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> Do remember that using LLMs is a choice. That seems like a naive take on technology to me. Once having/using a smartphone was a simple matter of personal choice. Once, having a c…

> I doubt that’s the problem. I don't know, it seems like it's a weird argument but it's definitely a thought I've had too. When I was eyeballing the Egyptian dynasties I was bit s…

That's pretty lame criticism considering many of those things were contemporary SOP for all countries. The USA remind abnormally libertarian despite this. Now it's getting abnormal…

I don't care about accusations of xenophobia. I don't like it because I don't like pointless historical revisionism. It's been called Gulf of Mexico since the 17th century, before …

50 years is honestly not that long. When you look at historical dynasties even the shorter ones tend to be ~100 years, if they don't immediately implode. That was a lot of sufferin…

Well you have been. The consent was always being manufactured. A certain controversial fellow by the name of Chomsky pointed out decades ago that media would inevitably reflect bia…

Sensible change. But I wonder if it will encourage retailers to treat the secondary now more food safety related "use by" date as the real "best if used by" date. If you're like me…

I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you are implying membership of Hezbollah is deep dark shameful secret in Lebanon. The designation of Hezbollah as a "terrori…

I have never heard anyone refer to Neanderthal as a human unless they are talking in a "those are cavemen, early humans" way that's wrong. Where is this coming from? Is it a non-En…

It seems to me nearly every story about robots that gain sentience in human storymaking has them eventually turning against their human creators. Even the word robot itself comes f…

Depends on where you were. I was an American fan of anime before it was really socially acceptable and I've been of the mind that its popularity was probably inevitable once enough…

Are you so sure that was a legitimate and real comment? I'm not a woman so I can't know the truth personally. But people are very performative on Reddit. They also like narratives …

Well maybe it's just because I'm an unpopular weirdo, but I think "invite only" is cancer. In fact it's another head of the hydra killing the Internet. Whatever alternatives exist …

Humans may be tribal, but the universe is also entropic. Things decay in quality over time, and the only answer to this is cyclical rebirth. The analogy of music here is telling be…

Twitch "pays" streamers with a cut of the money they made off them though. The paycheck is 1/2 a cut of money given to the streamer by a third party with no work from Twitch, and 1…

This has been a talking point pretty much from the day the Brexit vote happened. The usual suspects then repeatedly publish that same line in the usual papers (The Guardian for one…

Side debate: the USA "ceasing to exist" from the view of a native American, in a manner analogous to Palestinians, would be the status quo that already exists today. In opposition …

> By and large, the constitution grants wide privilege for states to decide how they run their elections, and how they validate whether a person is qualified. Do you have any histo…

Why would you need violent state enforcement of voluntary contracts?

> This is a problem created by multiple governments over various parties Why blame "government" and not capitalism? Canadian Gosplan didn't conspire to set housing prices at insane…

> it's a ton of work, with people constantly bitching at you, for no compensation. One of my favorite things about Mod self pity that always seems to come up is this insinuation th…

I would say it's more male sexuality (primarily hetero) and female sexuality that is seen as threatening and uncontrolled that is categorized as grotesque. Things like OnlyFans has…

> When Napoleon Chagnon told his Marxist colleagues that the Yanomamö made war over women, the Marxists faced a choice: Either revise the whole foundation of what they thought they…

> Only assholes think like that. Only assholes doubt credentials because we are now trying to explicitly defy our biases. And/or people capable of unpopular rational thinking and n…

> Can't blame him for being friends with people who asked for it. If he has not denounced those Libertarian friends, yes you can. If he has not lobbied the government with his disp…