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MaxieSatan posted:Both of these kick rear end, though. Yeah to be honest I secretly use this thread to post awesome cyberpunk things too 
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Jan 10, 2020 18:35
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ekuNNN posted:Yeah to be honest I secretly use this thread to post awesome cyberpunk things too Good plan.
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Jan 10, 2020 20:30
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The problem with this cyberpunk dystopia is that we have all the unfettered capitalism but I still can't replace my genitals with a gun
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Jan 10, 2020 20:39
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ekuNNN posted:
Even if they have just BARELY enough consciousness to process this, there is no way that these fish don’t exit those tubes believing in some kind of higher power that has a special plan for them.
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Jan 10, 2020 20:59
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mysterious frankie posted:Even if they have just BARELY enough consciousness to process this, there is no way that these fish don’t exit those tubes believing in some kind of higher power that has a special plan for them. I mean, considering that most anadromous fish like salmon die shortly after arriving and spawning, and their brains are already half-cooked from the homing impulse anyways, thankfully, they'll never develop organized religion.
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Jan 10, 2020 21:22
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mysterious frankie posted:Even if they have just BARELY enough consciousness to process this, there is no way that these fish don’t exit those tubes believing in some kind of higher power that has a special plan for them. The tube got them up the hill so they can have sex and die. What higher power do they really need?
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Jan 10, 2020 21:32
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foobardog posted:The problem with this cyberpunk dystopia is that we have all the unfettered capitalism but I still can't replace my genitals with a gun Sounds like someone isn't eating enough celery.
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Jan 10, 2020 21:41
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SplitSoul posted:Sounds like someone isn't eating enough celery. One tends to melt if you don't get enough fiber.
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Jan 10, 2020 22:01
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Kevinhalse/status/1215049228604432384 boo 
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Jan 10, 2020 22:55
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Inceltown posted:The tube got them up the hill so they can have sex and die. What higher power do they really need? All hail TUBE, THE gently caress-BRINGER
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Jan 10, 2020 22:58
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It’s going to get transmitted to their children via *~genetic magic~* and the kids are going to grow up thinking the vested pink things from above will load them into a gently caress tube and fire them into o-town, they’ll try to figure out a system of ethics and morality that governs the seemingly random uplifting of fish to cum heaven, kill one another, yadda yadda yadda, next thing you know radicalized dories half a world away are suicide bombing the great coral reef
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Jan 10, 2020 23:22
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ekuNNN posted:
dammit i ordered the wrong kind of deer antler spray
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Jan 10, 2020 23:32
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mysterious frankie posted:It’s going to get transmitted to their children via *~genetic magic~* and the kids are going to grow up thinking the vested pink things from above will load them into a gently caress tube and fire them into o-town, they’ll try to figure out a system of ethics and morality that governs the seemingly random uplifting of fish to cum heaven, kill one another, yadda yadda yadda, next thing you know radicalized dories half a world away are suicide bombing the great coral reef they'll try to build the tube outta rocks and sticks at most, and because fish hatch from eggs there's no myth of birth our rebirth like in human society, the tube is essentially heaven's gate and they're being beamed up to a comet so that they can bang to the maximum
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Jan 10, 2020 23:38
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One cyberpunk adjacent thing that's kinda hosed up is the Cambridge Declaration, where scientists agreed that almost all animals are sentient. quote:The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates. The basis for consciousness predates the radiation of invertebrates. If you crush a bug you're not just breaking a biomachine you're killing an actually living being. If an AI had an analogous substrate it also could be assumed to be sentient.
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Jan 10, 2020 23:46
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Ah nice I was looking for something else to keep me up all night shaking uncontrollably
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Jan 10, 2020 23:55
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SniperWoreConverse posted:One cyberpunk adjacent thing that's kinda hosed up is the Cambridge Declaration, where scientists agreed that almost all animals are sentient. Seems like a good thing to acknowledge that even if it doesn't change your behavior or sit at the front of your mind all the time. It is possible plants or plant+mycelium networks have consciousness, currently we have no evidence they do not possess a consciousness and mild evidence showing they might.
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Jan 11, 2020 00:01
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If we figured out a universal communicator and could talk to cows, this society would declare it a victory for morality if the cows' living conditions made them wish for death.
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Jan 11, 2020 00:04
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foobardog posted:The problem with this cyberpunk dystopia is that we have all the unfettered capitalism but I still can't replace my genitals with a gun You're not trying hard enough... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jts0xxg7P8I
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Jan 11, 2020 00:15
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I've been told by some fishologists that salmon actually like doing all that work to swim up the fish ladders. Apparently someone has measured activity in the closest thing to a pleasure center in the salmon brain when they are struggling mightily to jump upstream.
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Jan 11, 2020 00:29
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withak posted:I've been told by some fishologists that salmon actually like doing all that work to swim up the fish ladders. Apparently someone has measured activity in the closest thing to a pleasure center in the salmon brain when they are struggling mightily to jump upstream. The feeling of elation after a solid workout unites us all.
