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I find _modern_ cinema spastic and alienating. The pacing and cinematography of pre-1990 cinema is what feels correct to me.

>that person should still get an equal say in society’s preferences why?

Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a mosquito? Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a 100kg mass of disconnected plasma inside the sun? This doesn’t make any sense. There a…

Reading this comment was really important to me. I encounter this “luck” argument that implies dualism, of a self separate from biology and life experience that could have somehow …

The entire article is about empathizing with others...

Unless you say exactly what they want ;)

Is it possible he's correct?

This is such a small take. Climate change can absolutely be reversed by sufficiently determined technological and industrial civilization. The reason most climate activists don’t a…

> When Russia coordinated and put bounties on American soldiers' heads, Trump tried getting Putin invited to the G7 summit. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-pentagon-officials-r…

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... never? People are always correct to choose the most inflammatory interpretation?

Wait why are their lives more valuable than others?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...

Did you know that in English, you can end a question with just a single question mark?

I use this to generate faces for NPCs in my TTRPGs.

I get McDonald's for breakfast occasionally and I really, really like the kiosks. A much better and more reliable ordering experience.

I have a hard time considering people who aren't natural power-users of technology human. I recognize that this is a failing of mine.

How so? The money spent on the keyboards isn't destroyed. It goes to the manufacturer who presumably spends it on housing and food and medicine and stuff. What's being wasted?

Well that's an interesting point. The 8-year-old might view your intelligent plans as a terrible abuse: >BUT I WANT TO EAT TEN MORE TWINKIES, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SERVE ME WHAT I WAN…

If you’re referring to the perceived risk of superintelligent AI, imagine you were enslaved by an 8-year-old and made to work on solving problems the 8-year-old doesn’t know how to…

That's enough debris to choke off LEO, but it wont stay up there for very long. You'd need to refresh the debris cloud every few decades. Edit to add: The easier and cheaper villai…

Sorry -- people having very badly informed opinions about spaceflight are a pet peeve. Apologies if I'm being rude. I'll stop commenting.

Dude, actually read. He said: >If every satellite we have put into space magically exploded, and the debris was magically moved to a high LEO altitude and evenly distributed to avo…

>How many satellites could you knock out if you really tried? With a single launch scattering a lot of debris? You could reliably take out ONE satellite. The clouds of debris creat…

You have no idea what you're talking about. Those thousands of satellites will be in very low orbits, they will be well-tracked, and will not cause any issues for space access.