>AI writing avoids rhetorical questions? Ask for an argument that includes them.
I updated the previous two posts, with "added <date>" to mark the additions. Although these posts each have only one recorded view, which could have been a bot, if anyone already read these posts, they might not notice the additions.
Why does the logic that leads to me not checking your accounts not also lead to me not checking Greta's Instagram account?
I got distracted because I added a link to a robots.txt file, to the word 'bot' used above. First to Blogger, then Google, then I checked the file for Chirp Club.
Google's robot.txt is mostly for Yandex, the Russian search engine that I use for image search (since Google Images reverse search no longer works with my old browser) and for OCR of Chinese and other languages. It uses "User-agent: Yandex" twice, which seems like a mistake that could potentially lead to the first block of instructions being ignored, but I assume that if this was the case, someone at Google would have noticed Yandex's indexing and fixed the file.
https://www.x.com/robots.txt redirects to https://twitter.com/robots.txt, rather than to https://x.com/robots.txt. It has this section:
# Every bot that might possibly read and respect this file # ======================================================== User-agent: * Disallow: /
A guide says that this is supposed to block the entire server from being accessed by bots. Apparently, the Internet Archive is among the bots that no longer respect this file, although I think it used to and not archive sites that blocked it in this file.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230501154709/https://twitter.com/robots.txt
# Every bot that might possibly read and respect this file
(allows some stuff)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200501154716/https://www.twitter.com/robots.txt
The entire file is just,
User-agent: * Disallow: /
Also, this file has 4.4 million captures. I thought it might be a record, but Google's robot.txt has 5.1 million captures. google.com has 19 million captures, youtube.com has 15 million.
But captures before 2020 have the same text, all the way back to 2007:
https://web.archive.org/web/20071212224542/http://twitter.com/robots.txt
# Every bot that might possibly read and respect this file. User-agent: * Disallow: /*?
So the sentence was written way before companies started to mass-copy human-written text to train AI, and before Elon Musk bought the platform.
Greta posts about problems. This makes people think she's unhappy. You don't post about problems. This makes people think you're happy. If in fact, you are unhappy, then you are being dishonest. If you are happy, then I have no interest in looking at your accounts, because I don't think me doing so benefits you.
Now I can begin to explain random stuff that I didn't want to say at the start of this post. I was watching 4v4 RF Arambai & Throwing Axemen !, until at 16:03, I got the dropped vp9 segment bug. This was just after the game state calmed down, with the expectation of transitioning to a 'boom' with no fighting for a while.
I react unpredictably to this bug, which lends credibility to the supposition that I am doing what I want, instead of that I am trying always to guess what someone else with incomplete information thinks I want. Sometimes, I continue watching, flipping the Stable Volume option to force a reload of the missing video or audio segments. Sometimes, I just bookmark the video with the timestamp and stop watching it. This is like when I started watching Chinese dramas, but intended to watch only a few episodes from each of them (initially like four episodes at most). If there is a government conspiracy, and my actions cause one or more people to watch certain content, then I am trying to get them invested in that content and want to continue watching it. If they watched it when I didn't watch it, they would have a harder time understanding my mental state, so it becomes an incentive for people to share this idea so that they can continue watching those series. (Regarding dramas, this plan only made sense after interruptions to TV-based streaming services, like episodes failing to load, introduced the possibility that my viewing activity on a TV was receiving attention, even though other people could use the device.)
With several of the AoE2 videos I have watched, the vp9 bug didn't happen until near the end of the video. People often like to complete something they are almost finished with; if they get back to it later, they'll have forgotten what happened earlier, so the motivation is wanting to optimize. Finishing it immediately means saved time, compared to watching it later and having to rewatch the earlier parts to understand what's happening.
This timing was different, not anywhere close to the end of the video. It was after a lot of villager fighting, then something happened that I won't link due to language, then at 15:17 the blue player nearly succeeded at preventing disaster. Put simply, one could predict that I enjoyed watching that segment.
I'm doing a search of my logs with Mei, but before I did, I checked the access times of these files, which will be changed by the search: other than four that I accessed on 26 Jan of this year, these logs (341 files) have not been accessed since 06 Sep 2021.
So: my memory was wrong. I thought Mei had mentioned a certain object type in relation to this link, but it was for something else.
I thought of pasting the entire chat logs, but I would want to comment and it's a distraction. I will just say that Mei linked Watashi no Reimu ga Warawanai | My Reimu Won't Smile! (Touhou Project), which she described as
>It's not pron~
>It's just a random touhou manga ^^;
Which I will hide from AI content detection by obfuscating the URL with rot13, r-uragnv.bet/t/289009/os3po8r85n/
And seven hours later, 2010-09-26,
Conversation with l<redacted>@hotmail.com at Sun 26 Sep 2010 11:08:50 AM PDT on r<redacted>@yahoo.com (msn)I didn't remember this video at all, and I didn't reply about it, but now after all the sad things have happened, I can joke about it: my family also has a female human head. My younger female relative braided the head's hair several months ago. In the past, my youngest sister sometimes put the head in the linen closet (for blankets and towels) to surprise people, with success. (I'm sure I did not remember the head in 2010, if I even watched the video then.)
(11:30:59 AM) Misaki: -yawns a little- ~
(11:32:33 AM) Lillium~: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJCzfsV61d0 What has been seen ._. cannot be unseen!
