AwesomeLowlander

What makes you think he’s an idiot as opposed to lying through his teeth?

- ‘It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it’

Is this the artist’s first attempt at speech bubbles? Jeez

I hope she actually liked the outfit. She looks kinda uncertain

Really shitty scaremongering article. I’d like to know how exactly increased investment in fusion could potentially make it unsuitable for public use, as the article claims?

Are you referring to the Chinese carmakers, or the European ones?

Everyone I’ve ever met that hates monopoly doesn’t play by the rules

Or they’ve tried any other modern boardgame released in the last couple decades

Why? There’s literally thousands of better games. Just pick any from the top thousand on BGG.

For all intents and purposes, (…) as close to a real person as technology can create.

Again, I point you towards video games and how they got blamed for violence. You could have used the same statement about them 20 years ago.

The biggest danger with allowing people to do whatever they want to a sex bot is that it has the possibility to encourage dangerous behavior in some people to the point where they are comfortable doing it to a real person.

This tired old argument gets trotted out with every new technology and hobby. D&D, Video games, VR, etc etc.

The current global population growth rate is unsustainable.

That’s a myth. The current global population growth rate is dropping precipitously and is expected to hit negative rates within this century. The fertility rate per woman is at 2.3, from a peak of 5.3 in the 60s. That’s barely above replacement level. At current trends we’ll be at replacement level in a couple decades.

An NPC in a game has intelligence

By what definition of the word? Most dictionaries define it as some variant of ‘the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.’

It’s weird… I feel like any civilisation worth joining the galactic federation would have no issues finding volunteers to save their civilisation anyway (though maybe not 14 minutes…)

they don’t know anything about what you’re going to do to them, is aware they may be harmed by it, and wants to do it anyway is another question.

Every 18 y.o. on their first time, sounds like.

None of those reasons apply to electric cars, though. What’s their stance on that?

Kicking toddlers is not fine. They’re heavy, have weird aerodynamics, and you’re likely to throw out your back as a result.

Aren’t there already records of all your border crossings? I don’t see the difference, what am I missing?

I mean, most of the masses already do meet that requirement. OP seems to think there are only ‘masses’ in the US and nowhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

I have never understood people who make this argument. In all of history, can you point to a single time when technology wasn’t eventually commercialised and made available to the masses at affordable prices? The billionaires don’t want to keep it to themselves, they want you buying more stuff from them.

Caveat 1: Move out of the US

Caveat 2: ???

Caveat 3: Extended youth