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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Anonymous asked:

What informs your software? What hidden undergirdings are you afraid to look at? In what ways is your IFF calibrated, and by whom? You still have a human heart under there, with a human history.

I have three hearts, anon-san - a primary heart, a secondary backup heart, and an emergency oxygen recirc system for my braincase.  My combat software can continue fighting in excess of 30 minutes even in the event of total loss of consciousness, with a banshee switch in the event of brain death.  (And yes, I know that firmware modification is illegal.)

Besides, to even get the K-band neurotype designation, my brain is mostly human, I just have a few specialized submodules.  Partial-synthetic, not full, and so only subject to limited sanctions under the Human Dignity Act.

Don’t be so worried, Anon.  I’ll be fine.

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nuclearspaceheater

Incidentally is anyone else really annoyed that there is no noun for ‘people from the USA’ that unambiguously means ‘people from the USA’?

loki-zen

I know ‘Americans’ is generally understood to have that meaning, but:

a) It is still ambiguous, and that irritates me. How, if this is the nomenclature, are we to refer to ‘people from the continents of America’?

b) The fact that ‘Americans’ and ‘America’ are understood to solely refer to people from the USA seems to me to be part of the ‘we are the only people and place that exists or matters’ thing that US culture can sometimes project, and that really irritates me, which makes the word usage irritating beyond just its ambiguity.

thetransintransgenic

decameter

I’d like to say Yanks but apparently it has a different meaning in the USA.

isaacsapphire

“Yankee” is a kind of complex word.

“For northerners, a “yankee” is somebody from New England. For New Englanders, a “yankee” is somebody from Vermont. For Vermonters, a “yankee” is somebody who eats apple pie for breakfast.“ http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000205.html

Anyway, it would also be nice to have a word for people from North and South America as a group.

confusedbyinterface

Seppos.

cromulentenough

americasians

nuclearspaceheater

All of the Americas belong to the United States.

mitigatedchaos

Don’t worry, guys.  This ends with the annexation of Mexico in 2068 and the formation of the North American Union, at which point we are known as Unionese.

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“Huh, actually, that’s not actually a bad policy idea.  Where did you first hear it?”

“Oh, some Singaporean time travel blog on Tumblr.”

“Singaporean time travel blog?”

“Well it mentions Lee Kwan Yew a bit and the author seems interested in authoritarianism in Asia, so either that or the United States given that it keeps talking about a North American Union.”

“…what?”

“If I might remind you, sir, you ordered that we answer all your questions as honestly as possible.”

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collapsedsquid
the-grey-tribe

One of the weirdest policy proposals is where you put an expiration date on cash, to encourage spending.

argumate

ooh I’ve played with that one, it also fits well with some basic income proposals

obiternihili

inflation

collapsedsquid

All the kool kids nowadays are talking about negative interest rates.

mitigatedchaos

They’re not yet talking about forming quasi-autonomous state agencies that compete for assignment of implementing government programs, with contracts that can be renewed, but

Shhhh, they aren’t supposed to know about it yet.  I only know because I’m from the future.

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argumate
theage.com.au

Grand theft avocado: nearly $400,000 heist 'taken seriously'

"They are in demand. Everybody loves avocados," said Sargent John Franchi of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.
Veronica Rocha
argumate

fuckin’ millennials at it again

collapsedsquid

👋Redistribute👋avocados👋to👋millennials👋

argumate

the👋claps👋only👋go👋between👋the👋words👋mum

mitigatedchaos

“The ‘Emoji Death Front’, first known as the ‘Death to Emoji Working Group’ and then ‘Emoji Extinction Dot Net’, is a distributed terrorist group which first emerged in Sydney, Australia, in 2033, coming to prominence in an attack on the Pyongyang Olympics in 2036.  The stated aim of the group is the removal of emoji from Unicode, a goal for which it is willing to-”
- excerpt, Google Automatic Summary for “emoji death”, May 2, 2038

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argumate
argumate

The hard part about assessing the counterfactuals to Chinese repression is that a minor flare up of civil strife can easily kill fifty million people; balancing things like that against the insidious ongoing costs of poor resource allocation is hard.

mitigatedchaos

Yeeeeeah kinda hoping there’s no new Chinese Civil War that ends up killing fifty million dudes and destroying one tenth of the global GDP, sending the economy of Earth into three decade long depression.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

The inability for the different political parties to work together to accomplish their goals is just like when I was working on this project for school and... Oh my god, I just remembered that time Emily refused to do her part of the group project, even though we had initially all agreed on what each of us had to do, and we had two weeks to get it done, but nooo, she just never got around to doing her part. She even had the easiest part, and I had to do it for her. Uhm, what was I saying before?

argumate answered:

this is like a political cartoon except all the passive aggressive labels are set in a girl’s high school like a tedious anime

school aka THE LEGISLATURE

project aka PROGRESSIVE HEALTH REFORM

emily aka GRANDSTANDING REPUBLICANS

etc.

mitigatedchaos

I’ve lived the Congressional Anime AU, Argumate.

You don’t want to go there.  You really don’t.

If I never hear “but Ryan-sempai, we can’t!” again, it will be too soon.

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