You’ve convinced Me that present-day computers are capable of simulating qualia with the right software.

Yeah, it’s a little oversimplified. I’ll provide the correct version.

After a cow gives birth, you can milk her for the rest of her life, but you shouldn’t do that, because her nipples won’t get a chance to heal. You’ll get lower yields and the nipples won’t be very healthy. So farmers give most dairy cows 2 months a year off, to heal their nipples. Problem is, this causes them to stop producing milk. So, the farmers will make sure the cows get pregnant every year. They time the birth to match up with the end of the planned milking holiday. It’s milk, pregnant, milk, pregnant. As for how they get them pregnant? Well, bulls are very rough when they’re having a fuck, and farmers don’t want cows with sex injuries. So to make the process safer, they collect the sperm and shoot it up the cow’s vagina with a giant plastic syringe. There are special exemptions in bestiality laws that say a farmer forcibly impregnating a cow is NOT bestiality. Because if those special exemptions weren’t written into the laws, it absolutely would be. Legally speaking.

Thanks OP. A few months ago I was wondering if it was ethical to eat shellfish, and now I know the answer.

Yep, I’m experiencing disgust. It’s coming from you.

No wonder you can’t find a girlfriend

I didn’t know the answer before and I don’t know it now. I just know it can’t be because the matriarchy wants to brainwash men into being servants for women. That’s fucking stupid.

Forget height requirements, the man who said the reasons are the same has failed My intelligence requirement.

Do you shave your legs?

Well, the man community has historically punished women who are outspoken in order to enforce a hierarchy of unpaid labour and lack of voting rights, so as to cement the control of the ruling class; first the aristocracy, and later the bourgeiosie.

So you’re saying women demand that men be tall, so that they can exploit men for unpaid labour, restrict their right to vote, and control all of society?

I disagree, I think women place beauty standards on men for different reasons than men place beauty standards on women. At least when it comes to submission.

Why do they demand that?

I don’t get why the man community has so much drama about height

Yep. It all started when I saw some memes on Reddit about what having NPD is really like. They sounded like Me, so I looked the disorder up on the internet. But half the search results, even when I used search terms about support for people with NPD, was about how we’re evil and people want us dead. It’s a big barrier to treatment. And neurotypicals say they want us to get therapy and deal with our emotional difficulties, but they make it impossible to get treatment with all this stigma. I couldn’t find any therapist who specialises in helping people like Me be better. I couldn’t even find advice on exercises I can do at home to work on My problems. I had to work on this stuff alone. I want to be a kinder person, but there’s so much hate trying to drive Me deeper into the pit of bitterness and despair.

narcissists

Do you know where that word comes from? It started as Narcissus, a teenage boy who was cursed to fall in love with his reflection because he didn’t want to get married. Then psychiatrists used his name for a mental disorder. Then this pop scientist, Christopher Lasch, said the mental disorder is on the rise due to American culture. And a bunch of self help books made money telling you that you’re surrounded by evil… that word. And that’s how it broke into pop culture.

Now, people who have heard the word in pop culture have looked it up, and they’ve landed in all different parts of that history through their research. So some people only know the myth, some people know the mental illness, some people know the pop science. And I’ve talked about different parts of this history, and met people from all three groups saying I’m wrong, and the truth is actually one of those three parts. Some people say it has nothing to do with mental disorders and it’s just a myth. Other people say the people with the mental disorder are evil monsters. It’s all jumbled up. But now you know the whole history, and I encourage you to sit and have a think about all of that, and decide what you think about using the word.

If you’re going camping with a solar battery and an electric kettle, you absolutely need to know a ballpark of how much energy it takes to boil a cup (250ml) of water, or you won’t get your morning coffee.

It’s also important information if you’re living off grid, running a desalination plant, sending a mission to Mars, operating a nuclear reactor, building a jacuzzi, or studying the mantis shrimp.

A spacecraft weighing two tons fires its engine in a straight line for five seconds. It uses up 100 pounds of fuel, and the engine is rated to exert 500 pounds of force. What is the delta V, in miles per hour?

I can do that calculation in metric easy peasy, because all the SI units convert at a 1:1 ratio, and I can easily convert between the different scales. Can you do the math in Imperial without looking up the conversion factors?

It’s an interesting problem because the Addams Family sitcom from the 60s has a few racist jokes, but… it’s from the 60s. And it was pretty woke for the time, compared to most contemporary media. And I don’t think the racist jokes were mean-spirited the way Stonetoss’ racism is. I know this is comic strips and the sitcom is TV, but it’s an interesting thought exercise.

Then there’s Dilbert, which, wow, a lot to think about there. The comic engages in racist stereotypes about African nations, but doesn’t use them to put down Africans, but the creator was MAGA, but the comic was anti-misogyny and he’s dead… Dilbert is a fascinating case because I’ve no idea what My opinion is now that Scott Adams is dead.

Lovecraft, I know I’m okay with because he died so long ago, everything he made is in the public domain and can therefore be reinterpreted however we please, even though the man himself was far, far more racist than Scot Adams. So it’s wild. But I guess what I think I’ve talked Myself into believing is, how recently the creator died matters.