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Monochromatic populace. All others on the visual spectrum too afraid to come or stay. See also: My friends get richer, be damned everyone else.

People are often afraid of what they’re told to be afraid of. Don’t overthink it There’s usually not a lot of rational analysis or reasoning involved

Simple answer: It depends on your definition. See also: Consciousness. See also: Freewill

Don’t even need to bring a cooler when stocking up on all the flexes stuff (tho I do wonder they’ll enable a system whereby the shopping carts can head up to the higher levels and get returned for those days when you have both 36 rolls of paper towels AND 904 toilet papers)

Cockney and creole both come to mind

Language evolves and dialects form. There is no one right way, only the way considered common within some arbitrary local context and culture

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding in this thread. It’s okay. We can move on. I suspect it’s not certain human rules from which you want freedom, but instead certain humans in your life. If so, then I’m sorry to hear that and wish you well.

I was asking which human rules you needed freedom from. This reply doesn't makes sense to me with that context in mind. Will you please elaborate?

That sounds like one of those "good problems."

Like which ones?

Even here, you won't be free. You won't be free from struggle. From suffering. From a need to find and protect shelter. From the need to locate and acquire food and resources. Quite the contrary. Without money to make those things easier to acquire, you'd be less free. Losing all of your time simply finding the basics for survival and having no other time for anything you wish you were free to do. I'm not saying availability of money is required for freedom. I'm saying your freedom to choose to do whatever you want is facilitated by it.

It depends a bit on how you define time. It is, however, a concept that is frustratingly resistant to simple definition. Many of the words you use are ambiguous and vague. They’re not helpful in understanding. Precision matters in topics like this. Instant is meaningless. You cannot stop time. Time is change. Entropy increasing. Perhaps you mean what our feeble limited human minds perceive as time. As right now. As this moment or this instant, but even that is delayed by several hundred milliseconds from when the event occurs. There is a measurable space between interactions and our awareness of them. There are perhaps other dimensions to consider, too. We are aware of 3-dimensions and exist in 4, but perhaps there’s more. That likely informs the answer here. Without input of energy, disorder increases. Time is a way we use imperfect human terms to describe that growing entropy. It’s a measure like distance and you’re essentially asking “how does distance pass?” This conversation will forever remain a philosophical one, and it requires you ask better questions with clearer terms. This part of why math is so appealing on this topic. Clarity is embedded.

The overlap in Venn diagram circles for racist and snowflake amazes me in its consistency.

Display name appears but edit option does not, at least not for me as nonstaff member

AI Company or AI Lab are most common, but Gemini is a division within Alphabet (aka Google). It’s essentially a software company with a specific type of software

IIRC, Admins like @Cap'n Refsmmat can do it, but Mods nor Members cannot

Tell it to “align” the turbine with the flow of the water

Try it in Gemini instead. Easier to refine the first few drafts with followup prompts

You misspelled cell phones and social media For someone who laments politics, you sure do bandy it about heavily in all your posts. Well, so long as you’re convinced that’s good enough for me!

I smell some Gish Galloping approaching

Because not all people doing software and user interface (UI) design give a shit about user experience (UX), or when they do "changing profile photo" doesn't rise to the top of their priorities list

Actually, he just wants to be able to claim he got a deal. The deal itself is secondary and he doesn't much care whether it's real so long as he gets credit False. False. I'm not complaining. I'm highlighting facts, but thanks for trying to dismiss them like a good little boot licker. In 165 cases where the courts ruled against Trump, he's defied and ignored 57 of them (35%) as of March. And guess who controls the part of the government in place to enforce those court orders? I'll give you a hint: The courts don't have their own police nor justice department. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-court-orders-defy-noncompliance-marshals-judges/

From a browser: Click your current avatar on the top right of the page >> Profile >> from the banner / cover photo image on the top right of that new page click Edit Profile >> Edit Profile Photo

It’s also the easiest way to drive away new members. Most wouldn’t bother trying a second time and the site would die from lack of new blood and ideas

His Mindscape podcast covers really interesting topics with interesting people and he asks smart questions in case you haven’t already encountered it