I learned the truth of my flesh, and it disgusted me. I craved the surety of steel.

In other words, I found humans to be flighty, unpredictable, back-stabbing, and wildly erratic in their quality, while computers were solidly predictable, fair, reasonable, and even if they cheated, they did so in honest and clear ways.

I also learned humans can work together to make great works. The modding scene is amazing. But that first lesson is ever-present: Those generous benefactors, coworkers, co-programmers and collaborators can turn on you in a moment, to get some personal thrill or commendation at your expense. Your friends can lift you up, and help, together, to make truly amazing things... But choose your friends carefully.

And that sometimes, you don't have that option. You need to work with a snake. And you need to manage that, because for one reason or another, you need that snake's skills for the time being. They WILL harm you, eventually, so risk-assessment and social-threat-assessment are important skills to gain.

The claim of "perhaps even zero" makes mockery of everything, that line in itself is enough to deem the opinion of the author invalid and insipid.

There were already deaths. The battle was ongoing, WHILE THE PLANES WERE IN THE AIR. More deaths occurred between the bombs dropping and the surrender! That alone automatically makes their claim a lie. To claim that NOT stopping your enemy from murdering your people will magically prevent all deaths is insane.

And I guess the author was a big fan of the abductions and Raping of Nanking, huge fans of rape and kidnapping that author. Like, Japan was a cartoon villain in that war, because their morality was such a different perspective from ours.

I watch anime on 2x speed and still have time to read the subtitles leisurely, then slowly drag my eyes across the entire scene taking place.

The complaints of the woke were "there's too many Chinese-coded people in this Chinese game. Why isn't the Chinese phone game about appeasing Chinese audiences more about Africa?!"

"Alright, I need you all to pick an approximately 90 second scene from an anime or video game, and explain why it's the best one of all time for any specific category, like spectacle, storytelling, art, hype, whatever. Best one wins a prize, but if two people pick from the same franchise, they're disqualified."

Which given it's a birthday party of a friend, odds are reasonable their friends are at least cordial with you, as a friend within the same "friend group".

Alas, if only science could define the concept of male and female. But alas, while corvids, rats, termites, and particularly smart dragonfruit cacti have figured it out, such advancements are beyond that of human ken.

There are plenty of interviews about "owning the leftards" where an interviewer goes up and asks a Kamala supporter what they like about her, and they're just stunned into silence for a while until they manage to choke out "she woman. Woman good." like a retarded caveman...

But there's an important thing in here: These interviewers ARE finding these people. And they're not looking all that hard to locate them. Lots of NPCs are out there going "Me vote Kamala. Kamala sound like Koala. Koala funny bear. Hehe.", and they will follow through with it, they will vote (D), because the mass media told them to. NPCs in the most classic sense of the term, they're thoughtless constructs that exist solely to provide opposition to the active players... But they're common, and numerous.

He SHOULD be paranoid. He SHOULD think that there isn't enough being done. Complacency and docility are far more mind-killers than fear is.

Father of memes, you know not what you've birthed.

You live in a world where Buddy Jesus was ever the Lord, where Christ never said to sell your cloak and buy a sword, where the Lord thy God never said "thou shalt have no other gods before me" in His commandments. Sunshine and rainbows, not one person inconvenienced, let alone killed, for blasphemy, apostasy, nor heresy.

What a fanciful world.

Dawkins had faith... in humanity.

That was a mistake, as any theologist will tell you humanity is nothing compared to God, and any atheologist will tell you humans operate on selfish hedonistic pleasure-feedback systems with minimal self-control and basically no delayed gratification (or in other words, humans kinda suck).

The USA is an extreme rarity.

Not really. Plenty of nations and powerful empires have lasted for 250 years, just fine, on both more stable and on shakier grounds than the USA.

Don't get me wrong, a nation lasting more than one leader's lifetime is impressive, for sure, but that's like living past the infant mortality rate: Once you account for and ignore that part, there's a real long lifespan period afterwards where the failure rate is pretty low.

Unless you're in a cosplay that prohibits it (the cost of fashion, alas), I'd advise looking into high-SPF arm-stockings. I don't know the exact word for them, but they're really breathable fabric you can put on your arms like open socks (so your hands are free) that stop you from getting burned, even if they get wet/sweaty/out for a long time.

Ah, probation, the "you promise, pretty promise, to not go out and kill people, murderer? Okay, no one is as trustworthy as criminals!" procedure.

Stop fucking birds and eating monkeys. Yeesh.

Beyond that: All science is, is questioning.

You CANNOT "prove" anything in science. All you can do is reject the null hypothesis.

"Thus we cannot say for certain that X, in fact, does absolutely nothing" is the strongest golden standard of result in science. It is hedged bets upon hedged bets. It's the theory of gravity, because who knows, it might be wrong! Maybe it doesn't work like we think it does! (And then when we get down to sub-particle physics... it doesn't! So we were right to keep it as just a generally useful theory rather than 100% accepted law.)

You misread. It isn't 78% watch, it's 22% don't watch.

The affirmative statement, statistics-wise, is important.

Someone who says "I don't eat asparagus" as a declaration is very different than someone who just doesn't generally eat asparagus in their life's flow.

Notably, especially in Britain, they bend over the moment certain groups want anything. Mostly Peaceful Protests filled with Mostly Peaceful stabbings and slashings and burnings. There's far less of them than there are actual peaceful protesters of any number of different stripes who get the jackboot on their throats, but since those ones go "okay, not even myself, but someone who looks vaguely like me has been mildly sassed, guess it's time to kill fifty people!" instead of coming down on those ones with the hammer of god, there is only acquiescence. Which to be seems VERY backwards, we should be rewarding the ones who do so peacefully and harming/discouraging harshly the ones who don't, but that is how Britain do things. And Canada. And the USA, too.

We need a cultural shift to a more civilized society, but... That's a BIG ask, apparently. "Be peaceful to the peaceful, harmful to the harmful", is an ideology that just isn't catching on.

For months he had people superchatting him and commenting on his videos

So in other words, it brought him great profits. I wonder what the motivation could be...

But what could be more "representative" of a person than an AI built off that person? It isn't like they could hire a white man to voice a "black-coded" (whatever that means) alien, not anymore.

"Bearer seek seek lest" is a Dark Souls 2 meme for a reason. Few people let entire dialogues play out.

It's evolutionary niches. You can't chuck a saltwater fish into a freshwater pond and expect it to do well. Both do fine in their own ponds, but have many traits that could be improved upon... But chucking them in the other pond isn't going to develop those traits, only kill the fish.

Then... yes, you do want to vote Democrat. That aligns with your policy preferences, and you should vote accordingly.

Now, I'd wait until I'm actually dead before voting for World War 3 alongside voting for bringing in people who'd skin me alive for an evening's entertainment, but given what you've said, apparently you'd be cool with it.

til he finishes the books.

'til he apologizes to the puppies he made sad.

"We tested it on animals, but none of them survived. / But that's okay 'cause when we wrote the papers up we lied!" is supposed to be a joke from a parody song about Big Pharma, not assumable fact! This reality, mang...