How do you mess up seat belts? We've had that technology for long ass time at this point.

There was a Catholic Priest who argued that enough people believed something it would happen. And that The Secret book was about the same idea.

Tyre's death was raw. As bad as George Floyd's death was you didn't catch the guys afterward giving fistbumps about having killed someone. You have to radically deny objective reality to explain that one away and by God, some fools are trying. I'm sure the DOJ wishes this one would just go away.

Don't know if it'll help. People keep trying to turn America's foreign policy into its domestic policy as well.

It can be hard, sometimes, to properly describe someone that awful. Let me try: they're such grotesque parodies of human beings that even having to hear about them is like some kind of transcendent negative religious experience.

Someone should go harder on that bastard. Gamergate is his fault and so is most online spaces gaining a huge fascist underbelly.

I just got banned from there because I told one of those trolls they were full of shit after they said folks in r/politics were all college-educated pussies who never do any real work like blue-collar GED graduates do.

I imagine the line between mechanical and biological will also blur and you'll have organic robots. So it could be both AI and gene editing. I've contributed to culture through raising a step-son but I'm a dead-end biological reproduction-wise. And I'm here on the internet, scribbling in the margins of human culture's great big electronic record book. Who knows what parts of me will persist? Probably nothing significant.

By survive, you mean survive long enough to reproduce. Nature doesn't reward long life, it rewards reproduction. Life is just an entropic process. It's all the things that come as side effects that matter to humans. I read a book that argued destroying our consciousness would be an evolutionary boon. Made me think that at a certain point you have to choose between quality of life or evolutionary fitness.

Even then, some genes offer both benefits and negatives. It might be better to stop categorizing mutations as good or bad and just examine whether they're useful for a given context.

"He's a real basket-case if you know what I mean."