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  • Sorry. I've never in my life ever been accused of being based, but my personal memories consistently paint me as a paragon of cringe, so you might be on to something. You're welcome to transcribe any part(s) you think might be relevant to improve its accessibility, searchability, and generally superior functionality.

  • That's pretty wild and really cool to ponder. Battery placement and balancing its weight safely seems like a steep hurdle for bolt-on EV conversions.

  • There very well could be something innate. Later in the chapter, Ripley writes about heroes who did what they did because they felt they wouldn't have been able to live with the sense of cowardice for not acting. The fear of future self loathing overpowered their fear of present peril.

    As for nurture vs. nature origins of empathy, I'm looking forward to watching Boarding On Insanity.

  • I like the way you think. When Tesla tanks and gets sold off for pennies, could you please start a Tesla Conversion business? I'd like to have a useful EV pickup that can carry a slide-in truck camper. I don't need any of that self-driving shit or connections to the Cloud or giant touch screens. Just pedals, gauges, levers, buttons, and a steering wheel.

  • I have duly upvoted your obvious sarcasm.

  • Because they're the popular kids!

    And they're rich.

    I'm not saying these are good reasons, just that they're reasons.

  • Honestly surprised the megapharma corporations that manufacture and profit off vaccines have been tolerating him this well.

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  • That's the thing I can't fully understand. What sticky secret sauce does Twitter have that keeps people on it? I never saw its appeal and never created an account. I tried Bluesky and was underwhelmed. Instagram had some stickiness, but then it got stale after the initial novelty wore off. Maybe my brain just isn't wired for those types of social media.

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  • Is megaprison still the right term, or can it be colloquially acknowledged as a human life expiration camp?

    Edit: I don't think the GOP has ever had any qualms about its own sense of hypocrisy.

  • Hey, whatever heuristic works for helping people show and feel respect for their environment and the things in it is good in my book. If you're capable of respecting others in your space without needing to be polite to your inanimate tools, then good on you. Not everyone is like that and if it helps someone feel peace with their surroundings to imagine everything around them has some kind of soul or feelings worthy of consideration, then I'll take that, too.

    Of course, there are limits to everything and if a tool irreparably breaks, hopefully someone is able to discard it accordingly. Pathological hoarding of useless objects is a thing, too, after all.

  • Yeah, for now and we'll see what happens in 2028.

    Ranked choice voting is constantly under attack on every ballot in Alaska and it survived 2024's election by an absolutely razor-thin margin.

  • I'd happily watch a destruction derby of them in a giant arena.

  • Make sure you store it somewhere you don't mind being surveilled.

  • Now I'm conflicted about that news article I saw about Trump letting those 70 coal plants operate with emissions unchecked, because now the acid rain they cause will degrade the trucks faster.

  • No, she was on the ballot with Kelly Chewbacca as the token MAGA candidate. Alaska has ranked choice, so the R ticket split, but people were able to list Murkowski as a backup to their D (or 3rd party) pick.