I’m very specifically not getting into this argument. Everything you just said is completely right.

All I’m saying is this particular argument about taste and flavors is the worst possible one to make because it’s demonstrably illogical.

Regardless of your take on the ethics of meat, this argument is nonsensical from either side.

Mixtures of things have different effects than their component parts.

It’s like saying if the hot chocolate just tastes like the cocoa powder, why don’t I just eat the cocoa powder?

Because the texture and nature of the water give it a property too.

One thing I’ll add is that no matter where you move, snooty people with their noses in the air will look down on the idea of the expat community from your country of origin, and while you should ABSOLUTELY not make them your main social connection or use them as a crutch to replace immersing yourself in your new country, there is a reason these communities form - they provide social support and connection while you slowly build up an entire new identity and social community.

It’s less like a U and more like a wave whose amplitude gets less and less every time until you stabilize in your new country (the peaks and valleys get smaller and smaller). It does also repeat if you go back to your home country (reverse culture shock), but the frequency is less and the total stabilization time is lower because for the most part, your brain is relearning cultural cues the connections already exist for, with an allowance for cultural drift depending on how long you’ve been away.

Let’s say the AI doomers are right.

This is still like, 7th or 8th in line of “currently dangerous existential threats to human civilization.”

There is ZERO sense in feeling threatened by autonomous rogue killbots when we’re going to have unaccountable, non-rogue ones supplementing the unaccountable, sentient HUMAN killbots we already have in just a few years, and even if THOSE don’t get you, the 50 degree temperatures will, since you can’t run your AC because the AI data centers have made your electric bill $500, and you can’t go to the pool because the clouds of ash from the uncontrolled wildfires have made the air unbreathable.

I mean, they suck for everyone - don’t get me wrong.

But being able to see them as an ego boost, or having the frustration be that you get low quality matches, as opposed to the punishing experience of “80% of the matches you get at all are catfishing bots” is very different.

It’s fascinating how different women’s experiences with these stupid things are than men’s…

I mean, at least you’re safe.

Your mind clone, however…

Apple is one of the shit pioneers, blazing a trail in new and unexplored avenues of shit, giving a horrific prophecy of the shit every other company will standardize in the following years.

It’s like getting an announcement of a new pandemic every year.

By the time we’re at that level, we can just stop pretending money is real.

It certainly won’t mean anything to an actual AI.

Roko’s Basilisk is stupid.

It presumes three things.

1. That human beings are logical and that they do anything with intention. For the vast majority of people, this is patently false.

2. That a super intelligence sees revenge as an efficient use of scarce resources, which given both that revenge is nonsensical without the prerequisite biological need for it, and the conclusion of ‘1’, is nonsensical.

3. That even if 1 and 2 were real, that there’s some inherent timeframe in which the AI thinks it should have been created.

The only real bodily danger of AI is inherent in the the humans who control it.

I love when the follow-up joke is better than the original.

What contrast? The topics bloated, brainless orange things.

The IDEA is great. The man who sold it to them is a known con-artist and liar and they had no shortage of warning before they got in bed with him.

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

If your story starts with “I believed in Musk’s vision” or “I voted for Trump” or some other asinine bullshit that everyone with a brain stem was telling you was stupid 10 years ago, you can take your sympathy fishing with you all the way to bankruptcy court.

I hope your kids watch and internalize what a loser their parent is.

That’s what I said.

Different medical culture, I guess. People here go over much more easily.

Good thing too. A friend of mine jammed her finger playing volleyball once and I thought she was nuts to go to the hospital, but it turned out she needed a surgical adjustment and if she hadn’t gone it would’ve wound up healing in a way that would’ve permanently affected her dexterity.

The trauma follows you.

I left the US years ago and people still look at me like I’m insane when I catch a cold and I don’t go to the doctor.

I drove 40 minutes to the hospital once after an injury, and people thought I was insane for not calling an ambulance.

You had to be there.

It was a beautiful moment in time.

This is the best shitpost I’ve ever seen.