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Forgive me for thinking that instead of keeping them out, Israel had been allowing them in and then murdering them ‘by accident’.

Nothing says “everybody loves me!” better than surrounding oneself with bulletproof materials 🤣

As it was always unfeasible. The necessary energy input means it’s an economically losing proposition unless the government were to take the (absolutely unlikely) step of forcing all plastics, but especially virgin plastic production, to incorporate a heavy carbon tax and environmental impact tax in its pricing.

This just happened as I opened this post to read about this stuff… Gemini chose that very moment to message me for the first time offering to be of service in my future use of Google messages. That’s both creepy and kind of hilarious. I wouldn’t be surprised if their system is (anonymously, but still) intaking the content of all Google messages regardless of what they or their legal and privacy departments say about it.

oh never mind, guess I can’t upload an image with this comment, but the content of the message from Gemini was “Hi, I’m Gemini in Google Messages. Chat with me to draft messages, brainstorm ideas, plan events or simply have a fun conversation.” 🙄

Same here, then it pops up a prompt to install the website’s ‘app’ 🙄

Thank you.

I thought I read yesterday that they had just filed an application to be released from the legal obligation to maintain and update their landline infrastructure in the state.

No, I knew you got it and were making a funny. I don’t know what’s up with the people who downvoted you, I was not one of them.

I only located my comment under yours because of similar subject manner, and maybe it would have been better to put it at the main level to avoid this. My intention was entirely about the barely-literate headline writers and not at all about setting you straight or whatever.

Those stupid headline writers. She’s a serial child killer, not a child serial killer.

I thought it was a clowder of cats but a mewling of kittens. Maybe viciousness qualifies for clowder status.

Bo-loved-gna

Thanks for this. I’m glad you didn’t have to deal with searing pain since panic is already more than enough.

I don’t mean this to invalidate your experience in any way; I’ll just state sources to make clear where I got that idea.

https://medilexinc.com/a-spoonful-of-medicine-blog/the-process-of-drowning

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8928428

Yes, drowning is known to be quite painful but only for a very brief time before unconsciousness sets in.

Crab? Yes. Yours? I’m not so sure.

I get that same autocorrect! “shears” when I was trying to write “always”!

There seems to be illegality all around –

“Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms” (United Nations press release, 2016) https://press.un.org/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm

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I spent a long time living in places that had saved their one last ‘classic’ movie theater by turning it into a rerun palace for ‘art films’, cult classics and other specialty cinema.

Also, I bought the DVD of Baraka that came out in the late 90s or so, and I was so disappointed in how visually awful the digital transfer was at that time, the disc was honestly not even worth watching. Not just because of small screens, the problem was that whoever did the digital transfer had completely fucked up the frame rate conversion in a way that caused every one of the many time-lapse sequences to move with a really annoying jitter. There was no possible playback setting or processing to fix it either, the process had removed information making it impossible to smooth or recover, at least back then.

So that junk DVD motivated me to just keep grabbing anyone I could, or no one if no one was around, and going out of my way to see the movie every time it came to a big screen within an hour of me. Now it’s been years since my last watch… I’m not sure how much more I could take of it now that it’s so clear the human race already sold out its long term survival for short term gain.

I could go with that.

Still having a hard time with the idea that a thing could be even “some level of intelligent” without being sentient. But we don’t need to continue from there, there’s any number of people ready to pile on at that point and say that it’s “all semantics anyway” or start deconstructing sentience.