You are assuming that they think rationally

Now I want a fiber optic keyboard cleaning brush

No, you are completely right, but it’s kind of the same with the “we are living in a simulation” thing (there isn’t really a functional difference between a God’s imagination and a simulation).

A more interesting question to me is not where we came from, but if there is an endgame. Created 5 seconds, 500 million years ago, ‘real’, or just avatars in a superconsciousness, the question remains- is there a “RIGHT” way to use our agency and experience?

It always annoys me how hard it is for me to make people understand this. I often debate the concept of spirituality and Gods in general, and people (in the US) always reply with some response like ‘but catholic church bad.’ Which, sure, I’m not disagreeing, but is such a narrow viewpoint and doesn’t exactly have anything to do with the possibility of a God or Gods existing.

I mean according to some religions he was the one who told people to put some clothes on in the first place

Nah it wouldn’t make him a liar- it isn’t necessarily an attempt to fool humans, in my opinion any God capable of doing something like that did it for their own reasons, not as some cosmic prank

I mean the “fool unbelievers” thing is stupid but also it’s not really unreasonable that if you could speak things into existence and did so for cosmic entertainment or whatever that you would make it at the point that it’s actually interesting. Like if I was going to make people I probably wouldn’t start with infants, I would start with actual independent ones. Likewise I wouldn’t start with an infant universe

An ex of mine would keep a tissue to spit it out in. I know it’s a personal thing but was always weirdly hard not to be a little offended. Like I doubt a girl would love it if I immediately grimaced and spit after going down on her. I don’t really expect bj’s, but to me, it’s all psychological, and apitters kinda ruin all the fun.

I haven’t done formal research on the topic, but as far as I can see this is correct- alcohol just lowers your inhibitions and makes you more suggestable, therefore easier to influence by your enviroment- you’re way more likely to be depressed and sipping whiskey slowly by yourself than partying with Coronas with lime.

It would be interesting to look at regional ideas of what different alcohols are appropriate for and see if the “effects” change with it

Idk about uncommon, but definitely not universal or common enough that is surprising when they don’t

To show proper respect and praise of our cooperate masters

Oh so animal farm was literal?

Wait you can’t transfer images directly to external harddrives?? Honestly I genuinely wonder why people put up with this shit

We aren’t. That’s what we said- the value proposition isn’t there

On the contrary, being snarky isn’t a waste of time at all

Maybe the question should be why the service was only just worth it at 75% down then

The green text peer pressure means nothing to me, but you are 100% spot on about the ecosystem driving sales. My whole family uses apple and I get left out of so many group chats and face times that I’ve actually considered switching to Apple even though I’m a die hard Note fan. Apples hardware may be nothing special, but they have a killer feature in their seamless, closed ecosystem, and they know it. At the end of the day, a phones job is to communicate, and Apple does that seemlessly- with other Apple devices

This is how we end up with Blaine the Mono

Creepy. I’m reading this while in my hotel room 332

As far as I know, it only uses the camera, and doesn’t use stored photos. Idk, I’ve never downloaded it but that’s my guess