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I mostly agree with you, but protections aren’t the same thing as rights. Protections are a one way street, rights are a two way street.

If they’re as smart, communicatable and capable of social responsibilities, then yes. There are some species that may be “differently” smart as humans, but lack a common lanuage and can’t take on shared social responsibilities, so giving them rights is difficult to say the least.

None and I installed an emoji blocked on firefox.

You don’t have a learning disability and you don’t belong in the special classes. Don’t trust anyone that says it will be fixed the next year and go to a different high school when they say the classes you want are filled.

This is the most likely reason. Companies love reframing their earned hate as bigotry. Alt right goes along with it because it gives them validation.

Right, they’ve been terrible for years. Buying up companies, firing the old guard and pumping out shove ware versions of the games. On the consumer side, broken games, no polish, annual release games that are just reskins of the previous one, DLC/micro transactions, shutting down servers while there’s still a strong playerbase.

If I saw a poll for worst game company in 2013, it would have been an easy pick from me. Nowadays, it would be harder, but only because the other AAA studios have all gotten shittier since then.

Even if 99 percent of Ayn Rand followers are fuckheads, Jimmy Wales’s actions separate him of them.

There’s even more telemetry and built in ads with Win11 over Win10. If they’re so similar otherwise, why would anyone upgrade to Win11?

The other day, I dug out an old scanner to use. No mac drivers ever and no Win10 drivers. Worked on my Mint laptop with no drivers to install.

Post 911, the “War on Terror”, and the Patriot Act. I was young enough not to have complex political opinions, but it all stank to me.

There are ways to do that that don’t mean getting on a passenger jet get and spewing out co2. Most of those people don’t leave the tourist areas and only stay long enough to get their Instagram pictures and tiktok videos.

Hell, I can’t even convince my own friends to chat on Discord. They want to drive an hour to me to chat.

While we can entertain the idea that some people shouldn’t breed(genetic defects that lower the quality of life for the individual or society) or shouldn’t raise children(stupid raises stupid), there’s no neutral authority that can make and enforce judgments. Even if we make an AI to do it, it would just reflect the view points of the people who made the AI or the sample set that was fed to the AI.

The best we can do is make a society strong enough to cope with these issues, either new and better genetic treatments or more robust public schools systems.

There’s plenty of examples across different societies in the 20th century alone that practiced one form of eugenics or another that we now find appalling. Here’s an article describing some from the late 20th century US.

Long distance vacations are irresponsible and selfish. We don’t have the resources left to be wasting it on frivolous activities.

It’s not really pedantic. If the air force is using the term “UFO”, they’re referring to the technical definition. Means, flying things without known radar or visual references. The problem is when mass media relays the message, they deliberately muddle the definition because it’s good for ratings.

I don’t think there’s an actual government conspiracy regarding the ufo hearings, but a simple media conspiracy for ratings. I might be wrong, but that’s the simplest explanation for what’s going on at the moment.

Drug dealers also like getting paid in crypto, but they never hold on to it. The few that use it like a currency are ok, but the vast majority use it like a commodity.

That’s just simple streaching of the muscles. Chiropractic treatments put pressure on the spine to change the alignment of it.

My wife gets mad at me for hinting squirrels.

Where does this shit even come from? I’ve never had a popup on my screen like this.

Here’s an article from closer to when I first hard about it.