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Conceptually I don’t have a problem with population decline (naturally, not artificially). However practically it’s a big problem that societies are very clearly not taking seriously right now. If we had a stable global or regional support system to ensure that people are cared for even as there are fewer people to do the caring it’d be fine. But as it seems everyone in power is adamantly against that, it’s a big, looming problem.

South Floridian here. I love Brightline but goddamn if depressed people don’t constantly throw themselves in front of it. They must be constantly rotating drivers in and out of PTSD therapy.

“People did different things at different times and places depending on their circumstances” is not exactly news, even in academic circles where head-in-the-sand disorder is all to real. Davids Graeber and Wengrove covered it to much popular acclaim in The Dawn of Everything, and the anthro/archaeology was going on for decades prior.

And the alien AI also talks like an LLM (and gets explained as such) written before anyone knew what the hell an LLM is.

Huh, I would have guessed they were chocolate if not for the title.

+1 holy damage

I love it when SMBC seems to manifest thoughts that came directly out of my (ape) brain.

Yes, but we can have the tax cuts now /s

Hope you don’t have to speak French.

Trolling.

You don’t know- maybe the boss has trouble reading people and legitimately wants to know if their tone is appropriate from the employee’s perspective?

Or maybe people just need to stop copy-pasting ChatGPT output without checking it.

The blurb on the outside of the box of 666 CD-ROMs:

“SataNIX stands apart from other distros by putting the end user’s free will first. Want to switch package managers? No problem! Interested in swapping out GCC for LLVM/Clang? You bet! Able and willing to patch the kernel, alter reality, and throw down with the creator himself? Have at it! (but he may ban you from the kernel dev mailing list and/or revoke your merge authority)”