GOOD

I got into death metal because I needed more Slayer. A lot of these bands pick start their songs where a Slayer song reaches its peak of intensity, and then they get more intense.

Watch out or she’ll sue you

What about some cheese sandwiches?

Yesssss

nothing you can really grab onto and enjoy.

I thoroughly enjoy most of their albums. They’re amazing. So funky, fast, and ruthlessly aggressive.

Just trust the government with your identity bro

Yeah but you’re not supposed to say it.

Wake up!

fully conscious according to any test I can think of

There’s no such thing as an actual test for consciousness in machines. We can do tests on animals to see if their sensory experience includes self-awareness, but we’re already operating on the assumption that they have feelings and sensory experience because they have a brain and nervous system like us, and they’re all directly related to us (as all organisms are). But that’s totally different from designing a machine which mimics (or predicts/auto-completes) our observable behavior and then assuming that it “doesn’t like” something or does anything “for fun.”

What sucks is that some idiots are going to start falling for this. And eventually software will be given human rights, which actually means that the software’s owners will have extra rights compared to the rest of us.

That’s why I greased the trees.

exports are subject to tariffs, only religious people can be saved. So printing is the secular, free trade choice.

Right I forgot this was 2026

That is not a 12-million dollar earners’ kitchen

I’m currently reading Lawrence Krauss’ book “A Universe from Nothing”, and in between the excellent descriptions of our ideas about the big bang and the evolution of the universe he’s constantly sneering and lashing out against religion for absolutely no reason. There’s no relevance for these outbursts at all, but there are 16 pages of preface raging against the idea that some people believe that the word “nothing” means “absolute nothingness” instead of “space” (which is truly an active thing) plus a whole Orwellian doublespeak chapter about how nothing is actually something.

Damn. Time to get rid of nova launch.

@perfectsweeties @thomas is an ICE agent

These are not legitimate concerns.

I want one of these “Biblically accurate angels” for my Christmas tree.