half coffee

Next version of Llama:

“As an AI assistant, I am only able to provide radical conservative opinions”

I was mormon. Thankfully my parents paid to traffic me, so I could afford to go to college and cut them off relatively soon after I got home.

I was threatened by local leaders and family if I didn’t go on a 2 year mission in another country, then when I got there, they:

• took my passport immediately and locked it in a building I couldn’t access
• required 12 to 16 hours of work a day, with discipline if productivity dropped
• refused to provide adequate food or medical care
• restricted my communication with my family
• assigned me a companion to surveil me 24/7 and report disobedience to leadership (and assigned me to surveil someone else)
• disciplined me when I was physically and sexually assaulted by other missionaries

I didn’t want to call it trafficking for a long time. I figured maybe God just had a weird way of doing things. But my spouse works at a recovery center for survivors of violence (including trafficking) and helped me realize that’s what it was.

A pretty big misconception is that trafficking has to look like selling slaves, and I agree that’s an egregious thing, but it can be a lot more broad than that.

There are a lot of resources at https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en if you’re curious. My mission experience checked just about every box for labor trafficking, and I’ve heard very similar stories from a lot of other people who have been missionaries.

The church in the ad is particularly harmful. I had to fight to get out of it, and only after they took 10% of my income for years and trafficked me. They want money, power, and control, not increased numbers at their services.

Cries in Linux

I don’t know about usual, but there is a huge wall between private/ personal and public/ professional for me. Nothing personal ends up under my own name if I can help it. Basically, I’m using my name as if it were the name of a business, and I use an alias or nickname otherwise.

Surprisingly little discourse for a nearly 1:1 vote ratio lol

Is there a Lemmy equivalent of r/wooosh

We (I’m a CS researcher) already kind of do, I upload almost everything to arxiv.org and researchgate. Some fields support this more than others, though.

Amen and I think you’re preaching to the choir on that one lol

… I usually don’t stand on a soapbox in my shower

I would fucking hope their plan to change their company involved some fucking changes. No fucking shit, Sherlock.

Feeling a smidgen of rage. Pardon my outburst.

pictures someone trying to catch fridges like in some kind of video game

It’s not my job. If it’s vital work, someone can pay me for it. Otherwise it happens on my own terms.

I downloaded all my comments before I deleted the data, and I’m slowly putting all the stuff that was actually important in places where I have a bit more control over how it’s used (i.e., the fediverse, my own websites, etc). Not a perfect solution, but if Reddit wanted to keep it forever they should have treated us better.

Poetry.

My bank did this a few years ago. I bank somewhere else now.

Maybe in certain nsfw communities but c certainly not here lol

Corporate America and its constant need for fucking validation

Mormonism has a long history of these cases. They are all tragic. There is a database of abuse incidents at floodlit.org, but I’m glad mainstream news has started covering this issue more.