Jerkface (any/all)

We drink because it’s good for the brewer and the taxman. Everyone else is harmed.

The form “X-slur” is much better than “X-word”.

There are some very notorious TV show remakes, too

You don’t even have to bring legal consequences into it. “Allegedly” means, “this is a claim that the referenced party is directly making,” and that is itself meaningful a fact, aside from whatever the content of the claim is.

It’s not the job of journalists to formulate claims, only to attribute them. Yes it sounds funny sometimes but that doesn’t mean that isn’t actually fucking important.

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real operating systems don’t have desktop environments

OH MY GOD MAN READ IT A THIRD TIME IN A REALLY SILLY VOICE

oh my god man, read it again in a funny voice and see if you get it this time

You think it “looks useful” to replace the accelerator with ersatz pedals? The only sense it is useful is to work around legislation that was originally attempting to prevent this kind of thing.

the fucking bike helmet

how far gone do you have to be to think this is the relevant interpretation

Wow, 20, good thing it’s so flat. Better hope you never get a tail wind. Fit children pass you on foot.

I appreciate the logical consistency, thank you. It’s actually quite an attractive fractal. Have you gone deeper?

“But everyone’s a nazi!”

You are not gonna like the next 20 years.

I have a more developed level of conciseness compared to [a particular dog].

Can you tell me what that looks like?

I don’t especially believe that humans are maximally conscious, any more than we were any of the other pinnacles of biological development that we always thought we were. Our main super powers are that we sweat, run, and easily consume starch, and you don’t really need more than that to explain us. If consciousness is indeed a gradient, I think it’s just more hubris to assume we are the “most conscious”.

But it’s a really hard thing to discuss, let alone quantify. I’d love to know your kind of feeling of what more or less conscious looks like.

If you feel that way, you should (and I am not being facetious) throw away your phone, get a land line, a linux tablet, and hell, maybe a raspi running Asterix on your land line so you can talk on it from your tablet. Your philosophy is valid but the proprietary landscape of the phone-iverse is intentionally designed to make it unpracticable. You cannot use any SIM-based tech, let alone iOS or Android.

This is exactly where my thoughts have been leading. Consciousness is a fundamentally INTRA-cellular process, that is augmented by INTER-cellular effects. Neurons are merely specialized to support (among other things) higher consciousness, but every cell participates in some form of it.

These ideas go a long way to explain things like the somatic effects of trauma, personality aspects being transmitted through organ transplant, the obviously aware and self-interested behavior of micro-organisms, the way mental complexity doesn’t really seem to scale with organism size, and a lot of other things that I have been thinking about that perhaps get a bit more metaphysical.

I suspect that consciousness is not generated but rather captured and exploited by biological systems.

I’m writing a game that explores a lot of these concepts.

This is the kind of sanctimonious shit that guarantees many people who could choose veganism, never will.

This is how people actually stop abusing animals. Until you fully accept that you are an animal abuser, you are going to continue seeking out ways to excuse your horrific treatment of vulnerable individuals. The only way to stop is to take moral responsibility. And THAT is what you are reacting to, that is what you are rejecting so vehemently.