#trust but verify.

[neverendingford]

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#tag talk #kind of morose rn. I wish kind wasn't functionally the same as trusting. #I wish trusting wasn't the same as gullible #I wish gullible weren't the same as stupid #I know so clearly that lies are easy to tell. and yet I know that in order to live freely I need to choose to believe sometimes #and this is one of those times I knew would happen. the inevitable failure that walks hand in hand with trying #and I will try again. because failure is a chance but not a guaranteed outcome. but it's annoying. it's exhausting. #this is about getting stood up twice in one night. in case you thought something actually important happened. nothing big. but annoying #annoying when you put out your genuine self as the best way to attract authenticity in others and instead it's played with #and I guess I should have looked for more ahead of time. demanded reciprocal honesty instead of simply trusting things would work out #trust but verify. #I just. I don't have a cynical bone in my body. I've had to learn all this #and I rephrase stories to make myself sound cleverer than I really am because I can think of a million witty retorts an hour later #but in the moment I'm just naive and trusting and over messaging it's so easy to take advantage of that #and I can't even report them for the undoubtedly stolen pics they baited me with because they block as soon as the game is up #oh well. live and learn and take away the experience and use it for something #I did meet a dude who actually plays age of empires so that's fucking sick. #got stood up twice. but met two actually cool people so it works out maybe. we'll see what happens. #I just- bruh how hard is it to get some good dick in this town? #anyway. I had a nice walk around the park while I waited. found a gravel hill with a hollow on the top and waited there to escape the wind #it was actually a really nice time at the park aside from the social circumstances

[mayasaura]

It really dawned on me watching episode 17, just how important this sequence of events is to Kabru and Laios' relationship, and how. Well. That's for a different post. I want to keep this one free of spoilers. (Certified Safe For Anime Only™)(There are spoilers for episode 17, tho. Obviously.)

Kabru's main concern has been, at least in part, revealed. He wants to figure out if Laios is capable of defeating the dungeon, and, if so, if Laios can be trusted with the power that might confer. The answer to his first question is simple. Yes. If anyone can defeat the dungeon, it's Laios.

The second question is where things get interesting. Can Laios be trusted with power?

In the aftermath of Laios' first fight with Toshiro, Kabru learns that while Laios has no particular respect for the law or conventional wisdom, he does have the humility to consider that his judgment might be flawed if he encounters conflict with someone he respects.

That is the face of a man taking notes, and I think he's making a cautious mark in Laios' favor. Laios doesn't really understand Toshiro's opinion, but he's listening.

Then, in the fight with the Falin-Dragon chimera, Kabru voices dissent—disgust, even—with Laios and Marcille's priorities.

You can practically see the Dragon Age style approval rating drop. Kabru disapproves. Minus fifteen hearts. If it had ended like this, I think Kabru would have lost all interest in Laios. Someone who would sacrifice a dozen lives out of sentiment can't be trusted.

Laios' response, and the way it builds on Kabru's earlier observation, is crucial.

He listened. And even better, he didn't listen blindly. He applied critical thought to Kabru's argument. What Kabru hears from him isn't just "I'm sorry, you were right," but also, "I understand and respect your position and priorities, and here's a very good argument for why killing what I still consider to be my sister is not in our best interest."

He processed Kabru's criticism and came to his own conclusions, and he did it fast. Not only that, but he's right. Kabru hadn't considered the potential consequences of killing the chimera.

Laios proved in this one exchange that he 1) isn't blinded by either his pride or his prejudice, 2) has the strength of character to not just fall back and surrender to someone else's judgment when he's uncertain, and 3) is smart enough to tactically outhink Kabru.

This is why Kabru is so invested in Laios liking him that he forces himself to eat the harpy omlette. This is why Kabru takes Laios' hand and makes sure he knows he wants to see him again. He doesn't understand Laios, and he still has strong reservations about him. Laios' interest in monsters scares him. But Laios has proved to Kabru that he might be capable of being the person Kabru needs him to be.

Top Ten Pictures Of The Moment He Won You Over (Taken Just Before Disaster).

