> who could counter the price jack

I was thinking I'd ask Johnny McHealthy to drive me around for a bit, "The [eye?] doctor says I shouldn't drive today, mind helping me out? I'll buy ya lunch!"

Proles aren't quite cattle, if only because we're slightly more clever about resisting.

So go to your local uni. Humans researching humans all over the place. Is it something burdensome but not harmful? You'll still have undergrads doing it to each other. Is it painful and mildly harmful? STILL have them. It turns out when your "victim" can speak, they're usually going to say "it's a brief electric shock, I'm not such a pussy that I'll let THAT stop your progress".

Then you step up to an actual, tiny chance of injury and people are still lining up, starting with "these Scientists". People will KEEP lining up, to the point we have to put laws in place saying we can't do it anyway, even with volunteers, the exception being directly to ourselves (cue "these Scientists" doing some crazy shit to themselves).

Physical stresses ain't shit anyway, unless it's a process being applied over years. A punch to the face is painful (U R TORTURING PPL) but predictable and easily analyzed in comparison to drinking Chemical X for weeks in a medicinal study. And that's after we're pretty sure X is harmless because it worked fine on rats. Take the rats away and I'll nope to the moon. Everyone will. Anyone know if this cure for Polio2.0 is safe?

"Better than chance" gave me the context frame. Consider a spectrum: At one end we have highly abstract thought, at the other we have base emotion: hunger, anticipation, contentment, curiosity, etc. which frankly ain't shit to deduce. When exhibited like this, an EEG might as well be writing "FEAR" in bold block letters.

It's probably not that shitty. Once the appropriate code is written, it can probably recognize "I desire an apple. Tomorrow." and print it out. It might be able to recognize a person thinking "blue plus yellow makes green" and write that in words, but I wonder if it has the accuracy to recognize "three plus four makes seven".

This submission isn't useless, it has a distinct use once you see it.

It's an example.

It's a convenient and concise way to illustrate the Full Retard overclocking that's been hyping up, the entitled SJW chronic victim slash terminal offendee complex. This entitlement, the demands and imposed obligation, it draws a plain contrast will all the "IT'S MY RIGHT MY CHOICE" derping that's always going on two posts away, yet the irony seems to whoosh on.

The expectant arrogance is also ignorant. Even if, IF, Sony had promised to support and repair and replace and sell forever and ever and ever and we even said so in writing, you don't have to be a pessimist to know better. Even if the relevant branch intends to deliver as much, you don't have to be a pessimist to know there's no guarantee that branch will exist next year. Even Sony can become so acquired/mutated that "you're on your own" happens overnight.

And to put a cherry on top, this is FirstWorldProblems through and through. If we can drop a "something something labor market too bad so sad" on farm peasants losing their doctors, I see no reason I can't wave this away.

You optimists could find a bright side to cancer. I'll concede your point, though this also means Hollywood and CSI episodes will be marginally less ridiculous.

> facilitates
Oh go fuck yourselves. Or better yet, sleep with the MAFIAAs.

They got called out on teh boxez and rightfully so. They all facilitate piracy. The internet facilitates piracy. OH HEY, AMAZON SUPPORTS THE INTERNETS, WELL-KNOWN FOR BEING A MAJOR TOOL OF PEDORISTS AND OR DRUG DEALERS.

Oxygen facilitates piracy. This associative bullshit is for politicians, go fuck yourselves.

Cutting down streaming might look like another round of **AA suicide, but in more practical context this streaming hype is about as inefficient as you can get. It's like having a bitmap with zero compression. Your point stands, they're gimping the paying customers (again), but I can't mourn streaming.

People who download local copies of a file are obviously at an advantage, but that's not big picture thinking. Making things a little more node-based or swarmy might help. Blizzard uses p2p to supplement distro of their bloaty data, somewhat. A neighborhood node being executed by sheer human coordination just won't come together, unless extremely desperate conditions force them to cobble together a one-way no-control max-latency imitation.

FTA:

What is this nonsense?! Smart IoT-clouding everything is the way of the future! I have to be able to dispense ice from my fridge with an app!

Hey, where's the apps guy when you need him? Her?

To put this less passionately, digging up dirt on people results in power. The dirt is a commodity. The most valuable kind, worth leverage, clout, influence, control. From this perspective, setting aside thoughts of morality and malice, it's quite the reasonable thing to do.

Which is another way of saying, a very credible thing to expect. Whatever is "just good business." can be considered increasingly certain at higher scales.

Doublepost to provide inconsequential concessions:

- Physiology "presents itself" in an arrangement that's adapted for, beyond other design, the prioritization of what is objectively most central to reproducing a species and sustaining genetic diversity. It's ubiquitous because like most adaptations, it follows the one-way road of optimization. Oops, metaphored again.

- Expendability scenarios will present themselves in circumstances softer than extinction. Regardless of what cultures decided was appropriate in the past, or decides tomorrow, the response is asymmetric today. I won't express an opinion on whether the asymmetry is right or wrong, but equality advocates have theirs predetermined. By definition.

Males are also considered expendable. I'm not whining (as in, I'm just observing the fact), but it's expected that males get the last lifeboat, if any. Which is kinda the correct answer in a survival situation, biology says protect the more-valuable factories, the half that has the hatcheries.

I imagine it's rare for the effect to surface plainly - leaping in front of bullets is for movies. But it does skew expectations less consciously. So for anyone who applies their time after equality, it reasons that it belongs on the checklist.

That would be irresponsible, bloodthirsty, and immoral. Both of you.

Still worth it, tenfold. When can you start?

Every day you eat slimy, endless snot and there's nothing you can about it.

That's probably one of the milder items in the "your whiny criteria will qualify you as disgusting" backpack.

Schools?

Personally, I'd expect to see signs on every office, library, store, business, government building, restaurant, laundromat, bowling alley, etc etc etc that say "NO SHIRT NO SHOES NO LEPERS"