Yeah, and we need to make it last next time.

Lack of hope is a benefit, but not for you. People thought that a revolution was impossible even before the 20th century, and still, 1917 happened.

Thunder, for sure

Humans on Mars. We are 15 years late already.

Civilization III and/or V

Edit: If you have lot’s of time available.

Assuming your honesty and good faith on asking this question, the real treasure on our gene pool is it’s diversity. Eugenics would, by definition, reduce it. You could assume that it’s a low price to pay for health, longevity, strength, intelligence, beauty and so on, but it’s not that simple. Even some diseases (out or the possibility to develop it) can be beneficial under the right circonstances, e.g. sickle cell anemia can improve resistance to malaria.

It would be great to be able to prevent most diseases before it happens and treat it if it happens (for free, in a universal health care system), but eliminate the genes would be a very bad idea, a healthy specie needs it’s diversity to avoid extinction, and we sometimes feel like we are above that risk, but we are not that special.

Much more secure 👍🏾

Zen Browser since last week. Is a Firefox fork.

Technically true

I think you can block entire instances as a user. But, if not, you can create your own instance and federate with only the instances that you like. Far more work though.

Here: using Thunder.

Is not about how much we have available, is about how much they think they can squeeze us.

I became communist. It does not solve anything, of course, but gave me hope that this dystopian mess that we live in can be solved.

Portuguese, English, enough to understand Spanish, learning French now.

I think you are lost in the language. There are no absolute rights, in any legal systems. So any “law” necessarily restricts someone’s “rights”.

Therefore, you need to think about what “authoritarian decision” means, because if all law restricts someone’s rights, all laws are authoritarian by your definition.

Also: terrible example to begin with.

A rough translation of a brazilian quote for you: “In a fight between these guys, I cheer for the fight”.

Why?

Racism is a european “invention”, and can be dated. If you choose any place “before racism”, that will not be an issue.

And also, you can choose any place in a time without europeans.

Organ trafficking as a hobby

TIL that Brazil has a Thanksgiving day… But we do not celebrate it, and -unfortunately- it’s not a holiday.

Anyway, I’m glad of the friendships that I have and had.

Not now, not in the current state of machine learning. And also, I don’t think it would happen intentionally like the sci-fi scenarios. But I think the gray goo hypothesis very plausible if we reach some kind of true AI.

Which is not the case yet, LLMs are just autocomplete systems, very powerful for sure, but just that.

For now, the main concern should be economy and social disruptions caused by the use of such tools… And the current climatic apocalypse.