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Not an expert, but that would depend on the location, probably. Smaller game, certainly, but not everyone had large animals roaming around. Likewise, there were probably people who hunted and didn’t gather that much because there simply wasn’t that type of plant around.

But the point made still stands: modern life is not something natural to our evolution.

That’s a lot more feasible. It’s not about the initial damage, but the consequences and the effect on public confidence in security. Which isn’t that high anyway.

Don’t Look Up is more fitting as a documentary of our times. In lots of ways.

So the same strategy they’re trying with ICE at home. Do little actions to get a reaction that gives an excuse to hit back harder. Sounds fascist. Because it is.

The origin of the word meme, as well as the concepts before the coining of the term by Richard Dawkins, are all neutral to the subject or purpose. A meme can easily be hate speech if it’s spread as any meme is. It’s true that its use in popular culture now mainly means something that has spread on the internet (not just an image), but that’s only because the internet is the fastest way for anything to travel through large populations.

I’m all for it. I think it was the initial vision for the internet and web, and we got sidetracked by growth and commercialization. I do have to wonder if such a move did happen, a sudden shift of mainstream to here (in general, the Activity Pub’s various forms), could it handle it? Fast growth was a huge hit with the Reddit migration(s), and that was “just” Reddit.

Even a bad idea like this has its loyal supporters who are fine with a car company making DIYers jump through hoops. Probably pay more for the luxury of not being able to do basic service on your own car.

I honestly was expected it to be lug nuts connected to the cloud that self-destructed if a code isn’t given in time. If you want people to buy your cars and take them to the dealer for servicing, then build better cars and have better service at decent prices. It’s common sense to anyone else.

I thought it was called “Christmas of elves”, not swarm.

Yes, but there are far easier and cheaper ways to go. Dude must have just read about using things from space to control sunlight input and thought he’s such a genius surely he can figure it out. I guess he skipped over all the debunking that such ideas get.

And crucially, once we jump on the geoengineering train, we better not stop. It will only slow things and buy more time, but if we stop after beginning, the spike will be catastrophic (probably, there’s still so much we learn, but it won’t be a solution). But we will go that route, because economic health is far more important than anything else, and never plateaus by its very nature. There must be growth, or it all crashes down.

Maybe not. Any idea when it became a thing online? It seemed to coincide with when AI images started to get a lot better (and thus used a lot more), and that could have been a few years ago, or this year, depending on your standard of “better”.

“Slop” ought to be another word that’s gained popularity in use. I’m still having trouble with it, mainly because I think it’s overused a lot in short insults and dismissals of things. Not aimed at you here, at least you define WHY you consider it in that category. I’m talking more the “AI slop” that mirrors the “fake news” or “git gud” or any other reply that avoids actual discussion and screams “I hate this, but have nothing more to contribute”.

A fine that’s more than what a truck rental would have cost is probably appropriate. Plus the cost of any damage found.

Audio book is my preferred, I can’t do all the names in my head. Or Jess of the Shire’s fabulous 30 minute retelling on a whiteboard, really impressive.

Also Melkor’s chaotic role in Eru Iluvatar’s grand song.

Can’t refuse something that doesn’t have a basis of believing. But if presented with something substantial to sway that opinion (God would know what would work, presumably) I’d accept, with conditions. First being the ability to opt out of eternity at some point, because even total bliss unending could be torture if you’re aware of that sense of time. Second, I’ve got a few questions for this supreme being about his past work and moral choices.

If it ended like in Heinlein’s “Job: A Comedy of Justice” I’d be okay with both the eternity and the answered questions.

Heaven is spending eternity singing “glory, glory” to a narcissist. So it’s just a form of hell.

I had started liking that song again thanks to the Black Mirror episode, and now it’s ruined again.

No, not everyone. And sometimes things are built up to keep enough people down and tired to prevent making a difference. One can have fought and won a few battles but still be losing the war, and be entitled to say “I’ve been telling you so”. Never generalize - many labeled “doomers” are simply people who have been trying to change the world, and the world is simply too big and they’ve seen too much.

It’s going to be what ASI uses to judge humans. When Ultron became aware, the point where he says “oh no” is when he found the porn.

Yes. An air bus perhaps.