I don't do audio books, but James Earl Jones has done a full auidobook of the Bible. I'm not sure that can be topped.
there aren’t massive fluctuations in this based on sex, race and nationality
Wrong, you made a false assumption about my claim and poorly absorbed the data.
Those fluctuations absolutely exist, but they are counted within the 38% who are sentient.
The same is seen with people who have an internal monologue are more disagreeable than those without one.
Uh, yeah. That's called overlap. Same separation of sentience vs non. Both cross sections (asch has been repeated far more times than any study into internal monologues) imply that some humans are simply not independent entities capable of free thought. And both seem to imply that number is well above 50%.
You can go back further if you like, and Plato was saying the same thing about the cave.
The number of people who are not capable of free thought or "disagreement" remains the same across all subtypes. It's in the actual freethinker range that you find the additional differences.
This boomer stuff is also so silly.
Check out the Asch conformity experiments. Repeated all over the world, hundreds of times.
62% of every gender, every race, every nationality, every generation, anywhere in the world, at any time in history: 62% of the population does whatever the most immediately apparent "expert" says they should. Even if they KNOW it's wrong.
62% of EVERY generation is basically non-sentient. It may be painfully more apparent to you with boomers because they are the generation that voted for this stuff, but theGreatest, X, millenials and zoomers are no different. They just haven't had power long enough to prove it to you.
The reason it is a pyramid scheme is because it requires an ever increasing number of people paying in at the bottom to pay out at the top.
So does the ponzi.
The piramid scheme pays out just enough at each individual level to make the rubes feel they are actually gaining, because each rube is screwing over the rubes below them. The guys on level 9 are profiting off the guys at level 10, and the guys at level 8 are profiting off of both. From the top to the middle everyone is actually profiting off of doing nothing, by milking the guys in the lower levels. Next to nothing is even coming from sales of the "product," and while the guys at the top are making out the most, some of the middle is actually making millions along the way too.
It's a derivative of the ponsi scheme, but not the same, because a whole bunch of people in the middle are actually making money and contributing to the scam in their own greed.
Nobody invested in SS is making money off of SS, only the political class who are grifting and stealing from it at the top. Ie, a ponzi scheme. You may be trying to think forth dimensionaly that the boomers invested in the past are level 5 and you are level 10, so they are somehow profiting off of you like a pyramid scam, but they are not. They had their money stolen too, they are just too dumb to realise it.
The current goal is to make it illegal to train on anything but data you own, immediately guaranteeing Disney and Adobe become the defecto controllers of the market.
The biggest threat of AI is not on individual liberty, but on corporate liberty. Small businesses and individuals can directly compete with billion dollar companies for the first time in history and they will do anything they can to alter that. "Regulation" will be what creates the monster people are afraid of, and be used to destroy the possibilities for "individual liberty" that AI provides.
with its own special book with a spot for each one
My bank gave me one of those for free, lol. I actually filled it up, and had a silver quarter in it, but long since lost in a move.
When the first name is obnoxious to even think the pronunciation, people tend to skip the other. Zendaya is like someone put a three speed bumps in a row. By the time you get over it, you just want to get back to the rest of your sentence.
That actually makes a certain amount of disgusting sense.
And now open faggots and tyrannies have more power in casting decisions.
Most every vegan I have met was the "ethical" vegan variety, in that they really just hate and are disgusted by factory farming. When push comes to shove, if they have any brain at all, they realise that supporting locally raised meat is the better option all around.
The Amazing movies are still my favourites all around. Holland isn't bad, but everything else about the films is pretty disappointing.
I do not understand the fascination with Zendaya at all. It has to be astroturf right? Like, it has to be... right?
I had the "pre-cavity" thing once. Had a broken tooth and needed a crown, local dentist cleaned up the break and put in a temp crown, told me I would need a permanent in six months, and said I had 8 more cavities that needed work.
This one visit completely drained my dental insurance at the time, and the temp crown lasted a month.
Found another dentist in another town who had a cash discount, a big cash discount. Got the new crown for 20% of what it would have cost, and after using a much bigger and more powerful x-ray of my full mouth, he says I'm otherwise in good shape.
I asked him about the 'pre-cavities.' He gave me the look and shook his head.
15-20 years later, crown is long gone and I finally have to get that tooth pulled, third dentist finds ONE small cavity. So yeah, I don't buy that 'pre/micro cavity' bs.
It's trolling, they do this on every. single. game. Even the ones that are already completely faggy.
Then they use the steam points they get to give other posts and comments awards for consensus cracking purposes.
There is trash everywhere in your first link.
OP added "piles" for some reason, but that's easy mode. The game has always been visible trash, and it's nearly impossible to win. I've yet to see anyone share a winning link.
It took me 8 tries to win,
Wait, what???
Were you looking explicitly for "piles" or just any garbage/litter? I never could win.
My "oh shit, someone mentioned the dark matter hoax" face tick was back, but you came through in the end.
Corporations are pieces of paper with more rights than we have, run by a group of elites who are untouchable and unaccountable by design.
Ideally we would return to the concept of ownership, and then someone would actually be responsible and face prison time when a company breaks the law, instead of receiving a fine that's lower than the profit they gained from committing the crime.
I'm just old enough to remember that "no mandatory government ID! For anything!" was once a conservative talking point in the united states.
Funny what a little promise of convenience, and claims of fixing a system that was intentionally broken, can do to change priorities.
They also pulled this shit durring the lockdowns already, making Ausies actually take a picture of themselves and send it every few hours to prove they were home, and even that didn't get much pushback. And Canadians are still using the ArriveCan app.
If it's all integrated and "easy" after those inconvenient prototypes succeeded, I fear far too many will just go along with it.
And once one country does it, and the field is prepared because sites and services have capitulated and built the final framework, the dominoes will fall far too quickly.
I just thought maybe you hadn't seen it. no worries.
how the public will act when they have to verify
The way it works on the phones is basically automatic, the front facing camera is just on all the time. They will make it convenient enough for anyone with a current phone that the normies won't care.
every generation of star trek
And?
It's standalone because it takes place entirely in the mirror universe, involves absolutely nothing of the prime plot or crew, and even has it's own intro and theme music. Therefore it can be enjoyed even by people who don't like the show or any of the characters. As has been the case many times over the years when I've introduced it to people who didn't like ENT.
Maybe we should go back to art only having value after the creator is dead?
Enterprise was terrible at the time, but there hasn't been anything better in the scifi space since. I've grown to like it in spite of itself because of that.
At the bare minimum, the In a Mirror Darkly two-parter is an excellent stand alone story.
This is the true way.
Though I'm in a minority for actually liking Nemesis.
Plenty of people here slobbed all over BG3s bear knob. I can give them a much easier pass for playing a remake of a good game from the before times.