It’s a difficult question, so I hope some people who have interesting things to say about it will turn up here. All I can contribute is this link: Ancient Arguments For Vegetarianism

One time I read about the Buddha and I decided to just sit quietly under a tree for as long as it took. It took a while. Sure I’ve also tried lots of drugs but nothing really beats zazen if you manage to get to the end.

I didn’t get to eat much sugar as a kid. It was fine, never a big deal really. I do remember the first time putting actual sugar on my breakfast cereal just to try it at age 18 or something but it just seemed weird, unhealthy, and overly sweet. I hadn’t thought about it since several decades ago, but now that I remember I thank my parents for it.

My computer is running “xclock” right now, possibly the most normal software ever made.

Given their mental capacity is so limited that they have such trouble with the concept of “drinking” I wonder how they managed to travel across the vast distances between the stars to visit Earth.

I assume it’s because they’re big Palantir customers. Palantir has an amazingly large number of customers for a company whose public reputation is all about being devoted to pure evil.

I’ve got the street all to myself. Maybe I’d have a brief moment of reflection on how surprisingly quiet and peaceful city streets can be at times.

My family’s version would’ve been more like:

Who broke this?

Me

Thank you for being honest. How?

Ninja moves

Don’t do it again.

I can’t promise that

[three hours of yelling]

There are two standards to choose from: Either you go by the direction it’s rotating, or you use the pole that’s on the same side of the ecliptic as earth’s north. In the case of Mars they both agree.

No. Most recent thing I searched for: How did they decide which way is “north” on the planet Mars? Good luck to any AI behaviour-tracking analysis engines trying to figure out why it was that.

As everything else becomes locked up with increasingly complex and fragile DRM (“digital restrictions management”) content encryption schemes, the largest surviving archive of 21st century media that’s still available three hundred years from now could be ao3.

If the idea is to connect with family and friends, there are parts of the Fediverse where you can post stuff that’s only visible to followers. Probably not possible on lemmy or piefed though, I think.

Yeah I’ve met people like that. I believe they’re normally called “psychopaths” for short. They tend to be concentrated in particular places and occupations and of course they will all tell you that it’s perfectly normal and that everyone else is also like that and just hiding it.

I think the best strategy is to contribute lots of money and work to promoting and developing free software, improving it and using it everywhere so that it comes to be ubiquitous, used by everyone. That will make it even more of a target for malware authors and therefore lead to its sure demise. We should get started right away.

I remember Windows — it was ok for its time I guess, but I didn’t like it as much as AmigaOS.

If the developers of EVE are involved it seems like a safe bet that yes, you will have to worry about attacks from your neighbours, from strangers, and from your closest friends sometimes.

Why does everyone see AI as a race? Can’t we just have a good old-fashioned space race instead? It’d be way less expensive.

The trick will be in getting a charge to last long enough that it doesn’t need more frequent pit stops.

That would indeed be quite a trick. The batteries would need to get more energy-dense by more than an order of magnitude compared to the best that are available today. EVs are great for commuting and transportation where vehicle weight isn’t as important and you’re not constantly trying to go as fast as possible, but they’re a very long way from being competitive in that type of racing.

That’ll depend on how it happens I guess. They could completely rewrite the rules of NASCAR to nerf the petrol-based competition, invent a totally new way of storing electrical energy, or completely rewrite the rules of physics.

Weird headline. Whatever you think of their arguments, the interesting part is not that they were so bold as to describe the latest plan for mass surveillance as “mass surveillance.”