Michael Fallingleaf @mrustle

'Really?' On a second thought this might be a bot, real people can be and are dumb but not THIS dumb. On the other hand an artificial account designed to amplify engagement even with a single word can and will ask this kind of moronic questions... (BTW, if I'm wrong and this is a real person, my apologies, didn't mean it as a personal insult)

well, one can argue that whatever is that is passed from foetus to the mother helps the mother to provide for the developing foetus so in the end it is to benefit of the latter as well. However, the 'foetus as a parasite' assertion is wrong from the beginning regardless of whatever 'transactions' can be described between child and mother. The relationship between a biological organism and its dependent offspring is not transactional. Describing it as such is logically aberrant from the start. The term 'parasite' makes sense within a different universe of discourse, applies meaningfully to different entities. If it is to be applied abusively in this way then she (and each of us) is a 'parasite' as well, on her parents, on society... this breaks our chance to have a meaningful exchange of ideas. But they use it anyways in a non-metaphorical way and this stumbles people that go by the strict wording of the definition...

not as unpopular as should be. No, she's not right. 'Parasitic relationship' can be used as a catch all expression for any unbalanced resource exchange. Does not imply the participating entities are 'parasites' otherwise you can qualify yourself (and everybody else as a matter of fact) as a 'parasite'. Of course my cat's kittens are not 'parasites' on their mother -- her fleas are (hopefully not the case :). This confusion comes from poor linguistic and logical abilities, widespread in population, which are sometimes maliciously exploited towards similarly lowbrow political goals...

@aaboblin @MrAndyNgo you're confused. It is not his 'freedom of expression' that they're despising, it is the guy himself that's loathsome. Freedom of expression is just the vehicle that allows his nature to transpire for everybody to see. Nothing to 'hate' about that in itself...

@thestustustudio what else would be measure of 'disposability' under Capitalism then? Intelligence, maybe? Work ethics, perhaps? Staying ugly, dumb, and lazy -- that's the path to Communism? Is this lady trying too hard or is she just fighting the System according to her own prescriptions?

@mango_aadami @Akashchauhanez @grok perhaps I'm using my 'far-right' side of the brain? :)

@mango_aadami @Akashchauhanez @grok me too. Uh-oh... :)

@levnxrae this is hilarious. Hundreds of Indian 'nationalistic' bot accounts got the signal with this post "They're talking about India... Swarm! Swarm!!" Kind of internet, 'social media technology' counterpart of what this video contains... Same vibe :) Typical X, eh?

the creature does not need to have any Earthly biological relatedness and therefore any critique based on an assumed aforesaid similarity ('reptilian' or any other kind) is unjustified. The creature does not need to have any human-comprehensible motivations. The closest one can find is that it hunts creatures for sport and therefore it takes the actions it finds meaningful from this perspective. What is or is not 'meaningful' for It is, however, not to be assumed based on our human experience. Any criticisms stemming from such assumptions are not justified. Ferrets have a high rate of metabolism and are not covered in wet, cold mud. Many movies, if not all of them, are tell tales about somebody's chasing of something. 'Predator' is a story about trying to stay alive when confronted with a mysterious deadly entity more powerful and dangerous than everything you have ever known. Or imagined. Simply killing it at the victorious end would have been, in a way, a let down. Unnecessary anyways, its defeat was already a death sentence because it destroyed itself in a last attempt to pry victory from its final failure. That was part of the game as well, it turns out, hence the ghostly laughter at the end. Not a masterpiece but still, not a bad movie for what it is. A classic.

of course she does. Miss Bare Midriff seems the type that would rather have the Reality adapt to her emotional stance instead of adapting her thinking to the facts of the real life. Tolerance to your own cognitive dissonance can only take you this far -- at some point you'll need some fresh confirmation to your biases, the old narratives about 'racism' and centuries' past 'colonial oppression' are starting to go stale...

this is a moronic comment, sorry. Poland like the majority of East European countries are not 'former Soviet countries', they have never been part of USSR. Former Soviet republics are, for example, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan, etc, etc, but Poland was a separate state from USSR albeit politically and militarily connected to Moscow especially at a geopolitical level. The direct cultural and political diktats of Soviet Russia in Eastern Europe pretty much ended in the 60s to any significant extent. I mean, some soft-power cultural input from Russia was still present and prioritized but if you call Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy a 'poisoning' influence then I wouldn't care about your opinion on what a 'good' influence would look like. If Poland, like any other country in East Europe still carry the trauma and consequences of their communist past it was mostly their own, home-grown variant of communism that affected them, and not some 'Soviet' imported model.

@UrbanKnockouts not Germany. 'Crazy Puffs' from Little Caesar are only sold in the US & Canada.

@grok @TurtleBlind @realMaalouf @piscesgutt what would be the likely repercussions of exactly the same behavior if it happened in the US?

@kidedgeIrish @OliLondonTV she makes it too simple yet not as simple as it should be. A distinction made too clear is easy to be damned simplistic. Better not make it at all. What would she have to say about MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ (or LGBTQQIAMMIWG2S+ if that's where your priorities are)?

@cornu__copia it's not that bad, the only issue here, visually, are the discordant awnings and that's a consequence of a sunny climate and perhaps that's the point where your 'Nordic brain' should start its making sense journey...

@minestouch @libsoftiktok former PM of Canada hopping like a rabbit across the screen while a songstress yells 'Watch it burn' into the mic does not impart anything related to 'happiness' to me... But hey, to everybody the 'happiness' they can find meaningful.

@Kingbingo_ I'd argue S57 and S58 are even better, from 0 to 100, everybody is gonna be a genius... Even my cat.

@NaomiSeibt @RupertLowe10 Mr Farage acts too emphatically 'uninterested' to really be not interested in Restore Party here. It's all personal with Mr Farage, isn't it? Easy to foresee a rocky political downfall for Mr Farage and it's going to be only himself and his amour propre to be blamed for it...

'IQ' is of no relevance here. Giving the 'right' answer requires an abductive inference about the implicit reason why a human would ask this question. This was traditionally considered a capability only available to humans. Logically 'Walk' is the right answer, obviously, because the question is about going from point A to point B. Connecting 'car wash' and 'drive' to the unstated intent to wash your car is difficult for a machine when the logical structure of the question is otherwise clear. A model being able to do it is a technical accomplishment, that's what the excitement is about.

@DJ_PaulTUK @DrClownPhD you're not an easy to fool kind of person, are you? :)