Kaoru Mugen comments

Also, look up "instrumental convergence" and the "paperclip maximizer" thought experiment, there's your issue with capitalism in a nutshell.

As for the incessant attacks on capitalism. What are you suggesting?

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There's a lot wrong with the disgusting gulf between the 'too rich' and the 'too poor' and it needs fixing.

I'm not suggesting anything, because capitalism is great, provided you're not dumb enough to be in the 99.9% that are trading the only thing of value they have (time/lifespan) to make you orders of magnitude more money than you're paying them, while you sip martinis on a beach somewhere and enjoy life. It's great.

But if you're wondering why those 99.9% are complaining about a blatantly broken system, refer to your own list + the complete, utter and unchecked destruction of true value (nature) that we require to keep living on this planet, all in order to convert it into fake and fundamentally useless fake value (digits in accounts).

As if formal education isn't enough indoctrination already...

"Yo dawg, I heard you like slavery so we put some slavery in your slavery so you can be a slave while being a slave".

Excellent, some true 4D chess thinking here.

For many, the idea of buying clothes that don't exist is a conceptual leap too far.

This whole "it doesn't exist" argument is still as ridiculous as it always was.

Of course it exists, it's just in digital form. If it didn't exist you wouldn't be writing about it. In fact, you couldn't write it and I couldn't write this comment, because by that logic the entire internet doesn't exist either. Why are you paying for an internet connection to something nonexistent?

Online classes =/= virtual learning. Online classes are worse than in-person classes, which are in turn way worse than self-driven software-assisted learning (spaced repetition etc).

I love how these "academics" shared their "beliefs" and "sentiments" and vaguely-related survey results, but there isn't a single reference to an actual study and research paper backing up their claims in the entire article. Tells you everything you need to know, really.

Why should I be forced to sit next to somebody in a restaurant or bar or wherever who by choice chooses not to get vaccinated?

Why shouldn't you, if you already have your magical vaccine?

Why doesn't he get a job then instead of stealing peoples money.

"Get a job" is terrible financial advice unless you're into thinly veiled slavery. The alternative should be starting a business rather than stealing, though.

Interesting to see how people are so quick to rush to the defense of Dylan. I wonder how different the reaction would be if it was somebody you loathed like Trump.

I give 0 damn about either Dylan or Trump, and my reaction would be 0% different - this is ridiculous. Maybe don't wait 56 years to report an alleged crime and people will take you more seriously.

It underscored that only images uploaded to iCloud are checked, with the system scanning for a digital version of a fingerprint that matches known child sex abuse images without seeing pictures.

Yeah, no, that's just not possible. In order to generate a checksum you have to read the entire file, and in order to read the file and generate the correct checksum it needs to be decrypted first. And since you need to read all files in order to determine which ones do or don't match the filter... either all files are stored unencrypted in the cloud by default, or Apple has the private keys for all users and can decrypt and access all files which means they're effectively unencrypted anyway.

I'm sure it was... somehow.

Lol ok. Employing people who are not white is racism against white people.

Basing decisions on race is by definition racism, so yes.

Forced diversity = socially accepted racism/sexism. You can't be more inclusive by explicitly excluding people based on race or gender. Unfortunately, the cognitive dissonance is something these SJW types will never be able to reconcile.

Again... ML (machine learning), not AI (artificial intelligence). The key difference being that the former currently exists and can be used, while the latter does not and can not.

Did he just happen to have a knife on him at the time of the murder?

...he was at home. Don't you just happen to have a knife at home?

Did he go to the cops and report the previous assaults? If not, it’s just his word which might very well be a made up story to justify his gaming lunacy.

What "gaming lunacy"? Nothing in the article states that the crime had anything to do with gaming, that's just how the two met years ago. But nice assumption and implication that gaming leads to violence, which has been debunked many times over the last decade or two.

Targets are pointless if there's no incentive to hit them (or in this case, not hit them). No country or company is going to go out of their way and spend time and resources in order to lower their own profits.

Until less carbon emissions = way more money, or more carbon emissions = way less money (taxes, fees, etc. on those that exceed limits), absolutely nothing will change. Why would it?

We're at least a few hundred years from AI, provided the species survives that long. What you're talking about is ML (machine learning).

Learn how the technology actually works, and accept that any investement is speculative.

If you just leave your funds in the control of some exchange which may have poor security or an insider stealing funds, that's on you. If you just drop money into it expacting the value to go straight up forever, that's on you.

Amazon wiped out all the small bookstores and even towns of stores, dragged employment to worst than 3rd world conditions, and concentrated all that wealth to one person. It's the dystopian nightmare writ large

Welcome to capitalism, may I take your order?

...also, inb4 an American mentions communism for some reason.

Fungi are highly adaptable and can be "trained" to break down and consume pretty much anything - including antifungal agents. They've been used to break down cigarette butts, microplastics, oil spills etc. Pretty amazing organisms that we're just beginning to learn about.

Japanese fruit is immaculate in appearance because it is regularly sprayed with pesticides and fungicides, a process euphemistically called "shodoku" in Japanese. [...] Since I am not a farmer, I do not know "exactly" what the chemicals are, but I know that some of them are sold out of locked cabinets at branches of JA. [...] Since watermelons are grown on the ground, home to lots of bugs and fungi, and these square ones are purely decorative, I'd imagine they are sprayed frequently too.

If you're complaining about general pesticide and fungicide use, this is really weird place to do it, considering that a) these aren't intended for consumption and b) they're grown in molds which cover 99% of the fruit. If anything, square watermelons are the one fruit where pesticide use is a non-issue.

My problem is people constantly fear-mongering about DaNgErOuS cHeMiCaLs, despite not knowing what the actual chemicals are or what negative effect (if any) they have on humans. Insect and human physiology might be slightly different, you know.

I didn't know they were inedible. This makes them even more stupid, especially the huge chemical use that will doubtlessly be involved.

What exactly are these chemicals you speak of, and how are they involved in the process?

Because at some point we institutionalized scamming and called it "government".

So let me get this straight, if a minor shown up to my door all blodied and bruised and said "My parent was drunk and got angry and out of control and beat me badly, can I stay here till the police comes?", am I to just shut the door in their faces because that would be seen as "kidnapping"? I mean.....from the eyes of the laws' perspective.

Yes. You'd also get called a predator and people would call for your castration, apparently.

5-10 years ago I would've said this is ridiculous and unfair to the women, but since they spent all that time saying how they're just as strong and can obviously do everything any man can just as well... I'm now a proponent of true gender equality, and looking forward to seeing them prove those claims.

Jesus, what's the deal with those beds? Are they expecting the athletes to turn into midgets upon entering the country or something?

Always found it highly interesting how people completely flip out about someone eating a cat or dog, calling them psychos, disturbed, sick etc. Meanwhile, they casually eat some meat from one of the tens of thousands of chickens, pigs or cows that get slaughtered every single day.

Double standards much? Either everyone who's not vegetarian is a psycho, or you're a hypocrite. Which one is it?

Are there no tranquiliser darts in Hokkaido for these eventualities?

Sure there are. They're called bullets, and they tranquilize permanently.

Gynocentric society, always has been.

Simple - sunk cost fallacy.