Nah, that thing is clearly a ceremonial religious object, like all the things we discover.

That’s what it’s become. But, hear me out, what if I want the hardware without the software? Tough luck? Both are so tied together that if the company pulls the rug you don’t have reasonable access to the hardware.

Hey man, the best way to quit smoking is to never start in the first place. Heh heh heh.

I don’t want to cook after I get home from work. From scratch, doubly so.

There are friends that only use messenger to communicate and you need Facebook to use it. That and marketplace are the only reasons I use it.

Yeah it’s way more work to have to clean up unless you don’t mind your bathroom smelling of piss.

It’s like they’re drawn to the warmth of a book burning.

I’m just saying you’re adding too much complexity in this particular phenomenon. Evolution by natural selection is a very robust model that has remarkable predictive power. It only works if you’re not assuming too many inputs.

The b29 dropped Little Boy in 1945. However, this new tech is insanely scary.

That is some wicked camouflage.

Man, that’s some crazy logic. I’ll take occams razor and state that wind movement abrades the leaves/limbs on one another.

We need more FOSS. If our governments weren’t utterly captured we could publicly fund worthwhile projects.

I dunno, throw more guns in, I guess…

They don’t. It’s all bad faith to get what they want - control.

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Lol. “Kids, do some drugs, just not all the drugs”

It’s just an exhausting uphill battle that never ends. I don’t have the time or resources to combat monied corporations.

If you’re ever at a decent greek restaurant get the saganaki. It’s a salty fried sheep cheese and it’s one of the most glorious things to exist.

Animate is the closest word I can get to soul. It can be attributed to non living things as well. It’s just complex energy structures within a certain blanket - an embodied aura if you will.

In my area, you normally get handed a beer and a spot around the fire.