Exactly. 18 is where we’ve decided the dividing line is. Accept it or work to get it changed.
We should not treat one sex like they are children until they are 40. And if decide to do that (which seems to be the way a lot of women want it to go), we should work to get them declared minors with all that entails until that age.
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Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die. What a woman, and what a loss for all humanity (except Islamists, fuck them).
400 Tech Workers Face Job Losses as AI Takes Over Coding and Other Work at Norway’s Biggest Bank. Was told this is not happening. But I work in the industry. It’s fucking happening.
Since it was too close to nuke, this is what should’ve been done to Gaza after October 7. The Israelis erred by not going down this path and will pay again in the future for that mistake. I hope Israel still manages to find the courage to do something like this soon.
Correct.
There is, never has been, and never will be that damn ghost everyone is looking for. The only evidence will be what can be seen (apropos Wittgenstein). There is no secret hidden beyond that, no matter how much you wish there were.
The ghost won’t be found because it does not exist. Even worse, it cannot exist.
Going to the mall in the 90s wasn’t just about shopping—it was a cultural phenomenon.
The height of malls was actually in the 1980s, not the 1990s. Mall culture peaked then and began a slow decline, as even in the 1990s malls were already introducing anti-loitering and anti-young people rules and regulations to keep anyone who wasn’t immediately purchasing something out.
There were more total malls in the 1990s, but it didn’t feel the same as it did in the 1980s. There were already more options for entertainment and malls were evicting their own customers by that point (as mentioned above).
In line with recent “feminist” declarations that they are able to revoke freely-made decisions retroactively, I hereby retract my decision to buy Applied Materials stock in 1999, on which I lost about $20,000.
In retrospect, I did not consent to buying that stock. I would not have done so had I known the outcome in advance. Someone owes me $40,000 (number inclusive of inflation). Whoever allowed this violated my consent by not making this stock purchase go exactly as I expected it to.
I just had a user asking me to allow claude to have complete access to his Microsoft mailbox. I told him no since sensitive mails are often sent to the entire company including discussions concerning projects etc.
He went silent and then said … "but how do you use your mail then ?"
I had to explain to him that we old people used mail for decades without the use of an AI telling us what someone mailed.
He was genuinely baffled how you can just open Outlook and read a mail without asking Claude what someone had sent.
I see more and more of this type of thing.
Users have never understood much or been capable of achieving anything left unsupervised, but AI has certainly made it worse. And it’s only downhill from here in that respect.
A whole lot of Western Europe is in a now-irreversible self-destruct spiral due to inane and insane leftist policies, mostly related to immigration. It is not going to be pretty when the Islamists get hold of the UK and French nuclear weapons. That might occur sooner than I thought.
Camille is right. Why so many women are begging to be treated like children, I have no idea. I think they don’t understand that it does not work selectively, as they wish it did. What will end up happening is that women will be treated like children everywhere.
Since so many are asking for that, perhaps we should grant them that outcome. It’d look a lot like Iran, though.
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This is absolutely insane. These people just need to be sent to Somalia or the Helium 3 mines on the moon. Just keep them far away from us, wherever they are.
One could also accurately say this:
“If you had enough resources, you could run a human brain on a wooden system of gears and diesel power. It would be massive, but watching the cells and neurotransmitters move, it would be evident that the outputs are not the result of a mind. Part of the illusion of human thought is the tiny scale of neurons.”
What is going on here? Do the doofs not realize how clownish this all sounds?
By the way, this is nearly word for word Leibniz’s mill argument from the Monadology. Except this person of course would not know that. There, ol’ Leibniz imagined a thinking machine enlarged to the size of a mill. However, the same thought experiment works for your own brain. If you enlarged that to the size a mill (or a city), all you’d see is ion channels pumping and some flashes of electricity. There would be no thought or reasoning visible anywhere; just organic mechanism.
Try as you might, you still would not find that damn pesky ghost. And that’s because it’s nowhere to be found.
Good thought. Kat is right. Men and women do not relate like that anymore. A war of all against all has been declared. Back then, men and women felt like they were on the same team, wanted the same things: a little love, a bit of comfort against the cold world, someone to confide in.
Now, younger millennials and Gen Z have declared that all relationships are always and only about power. Nothing else is permitted. This is more evil than there are words for how evil it is. I’m not certain what we can do to reverse this, but extreme measures must be taken. Perhaps re-education camps. I don’t even know.
At this point, hating AI is about like hating a hammer or a saw.
What are these clowns even thinking? (They aren’t.)
If consent for sexual activities can be revoked post hoc by women, then marriage should be able to be revoked post hoc with no consequences to men.
Fair? In the fallen world desired by “feminists” that would be.