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Comment Interesting ethics question (Score 1) 189

This is definitely an interesting ethics debate. Religious moral superiority aside, are generated images really that bad? The reason it is illegal is that children are harmed. If none are harmed, then it should be legal.

If anything, the existence of easily available Ai content would massively reduce the amount of real children harmed because there would be no market for their content.

Comment Re: If anyone still thinks... (Score 2) 518

it was significantly better at helping VS the original virus. it's not the vaccine's fault that so few people got it that it just kept circling around and mutating.
also we have so much evidence that even with the fact that it wasn't designed for the other strains, it drastically reduced death rate of covid.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 114

i dont know if this is a really good example... because i would absolutely love to see the airline industry getting regulated to where they arent allowed to overbook, and are actually punished for losing baggage. We can start with having them not be able to lie to you when you go to them asking for compensation for lost luggage (because the law that forces them to compensate you is already on the books, they just lie to you and say it isnt)

Comment Re:Fentanyl (Score 2) 289

where did you get those bs numbers? first of all, the cdc is generally a couple years behind on death reporting. secondly, the estimates for 2021 (because again, no actual data given from the cdc) say that there were less than 100k total overdoses. 14% of which are fentanyl.

Comment Re:Pretty meaningless in reality (Score 2) 60

even if this were true, it's a dumb argument to make. someone else being a bad person doesn't preclude you from being a good person.

even if 99 percent of all bad deeds were done by one percent of people, it still helps the world if the other 99 percent of people don't join them.

plus the advantages to renewable are quite clear. electricity becomes cheaper the more of it there is.

Comment bad bosses and timelines (Score 2) 250

why would you hold the it professionals liable when the ones who caused the issues are almost always upper management? you can blame the dev for a bug... but chances are that bug are in there due to stressful environment, lack of testing because the company thinks testing is a waste of money, or ridiculously short time lines for products.

Comment Biggest complaint about lab grown beef (Score 2) 183

My biggest complaint is that they're targeting the wrong audience. They all keep talking about scale and being cheaper than current beef in the US. They should be instead targeting the ultra high end and worry about scale later.

Japanese A5 wagyu beef is about 100$ per pound. if they can manufacture steaks (I've seen some examples of this over the last year or two), they can target the ultra fatty A5. Sell the lab grown A5 for half the original price of A5 (50$) and ppl like me will buy it up like crazy. the profit margins on A5 lab grown would be absolutely massive compared to the tiny margins offered by cheap steaks due to difficulty of manufacturing.

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