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Jan 11, 2020 00:34
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withak posted:I've been told by some fishologists that salmon actually like doing all that work to swim up the fish ladders. Apparently someone has measured activity in the closest thing to a pleasure center in the salmon brain when they are struggling mightily to jump upstream. Ask a Salmon posted:Dear Salmon,
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Jan 11, 2020 00:35
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SniperWoreConverse posted:One cyberpunk adjacent thing that's kinda hosed up is the Cambridge Declaration, where scientists agreed that almost all animals are sentient. Sentience is meaningless, only sapience matters. It's not enough to intentionally perform a task, you must have the will to do something you know is stupid and wrong just because you can. gently caress YOU, EXISTENCE! THE ONLY MEANINGFUL DECISION I CAN MAKE IS THE ONE THAT RESULTS IN MY OWN DESTRUCTION! I WILL VOTE REPUBLICAN AND THERE IS NOTHING GOD NOR MAN CAN DO TO STOP ME! BRING ON THE END SO I CAN RELISH DEATH!
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Jan 11, 2020 05:37
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withak posted:I've been told by some fishologists that salmon actually like doing all that work to swim up the fish ladders. Apparently someone has measured activity in the closest thing to a pleasure center in the salmon brain when they are struggling mightily to jump upstream. please work out SniperWoreConverse posted:One cyberpunk adjacent thing that's kinda hosed up is the Cambridge Declaration, where scientists agreed that almost all animals are sentient. do you have a source for this? when i search cambridge declaration i just find weird evangelical things and i want to send it to a friend.
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Jan 11, 2020 05:39
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Giga Gaia posted:do you have a source for this? when i search cambridge declaration i just find weird evangelical things and i want to send it to a friend. I was curious about this too. This seems to be it: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...tqUEkya7pWtPwWk quote:We declare the following: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from
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Jan 11, 2020 06:24
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it's from a MIT media lab guy lol
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Jan 11, 2020 06:48
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i dont know anything about some pedophile declaration but animals are clearly far more aware and intelligent than we give them credit for. why i reckon you could teach a monkey to shitpost and he'd be drat good at it too
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Jan 11, 2020 07:12
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mysterious frankie posted:Even if they have just BARELY enough consciousness to process this, there is no way that these fish don’t exit those tubes believing in some kind of higher power that has a special plan for them. The thing is though that it's objectively true. There is a higher power, us, who has a special plan for them, to teleport them to the gently caress Zone.
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Jan 11, 2020 07:39
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I was curious about this too. This seems to be it: lol cool utter garbage. thanks for digging up what i couldnt find
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Jan 11, 2020 07:58
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extremely normal country https://twitter.com/ejmalrai/status/1215892900992704512 free speech, but only for bloodthirsty racist shitheads
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Jan 11, 2020 08:51
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fabergay egg posted:i dont know anything about some pedophile declaration but animals are clearly far more aware and intelligent than we give them credit for. why i reckon you could teach a monkey to shitpost and he'd be drat good at it too dude we just loving had a huge drama shitstorm over doxxing people, knock it off
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Jan 11, 2020 09:32
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fabergay egg posted:i dont know anything about some pedophile declaration but animals are clearly far more aware and intelligent than we give them credit for. why i reckon you could teach a monkey to shitpost and he'd be drat good at it too turdfuzz...
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Jan 11, 2020 09:46
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Taintrunner posted:extremely normal country Could it be that they are only removing the obvious botposts? As in, the ones telling a dead man to be good?
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Jan 11, 2020 10:32
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https://twitter.com/WOWK13News/status/1215989238141018112?s=20
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Jan 11, 2020 14:33
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How will it alert people when I post?
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Jan 11, 2020 15:37
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For Goons it goes in your sock.
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Jan 11, 2020 15:49
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Don't know if this has been posted yet https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1215627960872570880?s=19
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Jan 11, 2020 16:57
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while the va is definitely at fault, i used to work for that company and the policy was "write off anything the va won't pay for because denying prosthetics to soldiers is an image nightmare and it will piss off the va" so this is entirely on them. the va grossly overpays for prosthetics, so it all evens out in the end anyways. the most hosed up thing is that they gave him his legs back but are refusing to adjust them properly until they get paid, and as an amputee i can tell you that unless they're adjusted your prosthetics are useless. good way to injure yourself tho
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Jan 11, 2020 17:06
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I knew repo guys were coldhearted sociopaths but you have to be next-level human garbage to comply with repossessing prosthetic legs right off of a disabled veteran
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Jan 11, 2020 18:08
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Yuli Ban posted:Don't know if this has been posted yet I used to work for Hanger, the company this guy got his prosthetics from (and that subsequently repo’d them). The labyrinth that is our health system is so insane that it sometimes takes nearly a year of behind the scenes applications, appeals, reviews, etc for basic services such as knee braces to get paid for by insurance companies. Medicare is by far the best payer, but because they don’t cover everything there are still fringe cases where no one is sure they’ll get paid and don’t want to provide services without some sort of preauthorization. Pretty hosed up this guy delivered the braces and then took them back. I ended up leaving the medical field because unfortunately poo poo like this, where someone desperately needs medical services but can’t get them, happen all the loving time.
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Jan 11, 2020 19:41
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Hanger seems like it'd be more interested in the next step of Veteran care
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Jan 11, 2020 20:01
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