indeed. At this point, the only thing related to 'murica that I care about in terms of relations is to keep them from nuking other countries. And with their empathyless billionaire cunts in charge of the rapist buffoon, that is basically impossible to ensure. Might as well do our own thing entirely.

representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir

I know my Gandalf like your average LOTR fan, but boy do I wish death upon these people…

Don’t give them ideas. Next they’ll cut the blood stream to your brain.

Fairphone has really gone off the deep end. 6 phone models in what? less than 12 years? That’s what they call dedication to sustainability? Really? They used to say the most sustainable phone is your old phone, assuming you can continue to use it. Yet - my Fairphone 1, still in good working order hardware-wise, I had to “scrap” because no more SW updates. When my FP2 hardware (charging port) eventually failed, they no longer sold the relevant spare parts.

What good are exchangeable parts, if they are removed from the shop around the time that a well-treated phone might need them?

Ah, the good ole ad hominem to validate your high moral standards…

Making “fun” about the eradication of someone (some country) already the target of current and ongoing aggression from all over the world, while the shitheads of America and Israel are bombing them, committing war crimes and mass murdering people faster than we can count, is decidedly inhumane and despicable.

Not even remotely funny.

My previous comment on another thread was pretty much the same: https://lemmy.world/post/31795092/17812429

I have a hunch the title might have been cynicism.

It’s the thing that the only person who can know for sure you have it is you yourself. If you have to ask, I might have to assume you could be a biological machine.

Except that wouldn’t explain conscience. There’s absolutely no need for conscience or an illusion(*) of conscience. Yet we have it.

• arguably, conscience can by definition not be an illusion. We either perceive “ourselves” or we don’t

I mean it though. HL1 was way better, storywise. HL2 just had upgraded graphics that couldn’t make up for worse gameplay. That endless water corridor run with the swamp boat at the beginning bored me to hell and back.

Psychopath!

This here, although teleporters might actually be implemented in a way that transmits the original being to the destination. It’s a fictional technology after all, so why not?

And by HL2 you mean Half Life 2? Which has a shitty and unfinished story and way less atmosphere than its original game HL1???

To be honest,

Extremely dumb

kind of sums up the entire movie pretty well. I am still not entirely sure what I watched, but I guess that is my fault for not knowing the manga? It was entertaining though, somehow. But I needed two sessions to watch it.

As much as I hate LLMs, this is probably the correct answer.

Seconded! I only watched the movie recently for the first time and Chau was so sweet (eventually) and sincere. She deserved better!

Ah I see, Yoda the anarchist. :)

Get fucked Microshit!