Because we’re more akin to LLMs than we might be comfortable to admit. Or at least parts of us, subsystems of our psyches… Brains are belief engines more than they are objective parsers of reality.

Proselytizing clears up nothing except your agenda.

Counter point: do I have a right to engage in activities that cause the overall habitability of the planet to drop for vast swathes of the population?

Edit: I seem to be getting taken out of context here. I’m referring to corporations/landlords in this context, not the humans wanting to be cool.

Poor wording, rip inbox.

I utterly detest the use of “wholeheartedly agree” when people have caveats. It truly goes against the concept of wholeheartedness. It is sufficient to indicate that you agree completely and then be silent. That you don’t suggests your caveat has more value and meaning to you than the point you are ‘wholeheartedly’ agreeing with.

You are either being willfully obtuse or are actively a troll. Either way, we’ve all already used up more metabolism on you than is worthwhile. If you cannot bother to be informed about something as easy to know as this, and yet spout off multiple replies to defend your position, then you’re not here in good faith.

asking questions

Yeah thanks there Tucker Carlson.

Gawrsh Ronnie, good thang yew got them shahny whaahte galoshers…

Ketamine is a hell of a drug yo.

Wow fuckin’ wooosh with you and that one hey? Only a very weak beta would feel even remotely attacked by that movie. Good luck Chuck!

metaphor /mĕt′ə-fôr″, -fər/

noun

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol. The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea. 

God. What a beast Piranha was.

No… No they are all still freaks. Did you just take off your “they live” sunglasses or something? The Freakshow aspect is in the ideological makeup.

Wow! The prescient power to detect… checks notes

A pendulum swinging back!

No wonder you guys conquered the world.

Subdermal chromatophore neuromod costs 9 canisters of nanites.

Works on biological opponents but mechs will still spot you (and you can only slot either that mod or thermoptic camouflage, unless you go black market, but the seepage rate is way too high for my tastes)

And yet, I remain bullish.

Public education has failed us all.

I, too, wistfully long for the days of memepool.

This is what I get for skipping Latin…

I wonder if the origin of the word was a portmanteau of electricity and execute.

Execute to death, of course

Don’t try to tell me what I saw with my own eyes the other day. I’ve seen aurora before, plenty, but not like that.

This is why we need pasta with structural integrity field generators on every noodle.