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“Emotions” is a very nebulous term. But we know that abstractions like guilt require certain types of brain function that is only found in humans, dolphins, etc

So yes, human emotion is indeed a sufficiently complex series of cause and effect. But that complexity is really important. And certain structures in the brain are necessary for things like self-awareness, abstraction, empathy, etc

For the record I believe that dolphins are non-human-persons. So I’m not a “humans are completely unique” kind of guy. But I also don’t anthropomorphize lower order animals :D

They aren’t warning other plants of danger. That’s an anthropomorphic interpretation.

They are releasing a chemical. Other plants respond to that chemical in a predictable, biological way.

There is no motive. No intent to save or protect. It’s not a warning. It’s just an evolutionarily advantageous sequence of cause and effect.

Just because object A’s behavior helps object B’s survival doesn’t mean it has feelings. Complex cause and effect can be emergent phenomena without specific intent

PROTIP: Whenever possible, shape/place the food you’re heating like a donut. ( O )

Microwaves need to penetrate the food; if it’s a big lump, it’s hard to reach the stuff in the middle. By using a “donut” shape, you are creating more surface area, and spreading out the “middle” so it’s easier for microwaves to reach all the parts of the food equally

“Buy” implies nothing beyond the exchange of goods or services for currency.

I can buy a ticket for a boat ride. I can buy airtime on a radio station. I can buy intellectual property rights.

Know what you’re buying before you press the button.

Corporations suck but you can’t blame them for everything.

If their contract with the rights-holder says they are only authorized to distribute the video for N years, then you can’t blame them for uploading their contractual obligations.

Like, enshittification is a problem but let’s aim our pitchforks at the right target

Like others, I won’t comment on whether this is a good idea or not…

Consider that all of the changes happened over time. (Unless you’re speaking with a Queen’s English accent, which is a posh fabrication created by the upper class BUT I DIGRESS)

So, for example, take the word “water”. Look at the first syllable, ‘wat’. Imagine it with a British accent, then with an American one. Think about just the vowel, the A. Try to say that vowel out loud in one accent, and hold it, then slide to the other one.

It will take lots of careful thought but you can do a similar “slow slip” for consonants and entire words too.

Good luck, I guess?

Because all you name below are AAA games where everyone wants to flex their budget. It’s like asking “why do big budget movies focus so often on explosions and action, instead of stories? What happened to things like Shawshank Redemption?”

As soon as you step away from big AAA games that lean heavily on cinematic influence, you get much more gameplay-focused content. I could name a million of them.

But it’s a spectrum, not an on/off switch. There’s a huge array of different types of games with different combinations of action, cinematics, dialog, quick-time events, racing, flying, rhythm-matching, puzzles, and on and on and on

Tell us what you’re actually looking for and we could give suggestions :)

Don’t tell us what you don’t want. Tell us what interests you

There is only one thing for an adult to say when children try to have sex with them: “stop, right now, we’re taking you to therapy” 😐

I was honestly prepared to start reading the books despite the lechery, and I was worried it would be worse in the books than the anime. I can only imagine what’s in there at this point

Yeah, I don’t particularly care if an adult having sex with a child is important to the plot. It is no different than the “she’s actually a 2000 year old kami” trope. Adults of any kind having sex with children of any kind = instant bail from me. I’m sure there’s interesting plot to be had, and character growth. Which makes it a shame that “giving the lolicon a chance to fuck a child” was part of it.

Maybe I’m misremembering the timing but seeing a grown man who is an admitted lolicon have sex with a child was disgusting to me. I don’t care what body they inhabit. It’s just gross

I felt very similarly for the entirety of the first season, right up until the last episode. That was a bridge I could not cross and quit the series right there and then. It was fucked up for multiple different reasons and I simply couldn’t get past it.

I aim to cause this type of psychological damage whenever possible

Chicken stock

“I got a timeout for making a top level reply to an admin post with nothing but a middle finger” isn’t the sob story you think it is

I use Pleasant Password Manager, which is keepass compatible. Big fan of offline cache with online sync for access anywhere with an internet connection on top of my phone offline

And here’s a reminder that trusting centralized service with high security access control is usually a bad idea.

I stay away from LastPass for the same reasons I stay away from TeamViewer. Security through obscurity on top of decoupling my security interests from others means other people being attacked is much less likely to cause me harm at the same time

This is why I don’t use a common centralized password manager, just like I don’t use any of the most popular remote desktop solutions like TeamViewer for unattended access.

I run a consumer copy of Pleasant Password Manager out of AWS and use NoMachine for unattended access to any machines where I need it.

Security through obscurity is tried and true. Put as little of your security attack surface in the hands of others as is reasonable.

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ngl you sound just like the redditors did after Digg went to shit. Not saying that in a judgemental way. Just noting the similar response to similar situations