Totally with you on that.
With sentience I was going off the definition of the word:
sentient /sĕn′shənt, -shē-ənt, -tē-ənt/ adjective
- Having sense perception; conscious.
- Experiencing sensation or feeling.
- Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentient
But as far as free will goes this article is quite compelling: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2398369-why-free-will-doesnt-exist-according-to-robert-sapolsky/
Yes, we are sentient, in that we perceive the outside world just as animals do. But there is some disagreement as to whether we truly have free will or if we're still just slaves to our instincts.
Fair point. Maybe I'm just justifying my addiction.
Yea when I said beer I meant "alcoholic drink". Normally it's Guinness or a whisky based cocktail. Most recently a "Jack Torrance" (bourbon, advocat and bitters).
I didn't say smoking doesn't kill, it's one of the most harmful activities a person can engage in. My point was about the addictiveness of smoking, not the harm.
But I didn't read any studies because this is unpopular opinions, not unpopular balanced research.
Tobacco companies had to own up to the fact that smoking is harmful in the 1960s when undeniable evidence came out. People struggled to quit because it is somewhat addictive, but mainly because they enjoyed it.
Those companies then encouraged the rhetoric about it being more addictive than heroin. It isn't. In my experience it's less addictive than caffeine.
Here's my history with nicotine:
- Smoked cigarettes from 15 - 26.
- Quit totally for 14 months
- My friend who smoked moved back to town and I smoked when I was with them.
- Switched to vaping 8 years ago.
- Quit vaping in January this year (2024).
I bought 30 cigars at the start of last month (April 2024) and have smoked 9 of them so far. I normally just have 1 a week if I'm having a beer at home but I went out drinking 2 nights in a row at the start of this month and smoked 6 over that weekend.
Am I addicted? Maybe, but I haven't had any nicotine this week and don't plan on having any next week either.
Ro-bot that makes shit up, fuck you all, ain't gonna get a job, grow up, AI coming for all of you, yeah-e-yeah
OK, you did it. I'm a cis hetero man, was wondering for some time if I'd date a trans fem. After seeing this I'm 1000% on board.
America, putting the fun back into gun violence.
My cat was asleep on my lap as I was sat watching TV one evening. I started to drift off as well...
...then all of a sudden he used my balls as a trampoline and jumped head first into the closed kitchen door.
I screamed due to the immense ball pain, he bounced off the door, rolled several times on the floor, came to rest on the other side of the room, paused for a few seconds looking around as if he'd lost something and then just started cleaning himself.
Every surface would be covered in chewing tobacco so standing would be preferable. Also I'm not sure but that might be a urinal trough in front of the bar. Common before women were allowed into bars.
I'd like to imagine that Ric Flair, the woman and that dude in the background are just constantly wooo-ing each other whilst I sit on the other side of the restaurant and enjoy a slice of pepperoni.
I think it would be more relevant to work out how shawty would get low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low.
For me it was the Simpsons when I was a kid and a relative would record it off satellite TV for me. It just carried on from there. I started recording stuff off TV myself, recording music on audio cassettes and eventually copying VHS tapes.
Then I got a PSX console and my parents "knew a guy" who burned games.
After that I heard about Napster and started downloading MP3s on the family PC. When Napster was shut down I moved onto other apps like Kazaa and Limewire.
Then I got a DVD burner. At first I just copied DVDs but when I got broadband I started downloading torrents and burned the files to DVDs.
About 10 years ago I started storing those files on a NAS. Planning on moving to Jellyfin in the next few weeks.