CarbonIceDragon

CarbonIceDragon , 7 days ago to 196 in rule

the original undermines its own message: they are lifting it, even if barely and with difficulty, which implies that those characters are within an order of magnitude or so of literal divine power.

CarbonIceDragon , 7 days ago to 196 in A ruleussy most profound

something something grapefruit technique

CarbonIceDragon , 13 days ago to Memes in The older I get, the less I pretend to care

I dont think Ive ever even pretended to think they are, for me children, especially babies and toddlers, give me a pretty bad case of the uncanny valley effect and look eerie and cause discomfort, as well as anxiety since Im even less sure than usual what they're going to do and dont want someone's kid getting hurt because of something I failed to notice. I dont hold it against them or hate children for it, its not their fault after all, but I do try to avoid being around them where practical.

CarbonIceDragon , 13 days ago to Technology in OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content

Id say yes to that statement, but for reasons that dont have to do with AI as I dont really view AI training as piracy.

CarbonIceDragon , 15 days ago to 196 in Be devoured rule

The voring stick claims another victim

CarbonIceDragon , 18 days ago to Technology in McDonalds removes AI drive-throughs after order errors

Would this even be necessary for automated ordering anyway? Given that every company under the sun wants you to use some app of theirs these days, including fast food companies, Im kinda surprised they dont just get rid of the speaker/microphone system, and just put a sign with a qr code in front of the drive through telling you to download and use their app to put in a drive through order

CarbonIceDragon , 18 days ago to Fuck Cars in Newly obtained video shows driver after deadly Goodyear cycling crash

One of the problems of car centric society is that the process for licensing almost has to be too lenient, because it causes major issues with people not being able to get around unless almost everybody can get a license, which means that regardless of safety, the bar has to be set low.

CarbonIceDragon , 18 days ago to Memes in The original processor

If they're calling a brain their original processor, these robots could be a result of successful transhumanism rather than conventional robots, ie, they could be humans that have made themselves into robots, rather than robots built for some specific purpose. In that case, they might create child robots and grow them over time to reproduce, just because they find that mode of reproduction familiar and wish to continue it.

CarbonIceDragon , 1 month ago to Memes in 3000 hours of EU4 later I can recreate a map from 1444.... Then this... sin

1442? surprised its not 1444

CarbonIceDragon , 1 month ago to 196 in I'm new

Honestly, they don't really deserve the idolization they get even beyond the movies. Sparta was a rather brutal slaver society after all, the reason for their famous military training was mostly to deal with rebellion by their slave population which greatly outnumbered them. If they still existed as they did then, they'd probably be viewed with the same kind of contempt we view places like North Korea.

CarbonIceDragon , 2 months ago to Memes in Know the difference.

I think you have an unrealistic estimation of how much most people understand the topic of communism, if you think not labelling different types of communism as the same ideology is living under a rock. More than half the country doesn't even realize that socialism and communism aren't complete synonyms, and a good fraction think paradoxically that center right liberalism is somehow communist.

Basically, I think you're doing this: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity_2x.png

CarbonIceDragon , 2 months ago to Memes in Know the difference.

In what sense is this semantics or bad faith? I meant this sincerely.

CarbonIceDragon , 2 months ago to Memes in Know the difference.

As I understand it, "real communism" is supposed to be some kind of stateless society. As the GDR was, well, a state, it clearly did not achieve that. Nor would it ever have been likely to, as actually doing what was ideologically promised would have required those with power within that system to relinquish that power, which is incredibly rare as it conflicts with human nature.

CarbonIceDragon , 2 months ago to 196 in Rule of the lake

Furries are centered around anthropomorphic animals. Anthropomorphic means it has human traits. Humans are an animal species. Humans have human traits by definition, therefore humans are technically anthropomorphic animals, therefore all art of humans is technically a subset of furry art.

CarbonIceDragon , 2 months ago to Memes in DNA

Not sure why nobody would expect an italian inquisition of food, they literally have a unit in one of their law enforcement agencies trained to do things like find fake extra-virgin olive oil. Ive seen people jokingly call it "the italian food police" even. If anybody was going to run a food inquisition, itd be the italians