I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Moving Dungeons and Dragons completely away from physical books to a monthly online subscription fee with additional micro transactions is fucking terrible for players, especially to teenagers and people in lower economic situations.
Christ, thereโs some stupid Australians -
Hanson has no policies, she lives the luxury life of an elite courtesy of a billionaire who gave her a plane, sheโs got plenty of rat cunning but no intelligence, & then thereโs Barnaby Joyce.
Throwing away your precious vote on these grifting, useless, self-aggrandising incompetents?
You fucking idiot ๐
@CursedGoo@esterdiol You are a fucking moron; because people in wheelchairs or mobility scooter have to use the footpath. Btw: It's illegal and the car should be towed, not keyed.
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
The gas industry is panicking & spending millions to protect billions in profit from exporting our gas.
But no amount of glossy advertising will stop Australians demanding a fair return - a 25% gas export tax to make exporters finally pay their share.
https://t.co/zjLTOGvoQT