Plants do communicate and experience sensations. I would not call that comparable to human intelligence or full on sentience, but dismissing a fact as a destruction because it might be inconvenient is a bit reductive. Scientific facts help us understand the world better and ideally, make our lives better off. Discarding inconvenient information is not going to help us.

It’s not like plants being able to feel things is going to stop us from eating or using them. We know for a fact that animals think and feel, even if not on our level, and we still have no qualms about eating them.

I appreciate your condolences. Life will hopefully at some point get better. I’ve been through worse.

User name is a typo lol. Don’t make your username on a cellphone keyboard if you have big meaty hands without double checking what you’re putting in.

But I’m not joking. Like sign me up for a fresh hot’n’ready bomb with extra napalm please. I have wanted to die for years, have tried to do it myself many times, but there’s too much bitch in me to do it. This country is absolutely fucked anyway. If Iran ever put up a public service for America called “Bomb to Table Delivery” I would be the first person signing up.

Can I give Iran my address so they can drop the first bomb right on top of me. I legitimately want to die. =D

It feels extremely weird to say it but I can get behind this kind of attitude. We need more of this. I love you too.

She knows what you did last summer.

Me perfectly safe at home because I am too paranoid, and reclusive to ever visit a theme park where large congregations of people gather - …

I’m shocked more people don’t realize this. There is absolutely nothing broken with the system. It’s working exactly as intended. The suffering of the lower classes is the desired outcome. If we’re too tired, desperate for enough resources to survive, and too afraid, we won’t be able to stand up for ourselves and demand something better.

And unfortunately it’s working spectacularly.

Brother of the Unlost. Witness to the End Times.

Or maybe something culturally meaningful to your family, idk I’m bad at naming things.

That looks absolutely amazing. I’m actually jelly.

A large trench coat and two other people so we can sneak in and seize the food for ourselves.

Gives me oxtail vibes. And my god do I love oxtail.

I would absolutely fucking buy drinks from a fire breathing lesbian bartender.

We as an entire country should honest to god get wiped out by the rest of the world. Earth would be a better place if every man woman and child in this rotten country were dead.

I’ve gotten pretty good at compartmentalizing. Even if I think management does some profoundly stupid things, I’m just there to do a job and collect a paycheck. As long as they don’t run the company into the ground, it’s not my problem.

They’re not even really using the ai correctly. If you really absolutely must use ai, there is a way to do it without ripping people off, harming artists, or being a petulant jackass on the internet.

Draw something. Draw something, upload it to your precious ai, “ok llm, here is what I can draw at my current level, tell me what I need to work on and give me exercises I can do to improve.”

Boom. You can actually become a better artist, still use your precious ai, not hurt anyone, and actually develop a skill, and improve your life without a single artist getting harmed or a single person getting ripped off.

If sound could travel through space, from the distance we are to it, the sun would be as loud as a jackhammer everywhere on the planet, all the time.

This is massively over-generalized. I’m sure some people on the spectrum do this. I don’t talk to a lot of people, I am very reclusive, so I couldn’t give you an actual irl baseline from experience, but I’m on the spectrum. I have a job with plenty of rules I don’t think make any sense. I have a vested interest in keeping my job, so I follow the rules. One of my coworkers has been in the same job for over a decade, and she is quite proficient at following rules she personally doesn’t like or understand. She wouldn’t have a job here if she didn’t.

They’re probably not saying that because they are too busy asking the far more important question of “If Ai takes all the jobs, how can I afford to feed and shelter the family and children I love”

You do understand why people work right? Very few people work just for funsies. They work so they can afford to eat, pay rent, pay for utilities, and be able to afford essentials like clothing, health insurance, transportation.

Almost everything we need to actually live and function costs money. You primarily get money by having a job. So if someone gets laid off, they’re probably very busy trying to find another source of income so they can actually keep their children alive and healthy.