As a grouchy old sci-fi nerd, can anyone explain why they think transhumanism is bad? Some Googling just leads to people claiming that it’s ‘anthropocentric’ - as if you can’t improve your body AND also care for nature at the same time.
I have no idea what genre ‘grass on a spaceship’ is, but I love it.
Hey, McDonalds, I got a general AI that can understand human speech.
It’s located between my neck and the top of my head, and it costs $25/hr for fuel consumption.
Just build some power line SMH my head
The depiction of the cloth is absolutely incredible. Hard to believe someone can make stone look like that.
No, but it’s absolutely burning through huge amounts of power and water to churn out garbage. Can’t bike to the store if it’s 130 degrees due to unrestrained climate change.
Less, ‘we’re using AI wrong’, more, ‘is AI even worth it?’.
Well, I didn’t know I needed punk/emo Peach (Bowser?), but I do now.
Yah, replace the UPS with USPS and it’d be bangin
How about we do mechanical speed limiting like they do with ebikes.
How about we compromise and just get rid of cars?
Not a joke: simply stop buying meat. Don’t think about how to ‘replace’ meat. Don’t attempt to limit yourself to a certain number of meat meals a week. I tried those things, and I completely failed at them. Make a list of all the meals you eat that do not include meat and/or can be made without meat and just make those. Make sure these are meals that you want to eat - donuts and cheese pizza are fine.
Random suggestions:
-Spaghetti - extra mushrooms, plus onions, peppers, spices as desired
-Veggie sandwhich - Bread of preference, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, humus
-Pizza. Yes, pizza.
-Tacos - black beans, roasted sweet potato cubes, pico de gallo, cheese etc
-Roasted cauliflower - cube it, toss with oil and spices, roast it.
-Chili - buncha beans (pinto, kidney, black, even garbanzos can work), tomato, onion, garlic, chile powder. If you wanna go nuts, add corn and, wierdly - barley. It works great.
-Chana masala - Google it, basically chickpeas with a gravy made of tomatoes, onions, garlic, buncha spices. Very similar to making chili.
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Your ‘argument against GMOs’ is an argument against seed patents, not GMOs. That’s the same as saying there’s an ‘argument against insulin’ because big companies own the patents and charge lots of money. The product is absolutely irrelevant to the conversation.
None of these points are relevant. Nobody is selling SMRs as better than large-scale plants (at least I hope they’re not). The point of SMRs is that they are much easier to bring in and put down. A huge portion of the world still runs on fossil fuels, often with frequent brownouts or scheduled blackouts. Being able to bring in a RELIABLE non-fossil fuel power plant at a smaller scale would be huge. Distributed solar has some pretty awesome potential for individual households if you don’t care about on- demand power, but you do eventually need something for your denser cities etc.
Yes, this looks much better. My other thought would be road-rail buses, but getting on/off the tracks might be too much work to be worth the extra flexibility.
That looks horrible. Cramped, the giant windows means it’s hot and the sun is always in your eyes… Any reason they need to only use one rail? We already have road & rail buses, trucks, etc…just use those.
I second that idea. ‘Once while sober and once while drunk’ and all that.
Honestly, yah.
See how much they want it when they have to start paying tariffs to ship their potatoes into the US.
It matters because liberalism is inherently supportive of capitalism, a force of unchecked destruction that is incredibly harmful to the working class and indeed the entire world. To fight this requires you to reject liberalism. There is no other way. Any time you see ‘leftist’ you can just sub in ‘anti-capitalist’ if that’s something you’re more familiar with.
Whoops. Should not use social media when tired, I glossed right over that.
I get your concern (this is the first time I’m hearing about it and oof). I would however point out that the core of transhumanism is the idea that we should have the freedom to modify our own bodies however we want. This is how I’ve always heard it used and how I’m going to keep using it.
I do understand where those people are coming from, though. If you have the technology to e.g. eliminate sickle cell anemia and choose not to do it, that’s as much eugenics as choosing to do so. I don’t know how to square that with individual liberty. Having parents decide is…not necessarily a great solution. Having society decide is also not a good solution, but probably the one we’ll have to end up doing.