why do they need to acknowledge something outside of the point they're trying to make?

Because it was a middlebrow dismissal of the GP

because that's how conversations work. anything less is sparkling debate.

only if by "soon" you mean "decades away" at minimum

Few things that are sold as "inevitable" rarely actually are.

it always cracks me up how we love to treat random pieces of paper with ink sprinkled across them as some sort of material cosmological constant.

as explained in that wonderful d20 clip...

the only laws or rights that exist are those for which other people are willing to commit violence to uphold.

aka a law isn't real if no one enforces it.

there's nothing universal about law - it is merely a threat from a powerful group to a weaker one to enforce desired behaviors.

It depends on what schools of thought one subscribes to. There is a lot of nuance to the development of human behavior and culture, and so the way we interact is based on more than just the brutishness of might is right.

yes.

look into the palantir relationship with ice

Simply untrue.

Plenty of people have a job that gives them money, yet they also get pleasure and satisfaction from their job.

I think you are referring to studies that show that payment can paradoxically be demotivating. But that isn't always true.

opposite in my case

less automated and more automatic that a certain demographic subset of the population, that also happens to be quite prevalent here, have an automatic and instinctually negative reaction to anything "DEI"

quick fyi:

a person can't be "illegal" and immigration is a civil issue, not criminal...

People stopped flying after 9/11 and airlines lost money until the TSA was created and made people feel safe to fly again

There's room for both. You can have security checkpoints where they check your bag for liquids, and you should be allowed to fly with them once they confirm its innocuous.

I'm no chemist, but I can't imagine it's hard to test if something is an explosive or just body cream. To pack a punch, I have to imagine explosives need very specific compounds in them.

1) its way harder than you'd expect as many compounds are safe in low concentrations and have other uses. Take TATP- triacetone-triperoxide. yes, the peroxide and acetone(nailpolish remover) in most people's bathrooms should never be mixed.

2) might want to look up how often firearms make it onboard in carry on bagage accidentally. This isn't the typical snarky use of that phrase- it's just so insanely common people don't want to beleive it.

Then we should limit peroxide and acetone, sure.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to forbid >100ml of acetone in flights, and allow people to bring in, say, a bottle of water or a can of orange juice. We can certainly test if something is acetone or orange juice.

Did that really happen in the United States? Certainly not anywhere else.

that's eventually what drove me away from adhd_programmers as well, tho I'm sorry they even still allow AI apps anymore cuz it was bad before llms blew up