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by whythre 2y ago
For some reason this just sounds depressing. Imagine bonding over gruel, because everyone else is eating it and you can’t connect with them unless you are able to discuss the consistency and mouthfeel of the gruel.
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by whythre 2y ago
If something is purposefully bad in order to prove some ironic meta narrative point, it’s just bad.
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by whythre 2y ago
That depends on which court ruled against Albertsons in the above case. Higher courts are under no obligation to honor a lower court’s ruling; they can and do overturn them.
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by whythre 2y ago
It isn’t a return. Baring-Goulds werewolves are thin metaphors for behaviors that we would associate with serial killers, rapists, cannibals. People that have succumbed to the worst impulses of their nature. Those have always been with us.
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by whythre 2y ago
Or ended. The idea of owning ideas is dumb, and corporations abuse the concept more than it benefits individuals.
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by whythre 2y ago
The subtext comes off like that movie with Tom Hanks trying to jump off the Empire State Building because of the nefarious influence of dungeons and dragons. It sounds like mom let her 9th grade kid completely detach from reality and pour h
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by whythre 2y ago
The subtext comes off like that movie with Tom Hanks trying to jump off the Empire State Building because of the nefarious influence of dungeons and dragons. Guess the only way to be sure is with Soft padded internet rooms for everyone, les
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by whythre 2y ago
There are individuals and subcultures that prioritize idealism, yes. Often they are young people. Idealistic individuals can get ground down and turned into pragmatists, but some hold onto their hopes and dreams very tightly.
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by whythre 2y ago
That’s a good point. Texas beaches are the cul-de-sac of the Gulf Coast. Makes sense that trash would collect there.
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by whythre 2y ago
‘I think, therefore all matter must think’ is just such an unsubstantiated jump. Creatures having limited cognitive process, sure, of course. Rocks or other unliving matter thinking? That requires a lot of faith in materialism, so much so i
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by whythre 2y ago
Indeed. All this quibbling about whether it is renewable or not really just comes off as making the perfect the enemy of the good.
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by whythre 2y ago
Punishing them via the state is the next step. Imagine taking food from someone’s mouth because you disagree with them on a public issue. Whatever happened to ‘I disagree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.’
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by whythre 2y ago
I think the conflicting idea is that the ‘messaging’ is that we simultaneously need to reduce carbon emissions by whatever means possible, and at the same time we must maintain a labor force that spends hours in traffic each day emitting mo
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by whythre 2y ago
“But the whole point of D&D was to have a small-scale alternative to the "armies or mercenary companies fighting each other" gameplay that it originally sprang from, so I can give a pass on that, even if the writers never actu
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by whythre 2y ago
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
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by whythre 2y ago
lol the system is so broken. There are (multiple) patents on HeLa, which is dumb as hell. Human mutation/adaptation being owned by a corpo is an insane concept.
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by whythre 2y ago
Seems like lip service slacktivism that does nothing but inject a bit of weird misplaced guilt. Railroads were a huge technological innovation. Handwringing about the skeletons in the national closet without really understanding how or why
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by whythre 2y ago
If an older person doesn’t have a whole lot going on, they often look forward to these sorts of routine daily interactions. Missing one could easily be a red flag.
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by whythre 2y ago
Probably an accurate prediction. Kind of like how large populations in the American south were once infected with hookworm.
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by whythre 2y ago
It is my understanding that ancient astrology was basically proto-astronomy, similar to how alchemy was the forerunner of chemistry/advanced metallurgy. A lot of woo, but the ‘art’ still had enough systematized concepts and early disco
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by whythre 2y ago
Seems like moving the goalposts. There are distinctions between income levels. Yes. Of course. The Marxist distinction between proletariat and bourgeoisie was inherently a situation where the have-nots are preyed upon and exploited by the u
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by whythre 2y ago
Padding numbers? ‘Our shitty bot has successfully* published* hundreds of books!’
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by whythre 2y ago
If you compare how humans have lived prior to this century, children having their own room is a recent development and indeed a luxury. Having your own private space is great, but not necessary. Hence, a luxury.
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by whythre 2y ago
The good news is those more likely to reproduce are automatically selected by evolution… since they are the only ones having children in any significant numbers.
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by whythre 2y ago
I don’t think you get to ‘surpass’ evolution with regards to increasing life span. Maybe you can retard the process. But I think that is just kicking the can down the road. Its like an old growth forest not being allowed to burn, it’s caret
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by whythre 2y ago
One can couch their words in the language of nonviolence and still be manipulative, cruel or discriminatory. It can and does act as a form of social camouflage, because humans are shitty and a method of communication will not safeguard agai
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by whythre 2y ago
Fair enough. But the way the ruling danced around free speech and instead ruled that fair use was really about ‘conduct’ is not something I agree with. That distinct category seems invented to curtail speech and the distinction between the
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by whythre 2y ago
That honestly doesn’t sound too bad.
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by whythre 2y ago
What a shit tier ruling. Fair use should be expanded, not curtailed.
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by whythre 2y ago
Sounds like a good ol’ fashioned case of confirmation bias. ‘Look at this one good suggestion the AI made! Wow!’… all while ignoring the many unhelpful outputs.

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