Not true. I hate them both for this and a litany of other reasons. Holding back humanity’s development and being the chief cause of e-waste are at the top of the pile.

Exactly. I’m not worried though. There are so many alternatives these days.

Yea exactly. This is more evidence that we don’t need the threat of starvation and homelessness in order to be productive.

Mostly more of what I do in my free time now. Mess around trying to make music, watch TV and movies, play video games, read, watch live music, go on hikes and spend time with my family.

I don’t understand the people who say they’d be bored if they didn’t work. I have more than enough media alone to keep me busy, never mind the amount of things I could pick up or at least try in the extra time. Maybe I’d learn to code and contribute to some open source projects.

The difference would be it would all be on my own terms and truly at my own leisure.

There were probably also other human-like primates at a similar time to Neanderthals and it stopped us from fucking other homo-sapiens who were dead or very obviously ill.

When we were a tribal species we were unlikely to travel much at all in our lifetime and encounter someone who looked different to us so this instinct would have been beneficial. But now that we’re a global species we encounter people who look different to us often and this same instinct, compounded with cultural prejudice is holding back our development. We must learn to deal with it and our long standing hate so that we can become more genetically diverse as a species and as a result improve the health and intelligence of our offspring https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/people-born-to-geneticallydiverse-parents-more-likely-to-be-taller-and-more-intelligent-says-study-10358706.html

I’ve come across Plan 9 in the past and assumed it was only really useful in a “time-sharing” type scenario like OG Unix used to be used for. Am I wrong about that?

Ignorance is bliss

I often worry that the last thing we’ll all read is Clippy on every screen in the world saying “It looks like your planet is running out of oxygen. Bet you’d like some help now, huh bitch!”

Chicken caesar wrap

Yea interspecies sex will become as mainstream as porn today.

It might take a while to become acceptable to most people and some will be against it forever, but people will be trying to use this tech for bestiality as soon as it becomes available.

I think if it turns out that most animals are able to communicate to the same level humans are we’ll end up with conflict between meat eaters and vegans, at least for a few generations.

• If we’ve already got affordable lab grown meat options it’ll probably just be old people who don’t trust lab meat or aren’t really able to comprehend that we can talk to animals and nobody will take them seriously.
• People would probably protest or maybe take direct action if we don’t have affordable lab meat but may eventually be placated if insects are unable to communicate and we develop convincing meat like insect protein forms.
• But if we don’t have either of those alternatives I think that there could be a straight up war between (probably religious zealot) meat eaters and vegans.
• This conflict would die out with subsequent generations but there may still be a “real” meat black market.

But imagine if we can employ an animal to help us say build a house or a ship. It could change our lives entirely.

Ah, I see. Thank you, friend.

Don’t get it…

Holy shit: “The company is recommending that customers do a factory reset on the product and find some way of responsibly recycling the hardware.”

So they’re not offering to dispose of it, or even giving any advice on how to dispose of it responsibly. Just suggesting people should probably do that.

If companies are allowed to behave this way we’re all screwed. Any efforts by the average person to avert the environmental damage caused by the waste they produce is completely futile and any politician who claims that they’re doing their best to try to hold companies accountable is a liar.

Is nobody going to mention the face, stilettos and hand bag this business weiner is also carrying?

There are genuinely men on the internet who think wiping yourself after shitting is gay, because men shouldn’t do anything with a man’s arsehole, even their own.

But isn’t that the whole point of them?

Damn it, I came here to say that!

Most political stuff on Lemmy is either hardcore communist or US centric, neither of which I know much about so avoid.

I only pay attention to the UK centric stuff as that’s what I understand being that I live here.

Damn straight… or actually not. Keep the normies out I say.