There’s a difference between wanting to feel pleasure at the result of killing someone and wanting to feel pleasure over the result of killing them?
How is a meal different to a trophy or a photograph? Or even just the memory of the killing.
Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.
I use arch btw.
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Vegan for the iron deficiency.
There’s a difference between wanting to feel pleasure at the result of killing someone and wanting to feel pleasure over the result of killing them?
How is a meal different to a trophy or a photograph? Or even just the memory of the killing.
Why not? It’s not necessary, right, healthy, or environmentally friendly. What reason is left but pleasure? you eat steak instead of tofu to pass the time more pleasantly, no different from someone whaling or shooting rhinos
My mistake, I forgot that paying hitmen absolved you of moral responsibility.
I will never understand how something like 96% of the population kills for pleasure but thinks hunting for pleasure is wrong.
100% read it. I think most things aren’t “must reads” even my favourite stories, but some have such unique ideas or skillful execution that if you enjoy literature you owe it to yourself to read them.
There’s obviously a very large list, I suggested some I didn’t think would be represented here. The dispossessed is a short read and uncomplex in its construction and pros so it’s easy to squeeze in a chapter here and there or before bed.
Idk if you will agree it’s a must read, that’s obviously quite subjective, but I highly doubt you’ll find the time you spent with it unsatisfying.
Unlike tissue paper yaml is actually fit for purpose. I actually don’t know of any lang that literally can’t run a program. The most you could stretch what you’re saying to is that some esolangs are akin to making bricks of packed tissues to build with. They are art projects not serious submissions though.
I don’t like js as much as anyone else but as evidenced by reality it works. Programmers need to stop sniffing their own farts, you have such strong opinions about the most insane shit when at most you should be talking about narrower scopes for use and trade offs.
Ursula Le Guin’s the dispossessed is pretty impactfull. Very confronting anarchist utopia that is not a Paradise.
The lions of al rassan by guy gavriel Kay (worked on the silmarillion). A deeply melencholic fictional reflection on the reconquista of the Iberian peninsula.
The liveship traders by Robin Hobb has the best realised characters in fiction I’ve ever seen. Jaw dropping craft.
And finally, an entire shelf of book: The malazan book of the fallen. you will laugh, you will cry, and in the end you will love compassion.
I worked in mind control before quitting. The company calculated that most advertising firms lost money relative to just randomly sending reminder sms’s to people about your product.
That said, there were able to do some absolutely heinous stuff based on the data that were harvested. Like determine if people were probably buying plane tickets for family events and charging them more (dunno if that ever shipped but was demonstrated in theoretical sims) .
Hey would you rather build from wood or steel?
What glue is better: 2 part epoxy or PVA?
Do you prefer soap or bleach as cleaning agent?
Pleased to have touched your life with levity, stranger.
That is absolute nonsense. Where does the idea that the nastiest expression of desires is the truest come from? It’s a completely absurd and unverifiable idea.
People do stuff, putting people in power over others tends to result in the people doing worse stuff. The variable we can tweak here is the power.
Programmers hate everything. You could design a spec which serenades you with angel song and feeds you chocolate dipped grapes and someone would be like: This is awful, my usecase is being a dog.
Teenagers after rolling in yellow #5 at a party.
Fuck yeah topical reference
Very few people start with big transgressions. Usually stuff escalates.
It’s why need systems that don’t put humans in situations where bad behaviour is incentivised. Also why we need to be forgiving when someone comes forward with a small transgression, so people don’t get stuck in escalating cycles.
I’m sure this guy did some solid research once upon a time.
not real btw. Look at the shadows of the handles at the front.
Very sad, at least my confusion reflex worked correctly. Nonetheless I am crushed.
I’d think rats, except they came over carried on vermin. So who knows.
He could build a Martian colony set and probably enough dorks would volunteer to larp worship of God-king musk of the funniest memes.
The guy has a terminal lack of imagination.
That guy could like pay for people to crew tall ships and sail around doing mock pirate battles and treasure hunts or whatever fantasy he wanted to live out.
And he chooses to do this.
If you find this upsetting you should see a dairy farm.
you know there’s a standard for the maximum amount of pus permissible in milk?
And yet almost everyone I’ve ever shown slaughterhouse footage to did not change at all.
I think that has more to do with being seen to do a thing or not. Nobody is actually stupid enough to just forget what is involved from one moment to the next.