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi spoilers #kabru of utaya #laios touden #we get a LOT of information to process in episode 17 #but Kabru's motivations as I present them here are supported by both his statements in the sea serpent episode and his thoughts in this one #I don't want the post to get any longer so I'm just gonna trust you all to either trust me on that or go back yourselves to verify #delicious in dungeon #labru #sort of

[3-aem]

my toxic trait is picking up random hobbies on a whim like today i went shopping for a cardigan but found No cardigan i liked and so i naturally decided that i can just knit one even tho the only thing i have ever knit was a 8” by 3” rectangle in 5th grade that just looked so pathetic-

#digital art is truly one of the cheapest hobbies #hobbies i do not recommend with my entire soul: baking #fk baking i have beef with baking baking is a fking SCAM #i denounce ur sugar cookie recipe and ur stupid apple tartes!!! #actually i really love both #but eggs are so expensive now it just cant be worth it #btw who allowed egg prices to go back up #bruh i dont want to pay more than #like 20 cents per egg thats how much they are worth to me #oh but the sanity of the chickens u know what i didnt make the farming industry they should figure that out and i should still be allowed #to eat eggs #also like short of driving to a farm urself and verifying the free rangeness u just cant trust the labels #free range could refer to the holy pasture fields #or it could mean like a 0.2 sqft pissing block outside the pen #im tired of making posts about gj let me vent about eggs for one night geez #delete later

[infriga]

To add to the discussion about plagiarization and misinformation, one thing I know that can contribute to complacency is how much time and effort it can take to fact check everything you watch. That's daunting for most people, let alone people who don't have as much experience with it or who deal with disabilities and executive dysfunction.

But there are some things you can do to minimize damages that are easier to manage on a more individual basis.

You don't have to necessarily fact check every single thing every creator says in every video in order to make sure they're 100% legit every time. I know not everyone has the mental bandwidth to do that sort of thing constantly. Generally it's okay to just practice some mindfulness and not blindly trust someone if you haven't vetted their claims personally.

What you can do is fact check yourself. Don't repeat stuff you hear from a video as if it is a fact unless you have looked into it yourself first to confirm that what the video said about it is true and that their sources are good. And if you source someone make sure you've vetted them specifically and checked their own sources on that particular topic or bit of information (and check that they even HAVE sources to begin with and aren't just copying their sources verbatim). You can't source every video essay you ever watch or check every single one for plagiarism, but you can source yourself and what you say, and make sure you're not spreading bullshit or citing the wrong person. If you find that you don't have the energy to do even that much in a given moment, then just keep the information in question to yourself for the time being until you do have the energy to verify it.

And some stuff that's generally just good practice: if it's a topic that you're particularly interested in, it's a good idea to seek out more than one video about it from more than one creator. The more diverse your sources of info on the topic the better, especially if you seek out more than just the popular stuff. Get a broader picture of it from a wide variety of people from a wide variety of demographics. It's a lot easier to spot stuff like plagiarism if you're looking at more than just one or two channels, and even if you don't spot it, because they're often good at hiding it, you at least can make sure that you're giving more obscure creators the same attention as well instead of only defaulting to the most popular wide-spread creators and content.

Seeking out more than one type of medium is usually a good idea as well. I know reading stuff like written papers or essays or books on a topic can be difficult for some people, but if you can manage it even just occasionally then branching out every once in a while is still worth doing because it gets you out of one particular information sphere and into another, reducing the chances of an echo chamber effect. If you can't bring yourself to do that much homework on a topic, then again remember to keep in mind that your knowledge about it is limited and could be wrong, and don't spread that info without doing your own research first. Videos are not inherently a bad way to learn about stuff, papers or books can be wrong, and plagiarized, and badly sourced, and can spread misinformation too, my main point is that it's good to avoid having your information come to you through a single choke point if you can help it.

It can be exhausting trying to hold every online creator accountable on an individual basis, I get that, so I don't expect everyone to extensively peer review every channel they ever watch, but at the end of the day you can at least make sure to try and hold yourself accountable first and foremost.

#hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #james somerton #Plagiarism #Misinformation #Wanted to offer some advice for people #who maybe don't have all the executive functions they need to do a background check on every channel that does video essays #For every video they make #This'll probably be the last major thing I reblog about this topic #Just wanted to add my two cents #Spilt tea #And this goes for any information you get from anywhere not just video essays #Like don't blindly trust and spread info from tumblr posts without verifying it personally either #Or reddit #Or friends or family #Etc #I said this is the last major thing I'll reblog I meant blog about in general lol forgot this was an original post for a second

[kent-farm]

—Arrow, “Trust But Verify”

#Arrow #Oliver Queen #Stephen Amell #Felicity Smoak #Emily Bett Rickards #Olicity #1.11 Trust But Verify

[zu-is-here]

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#zu art #comic #post dark cream #cross!sans #dream!sans #nightmare!sans #passive!nightmare #undertale #undertale au #utmv #the mother's soul is about to betray itself... (ú3ù)♡ #*reading Cream comic & realizing Cross is a crybaby* ah. the Word of God. must follow ƪ(˘⌣˘)ʃ˚✧₊⁎ #((royal guards be like)) #unexpected appearance and no less unexpected disappearance ٩( ᐛ )و♪ #the ​Inktobertale prompt may be a ~bit~ late xp #thank you guys for patience!╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ #AND for 11 300+!! (//∇//)☆ #UPD fixed the Dream's line following your advices! <3 trust but verify worked wrong >:D

[an-au-blog]

mafia sanzo

(I'm trying to clear out my drafts)

Where sanji inherits an illegal business from zeff, who is too tired, so he retired and only works at the restaurant that's used for money laundering.

The restaurant itself is successful as it is and sanji doesn't actually have to continue zeff's "business" but he's been working with him for years, practically saved his life. So when zeff told him he's throwing his "empire" away, he couldn't just watch as his old man throws his life's work away.

He still helps in the restaurant and often has to work as a waiter or bartender.

One day a green haired man walks into the restaurant and b-lines for the bar (where sanji is at that moment) and orders a bottle of sake. Sanji tried talking to him, because that's what bartenders do, plus no mentally or emotionally fine person orders a whole bottle of sake and downs it like a bottle of beer. All he could get from him was that his name was Zoro and that he was a swordsman. Still whenever he was at the bar conversation, even when it was one sided went pretty well.

Enviably, after a while, something happens. Maybe a conflict between the families or a deal gone wrong and they decide to send a goon to beat up Sanji. But it just so happened that that Zoro was around and noticed. He didn't think twice before he threw himself to save Sanji. Enraged that anyone tried to hurt his bartender, he "eliminates the threat". Sanji lets it happen. Not because he couldn't do it himself but because it felt like no one cared to take care of him since Zeff.

When a bloodied Zoro comes back to Sanji he expected screams, or curses, or maybe running away. But all he got was a gentle smile. Sanji cupped his face and gave him a hug.

That was when Sanji told him about his "family business. It was also when he realized Zoro was what the urban legends called "the six armed demon". What Zoro thought would be what would make more people afraid of him made Sanji admire him more. Zoro started sticking by Sanji's side more and Sanji started taking him on the job. Soon they became inseparable.

Some called Zoro "Blackleg's hound dog", some thought "lap dog" was more fitting. In any case people were terrified of the Bartender and his new demon.

#sanzo #one piece sanzo #this is for the sanzo lovers bc omfg there's so little content #like u can let the man with thunderthighs top #its ok #no one will die if sanji tops #my arguments are trust me bro #verified by the academy of i do whatever i want #source: i made it the fuck up #op

[deluweil]

Based on the last speculations (bi-Buck and probably him having something with a man), how optimistic are you for Buddie going canon? Do you think we’ll get some Eddie reaction/jealousy? I want to be optimistic but I’m scared they’ll do the same shit from last season…

Look, I said it before, Bi-Buck will probably be only with Eddie,

Buck is not who he was, Buck 1.0 AND 2.0 would have experimented his way through the greater male population of LA .

But this one? He will want the man who makes him feel like everything, who sees him, we know that's what his looking for, he said it in 6x15.

No one has ever seen him better than Eddie - Buck, imo, assuming he actually was just straight up until now, is probably more Eddie-sexual than anything else.

Now if you have asked me about Eddie, I could definitely see him, going through several failed male encounters, where the sex is great but it's not quite it, with Buck jealous as hell in the background not really understanding why - until he does.

You see, if the whole saying yes year (which was the dumbest idea ever and got executed so badly we hardly knew it existed) was this year where he says yes, and not to reproducing for others, I'd say maybe, but now, I don't think so.

