AmidFuror @ AmidFuror @kbin.social

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What's the point of me trying to prove something to a figment of my imagination? Nice try, brain image. You almost had me.

It seems to be connected with forming long term memories.

It's important to stress the "full blown" modifier in any example.

It's Cunningham's Fallacy.

Not just HIV, but full blown AIDS?

What a silly thing to get hung up over.

What if you can't afford the whole encyclopedia set and can only buy the sample volume?

And speaking of volcanoes, man are they a violent igneous rock formation!

One reason could be that most of the audience doesn't want to watch them if it feels like what they're doing is artificial or inauthentic.

Might be a terrible analogy, but since people cheat on video games, why don't they have an esports league where aimbots, wallhacks, speedhacks, etc are all allowed? It might be a novelty for 2 minutes, but most people wouldn't want to watch that. It isn't how the games were meant to be played. It's not that it's cheating anymore if the rules allow it. It's that it isn't a good showcase for talent because it becomes about who bought the best cheats.

Because if you let one guy do it, you have to let everyone do it.

I recommend staying away from the island of Medici, although it has a great climate.

In addition to all the answers here, a costumer is someone who creates and/or sells costumes. The term is often used as a synonym for customer by people who don't type/spell well.

She was just boycotting paying Target, not bringing items home.

Yep, it's just semantics, then. We are not more advanced in the sense of biologically more capable than people thousands of years ago. A few hundred thousand, maybe. Since the split from chimps, I like to think so!

I don't agree with how you seem to be defining "advanced." You seem to be tying that to intelligence and resourcefulness, as opposed to culturally. I think most use it to talk about the sum of knowledge and technology that a civilization has.

While ancient cultures were able to learn a lot about the world around them, today we know what they knew and a shit ton more. They figured out how planets and stars move. We've figured out what they're made of, how they bend space and time, their distances. We've landed machines on some and put them in orbit around others.

They had some cool medical tricks. We have many complex but routine surgeries with high survival rates due to development of drugs, equipment, and sterile environments.

They could write down their learnings to share with others of their culture. We have a global network of scientists sharing massive data sets and inferences.

Their innate capabilities were probably no different than our own, but we have massively advanced the scale and scope of learning shared with each generation. We have a much greater degree of specialized knowledge advancing and branching out at a very high rate.

"Thanks" is a short form of "Thank you." Maybe it has developed a negative connotation for some because of "K, thanks, bye." But for others it is like saying "morning" instead of "good morning."

Have you ever done something that was difficult but you wanted to help someone out?

"No problem" implies to me that it was easy or simple. Regardless of difficulty, "you're welcome" means you would do it again.

I guess it's because people like the OP will scrutinize every word and associate some malicious intent to it.

If you had shit yourself looking at the prices you would have saved yourself $17-$40.

I'll take "Paywalled articles I have no desire to read" for $400, Alex. What a silly topic. It's more of interest to real estate agents than Sci Fi fans.

Does OP have any relationships to disclose between their self and the websites they recommend here?