If you’re suffering a psychotic break that causes you to shit into your town’s water supply, you need to be locked in a room until you take medicine that makes you normal long before you start building a tank and trying to kill a bunch of people

More like rest in piss bozo-zer

In video form, from my favorite engineer on youtube, with Cities Skylines to make it easier to visualize how Heemeyer was a lying piece of shit

Me when my neighbors offer to pay for my sewer hookup but they’re filthy catholics

Getting a headstart on the conversion therapy, I see

Preface: I’m talking about Star Trek’s transporters specifically. Teleportation via destruction and reconstruction. Any kind of space folding wormhole nonsense obviously doesn’t apply here.

There is no new me, there’s someone else with my memories. Why would I care whether he knows the difference? This is equivocation. There is only one you, and that’s the physical entity reading this comment right now. If a perfect copy of you were made over there, you could consider them a you, but they aren’t you.

If you step onto a transporter pad to teleport to the Starship Enterprise, then you never live to see the inside of it. You can philosophize all you want about what “you” actually means, but at the end of the day, the you that you are dies. What that copy does or does not experience has no bearing on that fact.

I always get like 15 comments deep in these threads reiterating the same point over and over, so I’ll just get ahead of that and reiterate it now: unless you believe you have a soul, your existence ends the moment your body is destroyed. A transporter kills you, and there is no way to philosophize your way around that. The fact that someone else who shares all of your memories doesn’t remember any lapse in consciousness doesn’t change the fact that the only you that meaningfully exists fucking dies.

I won’t be responding to any replies that don’t acknowledge my validity as an independent entity. Anyone who asserts that someone else who shares my memories has any claim over being me is getting blocked. I hate this argument and I hate that so many people are so frequently wrong about it.

Sleep isn’t the same as unconsciousness, at least as far as this dilemma goes. Sleep is a state of reduced consciousness, but there is continuity and awareness of your surroundings. If there weren’t, you alarm clock wouldn’t have woken you up this morning

but it would be you in all the ways that matter.

Except for the only way that matters to me

Counterpoint: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wet

Made up of liquid or moisture, usually (but not always) water.

Water is wet and I’m tired of people arguing about it. Wet literally means “covered in or consisting of liquid,” and yet everyone seems to think water can’t be wet just because it also makes other things wet, which it does but that doesn’t mean it isn’t itself wet

Authleft, it’s communism

Left

Lemmy is generally a lot more lax than other social media sites. As long as you aren’t doxxing anyone you should be fine

Left

I’m talking to the clippy you successfully embedded

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Be enlightened

https://youtu.be/2_Dtmpe9qaQ

I’ve seen people call it slacktivism, and I would like to clarify his point: knowing that there are countless people who feel just a strongly as you do about an issue is a necessary prerequisite to actually making a change.

Humans are alright, but salticids are god’s greatest masterpiece