Political posting is mostly about jumping on a bandwagon, not any practical considerations. Adding nuance is no fun, so sure, they go straight for kill em’ all, not “maybe relax the rules on taking oaths to the king”. 99% will never do anything IRL anyway.

Dwarf Fortress. That’s where my mild obsession with technological bootstrapping and self-sufficiency started.

Although I think I was more of a tween or teen when I discovered it. If I needed to be an actual child, it’s harder, because Mario Kart and JumpStart influenced nothing. Probably RuneScape; it’s fuzzy, but I think that was my first taste of internet culture.

Almost all people would agree that’s not the same thing as the subjective experience of pain, though. By that measure a smoke detector is actually screaming when it’s power is interrupted.

Plants don’t have organs for movement or information processing, because those are too energy intensive and wouldn’t help much. Their other tissues respond to stimuli, but the data rate is orders of magnitude slower than an animal in the same environment.

I’m not sure why these signals would need to reach any significant complexity, but if they did it would be a truly alien mind that expands with the plant’s growth about as fast as it thinks. And it’s kind of beside the point. Stealing from [email protected]:

Plants have feelings too
No, they do not. There is no serious study to suggest that they do. Plants do not have a brain or central nervous system. At most, they respond to stimuli. If you really care that much about the welfare of plants, you should go vegan, since many more plants “die” for animal feeding. Do you feel bad while mowing your lawn? And would you rather rescue a potted plant than a dog from a burning house? Is docking pig tails the same as branch trimming to you? Question upon question…

Prove it. They do not have any sound-producing organs, nor any structured nervous system to coordinate a non-hormonal response to anything.

People also believe that goldfish have no memory, and insects don’t think or even aren’t alive. You’ll notice the common thread of these exonerating us for our tiny bowls and our swatting.

It’s like the modern version of “animals don’t have a soul”.

Ah, technically correct, the best kind.

Okay, equivalent in unpleasantness to prolonged torture.

Depends massively on the farm and the practices.

Being a cow on a pasture looks okay most of the time. Factory farms should not exist.

TL;DR, they physiology is pretty similar to someone filling your lungs with a saline solution, but slower because they’re cold blooded.

When you consider this, that most plastic comes from fishing, and that modern day slavery is heavily present in it (no police on a boat, and hard to escape) I actually have more respect for meat eaters than pescitarians. Don’t eat seafood, folks.

And there’s a state propaganda ecosystem making the war look normal and okay, and most people just aren’t that into politics.

Civilians are civilians. Sometimes they’re dumb, but we’re still not supposed to demonise them.

I’ve heard they can be spotty, although I’m personally sighted. That’s usually the reason people post transcripts, anyway.

I mean, there are blind users.

Yeah, that’s not actually a good reason though, unless you’re developing a Hebrew programming language for Hebrew speakers. I made a bit of a joke about it, yes.

Does he actually want a pipeline, or does he want to have a vaguely functional relationship with various premiers? I’m sure he knows oil and gas is going to be a white elephant soon, and nobody wants to fund a long-term investment in it.

Then again, all that money in an American stranglehold is pretty scary.

Absolutely cursed, lol.

So not only did they decide to randomly include Hebrew in their language, because I guess they were feeling kabbalistic, but they got the Hebrew wrong. In what way does any of that increase usability or even make them look competent?

It reminds me of the INTERCAL manual, which was a joke:

This precedence (or lack thereof) may be overruled by grouping expressions between pairs of sparks (’) or rabbit-ears (").

I didn’t say they were good at it, haha! And the “whenever economical” bit is pretty restrictive if you’re in rural Tibet or something.

I mean, the industry itself was onboard with regulation this time. At least some of it.

It didn’t happen in the US because the US is basically in terminal gridlock at this point. The EU passed something.

It’s China, so you’re kind of in a high-security panopticon whenever economical. And oh boy, if you’re mad about Western tech company lock in, you haven’t seen anything yet.

Ah yes. Someone made a GPT version of it that was much more fluent, too.

Unless you remember pre-LLM chatbots you don’t know how far we’ve come. The first time I played with GPT2 I knew everything was going to change.

Yes, it would be simpler.

We all remember there’s a tradeoff though, right?

Edit: oops, guess I was mistaken, you can use most Unicode but emojis are not valid.

That actually seems even more arbitrary. Like, do they just hate fun?