Having watched your videos for some time, i pegged you for someone waaay more anodyne than you turned out to be and i’m here for it

That may be, but my thesis is that the belief that ozempic will have bad side effects doesnt come from a place of concern but from a punitive desire: “how dare these interloping fatties try to join our club? We’re thin because we’re moral and good. God must therefore punish them.”

It’s not that. In their mind, people should only be able to lose weight through struggle and suffering. In their mind, the drug is allowing those who struggle with their weight to enter a club, thinness, without their permission and ‘earning it.’ The specifics of the drug are immaterial.

Add them to a starter pack so people can follow more easily

As other have pointed out, there are native california palms. Additionally, these are Canary Island date palms (P. canariensis), though, which are native to the Canary islands not true date palms (P. dactylifera).

Also, to be clear, I'm not calling those people wrong. It's fine to believe that it's not okay for a machine to do _______ (create video, essays, etc) even if it can do so wholly without the negative effects cited

This view is generally not explicit. But, arguing about the specifics isn't really productive, since they've started from the conclusion.

There's a contingent that view AI as a social identity threat: (1) it is intolerable to my identity, even in principle, that AI could possibly do ______ (2) therefore, it must be either impossible or entail such dire consequences that it's morally reprehensible.

The irony of them posting this on Mr. Starlink’s Very Own Vanity Website©️™️

The difference in engagement after 41 vs 42 minutes

Not a parent but Arrival nonetheless absolutely destroys me (in a way Interstellar doesn’t)

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Regardless, thank you for rising to the occasion! I mean holy smokes

100%. Ive followed you (and many others) on twitter, threads and now here. if and when elon buys *this* platform (“that’ll solve it!” He’ll think to himself, utterly failing to grasp the issue) i’ll follow y’all on the next one too

100% this. A lot of things about us infuriate them, but perhaps the most infuriating is:

they know they need us but we don't need them