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- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think sentience is an evolutionary side effect, as opposed to a major advantage? alright fine edit: not that it's a dichotomy. do you think benefits outweight drawbacks?English
1·2 months agoThat is probably the question to ask before “is it good”
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think sentience is an evolutionary side effect, as opposed to a major advantage? alright fine edit: not that it's a dichotomy. do you think benefits outweight drawbacks?English
1·2 months agoSaying we now need rizz and romance wouldn’t be a good counter to evopsych (no need to elaborate on the crimes of this field probably) types saying human consciousness becoming necessary for reproduction has turned it into a cancer. It makes more sense when you see the Epstein emails where they’re talking about genetically engineering people to be incapable of love. Guy on Adderall who wanted to turn every worker into a drone was choosing who got funding for this kind of writing.
(I’m agreeing here if that’s not apparent idk)
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think sentience is an evolutionary side effect, as opposed to a major advantage? alright fine edit: not that it's a dichotomy. do you think benefits outweight drawbacks?English
1·2 months agoHow would we have invented spreadsheets without human consciousness and writing? You need those to manage the grain!
If nobody has the grain who cares who has rizz or not they’re goners
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think sentience is an evolutionary side effect, as opposed to a major advantage? alright fine edit: not that it's a dichotomy. do you think benefits outweight drawbacks?English
4·2 months agoIt is very undialectical framing but there is a charlimit in title. I almost started yammering about crows using tools but also just enjoying pranks and experimenting with their environment. I think saying stuff like consciousness is just slowing us down is reducing it to its drawbacks.
Yes of course I’m stoned. I’m doing the laundry on a Saturday evening, I have no plans. Here, let me rephrase the title: how much do you hate Richard Dawkins?
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPto
China, 中国@lemmy.ml•The Globe and Mail describes the evil technocommunist dystopia of Shenzhen a.k.a. exactly what would fix my life right nowEnglish
5·2 months agoImagining the kinds of people you could meet there is hearbreaking when you compare it to shit like WeWork which was also just an IPO scam
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPtoReddit@lemmy.ml•This is just leakslop. You only like it because the air in your home is contaminated. (EDIT: so it turns out these are esoteric slurs)English1·2 months ago
Yeah I didn’t even know what this meant at the time I’m genuinely sorry
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPtoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Hey can you guys help me cram for a test? You've wasted ungodly amounts of my time (which is not my fault in any way btw)English1·2 months ago
So you’re saying that there isn’t much low-end software development work to get hired for? That was my worry. I think less in terms of maximizing salary divided by risk, and more in terms of minimizing the risk between transfer degree to UW, getting into the job market, and compatibility with foreign industries so I can escape the US before the asset market inevitably explodes. Not trying to maximize asset holdings to then exploit people as an expat. I don’t care when it happens because I’m scared I’m gonna get talked into having kids and I absolutely cannot send anyone into this hellhole. I only want to go to a country where I can be a worker and so can anyone I rope into living.
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) Bannedto
196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•my top 2025 albums ruleEnglish
1·2 months agoI Love My Computer clears most of these also shower soon
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPtoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Hey can you guys help me cram for a test? You've wasted ungodly amounts of my time (which is not my fault in any way btw)English2·2 months ago
Okay but imagine how much time I can save by completely shutting out local politics and skedaddling. My best option is that Sawant lady. She would have purged me from her campaign before if she knew my beliefs and I would not have been there if I had a clue. The whole underpinning of the US political system is going to shift.
I barely know what it going on why was I helping Trots months ago I didn’t even k kbow what those were really outside of icepick memes.
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPtoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Hey can you guys help me cram for a test? You've wasted ungodly amounts of my time (which is not my fault in any way btw)English1·2 months ago
Well the uni I plan to transfer to has a very low rate of acceptance for CS so I feel like I am dooming myself. If IT has a smoother track or more demand sure, but is there actually going to be this huge buildout of tech infrastructure in the United States?
Like let me lay out how I view what makes a degree worth it, since I am still early enough that I have not fully committed to any one track.
Likelihood of finding a transfer degree that won’t be what e/acc demons refer to as “an antisignal” » job market prospects of said degree (not based on salary but on gaining valuable experience for the following) » transferrability and competitiveness of those skills to industries abroad.
If you become an electrician for example you have to spend a gajillion years in all these contracts and when you’re done your skills are targeted at standards in one country.
My reasoning being that if I fail to escape Southbound Tales in Real Life then I at least have a chance of survival. It wouldn’t make a ton of sense at this point to shoot for something risky that makes a lot of money to slingshot that into a bunch of asset wealth. I hear the oil fields might be on fire soon? Last time it constituted most of the oil well fires in history, one fell swoop. Or even if you do get everything together, have a family, have a kid, what are you really setting them up for? A public school system that is increasingly being ripped apart by the Heritage Foundation? What is the solution? Vote?
Also I guess a side thing but would you say you use IT skills in your personal hobbies at all? Because that kind of stuff is nice to have even if you fuck up your life. Then at least you have something to do while doing fuck all right
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPtoShitty Ask Lemmy@lemmy.ml•Hey can you guys help me cram for a test? You've wasted ungodly amounts of my time (which is not my fault in any way btw)English3·2 months ago
I got 96% even tho my study buddy ABANDONED me so I’m going to be more arrogant from now on
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) Bannedto
Books@lemmy.ml•AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare booksEnglish
1·2 months agoI wonder which countries don’t have AI labs that do this 🤔 ah well I guess we just have to reject the new tech completely since there is no way of knowing
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is nature the same thing as god?English
1·2 months agoDawg that is simply not what God means in this question. I failed to communicate with anyone in this thread. We’ll come back to this later after I pass this quarter, literally. I currently have literally 120% in my classes so consider yourselves all due for more confusion.
Ah well, I don’t know what I expected. Spinoza could have been ripped apart in the streets for articulating this correctly.


- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPtoWikipedia@lemmy.ml•Houses are for living, not for speculationEnglish2·2 months ago
Ah sorry didn’t realize this was a dupe, I just saw this article on twitter and felt clever for a second
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedtoLemmy Support@lemmy.ml•dbzer0 Lemmy is not working on my IPEnglish1·2 months ago
Wholesome yuri… Banned…
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•massively hyped up durians to my folks for their trip but they don't know about the smell. should I tell them or surprise them?English
5·2 months agoNot singapore but I am very serious about not allowing them to disgrace themselves in any way abroad. Too used to visiting hitler countries. Could be bad. Im nervous


- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedOPtoReddit@lemmy.ml•This is just leakslop. You only like it because the air in your home is contaminated. (EDIT: so it turns out these are esoteric slurs)English3·2 months ago
I knew you guys would like it, since this is exactly how 90% of our interactions go.
- vapor_body ( vapor_body@lemmy.ml ) BannedtoLemmy Support@lemmy.ml•dbzer0 Lemmy is not working on my IPEnglish3·2 months ago
Threadiverse link 404s
Edit: ah nevermind I see. The quokk.au also just loads a blank page tho









That is the coolest thing I ever heard on here, including from a certain guy I know in Vietnam. Cambodia needs so much stuff like that.
If you want to avoid white savior syndrome, it’s not an attitude. This is going to come across like a joke but go read every article on RedSails.org especially Losurdo stuff. Friend sent it to me last year and going though it was just like “oh yup that’s me, me, everyone I have ever met in my life, also me, wow I’m George Hitler Washington” and I felt so much better, like I wasn’t fucking crazy.
Consider that Western NGOs are still considered useful enough by China and Vietnam despite clearly having white savior syndrome, and actively stealing plans for the power grid