking control and depresses them deeply. Just step back a moment and realize your personal experience of being able to speak clearly is not everyone’s personal experience and that maybe being outwardly pushy about it isn’t helpful to them at all.

    You don’t know what is going on in other people’s lives or why they speak the way they do. They could be a non-native speaker, or they could be having serious issues with their brain, like me.

    So seriously take your pedantry and shove it up your ass. You still could understand what I meant. You didn’t have to shove my problems in my face like a dick. I changed it, for what it’s worth, because you’re correct, but I often make those changes hours later after I’ve noticed them, you just happened to catch one I made before I went to sleep. I don’t need dicks being pedantic dicks about it.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      25 minutes ago

      I’m sorry you’re having a bad time. I can’t fix it, but know that I wish that no-one had to go through anything like what you’re going through.

      Usually people who speak English as a second language are, somewhat surprisingly, fairly happy to receive correction. I see now that you’re probably not ESL.

      Since I’ve no idea whether someone is happy to receive correction or not, either I do so and hope for a good outcome - and maybe educate others along the way - or never correct anyone ever in case someone tells me to, well, you know.

      FWIW, I do know what its like to not be able to communicate properly with that horrible tip-of-the-tongue sensation, and I also know what it feels like to lose one’s mind as well as lash out in frustration. Been there, done that, with bells on.

      Not cancer in my case, but I’ve at least one close family member who had surgery and was on chemo drugs, so I can somewhat relate to that as well.

      And since I didn’t quite say it initially: I’m genuinely sorry I upset you and made you feel attacked. It was not my intent.