Icelandic people meeting god before time started.

God: y’all want to die in fire or ice?

Icelandic people: yes

Missed opportunity. We could have messed with the future.

Do you guys have a 16 letter word for it that sounds like a Klingon trying to speak French?

One idea I had was to randomly put stuff into content that might pay off later. Write random sentences that say things like “saw Tom today, people are saying his brother is the chosen one.” Or “lot of traffic today, heard it was because this guy was doing crazy miracles and declared himself king”.

Tactius is going to be read forever because he interviewed a Christian one time and wrote one sentence.

multiple ongoing projects that hope to change the existing construction processes enough that android-style robots won’t be necessary. 3d printing houses, for example.

Never going to happen in the US or Canada. Oh sure the rest of the world will but not those two countries. The culture of construction work can’t adapt. It’s amazing to me when I see stuff go up in South East Asia vs the US/Canada.

South East Asia: standardized parts, 3 shifts, army of workers, about half of which are women, things just move.

US/Canada: custom everything nothing connects right, 1 shift, all large white males, things take forever.

I don’t agree. It takes effort and you will need to balance tradeoffs but employment for life with one employer is possible.

Stop doom scrolling for one.

4 Ps.

Pimps: operators of the gray and black market. Immune to automation since companies that can hire developers don’t want to be involved.

Prostitutes: people who provide a service that clients do not want automated.

Professionals: highly educated, very skilled. Automation just makes them go faster.

Project Managers: people who deal with the gestalt of legal/political/technical/institutional debt. They can’t be replaced since you can’t yell at an AI and expect them to just “fix it already”.

There is overlap. Live music and much of the service industry. But as a general rule you pick one of the four and you should be fine.

It’s interesting that you say no one could have predicted this. Labor saving devices are not exactly new.

There is no changing a society built upon colonization.

Europe or Canada

Well a. Mind are dead b. If they were alive I wouldn’t do that c. I don’t got to do anything

The EU can’t even handle Ukraine or keep the UK leaving. There is no one out there to save the US. It goes down it goes down. Might as well have an opinion about the orbit of the moon

It’s mostly a conservative fantasy. The idea is to bring back the spoilage system and executive order everything they want. The risks are huge there is just so many systems that no one besides a small number of civil servants and industry insiders know about. The FAA was shutdown the 737 Max got snuck in. Now there is plenty of blame to go around but we can’t ignore that government inspectors weren’t at work when this happened.

No, I don’t think we are going to see soldiers on the streets, what I think will happen is random stuff will break.

With that said I am actively working to get my kids dual citizenship partially because of this.

Yes I am one of those people who thinks welfare programs and environmental regulations are a small price to pay for the benefits we as a whole get from them. But hey why not just move to the many countries in the world that don’t bother with them?

It is too late in the evening in the time zone I am in right now to hear libertarian ideas being taken seriously.

You know how when you had a long day and someone wants to explain to you whatever conspiracy crap they buy into but you can’t? You just have no energy left to even pretend there is something of value there.

Go watch V for Vendetta and read some Rothbard if you feel you need to.

Too late at night for lolitarianism

Because we have elderly people in our life that we care about and they weren’t monsters when we were young. Think of how much effort it would take you to objectively look at ideas your grandparents held/hold and what it says about them. I know I can’t do it. I can’t see my grandfather as a person who used to refer to homosexuals with a word I won’t repeat. The man who took me on so many hikes and fishing trips? No way.

Now extend it. Do you really want to go through your life thinking everyone passed a certain age is a terrible person? So evil becomes misguided.

The reverse of course isn’t true. No one gives a shit about a 30 year old. They ain’t cute and they are starting to run stuff.

Reading comprehension not your strong suit, I take it.

Veganism right here folks. Can’t defend their argument without personal attacks. At least Christianity made some pretty looking buildings. What did your religion give to the world besides shit posts?

Cool thanks for confirming exactly what I was saying. Like Christianity, you can not be neutral, the doctrine doesn’t allow it. You follow Jesus and go to heaven or your don’t and go to hell. There is no tolerance with Veganism, there is no live and let live, there isn’t even hate the sin love the sinner since you are after behavior not character or faith. One truth, with one means to truth, with one ethical system and all others have to be wrong and equally wrong.

Surprise surprise non-vegans don’t particularly like being told that are on the same moral footing as children beaters. If it puts you right with your god I give you permission to compare me to one again. I won’t be convinced but hey you got my permission to do it. Unlike one of us in this conversation, I can tolerate people who don’t agree with me.

The legal system has no interest in addressing the vast majority of animal abuse, and there’s a lot of money in it which means enough political influence to ensure that never changes. The vast majority of produced goods relies on abusive conditions. It is possible to produce animal products without abuse, but removing abuse from the system means less will be produced, which means a reduction in consumption is still necessary.

I am sorry morality is difficult. You should file a bug report with someone who cares.

It’s the fandom mostly. I like using Linux but I don’t think you are immoral for using windows. Rick and Morty is funny but I don’t think Rick is someone to take any advice from. CrossFit seems to work for most people who stick with it but it is one of many options. I won’t apologize for being an atheist but I don’t think you are stupid for not being one.

The problem with Veganism is the problem with monotheism. There is one proper way to live and all the others are wrong and awful.

That and the lying. I won’t deny that there are farmers who abuse their animals, that is a problem that can be dealt with through the legal system, but you can’t sell me a sack of lies claiming that I abused the cows I milked growing up. Because I know I didn’t.

Marketing determined that having them blood covered, with ripped clothing, and holding blades at arms length wasn’t as appealing to most audiences