My money is more on Eddie figuring it out first and him dating other men will kick Buck into motion.

Especially with Ryan taking a bigger role this season, this is right in his wheelhouse, and out of the two of them Ryan actually portrayed a gay character before.

I gotta say though, that while ABC have already done the Bi (both male and female) character arcs - it is still dependent on 911 creators to make that decision and I stopped trusting the showrunners a long time ago.

There's a part of me that is sure that the only reason buddie was not made canon yet is because KR was stuck along with FOX in the heteronormative narrative they kept shoving down our throats.

I want to believe that the move to ABC will allow buddie to become canon, but I am not getting my hopes up, and by the things I'm seeing so far, I don't feel very optimistic about it.

I do believe we'll get gay Eddie though, because that suit was screaming out and proud, the last groom I saw in this kind of suit, was divorced and out of the closet 6 months later, just saying. (by the way me and my gay best friend won that wager, but the original wedding was fun lol).

So, you know, glass half full and all that.

We'll keep our fingers crossed and hope for a fun ride.

#911 spoilers #911 speculation #buddie #evan buckley #eddie diaz #ryan guzman #911 abc #i always believed buck is bi #i can see both bi and gay eddie #and i want buddie to be canon because those two are meant to be #but showrunners are a disappointing bunch so I'm being carefully optimistic #you know trust but verify #911 ask #deluweil replies

[jaarijani]

THEY'RE SHARING A BED????!?!!!

#joker out #jance #im gone for A DAY i thought we'd be safe after yesterday's mayhem #CLEARLY i was wrong #i dont have time to verify but i trust stevie with my life

[saltyfilmmajor]

I think the ethos of Ace Attorney fascinates me so much because Phoenix Wright is just a bad lawyer. And how that comes through in farewell my turnabout when he has to defend Engarde.

#the point of a defense attorney is not that they automatically believe their client is innocent #and that whole idea is why defense attorneys get a bad rep when they defend people who are obviously guilty #(which in and of itself is a problematic notion) #(but for the sake of brevity let’s use the term obviously guilty) #Pheonix who up until then has only defended clients whose innocence he could verify / trust #suddenly has to defend someone who while not committing the actual crime #is its mastermind #how does that square with his 4th grade understanding of justice #vs Edgeworth and his year long sabbatical where he comes to understand that justice is the pursuit of truth #and not just guilty or not guilty #is a person any less worthy of a defense attorney because they’re guilty? #is it ok to through someone to. the instability of the justice system alone simply because they are guilty #do guilty people not have rights ? #those are the sorts of questions that these games have been getting me to think about #ace attorney

[svtskneecaps]

my biological peer reviewer (sibling) called this theory “fun” and said i should send it, so here goes

my personal theory is the feds ((”federation”)) created the eggs because they decided the best way to enforce “you can never leave” was to give the people something they couldn’t lose, like in the post by tumblr user alexaloraetheris (no relation to the smp) where their friend who might be a deity had said,

"When you die you descend to the underworld with nothing to lose. To keep you, they give you something to lose. When you want to return, they will demand it back. That's why nobody ever leaves. The only way out is to never enter."

i’m thinkin that on egg D-Day, at the end of the countdown, the feds weren’t gonna give the eggs back. they were just gonna hide them forever, or do something else, anything else, just keep them away from their surrogate parents, because then the people would just be STUCK, because people could theoretically take their eggs and leave, but if the eggs are missing, gone without a trace, then the residents CAN’T LEAVE, because presumably the eggs are STILL THERE, SOMEWHERE, IN NEED OF HELP AND RESCUE, if only the residents could find them ON THE ISLAND. if they leave the island while the eggs are missing, they are abandoning these things that have become their children.

but then in came the brazilians. and shit went south. because see, the spenglish (spanish / english) streamers were INVITED, but the brazilians CRASHED; the feds didn’t INVITE THEM, they weren’t EXPECTING THEM, but they can’t let these guys leave either, so they PANIC, and they scramble to give the brazilians the same thing--something to lose. the new egg had a brazilian jersey, homie was TAILOR MADE for them to pack bond with. the feds didn’t have time to send out multiple eggs, it was all or nothing, so they picked something they could reasonably assume all five of them would find endearing because they don’t know shit about these guys--they had a week to observe the OG batch, but all they know about these newbies is the brazilian flag on their boat--and so they sent the little egg out to become THEIR THING, the thing they couldn’t afford to lose.

