Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]

Synthetic textiles full the same purpose and are considerably cheaper now than traditional textiles were then

Optimistic of you to assume this will be in a timely fashion.

You can absolutely vibe code a bridge, just massively overbuild it. Anyone can build a bridge, only an engineer can build a bridge that just barely stands up.

Please it would be so funny

That’s the neat part: trans men are banned from both restrooms!

Or rather organisions are now allowed to ban trans men from both bathrooms. The Equality Act is a badly written and conceived law in many places that labour could fix any time they want (but won’t).

It’s crazy, my grandparents were one of ten, eleven, eight and six respectively. Can’t imagine how my great grandparents coped.

Not enough berries to go around. Billions would die. Also, sometimes there are no berries at all.

The irresistible chinussy is a national security threat

Have you considered that the guy he killed was very rich?

Microwave receivers, it’s in the first sentence of the article.

It’s a fun and interesting ethical dilemma, and also very funny.

My point of view is that in humans and animals in general, emotions are largely a chemical response in the brain. We might not fully understand how those processes interact, but we do know that certain chemicals cause certain feelings, and that there is a mechanism in the brain governing emotion that is notionally separate from our ability for rational thought.

I am willing to concede that it might be possible for a sufficiently complex computer to accidentally or in a way not entirely within our understanding to develop the capacity for rational thought in a way that we would recognise as sapient, or at least animal level intelligence.

I am not willing to concede that such a computer could develop a capacity for what we recognise as emotion without it being intentionally designed in, and if it’s designed we necessarily need to understand it. This happens in fiction a lot because it’s more compelling to anthropomorphize AI characters, not because it’s particularly plausible.

If we had the ability to make a robot that had opinions about what work it did, we’d also have the ability to make it love that work beyond anything else.

This graph is for the United states.

Hong Kong is a semi-autonomous region of the country with a history of having a separate trade relationship with the west both before and after British rule.

It’s not ridiculous to specify.

They do say if you want to commit a crime, do it with a car.

It’s really tiring to see people going to huge efforts to analyse media that’s intended for young children and complain about tropes and narrative devices that are there because it’s media for children.

I get that it’s sort of an elitist sentiment, but media written for or targeted at adults is usually better, or at least freer to explore the sorts of things these people claim they want to see, and they would almost certainly have a better time if they just stopped watching children’s media.

For example, Harry Potter / Disney fanatics in their late 20s early 30s. Read another book, I’m begging you.

lmao if you play video games as an adult you would absolutely end up on the wrong end of this

Plenty of video games written for exclusively adults (and plenty that can’t legally be sold to children).

At a certain level, I think most people, including myself, consume this sort of media wanting to know vaguely that it has a history and a progenitor, but uninterested in the specific details, and unwilling to do any sort of investigation.

We’re in an interesting halfway period where the lies are not yet so good we have no way of telling what’s real, but it’s still easy enough to achieve that bubble where the things we interact with are unknowingly fiction.

Eventually we will have to embrace that nothing we see or hear can be known to be real.

Birds aren’t real though

British edition: tesco meal deal

Beans on toast