[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 65 points 9 months ago

"Really? How about dying for it?"

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"According to Air Canada, Moffatt never should have trusted the chatbot and the airline should not be liable for the chatbot's misleading information because Air Canada essentially argued that "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions," a court order said."

Can you imagine the hellscape we'd be living in if precedent went the other way? Companies could just run every unsavory decision through some machine learning system and then wash their hands of it afterwards.

"Oh you were illegally fired? Sorry, that decision came from the Overmind, not from us."

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

The family and also the calf are okay, fwiw.

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago

I'm a vegan, but one argument specifically against allowing dog meat trade is that it often encourages stealing companion animals (aka pets) to make a quick buck. Sometimes they're held ransom and people have to pay the thieves to keep a member of their family from being killed and eaten. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Also, dogs were bred specifically to live alongside humans, to form bonds with us. To do that to any organism and then treat it like livestock is a special kind of monstrous.

So I'm in favor of drawing as many lines as possible when it comes to animal consumption of any kind. And then, if the situation makes you uncomfortable about some of the other lines you've drawn around cows, pigs, or chickens, then you analyzing those in more depth too is also a win in my book.

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago

They are altering the deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

"now here's more bomb money."

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Settlers aren't the government, they're just private citizens taking people's homes from them. This all sucks. We're all losing. No one is winning when children are dying.

We shouldn't have to constantly qualify every statement we make when we talk about this. Just a constant stream of tone policing while children are dying.

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 124 points 1 year ago

To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

I suspect Vangelis's work on BladeRunner had a big part to play in this

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago

Yeah, don't expect funding for AAA games!

Wait...

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 178 points 1 year ago

My understanding is that the difference in terms goes back to the Norman invasion, which is when a ton of French-based terms for things were carried over.

The peasants referred to everything as the name of the animal but the French nobles referred to it as porc, boeuf, etc. This is also where we got the words for venison, mutton, veal, poultry, and also apparently pheasant

[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

Why block them? I like a little spice with my scrolling. Plus it's a fun mystery box to see what's under the blur. Straight/gay? Cis/trans? That one guy that literally just posts 100 fully clothed celebs every hour to disappoint you? Who knows.

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By this I mean: something that can view and fully interact with multiple different services like Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.

Does it exist already?

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