it leaves open why the eggs are cracked too, bc idk what’s going on there lol, either 1: the eggs cracked because they’re hatching and the feds picked that date bc they wanted to yoink the eggs before they got Too Powerful, or 2: the feds were the ones to crack the eggs as an excuse for why they vanished--returning the eggs untouched would open too many questions the feds don’t want them asking; this way, instead of being concerned specifically with “why were the eggs missing”, the residents presume they know the answer--the cracks.

but yea i’m just gonna add as an aside that personally i think cucurucho / osito bimbo / the white fucker is way more active again because the feds are still scrambling to keep up with the brazilians (which, again, the feds weren’t expecting), and the binary fuckwad came in to put the fear of god into the newbies--maybe so they didn’t get too focused on the morse code transmissions; iirc max was theorizing that both osito and binary were part of the federation ? and if so it does make sense that the binary entity went to fuck with cellbit immediately after cellbit was introduced to the conspiracies of the island, yknow, a warning shot. i think they want them to be focused on the eggs.

BUT THAT’S JUST A THEOr

#i'm spitballing into the void bc i'm losing my mind lol if you read this send me some luck thank you #qsmp #someone send me to a nice farm with plenty of space to run i have lived too long #can't wait until someone smarter than me cracks the code #data and network security tried to teach me cryptography but HOO BOY it didn't do shit to help me here #i popped some of the words into a brute force caesar cipher #and also a tool that could roughly check for substitution ciphers #and yeah didn't find shit so uh #im gonna leave it to the one who's an ARG master yknow i think he's got it handled #(i thought about using an online tool to translate this but then realized i Do Not trust translators i can't verify) #(like i've definitely used google translate on my french assignments but the thing is i speak enough french to verify that) #(duolingo spanish + english/french cognates doesn't leave me confident and im not asking my unconnected spanish speaking friend to check it) #((i refuse to admit to her face that i've sunk so deeply into this hell-)) #(like spanish is such a common language for english speakers to learn that i'm sure they've honed the eng/span trans pretty well BUT) #(i don't trust it lol and id just prefer not to put something on my blog that i can't verify) #(so apologies and uh translate at your own risk k love you byeee) #shut up vic

[bookwyrminspiration]

you must pass my trials three before I will take anything you say about Fitz Vacker seriously

#kotlc #fitz vacker #I don’t trust the world with him #you need to be verified before I will engage in fitz convo #peer reviewed if you will #this is not like. I’ll only listen to people who talk about him how I like or want to hear #it’s just some people have priorities and understandings and text engagement that clashes so throughly with mine #that it’s simply better for the both of us if we just do not engage #I will bite that bullet and take that loss #I just. I don’t trust the world with him I gotta know the vibe first!

[moving-to-dreamwinged]

we r soooo perfect for each other actually it's insane

#.mei chats #. 🔮 #f/o #self ship #like guys ik u cant verify but just trust me we are #.gush

[jamesvowles]

didn't know where to put this on the yames poll but I was actually getting dicked down by him and he said rpf was fine sooooooooo

#da mind prison #Real and legit story no plot holes or anything I was there and this is 100% real and you can trust me verified

[kent-farm]

What’s that saying? “Trust, but verify”?

—Moira Queen to Malcolm Merlyn, Arrow, “Trust But Verify”

#Arrow #Every Arrow Episode #1.11 Trust But Verify

[sixty-silver-wishes]

Hi! I figured out where I read about that thing between Shostakovich and Prokofiev. It was in Testimony by Solomon Volkov (so take it with a grain of salt), and the person who wanted them to reconcile was Vano Muradeli, the composer of The Great Friendship and the same guy who threw Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian, Popov, Shebalin, and Myakovsky under the bus in 1948.

ahhhh, okay. yeah; testimony is a tricky source! I’ve admittedly only read parts of it. I have the full thing on a pdf, but I haven’t read the entire thing, mainly because I’m kinda worried I’ll get the information in there mixed up with what I’ve read in more credible sources. but thanks!!

#shostakovich #typically I only trust stuff in testimony if I see it verified somewhere else #sometimes it is. and sometimes it’s not