“Voluntarily” is a strong word

To manufacture a disadvantage for them if they ever found themselves in a swordfight, of course

I don’t disagree, but it’s precisely these “moral frameworks” that lead to rigidity, stagnation, in-groups and out-groups, and so on. These “frameworks” externalise/alienate “morality” (from the subjective, emotivist sense) into something sacred, inviolable, that exists above us (absolute morality, “the truth”), and whoever controls this morality controls everyone else. And this goes for not just religion, but every ideological+social “framework” in general; the centralisation/hierarchicalisation of power is inherently susceptible to exploitation and corruption. Even science, for example: consider how “objectivity” has been used as “absolute truth”, when what it really is, at least in science, is the union of many subjectivities.

The subjectivity of our experiences is inescapable, by definition, really (what is experience, if not subjective?). So when things are justified with “morality”, “duty”, “objectivity”, oftentimes it is to obscure this fundamental subjectivity, I think; there’s this kinda taboo dynamic to it. But if we instead embrace our subjectivities, we can see ideas for what they are and where they come from, and use them as tools for building community (or whatever else we might find useful), without letting them become exploitable backdoors to our minds.

Idk anything about these characters but at face value it kinda feels like the opposite of the young rebel trope, lol. Dude seems to have grown up respecting the “authority” of elders, only to finally understand, with maturity, that it was all an illusion.

Civilians inexplicably stood in a line of fire

Monetised altruism <3

Just nitpicking, but if the usual price is 10€ and you want to offload the 30% tax to the consumers, pretty sure the maths should be 10/(0.7) ≈ 14.29€

the work (to trim all the Vista bloat) that had started with Windows 7

Could be phrased better but it makes sense to me

After all, that’s how all labels work (and perhaps even words in general?). They try to capture meaning, at best failing to do so (endlessly “approaching” it, always a step behind the evolution of language), and at worst ensaring peoples’ thoughts and ideas.

It’s a catch-22 - try to be more unique, in an effort not to lose your humanity, but in doing so keep feeding the machine which subsists on creativity. A human-AI ouroboros.

Does this apply to the google play version?

ohhhhhhh 🤦

Wait… what about gay couples where one of the guys is the biological father?

Uhm… sorry to ask, but does that make your dad your “ejaculating progenitor”?

The smile/wrinkles look kinda weird? Could be a generated image of Altman, plus photoshop

iirc China doesn’t allow dual citizenship

Didn’t Grok also claim he’s fitter than LeBron and smarter than da Vinci? Perhaps being an olympic piss drinker has been the key to his success.

Probably not even mint-specific since it happens on pop os too

Or maybe they’re overworked and burnt out

I’ve articulated why. Are you just here to argue in bad faith?