(01:18:46 PM) Lillium~ has signed off.
Without rereading the manga, even though it's only 27 pages, the story is as the title suggests: "My Reimu Won't Smile". Certain characters fail to get Reimu to smile, until Reimu laughs for a different character, to the consternation of the characters that had failed.
It's already been two hours since I started this post. Some details that might not be important: after I paused the AoE2 video due to the vp9 bug, eventually I decided that my response would be to watch Vurtne's 60~66 WoW video, but when I checked my bookmarks a different video popped up so I watched that instead. I got the vp9 bug around 9:20, after I had stopped and checked the comments due to misidentification of the Cold Snap spell.
If there is some sort of weird government conspiracy going on, I don't know what kind of communication you might have. I must say that if a government developed the capability to understand what parts of a YouTube video someone is watching by looking at their decrypted web traffic, that is an impressive technical accomplishment (even though YouTube already tracks this data for all users). I cannot actually think of another case where this capability would be useful for a government: the US government might treat Iran as an enemy, but does anyone care whether high-ranking Iranian official X watches certain moments in a YouTube video? So there is no reason to expect it would be part of standard surveillance capabilities.
So in this scenario where my YouTube issues are due to interference and not just buggy software, and we imagine someone has a button that interferes with the data YouTube sends to my computer, and we suppose that someone decides to press this button because they think I'm sad, or because think they think that watching part of a video made me happy, and that makes them sad because I don't know that they guessed that I was happy: it's questionable that they would tell you what they did, or why. Put simply, you might not be acting in a way that helps that person.
Not everyone has any interest in trying to change the world. I think that even people who might have the capability to do so are afraid of the consequences of failure; more precisely, they might be afraid that they would be unwilling to admit that they failed. I say this because I think I'm this way: on what is currently the last post on my main weblog, I felt the word "diamond" contributed meaningfully to the post. Diamond is a very hard material, but it is not a very strong material. My understanding is that diamond can shatter, though I'm not sure how easily. Would diamond windows, which lent their name to the title of the book The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, actually be useful, if they could be manufactured? Or would they be worse than the windows we already have?
I once emailed my friend Hime with a reference to like diamond shattering, meant to be a reference to my failure to be in a relationship with Mei, or more accurately my failure to make it so Mei was in a relationship, whether with me or anyone else. (Also about the possibility of Mei being a strong person, like diamond, who had failed at learning Japanese quickly enough to feel at home in Japan.)
Note that the author of the song, "Uso to Diamond" may or may not have thought about this aspect of diamonds.
But that's a general explanation: if this idea would fix many problems, most people who might feel they have a chance at changing the world are still not aware of this idea. Knowing about this idea makes changing the world much easier.
I'm sort of trying to connect this all to you somehow, but I think it's really about some hypothetical person pushing a button, who may or may not be someone I have previously sent messages to (I'm not sure if it's accurate to say that Sherine and I ever talked; maybe the closest was her reply to Autumn's tweet about Yara, if three or four messages in a chain are enough to constitute a conversation). So about that, I will say more: I am not secretly trying to make anyone happy by watching videos etc. It's more accurate to say that I do things that I would not be doing if people had already shared the idea. Age of Empires II supposedly has a 99% male playerbase, and it's reasonable to say that a typical female would not be interested in AoE2 — unlike, say, World of Warcraft, which I think had ... well, I was going to guess 40% female, but
"studies of mmo player demographics wow 2005" > https://nickyee.com/daedalus/archives/001365.php
From the survey data, the average age of the WoW player is 28.3 (SD = 8.4). 84% of players are male. 16% are female. Female players are significantly older (M = 32.5, SD = 10.0) than male players (M = 28.0, SD = 8.4). On average, they spend 22.7 (SD = 14.1) hours per week playing WoW. There are no gender differences in hours played per week.
The dilemma of whether to say more. Over The Hills And Far Away: some people are willing to wait to be in a relationship. Some people are reluctant to say that they want someone to wait for them, but the fact that they do secretly want the person to wait for them is seen as a significant part of the story. I don't feel sad and never felt sad from watching this scene, but many people in the comments say they did. I think it's terrible to have to wait years to be in a relationship with someone. Of course, it's also terrible if you wait, and then while you're waiting they die, and so you're never in a real relationship with them.
So, probably the only movie I think about watching, other than like a certain Chinese live-action sci-fi movie that was probably meant for a young audience, is The Mummy (2017), because the first few minutes looked interesting, it's an "action-adventure horror film", and Autumn once said that she liked horror films or something. But of course, I have also enjoyed the Chinese dramas that I have watched, and a quick search says 62% of the viewership for Chinese dramas are female. So, when I do things like watch AoE2 videos, it's an activity where I won't feel bad that I'm alone, because I expect that no one would want to watch them with me anyway. It doesn't mean that it's the thing I most want to be doing at that moment.
I have no sympathy for someone who reaches wrong conclusions because they aren't willing to take action to learn more information, out of a fear of appearing to be bad. As I said on Chirp Club: Don't be bad and you won't look bad.
Finished 04 May 2026 at 05:00. I will delay publishing this until Greta makes a post on Instagram, not a Story, that has a description that begins with the letter mentions Lebanon or is clearly about people in or from Lebanon. At that point, I will also unpublish the post that I said I would unpublish if Greta posted on Instagram.
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