Comment Re: Why do people keep having kids? (Score 0) 141
How many of my freedoms are restricted due to policies designed to protect ankle-biters?
How many of my freedoms are restricted due to policies designed to protect ankle-biters?
Can you please liberalize Kevorkian markets, so I can take the easy way way out without having to hide anything for fear I'll be involuntarily institutionalized again?
Will I get banned if I report being a suicidal and bullied kid whom the system really should have weeded out by now but for some depressing reason why am I still here and wouldn't we all be a lot better off if my parents had not succumbed to peer pressure and had me?
Do breeders get off on ruining things for the rest of us?
Would they still write if they got paid $3419 per month, inflation-proofed?
But how are your permabear feelings different now than in, say, the "everything bubble" of 2019, which was soon to end but not because of anything the permabears were predicting?
Are stock market returns monopoly money in your model?
Do you imagine a world where AI didn't get invented and companies didn't all jump on some other bandwagon that would displease you just as much? Did AI create the bad reasons or will they always be there to plague you?
Are you saying it's irrelevant if no one can tell the difference between generated and real Shakespeare?
How about a Walmart boombox on the front seat?
Do they serve vegetarian me meat ads out of spite? Who pays them so much to waste their money on me? How much money does the meat industry have to burn?
Can you test this for yourself? "Can you write a sonnet in the style of Shakespeare, and randomly insert it in a sequence of real Shakespeare sonnets, to see if I can spit the fake?"
"You don't know you're talking to yourself."
When you're banned or post-throttled across the entire internet and people irl pick up on that same vibe so you have no friends, is there a better way to scratch the verbal intercourse itch built into us, even as socially flawed as we may be?
Even if as only a status symbol, but I can still live in the past listening to CDs?
Or is revenue from streaming like SiriusXM so profitable that user preference for car CD players is simply overruled in the name of corporate profits?
"There seems to be more paired, snowman-shaped bodies, like Arrokoth, out there than anyone expected," Brandt wrote in an email. "Are such binaries the most common planetesimal and is this how larger planets have been built in our own and other stellar systems?"
Do they all have white bands, like Arroketh? Is magnetism involved?
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