The only way we can make moral decisions is by doing our best to anticipate the results.

The business of being human and the business of speculating about the future are one and the same.

What is the point of this hostility? Do you not get the point of this community?

Read the room

Anyone who has done any fight training at all, even for simulations, could “wipe the floor” with me.

But Keanu could wipe anything he wants with me, if you catch my drift.

It wasn’t in North America.

Didn’t happen in the US.

Murder has a very specific legal definition. That is not what Matthew Broderick did.

…again?

…again?

I think one purpose for that type of plastic bollard is it allows emergency vehicles to drive right through.

indeed. don’t know where my mind was…

ts eliot did alright

I wonder if it would be possible to filter traffic by limiting the rate at which links can be followed after the initial connection.

I suppose one problem with that is it would also limit the crawlers you want, like search engine indexing. Maybe if enough sites were doing this it would generate some pressure on the AI companies to behave better.

What you’re describing is just email.

Yes, you can host an email server.

Maybe what you’re asking is if this can be done within a private network, so you wouldn’t need to buy a domain and set up dns and all. The answer is again yes, but it wouldn’t be much good. Either both servers are on the same LAN, or they each have a static IP that is known and trusted by the other. In both cases there are much better ways to communicate than email.

That’s exactly why I started using a purse. I keep it by the door, and I find it very easy to remember to take it with me every time. It has my wallet, house keys, bike lock key, reading glasses, etc. All the things that I have forgotten so many times before.

I’m a guy, btw, and I’m sad that I let societal pressures keep me from purses for so long.

I mean, it is literally fantastic. I was hoping at first that was what they meant. But no.

What are you trying to accomplish here?

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Trumpstein didn’t kill himself!

Yeah, I think that about sums it up.

But also the work itself is never the worst kind of work. Everything that must be done as a matter of survival in a society like that is stuff that some people do as hobbies in a society like ours. It probably helps that there is no one thing that anyone has to do all day every day.

Also their leisure time was probably much more fulfilling. They sang instead of listening to Spotify, told each other stories instead of watching movies, played sports instead of watching professionals do it, etc.

I suspect drudgery is a symptom of modern societies and not a natural state. Imagine being part of a small tribe of nomadic people 500 years ago. When the hunters return to camp with an elk and it’s time for you to help tan the hide or what not, are you really going to feel put out because it interrupted the game you were playing with beads and sticks? I doubt that.