Ginny [they/she]

Um, why? As a general rule, the point of running a simulation is to find out what happens under some circumstances where you don’t know what happens. If you’re imposing conditions like that, then you aren’t so much running a simulation as you are running some kind of procedural generation.

My brother in Christ, there are more consequential things to have a bee in your bonnet about than people who don’t fully type out swear words.

I know people who are still calling Snickers bars Marathons. Telling people to let it go isn’t going to do you any good, either.

Ostracism is how communities change people with bigoted beliefs. When communities ostracise open bigotry, most bigoted people will at least keep their bigotry to themselves, in order not to be ostracised.

If Henry Kissinger got to keep his peace prize, then they’re really wasting their breath.

In general I agree, but I am going to have to ask you for a source on that last one.

You know Russia has had its own nukes for quite a while, right? It was kind of a big deal back in the 60s and 70s.

Isn’t ad blocking, as the industry magazine AdAge has called it, “robbery, plain and simple”?

Robbing corporations is based, though, actually.

Roughly 50% of transgender and/or non-binary people are software developers and roughly 50% are furry artists, so it makes sense we would be more wary of AI.

I use arch, btw.

If I had a penny for every time I heard about new advancements about to revolutionise solar panel technology, I’d have glazed the bloody Sahara with them by now.

Why does anyone get to have nuclear weapons?

Because once you have them, who’s going to try to take them away?