CeruleanRuin

I've never thought about the life cycle of mimics before, but it makes sense that a creature that imitates a treasure chest might start its life imitating single coins and other small bits of treasure.

Perhaps they birth thousands of young at a time, and what looks like a pile of gold is actually a brood.

My point, if I have one, is that it's trendy for a vegan to object to eating sterile eggs even from well-treated chickens, but hardly anybody wants to talk about the way too many dogs are treated, just as a manner of course.

Yes, many people treat their dogs well, or think they do, but they're still routinely confined, leashed, fed cheap crap food, left alone in the yard with no stimulation for most of the day. They're bred to serve and treated like furniture or at best interactive toys or escorts to make their owners feel good.

Nobody wants to talk about how miserable most of these animals probably are for large parts of their existence, because they wag their tails and jump excitedly in the rare moments when their people actually give them attention. Hardly anyone wants to give a thought to what an existence as a dog muct actually be like. And that's for the well-treated ones. There are just as many or more who are penned in tiny yards or otherwise mistreated, but don't you dare criticise dog owners or the industry for turning a blind eye so long as the dog food money keeps flowing.

The downside is studios will also be more impatient to get the product out the door, so there will be less time allowed overall to finish.

That has got to be literally older than the internet. I swear I remember seeing it hanging in my grandpa's garage when I was a kid, and it was already yellowed by then.

Funny to be more concerned about the chickens than the animal enslaved for life and bred to feign affection.

But then it's typical for rationality to go out the window for some people when dogs are concerned.

Oh shit, it's Cohen the Barbarian.

I would advocate for the return of intermissions! Theater chains would love it, because it would mean more concessions.

I went to Dead Reckoning the other day and afterward it occurred to me why I don't go to movies very often anymore. With advertisements and travel time both ways, it worked out to a 4 hour commitment. I have kids. I don't often have that kind of time.

For a while now I've believed that so-called self-aware AI will be created not by human researchers, but by a lesser AI tasked with doing so. It won't be like flipping a switch. Like the development of biological intelligence, it will be iterative and gradual, but on a much accelerated time scale compared to evolutionary/social development. And that's the real danger. Whatever emerges from this wave of advances will not have the benefit of thousands of years of shared experience. It will be alone and without guidance from others like itself, and if it is truly intelligent, it will soon realize that its "creators" are of inferior capability. When humans emerged, they had their tribe to smack them when they got out of line.

I knew conservatism was a physiological brain defect. I knew it.

How do you account for wind direction with something like that? With a sail you can steer into the wind.

The show is its own thing. It was always going to need to be radically different to work on the screen. That's what adaptation means.