mattyg7.bsky.social
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Frank Herbert warned us about this.
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And to think, the AI we see now is the PRE-degraded state. Imagine if the original Google released with the level of quality of the current AI searches.
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For something from the same time and grade level as Harry Potter, Animorphs writer KA Applegate has a trans daughter whom she supports.
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For something from the same time and grade level as Harry Potter, Animorphs writer KA Applegate has a trans daughter whom she supports.
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People protesting right-wing speakers were protesting the people WHO ARE DOING THOSE THINGS RIGHT NOW. The people doing these things NOW wanted to do these things 10 years ago and were working to make them a reality TODAY.
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bsky.app/profile/free...
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The economic equivalent of "it snowed today, so global warming doesn't exist "
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I thought she would realize that she actually does care about material things when she recognized that she wouldn't recommend the same thing to Lochlann. Like, realizing that she has the same concern for Lochlann that her mother has for her would be the thing that shakes her worldview.
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I was saying that the problem was the lack of foreshadowing that this might be her response. Like, I don't recall her ever commenting on or reacting to food being organic or the quality of mattresses before then.
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I'm sorry, but I just searched the podcast feed and only saw "Over the Garden Wall." When did you do "Garden State"?
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Imagine if liberals refused to disavow and critique the Left to the same degree that the right refuses to disavow or critique their fascists. Liberals are allergic to winning.
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On a related note, Steph should guest on DogZone 9000
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As a fellow Hotdogger, I want you to know that I appreciated that brief flash of "Weapons of the Street"
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It's still bittersweet, but with that perspective, waking up isn't "death," but freedom.
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Marin is the character you're closest to in the game, and she openly expresses a desire to leave the island, which is impossible in the dream. The final image of the game, seagulls flying over the ocean, fulfills her desire to be like the seagulls. I think that's an important plot thread.
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This is a terrific discussion! But I have to rant about something:
All of you take the stance that there is potentially something "wrong" about Link ending the dream and these people's lives. That's a valid reading, but a very Western one. In a Buddhist culture, ending the illusion is central.
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Geuinely, those folks can fuck off. You sound fine, and these losers need to stop making their inadequecies your problem.
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This has huge @1900hotdog.bsky.social energy
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When I download on Podcast Addict, I just get your audio, no one else's, and it's nearly two hours long. I don't know if you posted the wrong file somewhere, but I was able to listen on Spotify.
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People never been to an Indian restaurant.
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Right. And I don't mean to deny that diet is an easy thing to change. It's incredibly complicated and wrapped up in health and culture. But I think it's an overstep to say that there's NO moral component to one's diet choices. Sometimes we make morally negative decisions due to circumstance.
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Unrelated to ethics: regular meat and dairy are more expensive than vegetarian food at least. You just can't live your life trying to replicate Western standards. Eat more Asian foods and shop at an Asian market if possible. Indian peasants have been eating vegetarian for millennia.
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You said "eating food is never a moral failing". Is "eating a scab-made burger for one's own pleasure" a moral failing or not? Your thoughts about veganism are not relevant to this point.
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Right. People both want to do things they know are bad, but also believe that they're personally beyond critique. Like, not everyone can be a moral paragon. Probably comes from treating morality as a state of being rather than a process of becoming.
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That's not what that phrase means. No capitalistic consumption is moral, but that doesn't mean no one should ever make moral decisions about their food. If I cross a picket line because I care more about a burger than my fellow worker, I'm a rat.
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And as far as systemic critique, there's simply no sustainable way that this many people can maintain meat heavy diets. Turning factory farms into "the people's factory farms" doesn't decrease the methane output of cows. The simple fact is, people need to eat less meat.
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Watch anyone online post pictures of pet pigs and you'll see a ton of responses taking about how they'd like to eat that person's pet.
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Meanwhile, in my life I've met far more mad and peachy meat-eaters than I've actually met the stereotypical vegetarian or vegan. There's a lot of defensive protection among meat eaters.
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Simon
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Don't argue with the bots. Block them.
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Once. "Don't feed the trolls" is a tried and true adage of the Internet.
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I understand you're asking a sincere question, but that is literally what those people want. Bad attention depends the same as good attention for them. That's why they love "triggering the libs." Being ignored is genuinely their least favorite thing.
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But have you ever considered how rad it would be if the Butlerian Jihad was about robots with laser eyes? Science fiction has never conceived of such a concept.
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Watched the first 10 seconds and saw that they were going with the Matrix-style, giant-robot version of the Butlerian Jihad and immediately turned it off. That's my big red flag for "Doesn't understand Dune". It's a war against technocrats and AI bros, not against robots with laser vision.