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  • It’s one of those things where we shortened a phrase and then it stopped making logical sense.

    “The three musketeers” werent just musketeers who carried muskets.

    They were “the king’s musketeers”. They were elite special forces as well as the personal bodyguard for the King. The best of the best. The “musketeer” part was the common bit, it just sounds fancy centuries later.

    But the book might as well be called “The Kingsguard”




  • Not so. The Tesla safety operators appear to always have their thumb on the “Open Door” button of their door, which is sort of weird to see. It’s like every safety operator is getting ready to say the Irish goodbye to their passengers at any given moment.

    Turns out, Full Self Driving disengages if you open the door. So that is probably being used as a janky, factory-standard kill switch for the autonomous driving system that causes the vehicle to come to controlled stop.

    There is absolutely nothing stopping the human employee from sitting behind the wheel except optics…

    Like, if there’s three passengers, does the employee keep shotgun?

    Does a passenger get the driver’s seat? Or do they all have to sit in the backseat so people can see it’s driving itself?

    Is the plan for highspeed situations really just opening a fucking door at speed?

    The level of stupidity is, as always, fascinating…






  • I mean…

    Honestly the whole “assassinating a leader is against the rules” has always felt ass backwards when the alternative is a shit ton of people with essentially no say in the conflict dying.

    Let me take it back to Hammarubi.

    All these shitty world leaders can just take turns killing themselves like the bloody Sneeches, until we eventually end up with leaders who think peace is worth a shot.

    To me, that sounds like a self correcting and sustainable system. If a country’s government starts a war, the most likely result would be that political leader getting merc’d by the government of the country they attacked.







  • Lots of animals can think abstractly.

    What separates humans from animals is communication and tool use. Obviously other animals can, but none come close to humans in either category.

    Books is a huge example of both. Humans don’t have to figure out complicated concepts each on our own. The Internet is that on steroids, someone on the other side of the planet can read this post the second I hit “reply”.

    That exchange of information through tools is why we’re ordering Taco Bell thru Uber from the couch instead of still chasing animals till they pass out.

    Whether or not that’s a good thing for us and the planet tho…


  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.worldIsrael strikes Iran
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    Driving the news: Sirens sounded across Israel on Thursday night. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz declared a special state of emergency across the entire country.

    “Following the State of Israel’s preemptive strike against Iran, a missile and drone attack against the state of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate future,” Katz said.

    Who would have guessed Israel would surprise attack another country and then immediately play the victim…



  • I mean, people already are…

    We don’t have a better definition for consciousness then “it’s what anesthesia stops” and we don’t have a better idea about what anesthesia does than “stops consciousness”. So it’s a chicken/egg thing.

    The thing is, anesthesia works on everything, humans, animals, plants, even single celled organisms.

    Literally everything is consciousness. Tomatoes even feel pain thru our most common definitions.

    So yeah, people that claim to be vegan because of animal suffering are still causing suffering and pain to life, then ending that life.

    You’d need to be some super specific type of vegan where you only eat fruits because those specifically evolved to be eaten in a symbiotic relationship with animals.

    But like, I’m pretty sure that would just give you organic diabetes or something.

    So everyone draws their personal line wherever, but none of us really have an “ethical diet”