This soccer playing robot isn’t much of a threat, it can be equalled by an elite player with years of experience.

Kai Tangata by Alien Weaponry

We are at least on the map… Just ignored.

Oh yes, we had this on our books… Then the current bunch of cunts (not the good kind); removed it to make more tax money. Absolute idiocy!

We had world leading legislation, but duck the future generations aye.

Fire, the wheel and the printing press, would be my top three.

But the modern world is all about the manipulation of electromagnetism.

Whilst the industrial revolution started with mechanical power; the harnessing of steam essentially. The modern world owes everything to the mastery of the electron and the photon, and more generally the exquisite control of electromagnetism.

The manipulation of electrons enables the iPhone; touted as the possible pinnacle of achievement; basically every industrial process on the planet is monitored and controlled by electromagnetic means.

Our true highest achievement is the ongoing development of the control of electromagnetic phenomena; we bend electrons and photons to our will, manipulate matter on the smallest scales using these forces, measure the bending of the fabric of reality, and probe the secrets of the universe. The iPhone is but one small aspect of this continuum of knowledge.

President Camacho; chose the smartest person in the world to replace him; thereby showing an empathy and level of intelligence sadly lacking in the real world.

Maybe.

But using nuance and constructive statements is more difficult than hard line rhetoric. People gravitate to stupid slogans and simple absolute language; it is though killing and destructive to actual conversation.

In the example “it is NEVER unethical to steal food”; this isn’t a real position to take; it is grandstanding and shallow; this argument falls at the first hurdle.

Saying something like:
“Theft of food; whilst not necessarily unethical; could be at best morally neutral. The specifics of each situation need be weighed on their merits. Where a person is taking food to feed their family, and the theft doesn’t materially affect the owner of the food, such as a large supermarket chain; this act is not unethical.”
Is not a pithy and hard hitting as the stupid statement “It is never unethical to steal food. It is unethical to stop someone from stealing food, or report someone for stealing food, or to arrest someone for stealing food.”

Indeed, but the absolute statement can be so easily twisted to meet the ends of moment, it really matters little.

Who says that the homeless person isn’t off taking a shit, their food unattended, thus back to stealing rather than robbing!

I’ll going to steal food from a homeless person, they are too weak to fight back, ethically I’m fine, it is NEVER unethical to steal food.

“Never” and “always” are very difficult to use in a philosophical argument.

I can come up with a single ridiculous example that refutes a statement that uses such absolutes, once done the argument falls apart.

7yo with some avocado on fork: Dad, would you rather eat avocado or McDonalds?

Me: Hmmm, avocado.

7yo: me too, Mcdonalds would be all concrete and metal.

Me: LOL, well played.

…and it isn’t 100:1, its around 2,000,000:1

The hands of fate are kind today.

If I got an old kindle; how easy is it to jailbrake it and install a better system?

Notification history is off by default in GrapheneOS…so that is nice.

The doctor that did mine; made sure that I knew that it whilst it was theoretically reversible; it is a major surgery vs a minor one to get it done, and the success rate is very low ~20%. So best consider a vasectomy as permanent and irreversible.

100% this.

I know of a few people that this happened to…make sure you are testing 0% sperm count before going “hats off”

One of the best moves I made.

After my partner and I had agreed no more kids…it was down to the doc to get the chop. Very easy, keyhole surgery; I feeling 90% by the next day, 100% the following day. 2.5 days of discomfort for years of stress free times…worth it!