u/cyborgdreams

I, for better or worse, am one of those people who are uncannily good at spotting AI-generated images. I'm really tired of seeing them, but they keep popping up. I'm trying to use duckduckgo to block them, but it's not working at all. Some of my image search results are over 50% AI-generated, especially for art styles that are popular to replicate with AI. I keep flagging them as AI, but they keep showing up on search results even weeks later.

I'm trying noai.duckduckgo.com and regular duckduckgo.com image search with AI images set to hide. Is there a setting that I'm missing? I would appreciate any suggestions!

Here's an example using DMT/Psychedelic art, since that is a style that's popular with AI users.

https://preview.redd.it/xk06770m7ybh1.png?width=1904&format=png&auto=webp&s=755ac677915863462b683d00a5f0f01d6d413e5f

Hey, sinners and evildoers. 😈

I have several posts in my history about having been a neurodivergent woman in Evangelicalism (TLDR: it sucked and felt very isolating). I was just talking to my husband about this last night when a memory came up.

I was invited to the birthday dinner of one of the women in my small group. I showed up at the restaurant, the group was her and about 8 other women from the church, and for the first hour or so, I felt very lost and left out of conversations. Then the topic of Bloody Mary came up.

For those of you who don't know, Bloody Mary is a game that children play to spook themselves/each other out, typically at slumber parties. A child will go into a dark room with a mirror, then spin around 3 times while saying "Bloody Mary" over and over, then look into the mirror, and a scary ghost called Bloody Mary is supposed to appear in the mirror to scare them. Kids will sometimes dare each other to do it, or scream loudly on purpose if they're the one doing it, or they might get spooked because they thought they saw something in the mirror (your eyes can play tricks in the dark).

I was the youngest in that group and I was around 30 when this happened. Several of the women got COMPLETELY spooked out even by the mention of Bloody Mary. I was a taken aback, because even as a Christian I knew that stuff was fake, and that your eyes can play tricks on you in the dark, especially if you've been primed to look for something scary. But these women were terrified even by the mention of it. Women in their 30s and 40s, most of whom were married with kids, acting like 13-year-old girls at a slumber party. Seeing that was a major "WTF am I even doing here" moment for sure.

And now that I'm remembering it again, I'm really grossed out by the idea that women in Evangelicalism are, in every aspect, expected to stay sheltered and mentally frozen at around 13 years old. While at the same time also being expected to run households, set schedules, keep track of everyone's needs, and do a lot of work that requires a lot of brainpower, and then give their husbands credit for being "head of the household". They're like Schrodinger's adults. Is she 13 or 30? The answer is yes.

I'm lucky I wasn't raised completely sheltered and always had access to secular spaces, friends, and information. But I have also always been somewhat immature for my age and this is part of the reason why.

Would love to hear your thoughts/anecdotes about this.

I've always had subjective tinnitus (high-pitched ringing in my ears) that doesn't bother me that much. But as a teen, I also developed objective tinnitus, which is a muscle twitch in the inner ear that is audible from the inside. I had it in my right ear, and it was triggered by hearing sounds in my left ear that my right ear can't hear. So, if I was trying to sleep on my right side and could hear sound in my left ear, for example a refrigerator or air conditioner, my right ear would twitch from the inside and wake me up. It also happened if I held a phone to my left ear or from stereo headphones if the sound was only coming from the left. I found it incredibly annoying. For years, I avoided sleeping on my right side unless I had earplugs, never held the phone to my left ear, and had set all my devices to mono audio because of how annoying the tinnitus was.

Then a few of months ago, I took 1g of malabar. During the trip, I rolled over onto my right side, then heard some outside noise from my left ear, which triggered the tinnitus. I kind of felt my brain doing something, hard to describe the feeling, it only lasted a few seconds. But in the days following the trip, I noticed that my right ear stopped twitching from hearing sound in my left ear. It's still gone, even though part of me is still expecting it to happen.

20+ years of going out of my way to prevent it, gone in a few seconds. Completely unexpected.

This wasn't my first time using shrooms either, but I think it was the first time my objective tinnitus was triggered while tripping.

Anyone else had an experience like this?

Edit because I think people are misunderstanding me:

SUBJECTIVE tinnitus = a perceived high-pitched ringing sound, which does not measurably exist. I've always had this, I still have it, it doesn't bother me much because I can usually ignore it.

OBJECTIVE tinnitus = an actual, physical muscle twitch in the inner ear which causes the eardrum to vibrate. It can be perceived by doctors using certain tools. It feels like a muscle twitch (kind of like when your eyelid twitches, but inside the ear), and it sounds like deep thumping, if it happens repeatedly it sounds a bit like a motor. It was extremely irritating for me. What I'm saying is that the shroom trip seems to have stopped this muscle from twitching inappropriately, which I am endlessly grateful for.

Mush love.

My account was hacked a couple of months ago and the hackers posted a bunch of spam/porn. I was able to recover my account, set up 2FA and deleted all the spam posts. However, now all of my old non-spam posts and most of my comments have been removed by reddit's filters. Is there a way to get them restored? I've been looking at the reddit help desk but can't find the right link to report this problem.