Would you be disgusted at a dare to drink a liter of saliva from a mystery donor? That’s disgusting, because we’re instinctually averse to things that could make us sick.

Yet we drink one liter of our own saliva every day, but we’re used to it so it doesn’t make us sick. It’s normal but still kinda gross.

My point is, bodies do a lot of gross things, and our instincts usually squirm at the gross things other bodies do, but we have made peace with our own. It’s gross, but we don’t hate it, it’s doing the best it can to stay alive.

Enough to be gross, too little to be profitable. Wonder what kind of teeth it grows, maybe you could use them as spares.

So, it seems like I wouldn’t be able to change your mind because you’ve already made your position firm? Isn’t it neat that it’s happening in this thread?

I’d expand it to arguing with people who don’t want to challenge their postures. It’s the human condition that we substitute thinking with emotion by default, and it takes significant cognitive effort to mitigate that.

Let’s say it’s a double-edged sword. It brings freedom, but encourages insulation and intolerance.

This is a disadvantage of the Fediverse: the owner of the instance dictates the rules, and the moderators are as prone to power trips as they are on Reddit.

Be glad you were banned from blahaj, it’s in the top instances of intolerance to group think defiance. If you manage to get unbanned, you’ll be always at risk of another impulsive ban.

Real life is hard enough to add gratuitous drama to it.

Comments and full-length names make the source way more accessible.

Ubuntu LTS? It can still have rough edges depending on your hardware, but solve them and you got five years of peace.

I feel this strongly depends on which circles the alien grows.

For example: You find your species is going to extinct whales/pollute the seas/commit genocide in Gaza/etc. What are you able to do to prevent that?

What’s a few billion to a TRILLION company? That’s peanuts. Everything is fine fellow citizen.

If they accepted the job, absolutely yes. ignorantia juris non excusat.

The real question is: would they be allowed to do the same these days?

Spoiler: they won’t.

Fuck it, just valuate tech companies with quadrillions, or even quintillions. Why not? We’re already in the realm of fantasy.

Don’t speak that way of The Orville

If you’re using AI as a more powerful search engine, more power to you, that’s IMO how it should be used.

The problem is too many people use it to avoid learning and critical thinking, because it’s much easier.

I’d start looking for what filled their place: who graduated in their place? What person is filling their job position? Their brothers/sisters are the same? Wife/husband and kids? Etc.

If there is evidence of a filled void, I’d trust my memory; if not, I’d think I’ve gone crazy.

What? It feels like a web wrapper right now, I always thought it was an old backend because the web app had better functionality.

I guess, but getting mad because a program doesn’t answer the way you wanted it to is silly; it’s an algorithm, not a person.

You’re expecting too much from a bunch of vector operations. The grim scenario you gave it might have tipped it into that tone of answer.

You really shouldn’t get offended by this sort of thing, it’s like getting offended because your car doesn’t slow down in school zones unless you let your foot off the gas pedal.

Why is taking credit one of your worries? You can’t tell anyone, and you can’t prove it anyway.

Besides, the informed decision is knowing you’re taking a 50/50 risk, which isn’t that bad IMO, depending on the situation. It also isn’t that good, so maybe I won’t use it unless the world has nothing to lose.