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Their ethereal unobtainability?

Since humans only care about cute animals, you should probably add hummingbirds to your list.

ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN

Pretend it doesn't exist and double and triple down on everthing that led to the problem?

Some of us Americans can't even adjust to the culture of other ever-so-slightly different Americans.

Just great; adding another 50 years I have to wait for certain (corrupt, well-funded) people to stop obstructing improvement.

Nit^3: Quit adversarially picking nits and do your part with societal knolling.

While every improvement is a change, not every change is an improvement.

It doesn't balance out; nefarious usage is going to cause many, many tiny harms that are harder to detect, and many larger harms that will be excused, up to and including denying that beneficial use of indentifying tumors, because algorithms are going to be presented as beyond reproach.

Beyond detecting union affinity, maybe someone will also makes its ML twin that predicts how much they can underpay someone.

I'm sure that's exactly what the tech giants will do in their feudal-governed cities they are going to carve out of Nevada.

It's not just the bottom line; too much of Amazon's practices rely on treating humans as more expendible than styrofoam packing peanuts. It's a culture of control and expediency, and it's a feedback loop because the only way to rise in that culture is to be for more control and more expediency.

Workers with no legal protections or fallbacks, can be coerced to do things that are self-destructive out of fear, or they can be screwed out of benifits or protections through the same banality of evil as EULA agreements.

Management culture has some serious fucking problems. When I worked a factory job, the latest managerial fad was 'make workers mad enough to quit'. Because if they quit, they lost their vested retirement benefits. And those that came back, did so on reduced pay. Deplorable? Yes, but _perfectly legal_, or if not legal, the power imbalance was such that the company could get away with it scott free.

Crap like this goes on all the time, see an example FAQ lawyers put up: https://www.kentonslawoffice.com/workers-compensation-lawyer... Lawyers working in worker compensation law are not likely starving for clientel, or they'd be seeking greener pastures. Hell, yellowpages.com shows 23 hits for 'worker comp lawyer' just within a ten mile radius of where I live.

Corporations are amoral profit-optimization engines, externalizing all possible costs to everyone else. Corporations are not people. Corporations do not think like people, even if they are made of people. Corporations do not care about people, especially not in any of the ways we would want someone who is our neighbor to care about us, not even to the bare minimum of polite indifference of not pooping on your doorstep.

Remember tetraethyl lead? https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520283930/lead-wars https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-... https://www.epa.gov/history/epa-history-lead

Given a choice between the nebulous future of preventing provable harm, and the shorter term and slightly more concrete consequence of lost profits, corporations (and even government) chose profit.

If corporations were actual people, they would absolutely poop on your doorstep to save on their water bill, and then gaslight you with studies showing that poop on your doorstep is normal and healthy, not a big deal, and totally your own fault if it is.

The only way to made corporations (and government) behave in morally acceptable ways is to force them and watch their every move, and make the alternative more expensive.

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"Get a load of this bunch; they do everything with meat! Lets get out of here before they notice us."

First thing I thought of was Gears of War and lambent wretches.

This is still 2020. Are we really flirting with a Planet of the Apes scenario right now?

Don't forget lead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

History has _a lot_ of moving parts.

Maybe a catch-basin

I did not know I needed this, or how much. Thank you.

The heart still beats! The heart still bleeds!

Introduce yourself. Establish a connection or rapport with the audience. Set expectations.

"My name is Inigo Montoya..."

Blood. </sarcasm>

Lots of little things. I have real-life experience with Terry Pratchett's Boots Theory. (I don't know if it had another name.)

I want to outlive all the bastards, fix every problem they've ever created, and live well past their loathesome names passing from memory.

Re-read that snopes article again; 15 joules/gram per day. That means in 24 hours, you only get 0.5kwh from your 100kg battery.

Not that hard; Just get elected to public office and you can have your antics and wacky hijinks published every day.

I'm curious if they could alter the hydrogen/stupidity balance to favor hydrogen.

A favorite moment of mine was telling a flat-earther about the hollow earth theory. The look on his face was priceless.

Would you please not glorify war in this way? This isn't war, it is work - pushing against cultural norms and entropy.

Michael Bay will be doing a reboot of Casa Blanca.