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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I mean, financially it wasn’t really a choice. Cotton wasn’t profitable without slavery. Inherit a cotton farm from your racist parents and capitalism would ensure the racism kept flowing.

    That’s why we had to force the issue in the first place, the south needed the institution of slavery, and wasn’t just fighting to defend slavery because they thought it was neat, it was because they needed it.

    No excuses, but when immoral behavior is profitable behavior, yes, people can get dependent.


  • Yeah. Any Co2/other climate change regressions that the US makes affect everyone globally, and while water use is local, its also as-needed, so post-collapse you have to use up all your water anyway.

    AI could use solely graywater/non-water cooling and renewable energies, and that’s the answer, just takes slowing down, building specific and rigorous facilities, . Letting the US speed along just hurts everyone due to climate change.

    That and every major company economically depends on each other, and disconnecting from the US in a way that doesn’t cause backlash also takes time.

    Fuck america but don’t let them drill holes in the boat we’re all riding.



  • No.

    That’s true for people. Corporations don’t learn from mistakes and cannot improve over time, they’re legally obligated to seek shareholder value.

    Expecting a corporation to do things for the right reasons is like expecting AI to do things for the right reason.

    If we must interact with either, we must simply be glad when the answer is correct. If we want corporations to act more like people and be able to have real values, we need to bake a corporation’s values into law in some way.

    Private businesses can still have morals and can learn and all that good stuff where the method matters, but public ones will always dehumanize.

    So I’m happy they hit the right result. I’m also happy they’re talking about it like this even though this talk is also just a publicity response, because other companies might see this and also do the right thing for the wrong (purely financial) reason.

    But this is also why corporations shouldn’t be people and should be barred from everything involving government and all that, if not abolished altogether.



  • This is definitely not the least effort. They could’ve not done the shading between the folds of the clothes, skipped the whorls and swirls on the shovel handle, all sorts of things.

    This just seems low-effort now because AI really did prefer this style, and stole it, but this took so much more effort than you’re giving them credit for.

    This is exactly why artists hate AI, it doesn’t undervalue their work directly, it gets real people like you to undervalue it. Don’t let AI determine your opinions so easily.









  • What didn’t you like about the expansion?

    Biggest complaint I’ve heard (besides Quality complainers) is that they don’t like that T3 modules got retconned into needing other planets to get.

    I personally find that a good change, and also quality is ignorable. I don’t have nearly the hours you have into it, but a respectable high triple digit number, and about 200 I’d guess of those has been post-space age. Haven’t actually played base since space age launched.




  • These shenanigans are exactly why most spells with an otherwise-unlimited range are limited to their plane of existence.

    Good loophole, would also allow it, RAW it should in fact work, although depending on the afterlife in question it may not produce a useful result, the person might be a lemure with no memories or something similar, depending on how long they’ve been dead.