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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • The minimum liability insurance isn’t a scam. If you hit someone and cripple them you’ll be glad for insurance to pay their medical etc…

    Comprehensive is absolutely a scam. Just take the money and save it, maybe buy some bonds. Then when it’s time to buy a new car (or when you get your car totaled) you’re already half way to a new car.





  • Who even cares about the quality. That makes it seem like a solvable problem. AI use is fundamentally alienating. No amount of quality redeems this fact, when you see an AI generated person your brain is registering a non-human as a human. When you draft an AI generated email or report you’re allowing a machine to communicate with other humans using its voice. Reading content changes your brain, this used to mean changing your brain TOWARDS another human, AI generated content means your brain is changing towards a machine’s language.

    This might not seem so bad if it were not that these machines are owned and controlled by a person. Everytime you use or consume AI you alienate yourself from other humans and bind yourself to a rich person’s machine.

    Marx envisioned private ownership of the means of production as alienating a worker from his labour. Never did he imagine private ownership of the means of production alienating a human from his humanity whether he works or not.


  • Human connection is HARD these days, but so valuable. It’s been at the heart of every great thing we’ve accomplished. Even when you have it, it’s tricky. You never get everything you want from another person, and you get a lot that you don’t like. But after all that, you still get what you need.

    When we let AI replace human connection we’re creating something worse than a drug. AI connections are easy and since it doesn’t have its own needs, it can seemingly give you everything you want. If that’s a possibility, what hope is there for real human connection.

    We’ve created a highway to a fast food restaurant, but you have to cut through the jungle 3 hours to have a home cooked meal. Who can or will eat healthy in these conditions?

    This is the biggest threat to humanity we’ve ever created, and this is only ONE ASPECT of AI. I’m absolutely terrified for our future. I see so few paths towards something good and so many towards painful and difficult outcomes. I wish I had Dr Strange’s time stone so I could know what actions to take now that would lead us towards one of the good paths.




  • I don’t see how life at conception, or fetal personhood leads to this. If another person attached themselves to you and said “if you detach me I’ll die, I need to stay connected to you for months before I can detach from you in a traumatic way that damages your body” it’s not a crime to detach them. No one has a right to your body. But somehow when a baby does that they have a direct right to your body? When did you agree to this arrangement? When did you lose your right to change your mind?

    I’m very upset that leftists have to cede the scientific fact that life begins at conception to the right. Just because a fetus is alive doesn’t mean it owns your body.

    I’m not disagreeing with anything I’m just mad that we have to take such precarious positions to defend things that I don’t think should need defending.



  • It’s about people not wanting to be shot. In the US their complete lack of safety training and licensing requirements mean every moron can own guns.

    Canada has better requirements, resulting in fewer problems with legal gun owners and legal guns.

    That being said all the “they’re coming for our guns” crap is not helping. Canadian gun owners and associations should be driving the narrative that Canada has sound regulations, that Canadian gun owners are safe, and that Canadian police are effectively tackling illegal guns and illegal guns owners (last one is doubtful based on my encounters).

    We can’t keep our guns without showing Canadians that they will remain safe if we keep them. We don’t have a charter right to firearms, so we need to dissociate from the American talking points and switch to ones that show WHY we’re already so much better than the worst of American gun owners.