neatchee

I’m trying so hard not to hate this post but you have given me so many reasons to

• use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others

• mismatched fonts

• comic something font

• no human readable data next to the QR code

• mismatched gradient radii in the corners

Make it stop 😭

EDIT: For those who care, this comment falls into the category of “said in jest, meant in earnest”. I know it’s all on-brand and comedic, but my gut reactions are what they are 😂

oops, you’re right. fixed!

Waiting for the precedent so the Church of Satan Satanic Temple can abuse the fuck out of it to start forcing churches into seclusion

So then everyone before the Quran was immoral? literally not a single human being existed before the Quran was written who was moral? Or were they immoral without knowing it because nobody had told them “slavery is wrong” yet? That seems profoundly unjust.

It’s also important to note that according to Surah Al-An’am 6:112, any human who rebels against God and dedicated themselves to leading others astray is classified as a demon.

So I guess enslaving an atheist activist like Richard Dawkins is morally acceptable according to you? Since he is, according to the Quran, a demon?

I don’t think we understand sentience yet. I think it is possible, if not likely, that there are sentient things which we believe are not.

i also don’t think a heart is relevant at all to sentience, as it plays no role in perception which I believe is the core of sentience. The heart is just a pump that moves resources through the body.

I don’t think a nervous system is necessary either, unless you define “nervous system” very broadly. I think any sufficiently complex sensory input system would be enough to provide the elements of perception required to foster sentience.

As for the brain… I’m not convinced it has to look like a brain as we know it. The brain provides several primary functions, but only a few of them are related to perception (many are instead related to automation of bodily functions).

I think any system that can receive input, store a memory (and I don’t mean cognitive recall, I just mean historical record in the loosest sense), and perform complex conditional responses based on the input and memory, could produce something we would call sentience.

at what point do you distinguish a thing from the components it’s made of?

You say neurons have qualia, but its parts certainly don’t. Proteins don’t. Lipids don’t. Molecules don’t. But when you put them together in a specific configuration you say they do?

How is this different from silica? Why can’t a thing composed of silica have qualia even if the parts individually don’t?

so do you believe everyone was immoral until 150 years ago (participation in and tolerance for slavery) or do you believe we are immoral today for denying the right to own slaves (as allowed by religious texts)?

Triggered? 😂 I’m just trying to help you understand why things turned out this way for you. But sure, go off, king.

it’s not Americentric to discuss American law impacting two American companies by making comparisons to other American industries.

You’re stirring the pot for no reason other than to thumb your nose at Americans

Kickstarter is a US company. Stripe is HQ’d in California. We are clearly discussing American financial regulations and payment processing.

This is a bad take IMO. I’ve literally written that phrase myself in emails at work multiple times. 🤷‍♀️

Lots of really cynical replies in here. I understand why but IMO it’s a bit unfair.

There is no question in my mind that places like Kickstarter are beholden to the rules of payment processors. Shit, even the marijuana industry is booming like gangbusters, but they still can’t accept credit or debit card payments directly (only ATM-at-POS debit) because marijuana remains illegal federally and the payment processors, who handle interstate financial transactions, flatly refuse to cross that line.

So I do believe that their relationship with Stripe was the primary source of friction and the impetus for the new rules.

And the fact is, companies are going to make mistakes sometimes with these types of things. We need to be loud when the mistakes happen, but accepting when they do the right thing in response to blowback. I’m really not sure what more KS could have done, once the rule change has already happened, to make things right. They rolled back the policies, accepted responsibility, and were transparent about why it happened. Other than “never make a mistake, ever” what more could we ask for?

This is exactly the type of apology and transparency I want to see when mistakes are made.

I don’t know what they’ll do next - hopefully start working on a different payment processor option - but I won’t be surprised if it leads to increased platform costs if Stripe is the cheapest option that meets their needs.

I was betting on Florida Man as the culprit from just the headline, but the linguistic content made it obvious that this was a deeply Australian man

Oh no you just unlocked a memory I haven’t recalled in a long time: the infamous “wat” video

Completely unrelated to OP but I really want to believe your username is a “treating people like objects” joke

Marriage is a state-sanctioned merger of assets and rights. It provides a legal authorization for decision making related to your spouse, shared property ownership rights, rights regarding power of attorney in an emergency, and tax benefits.

Everything else is religious/social ceremony and can be achieved without the need for marriage certification.

I know several people who didn’t “believe in marriage” until their SO was in the hospital and they weren’t allowed to visit or make decisions for them. Pretty horrible watching the estranged parent or second cousin making decisions about the health of your 10+ year partner, against your wishes, with no recourse.

well, we know bison in the middle are worth approximately 75 each…

Yes. Please list things that a sitting federal politician can do when both chambers of Congress and the presidency are in opposition party control, which are not purely performative nonsense