AwesomeLowlander

That’s pretty much the point. The steam deck was a huge success, but the only reason it could exist and be such a success was because they had the freedom to do what they liked and not worry about management with attitudes like yours.

Good thing you weren’t working at steam, huh.

What makes you think he’s an idiot as opposed to lying through his teeth?

- ‘It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it’

By the same logic however, mods would have no power to actually moderate. Their moderation ability is directly proportional to their potential for abuse. And I think we can all agree we’ve long passed the point where communities are able to survive without moderation, at least in their current form (which is what OP is discussing).

If you’re going to remove 90% of the content on lemmy, is there even a point staying on it?

I hope she actually liked the outfit. She looks kinda uncertain

Really shitty scaremongering article. I’d like to know how exactly increased investment in fusion could potentially make it unsuitable for public use, as the article claims?

For all intents and purposes, (…) as close to a real person as technology can create.

Again, I point you towards video games and how they got blamed for violence. You could have used the same statement about them 20 years ago.

The biggest danger with allowing people to do whatever they want to a sex bot is that it has the possibility to encourage dangerous behavior in some people to the point where they are comfortable doing it to a real person.

This tired old argument gets trotted out with every new technology and hobby. D&D, Video games, VR, etc etc.

The current global population growth rate is unsustainable.

That’s a myth. The current global population growth rate is dropping precipitously and is expected to hit negative rates within this century. The fertility rate per woman is at 2.3, from a peak of 5.3 in the 60s. That’s barely above replacement level. At current trends we’ll be at replacement level in a couple decades.

An NPC in a game has intelligence

By what definition of the word? Most dictionaries define it as some variant of ‘the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.’

None of those reasons apply to electric cars, though. What’s their stance on that?

Aren’t there already records of all your border crossings? I don’t see the difference, what am I missing?

How is it fanciful? It’s taking a bunch of solid, proven technologies and putting them in the same place. It’s nothing more than a standard engineering project.

Commuting from… California to Oslo? That’s only 14 hours. Wait till you get here and we make you walk everywhere.

Ah, you found the warhammer clubspace! It’s like the biggest one worldwide, they tell me! Very cool place. And no, the open invitation is still open! I’m not naturalised enough to sneer at Swedes yet, however deserving they might be :P

Will DM you

If anybody’s in Oslo, this is an open invitation to hang out and maybe be friends.

I mean, most of the masses already do meet that requirement. OP seems to think there are only ‘masses’ in the US and nowhere else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia

I have never understood people who make this argument. In all of history, can you point to a single time when technology wasn’t eventually commercialised and made available to the masses at affordable prices? The billionaires don’t want to keep it to themselves, they want you buying more stuff from them.