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AlteredEgo

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  • Which movie was it for you? (where the actions of the bad guys were actually relatable?)

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  • Hmm well let me clarify. I believe random selection (Sortition) of representatives would be wildly more democratic due to filter effects in the system. Like most people are good if they are not broken or something. So I believe the (randomly selected) heros were more representatives than the government and should not have bowed down.

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    How well do you know Javascript's Date class? Post your score!

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  • 8 / 28. Just barely above random answers lol

  • Which movie was it for you? (where the actions of the bad guys were actually relatable?)

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  • Captain America: Civil War kinda ruined the whole franchise for me. It's clear the random heroes are good and conscientious people and far more trustworthy with the power than having them controlled by a government system that is run by the most greedy and power hungry people.

    Also Black Panther. A deathmatch between royal bloodlines is just no proper form of electing government. It beats modern democracy, but still...

  • Stars protest after AI actress gets agency interest: ‘What about living young women?’

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  • Long term I do think it's an improvement, there will always be a demand for porn so creating it virtually without economically coercing young women to do it is "harm reduction". In the future with VR and cyberdildonics it might even make prostitution / sex work mostly obsolete.

  • Hail Corporate!

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  • Maybe China will bring out a cheap, affordable and degoogled phone lol.

  • Missing banana for scale.

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  • Haha well that is much darker and sounds like a good premise for a science fiction / fantasy. I think star trek had a story like that. And planet of the apes / the time machine.

    Crazy enough, there have been attempts to create a hybrid between an chimpanzee and a human. Luckily, none succeeded lol

  • Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says

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  • Tell me. What should the a country/alliance do to prevent an attack of Russia?

    Obviously the same thing you'd do if you grew up in a house right next to the hideout of a violent criminal gang. First you loudly tell him what's what and that you won't bow down to barbarism. You criticize him and his goons for his thuggish language they are using and protest in front of their lawn. At night you shit on his lawn. Then you loudly proclaim you'll soon join an opposing gang and then he'll have it! What's he gonna do?

    Really, this is principle ethics 101. Utilitarianism is for pussies! Confrontation and war is always and the only answer if your beset by barbarism! One more nuke! One more nuke!

  • Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says

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  • That is politically correct: Since there is nothing at all we have done to bring about this war, there is also nothing we could do to prevent more war, or stop the war. Therefor we must embrace war. We might not want total war, but we say yes to total war. Never again!

  • Missing banana for scale.

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  • Yeah that's basically what we've done to wolves, horses, cats and cows/oxen through breeding. A giant ape would be a little more intelligent and sapient, but not that much. What would be unique would be a domesticated animal that can grasp and pick up and carry things, and trained to use some tools.

  • Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says

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  • Rule 3? This is just opinion / propaganda by someone with a vested interest to fan flames.

  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • How does google plan to enforce this? Will they disable side-loading for any app that isn't registered with google?

  • Missing banana for scale.

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  • Imagine homo florensis had managed to domesticate Gigantopithecus, riding on their shoulders like toddlers shooting arrows to hunt food.

    History would have played out differently with a mini Genghis Khan and his horde riding on giant apes!

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  • I think that's where hyper-individualism leads us when people don't want to share spaces but want their own little castle. But sharing spaces and parks would be vastly more cost and energy efficient (so I assume these countryside arcologies would also be very cheap way to live). Also you'd want an association that is geared to be more democratic than typical HOAs are (they are designed to improve and maintain property values for the whole project instead of living quality or utility). So even the individualism of suburbs are a kind of scam.

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  • Yeah exactly. Highly compact and energy efficient living while still living in nature and luxuriously, and little large scale infrastructure.

    Restoring nature would be a major way to fight climate change too. Of course you'd want fields lined by hedgerows (Bocage?) and food forests to produce the food those 10-30k inhabitants needs right outside, so you save transportation energy costs. And it's self sufficient at least in areas with water sources nearby or rainfall to capture.

    I can also imagine a "mini-monorail" with single seats that run on a simple metal beam build by a welding robot to connect such buildings and transport people, carry internet and power.

    I've seen fancy ideas for "arcologies" in cities but never one in nature with enough food calorie production right outside. I'd honestly love to live in a skyscaper where each apartment has a beautiful view on unspoiled countryside.

  • 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds

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  • What matters is scalability and how much material and cost you need to produce per energy unit. Kites (either parasails or fixed wing) are much simpler, can be scaled up too, and you only need a simple cable that pulls the generator's winch. Overall kites seem much more efficient to scale up.

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  • Yeah but I'd also like to see such huge buildings in the middle of nature. Imagine 10.000 people with their own daycare, school or even medic / doctor surrounded by fields and food forests so they can produce their own food. Generates it's own power, centralized super efficient heat storage system for winter, cleans up it's own water etc. And have a fast mass transport to the next hub, like a chain of such buildings a few miles apart linking to the next big city. That's my solar punk.

  • New Reddit comic just dropped

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  • Social media has trained the public to seek some group to blame, like the non-voters and protest voters. And completely ignore the problems stemming from the rules of the system, rules that lead to predictably bad outcomes, leading to fascism. Partially because of propaganda but also just because it takes much more time to explain and discuss and that's not entertaining. It feels like there will never be any movement on how to change society.

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    Blackstone exec among those killed in Manhattan shooting

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  • Presumably that's a question of the founders, the rules and laws of the system, the state of the market and technology. For example if profit can be improved mostly by marketing, this will lead to marketing people be promoted and run the corporation. If it's a publicly traded company it's likely to become more like an artificial intelligence hellbent on profit (or a demonic entity incorporated into a swarm of drones).

    What are the factors that make corporations like good or bad for society should be long studied and taught in high school and everybody should know them - if you'd wanted capitalism to work as advertised. It should be a major focus of our society.

  • I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.

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  • Yeah, afaik airvpn basically can't offer VPN to Italian citizens any more because they'd be forced to keep logs. But they can still get customers from outside Italy. And presumably Italians can still use VPN outside Italy. I think, let me know if I'm wrong.