Looking at that lemvotes.org link, there’s a dude with twenty accounts named FuckYouDavrielleLouna1,2,3,4,5…

Start planning my new off-grid life. I do industrial automation, and if those robots start being able to program themselves, I’m leaving.

You can try, but I don’t see how they’ve done anything that makes them liable to a lawsuit. I’m just adding them to my list of companies I won’t do business with when they inevitably come back to consumers after the bubble pops.

I’m lucky that the type of competitive shooters that all seem to be using kernel level anti-cheat, have never appealed to me. I ditched windows on my home stuff last year and there’s definitely no going back. Now if only industrial software writers would make Linux variants. Not going to hold my breath on that one though.

So many Bubba’s to choose from.

I’m going to choose to believe that if it’s not Clinton, it’s Bubba the love sponge.

Your conviction about one possible position being correct has absolutely no bearing on whether or not the conversation should be had. If your position is so concrete, a discussion should be no issue for you, as you can never convince anyone else with a simple “my position is right, everything else is wrong.”

Edit: that part is phrased awkwardly. What I think I’m trying to get at is that no matter how strong your personal conviction, the conversation still needs to be had, since not everyone agrees with you. Of the people who disagree, yes some are essentially lost causes on that topic, but others can still be convinced. You can’t do that convincing if you always try to just shut down all conversation.

You’ve missed my point. I don’t actually care where you stand on when and how it’s decided that a given abortion is allowed; my point was that you can have the discussion without resorting to religioun based arguments.

We have our own population of anti-vax morons.

This one I can see lasting for a while. With abortion, there’s at least a valid discussion about when existing rights begin to apply to a fetus. Even without the religious angle, there’s some discussion to be had (ie at conception vs at viability vs at birth).

With same-sex marriage, they would have to justify taking away a right from adult citizens. That’s going to be damn hard to do without resorting to a purely religious angle. I don’t think they are ready to go full on theocracy yet. Maybe during Trump’s third term.

Crashing the economy is only stupid if you don’t have enough liquidity to capitalize on it. That or if you actually give a shit about people.

The implication seems pretty clear to me. Nobody likes that solution, but it’s becoming increasingly inevitable the longer this goes on.

At the end of the day, they will have had to pay whoever did the cleaning, regardless of how they did it. If the person charged simply has to pay a fine equal to that guys wage for the time spent cleaning, I’d call it about as fair as you could expect.

When you say “impossible” does that mean even the voluntary violence is a no-go?

Wait, so some plumber who bought a house back in the 80s is “ripping us off”?

Depends on how you are defining “millionaire”. If you are going by "sum of all assets is greater than $1,000,000), then 99% of the people who you say are part of the problem, are simply people who own a detached house in the right location (context for this is that the average price for a detached house in the city of Toronto is just under $1,000,000 USD).

And honestly, this isn’t just limited to Amazon’s warehouses. All companies that end up with huge warehouse and distribution centers have always been striving to automate as much of the process as possible. Amazon just has the capital to push the tech with in house resources, instead of having to contract it out.

“Western” in this context generally refers to North America and Europe.

You are seeing symptoms and assuming they are the cause. Porn doesn’t cause behaviour issues; the inattentive parenting that allowed the access does. These kids with behaviour issues existed long before internet porn became widespread.

There’s no “protecting” them from porn. That ship sailed 30 years ago. Parents are going to have to do some parenting. If the kid has shit parents, porn is not even going to be on the top 10 issues we should be worrying about.

There’s also the situation where for a lot of millennials and younger, western society has been moving leftword for their entire adult lives. When economic issues inevitably show up, the instinct is to blame the group that was seen as in charge, and move yourself in the opposite direction.