Yeah, the message is “pay this guy or he’ll kill you”. How is that not clear?

They have another name for criminals that lend you money and just ask you pay it back over time with some interest tacked on. They’re called banks.

What’s worse is when you expect it, so you wait a second, and it still hasn’t loaded, so you click and the instant you click it shifts to an ad.

Reminds me of the TTRPG Shadowrun. Sometimes its hard to sell the corporate dystopia when you’re describing eating & drinking soy products because meat is prohibitively expensive and they can sell the effect of dubious cash crops like coffee and chocolate with a soy based alternative.

Ngl, digital tantric neural sex link seems pretty fuckin’ rad.

I guess they left out the part where it implants Taco Bell ads, mines your subconscious for thought crimes, and sells the data so people can have virtual sex with your likeness. Less rad.

Kind of a grey area, though.

If you see someone out picking mushrooms and they pick a poisonous one and you don’t say anything, sure, its not your responsibility.

If you take someone out to pick mushrooms and they pick a poisonous one and you know its poisonous and you let them eat it anyway, that’s criminal.

You can’t argue that someone that hosts free mushrooms hunting tours into dangerous territory and allows a bunch of amatuers to pick and eat deadly mushrooms isn’t liable.

Its 2004 2026. They could quite literally have dynamic volume control that would adjust the volume based on a set limit. You could easily have lead-in curves based on the abruptness for smooth transitions.

But I am the cook

I also find that people that ask those kinds of questions are genuinely interested in working here. People that don’t ask those questions leave within a year.

“I’d kill a thousand women!”

"… ‘If it means saving one unborn child?’ "

“…”

“We know people don’t like how poorly we treat our employees, so we’ve laid off as many as we thought we could get away with to reduce the overall number of people’s lives we make more miserable. We’re the good guys here.”

Its not a bubble. A bubble is when you sink billions into something with no payoff. We’ve sunk trillions. Any people aren’t just uninterested, a substantial amount are actively opposed to it. Its not the same thing at all.

Where do they get new humans? Why do they keep the whole body?

Have you ever had a wet dream?

If you cum in the Matrix you cum in real life.

Warm vat of liquid goo doesn’t sound so nice when it’s recirculation community jizz (I mean, not to mention. I ain’t judging.)

I’m sorry your AI music “career” isn’t taking off like you thought it would.

But there are clues. And those clues are part of the reason some people are opposed to it. Like 30 EPs released in a year.

I think there’s a place for AI music. There are plenty of instances where you need some vaguely musical audio filler. Hold music, shopping background, etc. Well bandcamp ain’t that place.

Important to note for clarity, disobeying an officer’s instructions is NOT the same as disobeying the law.

“The woke leftist media hypocrisy at its finest! They cry foul when we second strike to finish them off, then they cry foul when we leave them to drown in the open sea! Next they’ll claim to be environmentalists and in the same breath denounce us for throwing chum in the water to attract sharks to feed!”

My wife and I used to go to the movies every Tuesday for like $5 a ticket. Didn’t matter if there was something we were really interested in, we would take the chance on something. If that price tracked with inflation, it’d be $7 a ticket and we’d probably go with kids a couple times a month still. But it’s more than double that and so are the snacks, so we instead go maybe twice a year.

But, yeah, some executive with an MBA knows best how to price empty goddamn seats.

That’s some bullshit.

Don’t get me wrong, I support the collapse of corporate giants. They don’t deserve your money. But the small creators do.

What you’re saying is like saying “we can’t help these war torn villagers until the war is over”. The war will take years and the village children need to eat today. Its not a distraction, it’s the fucking point of the war.

For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).

It’s the yacht that counts.

I’ve considered it a good thing to get the “You’re making a mistake” pushback for things like marriage and kids. Because it is hard and you do have to give up and lot of things for it, so you had better be damn sure thats what you want.

You should be able to hear that (from certain types of people) and think “what the hell do they know?”. And if you do think “oh, damn, am I making a mistake?” then you should really fully stop and consider that question.

I think it’s easy for people to fall into the traps of thinking marriage and kids are just the next steps in life and things will get better when you’re married. Marriage doesn’t make anything better.

A lot of people say things like “marriage is great, but its a lot of work”. Those are the people that I’m like “really? Sounds like you maybe did make a mistake there” because (and I’m not expert, I’ve only been married once) it’s really easy being married to my wife.