How is it legally murky? Someone asks if that’s your signature on the document and do you remember signing it, and it is and you do, so you say yes. End of discussion.

It’s only a problem if you’re claiming it’s not your signature. But then, they have to prove it’s your signature, you don’t have to prove it’s not. I’m not sure you can prove it’s not your signature, hence burden of proof being on the other party.

Your face reads like AI slop.

My wife did, and it’s helped a lot. I don’t know if that moves the bar for you at all. (edit: before -> bar)

Hypothetically, if we got to the point that we could simulate the collective synapses of a human brain in real time, that should do it.

If you simulate fire, does it burn? I don’t think a simulation will do it. I think consciousness is an emergent property, but unlike others here I’m not so sure this property has to emerge from an organic substrate. Organics might just be the cheapest way nature found to do it.

Problem is, we don’t really understand consciousness itself, and that makes it hard to predict where or how it will show up.

I think that there’s a specific kind of person who responds to a tragic event by looking for and reporting on people celebrating the tragedy. In my several decades of experience, the point always seems to be to try and vilify the people who share a few traits like skin colour, language, or ethnicity, and somehow it’s always a group the “reporter” has some kind of problem with.

Trump did the same thing after 9/11, you know. Do you support that Trumpy kind of behaviour, to try and incite hatred against particular groups of people in that manner?

“Wont to do” is a very old way of saying “known for doing”.

It’s absolutely true that US cops are known for killing unarmed civilians who pose no threat to them or anyone else.

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Or maybe - just maybe - we’re more than the sum of our parts.

This you?

You know what you can learn? To own up to your mistakes, instead of pretending like you were saying something else the whole time.

Another coping mechanism I’ve learned is to walk away from people who are more interested in their own narratives than reality. If you respond, I won’t see it.

but you probably realise that

I do, and I appreciate your recognition of that. Nowhere in my post did I say this is everyone’s experience, but it is mine, and a lot of people here seem to have a problem with it.

I think you should re-read my post, because nowhere in there did I say everyone should use GPS or it’s dangerous to drive. I just said that’s how and why I use it. When I do, it does keep people safe, because I’m not putting myself in a situation where I’m likely to be distracted by trying to figure out my route while I’m behind the wheel. Distracted driving is dangerous driving, period dot and end of story, regardless of neurodiversity.

You seem to recognise that people are in fact all different, so I’m very confused as to why you’d then come at me to tell me I’m handling my disability wrong when you don’t know me or the spread of symptoms I’m living with. I can’t unlearn my brain structure, but I can mitigate it, so I do that. I’m not the idiot, here.

In my case, it’s dangerous because I’m suddenly distracted from the road by trying to figure out where I’m supposed to be going in the immediate moment. I’m on the spectrum, and on-the-fly changes of plan spike my anxiety - nothing I can do about that except work around it. That isn’t a personal fault, I’m keeping myself and other people safer on the road.

So I’m gonna keep using the GPS even when I know where I’m going, that way if I realise I’m gonna miss my exit I don’t panic and instead can keep going with the confidence that the GPS will re-route me and I’ll have time to be in the correct lane for the next one.

I’m autistic and do not do well with a change of plans, especially under time pressure, but thanks so much for assuming that it’s because I lack “critical thinking skills” (which is not what that is, by the way) and taking the chance to insult me for working around my limitations.

When you grow up, you’ll learn that people are all different, and that supplementing one’s abilities with the tools available is not a weakness. I’m going to keep using the GPS even when I know where I’m going, not because I’m “overreliant on technology” or “afraid of things I haven’t planned for”, but because I’d like to keep myself and other people safe. I can’t help but feel that if everyone took this sort of attitude, we’d have far fewer collisions.

No details on what this initiative even is - doesn’t seem to be a failure of reporting. Just more brazen theft by this rogue administration.

Even when I know the route like the back of my hand I still use GPS. Why? Because if there’s any variation in the route, such as due to construction or a parade, I’m no longer 100% sure of how to get where I’m going, and a driver that doesn’t know where they’re going in is one of the more dangerous things on the road IMO.

But then how would I have known that VPN users are typically privacy-conscious? 🐍

(there’s still no emoji for sarcasm so I went with a snake because it’s not just /s it’s /sssss)

This is just one step, though. Money to Mullvad goes in part to the cofounder who is a racist piece of shit.

But to your question, I think the “dilution” question has a different answer for everyone. Have you seen “The Good Place”? Philosophy is the major theme and this is one of the major philosophical questions they deal with. Great show, recommended if it’s unfamiliar to you.

Guy keeps talking about their “customers” and they don’t charge a dime. I’m not sure that word means what he thinks it means. They have users, and that’s exactly what he’s acting like.

No, because then dumb motherfuckers will set fires to win bets.

Early 2000s: The Mech Madness forums, for discussing Armored Core, BattleTech, Gundam, and all other things mech and mech-related. It was a decent-sized community, for the time.