LwL

But working less is the same as being paid more per hour, and I'd much rather work less than have a bit more money? Finding a job that is nominally 30 hours/week while paying as much as my current one would be quite hard.

Online activation requirements. Physical media going away is really just a symptom, DRM is the actual issue. Games have always been just a license, what changed is that the licenses are no longer transferable and irrevokable. (They might even still be legally irrevokable, not sure, but they can just shut down drm servers and you can't install).

Ofc DRM-free steam games or GOG games etc. aren't transferable either, but the main issue for most people is clearly that they might lose access.

Consoles could just include a feature to back up game install files to USB storage or NAS and losing disks becomes irrelevant, but DRM will always fuck the customer in the ass.

While true, this is not easily solved and also I think the meme is more about people who then use this to justify total inaction. Doing anything at all is still better than doing nothing.

There are some self evaluation tests you can take if you're interested (not hard to find on google), though none are perfect, high scores are a pretty good indication. That whole explanation definitely sounds like something an autistic person would do.

If I'm not mistaken that's from The Ancient Magus' Bride

Sissy in particular likely stems from the social taboo of not performing to your gender's role, it's just a form of humiliation kink. Might be more common in closeted/egg transfems because it's a somewhat safer way of being feminine in a context, it just happens to be sexual.

And crossdressing is a super wide term anyway but in a sexual context I'd think it's just roleplay

A lot of the individuals aren't in there entirely of their own will though. Particularly with BYU, the institution itself is a cancer, but the individual students are really not at fault (at least certainly not all of them). The university portrays itself very differently than it actually is, and you effectively cannot leave the mormon church while you attend (unless you want to get kicked out and have all your time there completely wasted).

I would heavily disagree on LLMs being obviously sentient. I don't see how they could be, as I see it it would require an understanding of the words they put out in a framework that isn't language - but language is the only framework they can possibly have. All words LLMs know are defined only through their relation to other words.

It's also a matter of defining what self-awareness even is, and I don't have the hubris to say that LLMs for sure are not sentient, it just seems very unlikely from my perspective. I would also argue that monkeys are most likely sapient, though the whole concept has always reeked of "oh shit sentience doesn't make us special, quick think of something else". I'd probably put LLMs somewhere on the level of individualistic insects at best.

I still agree with your general sentiment that people are far too dismissive of the topic in general given our history in doing this with animals. Esp the concept of pain is an interesting one, because essentially pain is just negative reinforcement, which of course is part of reinforcement learning. But pain also had to naturally evolve and is very flawed as a result, while the negative reinforcement is just a number without side effects, so it likely wouldn't ever feel like pain the same way it feels for an animal. But the difference is often philosophical, and we define things the way they are convenient.

Ich finds schonn krass, wie oft mir leute komplett unverständlich begegnen wenn ich nur sage ich mag kein steak bzw. bin allgemein nich der riesenfan von Rindfleisch (und erst recht da es von allen herkömmlichen Fleischtypen auch noch das klimaschädlichste ist, brauch ichs jetzt wirklich nicht). Also Überraschung is eine Sache aber diese Denial phase jedes mal ist schon komisch. Passiert natürlich gerne genauso wenn ich irgendwelchen vegetarischen oder veganen Fleischersatz esse, obwohl ich doch gar kein vegetarier bin.

Ist halt wie so vieles viel zu sehr kulturell verankert. Aber das ändert sich wenigstens auch merklich.

Es ist aber ein problem der technik? Nur, weil zum Bauzeitpunkt keiner drüber nachgedacht hat, ist das nicht plötzlich was anderes. AKWs brauchen halt viel Kühlung, und auch solche Abwärme ist eine Form von Umweltverschmutzung wenn sie in einem Fluss landet.

That depends on the person, plenty I've talked to have explicitly said that sweat smell is better than the mix resulting from trying to just drown it in a different odor. For me personally it'd also depend on the deodorant.

But how do we get taxation?

Murder doesn't redistribute wealth, but a ruling class that remembers why the plebeians need to be kept reasonably happy stops actively sabotaging any efforts at wealth redistribution.

I'd rather have that happen another way but at this point what's left?