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Supposedly, this is what allowed Britain to build a welfare state after the second world war as well. The poor actually saw general nutrition improve during rationing, and they witnessed what the state could accomplish if it really wanted to.

The rich realised this, and figured out that if they didn't throw a bone to the working class, they were going to end up dead, and so compromised.

Climate change won't kill all of us, and neither could a wordt-case nuclear exchange. It'll be a problem for someone eventually.

could just be something totally unknown to science

Any thoughts on brain organoid computers related to this?

All the math done to estimate the computation required shows absurd numbers required at minimum

Nature fit it into a space the size of a human head with a bunch of redundancy through an unconscious process of trial and error.

What's the observable difference between something that closely emulates human behaviour and something with a "soul"?

LLMs almost certainly aren't going to be where it eventually comes from, but I have no doubt we'll get there some day.

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and our pure arrogance wouldn’t stop us from creating another self and causing that self to suffer.

People already have children all the time, this is just what humans do.

Wait until the republican's figure out how much money they can funnel to their friends through "aid" and do a U-turn on their current position.

yeah i want to see them driven away and hear their lamentations, etc etc.

Terf Island doesn't have a lot going for it, but one of the few bright moments we've had is when the fascists took to the streets and got the absolute living shit beaten out of them by a hundred thousand angry Londoners.

It's the only sensible reaction to the fuckers and something that should be brought back.

When did assault become a justifiable response to someone trying to talk to you at your door (even if aggressive). It's not like she was posing any physical threat to him, so how does that merit a physical response? Is this just something I'm not American enough to understand?

The war on Christmas will end only when it withdraws from its illegal occupation of November.

The Pillory

Commonplace terms with now obscure origins can end up being used innocently when in fact, their origin is highly racist, sexist, etc.

I doubt there was any malice to the name, but we should still get rid of it.

Wow, if only we had a word for involuntary uncompensated labour enforced by violence.

Depends on where your house is, and if it's urban or rural.

It provides enrichment for the kids, as they figure out how to get past it.

Scares off libs and wreckers

Fortunately, Edie is an unambiguously female name,

Is it? My first glance would assume it's some variant spelling of Eddie. Never run into anyone called Edie.

Most of the complaints I've heard about British tourists is because of the rampant alcoholism rather than a general attitude