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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Jedi trust the Force. Its why they are forbidden from forming attachments. When someone dies, they must accept it, even themselves.

    Maul refused to die. He refused accept the balance of life and death. He survived on the singular hatred for Obi-Wan and, Force be damned, he would have his revenge.

    It’s super rad, in my opinion. It makes both Maul and Qui-Gon better versions of what we were shown


  • What do you mean? You see the image of the thing you want, you buy it. A physical product is shipped to you that can’t possibly match an LLM representation and you return it, from which either a trillion dollar company tells you to fuck off, or they refund you and ship it directly into the ocean trash island.

    What part of this isn’t “the dream”? Its sure a hell of a lot better than lights dim, spooky voice regulations















  • We’ve also got luxury health for our teeth only. Its not like we need them to eat properly and its not like we need to do that daily.

    I’ve spent thousands of dollars of government money for digestive issues that I’m fairly confident link back to the fact that my teeth only make contact in 4 places, but the cabal of dentists and orthodontists keep teeth payable and I can’t afford $10k for braces that I (who am not a medical professional) think I need, but that orthodontists (who, in this country are licensed tooth renovation salespeople) think they could give me nicer looking teeth for.

    I agree to an extent that cosmetic medicine doesn’t need to be covered, but there’s no option for me to get my teeth medically corrected so I can eat properly, or, and what may be my biggest gripe, that I have a medical practitioner that wants to get me out of the healthcare system rather than sell me a fucking smile.




  • To reiterate and clarify my train analogy, the train stops if there aren’t too many people on it (as in, less than 50% picking “red”), so no one dies.

    No one dies if everyone picks red. Only blue choosers die unless enough of them are willing to die to change the state of every blue choice to be as if they picked red in the first place. It’s literally choosing red for everyone but with a substantial risk of failure.

    But after rereading the original post, I can see that I am bringing my own assumption to the table: that everyone understands the question and is making a willful choice. Are babies choosing at random? That hardly seems like a choice, so it really puts half of all babies randomly assigned to blue and not willfully choosing blue, but then yes, you really should be on team save half of all babies, even if it means risking your life.


  • In what way does the analogy not fit? You either choose blue to try to protect everyone else choosing blue, or you choose red to not be in danger in the first place.

    Imagine you’re with 2 other people. You don’t get to discuss or know the choices of the other 2. Do you stand on the tracks and hope one of them is with you, or do you hope they’re all smart enough to not needlessly put themselves in danger.

    The other people only need to stand on the tracks if you’re foolishly standing on the tracks in the first place! And if they chose train, you’re the one putting blood on their hands, so to speak.

    The philosophical question is “are you morally responsible for someone else’s bad decision?”