That’s the issue. It’s someone else’s fault, always. It requires a substantial amount of grey matter to accept personal responsibility, e.g. “I fucked up”. It was me, who made a mistake. When we make a mistake we downgrade to our lowest, most childish behavior, to deceive, lie and cheat, just so we are not in trouble.

Some people never ever ever ask the question to themselves “Did my actions cause harm to another?”. Their self-importance is too great for that. The maximum I can ever hope for, with the current state of humanity is, they’ll think about it, but throw in a nice excuse. Usually “But I was stressed/busy/angry when I did it”. And that makes it okay.

So, sadly, it requires a lot of grey matter to not use it. Mainly because of humankind’s inability to accept personal responsibility, not because a clanker contains some unobtainable information.

Exactly what I was looking at - it’s either sg-1, atlantis, or possibly, Farscape

conspiracy theory - the only reason AI has been given so much attention, resources and leeway is so that excuse can actually work

No worries. I’ll read up on that too, thanks for the additional reading material :)

That’s exactly my point, yep.

Nature naturally (pun intended) balances itself. If there’s no rabbits, the wolves die out. Allows for the rabbit population to recover. We play Gods with this. We overfarm, overforradge, deforest massive woods, that have existed in peace for eons. We simply don’t let nature recover, because we think we are masters of the universe.

I’m not a hippy - by no means. I consume, I raise children and (although electric) I drive a car. Still, I buy tyres, that are a huge pollutant, I consume electricity to charge it, which is not always renewable, etc etc. It goes on. But this means nothing. I am alone amongst my peers - in my extended circle of friends & colleagues (approx. 400 people), I can only think of 2-3 people that are like me - conscious about what they consume / throw away / reuse / recycle.

Then Jeff Bezos organises his wedding in Venice, and his guests all arrive with their personal plane, while I would not buy and drink coffee if it’s not made (at the very least) with the paper coffee pods…

Do I feel stupid? Sometimes. Am I ridiculed sometimes? Daily. But I stand by my principles.

desire for infinite growth in a finite system - results are obvious. the finite system will crash and burn. we are fucked, nature will recover when we make it not suitable for humans

/s? Say /s please.

i’m being an ass and i’m being generalistic as well

everything is subjective, if you are being generalistic about it. you might loudly say in public that you get a hard-on when you kill puppies, and subjectively it’s ok to share that in your dead puppies boner club, but expect a punch to the face if you say it in the streets. have decorum and leave your shitty opinion in the toilet

Easily, a top 5 for me. The way he describes his characters is so real, I can easily find living people like that.

Which country are you from, my friend?

Apologies, I never intended to sound ableist. I see now how my comment came across.

you are the first person that I’ve seen to finally mention his voice. Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with his entire vocal box?? How can a person, any person, listen to RFK Jr for any period of time, and think to himself “This person seems to know a lot about health”???

I have been blissfully unaware of this… I can’t believe how quickly civilisation is turning into a pile of shit.

As a father to a young boy, outside of blocking all social media (tiktok, instagram, facebook, twitter, snapchat) which I already do, is there another medium or method in which this crap can be spread? Of course, I’ll try to instill the same virtues and moral principles that I carry, but I recognise I probably have a few more years, before peer pressure becomes a thing for him. If this is a disease that spreads amongst young men, I’ll try to rip that off, root and stem.

The beauty of this movement is, that no woman would accept a man like that as a father to her children

We’ll forgive you, UK.

nymea.io was one of the few who were full private, but I think they got bought out or something

CHEV FUCKING CHELIOS

I was obsessed. Had the Nokia 8800 (he had sirrocco, but I was poor af). Had the same ring tone. What a movie

They are doing the Nike mistake - they are targeting users that have already purchased a Mac. Data-driven decisions are great, but this would just result in alienating people who are not already customers, or chase people out who are unhappy with this decision, so their next purchase will not be a Mac.