richieadler 🇦🇷 @ richieadler @lemmy.myserv.one

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Who says that ship is turning?

OTOH, USians have their Overton window so moved to the right, and it continues to move so fast, that it has a visible Doppler effect.

What in the US some people calls "radical ideas", most of the world calls "common decency" or "human rights".

Yeah, the McKittrick effect (remember Wargames?)

"Sorry, I cannot help you without the message."

Close ticket.

That current "AI" is not turning into Skynet any time soon.

With a life partner, they are your #1 priority and you are their #1 priority. You are meant to be equals. And you’re supposed to stick with each other for life. I get that it’s not necessarily a fairy book that turns out this way, but at least you have a partner in crime. It gets lonely sometimes to be alone.

Well, but that's earned. You're not entitled to that. If you tire of people easily, have a short fuse and don't like people (or the interactions with them) in general, I don't see that you have much to offer in a way that's palatable for other people.

Crudely said: What do you have to offer, for someone to want you as a long-term companion?

I can’t just flip a switch and adore someone immediately without taking forever to get to that level. It takes a long ass time for me to develop that kinship. It happens passively when you see someone often for unrelated reasons (like for me, at work…I get to know people over time without the stamina struggle of constantly forcing a relationship). But in dating, that’s the sole focus.

Well, I'd say that's how it works for must of us. In the cases of "love at first sight", generally it's mostly lust dressed as "love". Dating should be an occasion to know a prospective partner, but it's the first step of a long road if you want to know the person enough to open to them. I don't know how many people acts like this, though.

Someone who I am as important to them as they are to me. Someone to spend my life with.

But if you don't like people, what's the purpose of having this? A merely pragmatic reason is insulting for the other person.

Dating is the polar opposite of that.

I feel like you feel that you should do that. Ask yourself why.

You know that raising a family is not mandatory and that nobody is (or should be) forcing you to have one, right?

I don’t even know what the hell people are supposed to do with each other.

You're supposed to do whatever you want to do that is pleasing or interesting for both. That means that if that activity is not pleasing for you, you shouldn't do it.

If you don't like people, you don't. Forcing yourself to interact with people you're not interested in is a bad idea.

Or at least you get a dialog to allow you to transfer the pictures.

I always think these movies end being used as instruction manuals.

I knew my first long distance gf on ICQ. I remember also having that service in Miranda IM along Yahoo Chat, MSN, Google Chat (back when it was based on XMPP) and Jabber.

Messages from my current gf are announced with the classic ICQ "Uh-oh!".

Is Threshold worse than Code of Honor?

I'd say it's worst. Being racist is horrible, but it wasn't until "Threshold" that ST became actively and willingly stupid.

If not the most imaginative, certainly the most inspiring, and it evokes a strong insertion in our reality.

It is when the people tends to give more credence to entities that appear sentient and to have agency.

I even spell out okay.

Which is funny, because it originated as an initialism for "Oll Korrekt".

I loved it but now I've mostly replaced it with AIMP.

Many worthy things are difficult.

Steven Spielberg specifically said that he would continue Kubrick vision for the movie. And the Pinocchio discussion Brian Aldiss had was with Kubrick, not with Spielberg.

So be careful not to cut yourself with that edge. You don't seem to be handling it well.