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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • Donating blood plasma is good as it helps people in need. Sure, it sucks that there is a company in the middle making a profit, but not donating is not the solution to that problem, as it hurts the people in need more than the corporation in the middle.

    I think its kinda similar to the tipping situation. Yes it sucks that restaurants don’t pay their employees properly and that you have to tip to support the employees. But not tipping hurts the employees rather than the restaurant owner.

    In both cases, if we want change, we need to change the legislation.





  • I think pretty much everyone would agree that’s bad. However, I don’t think we’ll ever get to the point where we recognize a machine might be capable of suffering. There is no way of proving anything, biological or not, has a consciousness and the capability to suffer. And with AI being so different from us, I believe most people would simply disregard the idea.

    Heck, look at the way we treat animals. A pig’s brain is very similar to our own. Nociceptors, the nerve cells responisble for pain in humans, can also be found in most animals, but we don’t care. We kill 4 million pigs every day, and 200 million chickens. No mass murder in the history of mankind even gets close to that.

    The sad truth is, most people only care about their wellbeing, and that of their friends and family. Even other humans don’t matter, as long as they’re strangers. Otherwise people wouldn’t be hoarding wealth like that, while hundreds of millions of people around the world are starving.

    Ah sorry, I kinda started ranting. Yes, I’d care.



  • I could imagine a disease turn people delusional and aggressive. What’s always seemed unrealistic to me was the premise of zombies being chill around each other and/or animals, but going bonkers when they see an uninfected person.

    Also, these people would be done in by cold wheather, injuries, lack of food and water rather quickly, so they likely wouldn’t pose the threat they do in movies.