I will never understand how the cruise industry still exists. I cannot fathom the appeal, nor how the companies survived Covid.

Extreme wealth and a love of authoritarianism, name a more iconic duo.

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I’m sorry to inform you that satire is dead.

It’s not just ignorance. There’s a lot of malice, too.

“rogue”, implying that this attitude and behavior is not actively reinforced by police training and culture.

I’m fairly positive that my drug use in early adulthood damaged my intelligence somewhat. I am also certain that it broadened my perspective and improved my ability to understand others. Good trade imo.

Human cognition/consciousness is not special. There have likely been many now-extinct intelligent species whose evolutionary niche did not encourage the indefinite expansion and subsequent habitat destruction that we are currently experiencing. Moreover, other intelligent species will likely evolve after we are extinct. There is also no reason to believe that consciousness is unique to biological creatures, although mechanical sapience will most likely look very different from ours.