Talcosis

Seems to me that it’s much easier to create a single cohesive nationalistic identity by destroying every other place where people can find identity. Which often involves groups of people interacting and finding ways to work together.

Bit like how people with few real life social connections are much more likely to fall into parasocial relationships.

Also a bit like the isolation step before the abuse starts.

…and the DU is not in the payload, it is in the warhead of an air-to-air missile that some drones carry.

Warheads in the air to air missiles that drones use for defense, not the drone warheads themselves.

I would not pull the switch, that’s my solution to all permutations of the trolley problem.

They do!

The knowledge base that is leaving are the people that understand that starting random wars is stupid.

I meant did you try bending your elbows further than that?

They technically could go further. Might, uh, sting a bit. Or is your mind/willingness limited by your body?

Have you ever tried moving your toes? Not as a whole, but individually. Like your fingers. The nerves are there, the brain connections are there, the muscles are there…can your mind grow enough to make them function?

You are correct. I do make a guess as to who feels what. I just don’t feel the need to limit my guesses to some arbitrary definition of life that does feel pain and life that does not feel pain. All life feels pain. Plants included.

Don’t send help next time, let us burn.

Also, if possible, let me cross the border when it comes time for that. I’ll make cookies and invent new stuff for you! If you give me immunity from international prosecution, I’ll share all the IP I already have in my brain.

Want bunkers made of stuff that’s four times stronger than concrete for half the price? For the same price, you could build shit that will shrug off modern bunker busters, and would probably survive a direct tactical nuke!

Pointlessly pretentious. Powered through the whole thing because it’s supposed to be good and. It’s not.

Its like having a conversation with an idiot that think using exclusively polysyllabic words makes them smart.

Also the part where all the highschool girls end up in relationships with 30+ year old men is certainly something.

How do you measure emotions?

Like, how do I know that you have emotions? If I punch you, how do I know you’ll feel pain? I’m not gonna feel what you feel, I can only observe your response. Stimulus, response.

Same thing with plants. Same thing with dogs.

As to your last point, it wasn’t that long ago that Very Smart People argued dogs don’t feel pain. Of course they obviously did, and of course most every normal person recognized they did…but that wasn’t what we “knew”, as a society. Hell, it wasn’t until like, 50 years ago that we recognized human babies felt pain prior to being able to vocalize an “ow that hurts”.

Perhaps it makes people feel better to know that dogs feel pain and lettuce doesn’t. But that’s almost certainly not a true statement.

Edit: also, how much of your body controls your brain? Like, have you ever considered bending your elbow in the wrong direction? No? Why not? Why is it the wrong direction? It just is, right? That’s how the body works?

And in an ideal world, kids don’t get head injuries and don’t get cocaine smeared on them. But we don’t live in that world.

No, but they will release chemical signals that attract predators of things that eat plants, while telling other nearby plants to start moving nutrients into their root structures to minimize damage.

And yet, cocaine is schedule 2 in the US, with legitimate medical uses primarily in pediatric emergency medicine.

Those headlights are just improperly adjusted. Normal headlights point down, especislly on the driver side. Brights are often bright because they point forward.

Now, if you replace your headlight, for example, or decide to lift your truck, and don’t adjust your headlights…well now you’ve just got your brights on all day long.

He really couldn’t, though. That would have just become Russia hoax 2.0 now featuring Israel, while 80% of the daily news would be shitty AI mockups of Biden with a hitler stashe doing an elon musk.

Buy a Sceptre! I got one two years ago, as well as a monitor, and they’re both great and dumb. Although I don’t watch TV all that often.

Idk if anything has changed in 2 years. I paid like 600 for a 65 inch and maybe 80-100 for a gaming monitor? Both were purchased with the intention to get ahead of tariffs on electronics

Sceptre! They make dumb TVs! They’re great! More expensive tho

I think there is benefit to society in creating alternatives to parasocial relationships with chat bots.

Until then, I see this as somewhat analogous to fighting ADHD by banning Adderall. Yeah, the drugs aren’t good for you, but the lack of them is worse.

No, you’re right. We should never examine why anything happens as long as it increases rights.

You’d be cool with my right to punch you in the face, wouldn’t you?

And gun control is often repealed when the dominant group in society wishes to increase violence against minorities.

Great solution!

First, we need to have the systems in place to identify those people. Second, we need to have the manpower to provide those people with one on one socialization.

Third, we can get rid of the AI chat bots.