I always think of Jesus as a Buddhist Jew.

Sounds like natural personhood for AI is coming

They learnt from the best

You’re a sensible fellow and I appreciate your rational perspective and positive, encouraging attitude to your fellow human beings. Good idea on the virtual hike too, I’ll do that next time I’m out and about if I remember.

We should expand the volume of society then! PV=nRT baby

Or maybe it feels like oppression because it is. Nobody in this thread has their mind open to the possibility that structural changes disadvantaging (young, predominantly white) men can happen even when other groups are continuing to be held back.

Bring back punctuation altogether at this stage!

Three Body Problem?

It’s slow by design, for better encryption. Faster fibreoptic cables maybe? A faster speed of light might help?

I imagine Venice would still be first

A happy little miracle disaster

Shaming imprudent spending behaviour != “shaming poor people”

They sent them to North America first. The charting and colonisation of NSW happened shortly after the US declared independence, not a coincidence. Of course now the inbred aristocracy doesn’t run this place any more so you can keep your worst thanks

Defund the dumb teachers! (Reasonable analogy, right? /s)

So what? Finish your thought.

Well said. Looking down on impressionable men with this sort of smug contempt is how we go further down the path.

*facet, lol, but I wouldn’t put it past him!

Let that dink in!

Numeracy is certainly not so common

Could also be to keep them white? I used to see teabags last century (and health food shop teabags nowadays) yellowing similarly but commercial Twinings tea bags these days remain white - could be a chemical impregnated into the paper but that seems likely to leach into the tea.

instantiate

materialise?