Oh I know what you meant, it wasn’t trying to accuse you. I was just venting my frustrations

We don’t know enough about human consciousness to know that for sure. Plenty of animals have fewer braincells than humans, but we don’t know enough about their consciousness to say whether they have an internal experience.

That’s what I mean. It’s hubris to assume we can culture human braincells in a petri dish just because there’s a lack of evidence one way or a other whether it’s aware.

I see. Thanks for the illumination

Another comment on this thread reminded me what it was I recognized his name from. It was that time he tried to fight somebody during congress

It sounds like they’re making up a new position. It sounds like this phony agency is supposed to be the DHS but for North and South America.

Because, you know, they’re called America, so clearly it all belongs to the United States… /s

I’d say it would have many noteworthy aspects… but those aspects would only be noteworthy for how utter shit they are…

That’s fucked up though. What happened to bioethics and review boards?

We don’t understand enough about human consciousness to say that those cells aren’t sentient. We have no idea what sort of experience, if any, they’re perceiving.

This is not okay…

Why do I recognize that name? And why does it conjure a vague feeling of rage and disgust?

Just learn how to harvest the next generation of chips out of their subscription-based devices that don’t have any onboard RAM or GPU, and then integrate it into your existing system.

You might have to write your own firmware and triple-check for any backdoors that might send your data back to the mothership, but it’s not like you have to cut yourself off entirely as long as you maintain your own self-sufficient system.

It is a slippery slope, we just happen to have already slid down it most of the way and are imminently about to be falling off that cliff at the end of it…

You might want to look into who’s funding NixOS…

Do us all a favor and seal them inside after they close their hatches behind them

Darth Plagueis was alive up until Palpatine was named Chancellor

How could that be true? He already had an apprentice before he became chancellor, and there can only be two sith at a time

Okay, well in that case all their neighbors need a security buffer too, which includes the key geographic position of their entire country.

See how easy it is to make bullshit claims when you’re a fucking sociopathic narcissist who doesn’t understand or care that other people’s needs are just as valid as your own, and that you can’t just take things that aren’t yours just because you want it?

Children understand this, but apparently the knesset doesn’t. It would be pathetic if it wasn’t so close to getting the entire world blown up…

Oh come on, New Zealand has the best chance of survival out of anywhere in the world, along with maybe some forgotten village in the middle of the Asian Steppes or the Tibetan Plateau…

“First president to do it in over 80 years. They said it couldn’t be done. 'Sir, you can’t do this,” they said. The greatest president in American history, the strongest president. They came to me with tears in their eyes, they said ‘please sir, don’t do it.’"

Yeah, there’s that. I never do, so I didn’t think of it.

I don’t even buy white clothes because they get dingy so fast and I’m kind of a messy eater anyway, so it’s all darks for me…

Plus I tried using bleach once a long time ago but it seemed to degrade my clothes pretty quickly.

After years of conducting research and many regrets, my theory is that the sedative effect of the alcohol makes it easier to take a much bigger hit than you realize.

And something about the blood chemistry with the sudden rush of THC when your BAC is already elevated likely has something to do with it too. Versus the other way around, where getting stoned doesn’t really make you take bigger gulps, and the THC level is already stable when your BAC gradually increases, so it doesn’t knock you on your ass the same way.

No, it’s more like

SecDef trying to erase troop deaths. Despicable.