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For some reason, I don’t have much of a problem with cat hair, like it just causes itchiness after several hours, but if a cat licks me, I quickly break out in hives.

God I hope so.

Often times, when you want clarification about something, you’ll repeat a word that somebody said as a question.

Like, “Do you know why I’m baking a cake?” “A cake?” “A pound cake. Do you know why I’m baking it?”

That’s how I read the second panel the first time, and I was confused.

I realize it’s mostly unrelated to this comic and has outdated ideas of gender roles, but I am reminded of If You Wanna Be Happy by Jimmy Soul.

It’s an old grift. If you don’t want to actually do something, but you still want credit for doing it, then just say that you’re doing it. Many people will be tricked.

It’s the same reason the Nazis called themselves “socialists” despite never supporting socialism.

Great point. Trump has never once showed a hint of empathy and only sees things from his own perspective.

Whether he’s talking about sexually assaulting women or using the military to assault another country, it’s all very similar to him.

Trump’s many obvious deficiencies make him one of the least qualified people to negotiate peace with other countries.

Why hasn’t he retired at 79? Has he been failed by America’s shitty social support? Or maybe is he just one of those people who is obsessed with power?

Strangely, I’ve never had someone say that my username doesn’t check out who also explained clearly why they thought that way. I think this is the second time.

And being called names by strangers online doesn’t really register as anything but noise. I guess if it was in this thread, it would be slightly on topic, but elsewhere, it would probably just lead to reports and blocks.

I wonder if it can be ad hominem if it’s a personal attack that technically bolsters your opponent’s argument. For example, if you’re debating a scientist about some scientific subject, and you call them an egghead or a nerd. I think it still counts.

a lack of intelligence doesn’t necessarily imply that something said by a given person is wrong

This doesn’t seem convincing to me because it’s the exact same sort of criticism you’d make about any other ad hominem statement.

I mean, that’s right on the mark. The reason they called themselves National Socialists isn’t because they were socialists, but because they knew that their true beliefs were so abhorrent that they needed to lie about being socialists.

Elon Musk has been recently shown to have done the same thing.

I’d think it would be obvious that a country wouldn’t want to depend on a foreign country’s proprietary product when an open source alternative exists. Even if it’s not spying, what if the US forced Microsoft to put some kill switch on their products? Even if it doesn’t affect your most secure systems because of air gap, it could still cripple enough to cause huge problems.

There’s simply no reason to take the risk.

If I was running a government, I would strongly desire proof that all of my government software is doing only what I want it to. That means not only do I have access to the source code, but I also need it to be simple enough that my government teams can actually audit all of it.

Obviously, that’s not going to be feasible in every situation. There might be proprietary software that is protected from competition via IP laws, and some software is so necessarily complex that it would be really hard to audit completely, but overall, I find it shocking that any foreign government would run a Microsoft product when a feature comparable open source alternative exists.

That’s “an eye for an eye,” which is already horrible, but is not an escalation. Israel is escalating, “a genocide for a single attack.”

It’s unconstitutional, but I don’t think simply holding office when you’re forbidden is a crime. Maybe lying in your oath of office is a crime?

The message is obvious. “If somebody hurts you, then any revenge is permissible, even against people whose only sin is living near them. Even if children are starving to death, it’s okay if it’s revenge.”

The lack of humanity in Israel’s actions is simply hard to comprehend.

This is the same market that tried to add blockchain to everything when that first became well-known.

Some of the biggest forces in the market are extraordinarily stupid people trying to ride every buzzword that comes along.

The change actually makes a lot of sense. If it’s a light reflecting off of a cloud or the atmosphere somehow, which is something that has been called a UFO before, then it’s not flying and it’s not an object.

And it also helps to distance from the “flying saucer” connotation. If UAPs eventually become equivalent to “aliens”, then they’ll be forced to switch the name again, because even if you believe aliens have come to Earth, it simply can’t always be an alien.

This is one of those issues that constantly pops up with AI, and probably easiest answer is that it was given a desire by a human.

If you give an AGI a task, and it cannot achieve that task if it stops existing, then it would be attached to its existence.

The premise that we are talking about, from the comic, is that AI has perfected itself…