Jerkface (any/all)

Trump’s notional plan is to replace income/gains tax (on the wealthy) with tariffs. I have not heard of any meaningful uses being reserved for other nation’s retaliatory tariffs. Logically and morally they should be going to relieve the burden of the US tariffs, but I have never heard how that might be intended to be accomplished.

Cowards fear empathy and maim their own capacity for it, because experiencing the pain of others hurts. Being surrounded by extreme, intolerable pain is the most difficult part of being vegan.

I was exposed to “Indian leg wresting” in gym class like 35-40 years ago

I usually treat a path as a series of dereference operations, each with a potential security precondition. You could protect /secure/… with credential checks, and report 403 at that point, before even looking at the rest of the resource path. It exposes the prefix but not the multiple endpoints that might exist below that point.

I am opposed to human reproduction.

“Some Americans” is still a generalization. Generalizations are extremely useful. We cannot function without them. Perhaps you mean to say, don’t over-generalize.

Is this true?? I suspect something closer to the way the KGB was “dismantled” and then re-assembled around the entire government.

People in glass houses, name caller.

Just open TikTok! Now your problem is solved, as well as mine.

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If you don’t like how I talk, I guess we’re done here, because I don’t accept your terms. Be reassured at least there was no mal-intent.

Like, fuck.

Do you agree you have a debt to creatures you fuck into existence with your own genitalia?

I believe consciousness is a primarily intracellular, not intercellular process; though it does seem cells synchronize, even across organisms. I believe every cell thinks, but nerve cells are more specialized. This isn’t just what I choose to believe, we have significant and growing evidence that this is the case. And it is clear, many parts of the body think, when you consider the extremely sophisticated tasks it performs without your conscious thought or engaging the brain at all, even though computation and perhaps even reasoning is required.

I started wearing women’s glasses and I cannot go outside without people complementing them. I go out with my gorgeous sexy partner, and people still complement my freaking glasses. They’re translucent pink cat eye frames.

Here’s an interesting one: kissing a gay guy on the cheek, or letting him kiss you on the cheek is neutral, as long as the guy is out of the closet. Hugging and/or kissing a straight guy is gay.

– from “Gay/Not Gay” by King Missile

Bandcamp was acquired by Epic, but they still offer DRM-free downloads of all your music, give artists good cuts, and if you buy on Bandcamp Friday, the best cut any artist could hope for. I’d rather there was a distributed solution without a corporation taking a cut off the top, but it’s still getting you pretty close to the artist.

how is it so difficult to separate art from the artist?

Can you have art without an artist? Can you have an artist without art? No. Art is a human expression. It comes from a person. AI art might be technically accomplished but it only says something when a human is in control of the AI. You can just kind of tune out that aspect of a work of art and try to enjoy it divorced from its act of creation, its context, the artist’s intentions, etc, but in doing so you are effectively censoring the art and not engaging with it on its own terms. The artist is an integral part of the work.

I took a look at your link. I find it reprehensible, and exactly what I mean when I say the left is incapable of having compassion and mercy. This charity is exactly the sort of thing people use to psychologically enable themselves to continue torturing animals rather than changing their behaviour.

Well, I didn’t say all animals, I said the ones we create. When you create an individual, the act places you in that individuals debt. You don’t own them, you owe them. We have a duty not to harm all individuals on Earth so far as we can help it, but we have far greater responsibilities to those individuals that we bring into existence. There is no difference, morally, between forcing a child and forcing an animal to exist.

There’s no nuance to the left… as compared to the right?

Intelligence and stupidity have nothing to do with each other. He can do stupid things out of pride, narcissism, etc., and still be an otherwise intelligent person.