If everyone gets to be immortal, imagine never being able to get rid of dictators. Putin’s 600th won election.

People in the future wouldn’t be allowed to have children, Earth will be filled to the brim with very old people and very few new ideas.

I get that, but am I wrong?

Exactly, like if someone doesn’t want kids I wouldn’t want to be their child, let them not have them

Where I live you pretty much cannot adopt if you’re past 40, except when someone put their kid in their last will for you.

Exactly, it’s the fourth forbidden one, it helps with debunking theist views for instance

Such a genuinely good reductio, I’m stealing this!

I suppose in most clinical trials you would want to be in the placebo group, no?

I like AI. But I’m not sure I like the way we use it if it’s only to meet shareholders’ expectations or to be a tool for greedy people. What is your opinion concerning the way we seem to use AI in academic research?

Just enough time for like 12 turns, really

You guys have cigarette stores?

If I told my friends I pushed them away because of “Mauerbauertraurigkeit” they would Mauerbauertraurigkeit me.

I’m not the one you talked to but isn’t it better to receive assistance in dying so that the experience is less traumatic for friends or relatives of the dead? For example, they don’t have to see their loved one inject themselves or whatnot.

Plus, it comes with the benefit of not having to transport the body if it was a suicide at home, not having to stress about the lethal cocktail and if it contained the right amounts of drugs or whatever.

It doesn’t say much, but I would prefer it a whole lot that a person that I am close to chooses the assisted suicide. And I would much rather be strapped to someone when skydiving.

(Sorry, english is not my main language)

Do they have a transparent budget on how the donations are used? Anyone can claim the donations weren’t enough to survive.

I just saw this thread and it is a pretty funny misunderstanding, I respect your efforts lol

I barely know how any of this works, but couldn’t Google just decide to not send video content on YouTube until X number of seconds have elapsed, so having ad blockers would block ad content, but not make it faster to see the video?

Thank you so much, I was looking for something like this!

Did you read the article?

Also, animal meat maybe, but not every animal product contains a complete protein profile.

I can’t believe my native country, Hong Kong Latvia Lithuania Russia Ukraine, is represented here!

I’ll speak for myself here – I watch on average a movie per day. Even if the Blu-Rays were $10, it would still cost me $3650/yr.