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They're just word engines. If you feed them unethical concepts, they will return unethical results. I'm still not a fan.

I can't really afford it, at the moment, but I can currently retire with an unreduced pension due to age+years of employment. Still, it's a joking threat I use against my manager when he's being annoying ;)

That sucks :( I'm back to work tomorrow as well. Really makes me think about that whole retirement thing again.

There are a few species on Earth that are effectively immortal, barring predation or incident, but I would tend to think that works against them developing sentience via evolution. At least it would seriously slow the process.

Yup. They're two very different questions: "Does alien life exist?" and, "Have we been visited by aliens?" If we assume that intelligent life is a fairly rare thing then we live in a detection bubble that is roughly 249 light years across (first radio signal sent in Dec. 1901). The odds of...

I still regret not going to Twede's Cafe, the place that served as the Double R Diner, when I was a whole 5 miles away from the place at Snoqualmie Falls (the waterfall in the opening credits).

Quite the opposite, I would think. From Mirriam Webster: Infer vs. Imply: Usage Guide Sir Thomas More is the first writer known to have used both infer and imply in their approved senses in 1528 (with infer meaning "to deduce from facts" and imply meaning "to hint at"). He is also the first to...

Far too many times I've seen "emotionally distant" be found attractive, by woman. Worked fairly well for me, as well, 40ish years ago 😂

I hadn't even noticed that it existed. Heinz has a "no sugar added" that has less than a gram per tablespoon, so that may also be an option.

I've been using salsa for the last few years, because of the stupidly high amount of sugar in ketchup, but I think I'm going to look into this as a possible substitute as well. Thanks.

And Bobcaygeon is a really nice place, in the off season.

Pineapple: The fruit that digests you.

I'm really sorry that you feel that way. Clearly we aren't going to have a meeting of the minds here as our experiences and viewpoints are just too far apart.

Which is why he's trying to build a machine to do it for him. It could only do better.

I would argue that a batard is a greater pain, because he's also French.

The line is crossed, obviously. How often depends on how many people make their beliefs known and force them upon others, compared to the number who don't. The first can be known. The second? Not so much. Yes, she charges for readings, and it's on the "for entertainment" basis. She's not...

That would be "batard" ;) It came up, in French class, in 12th grade.

Operative word: "trying."

Would you know if someone believed in something, if they never told you so? I previously mentioned that I have a friend who is a medium. She's never tried to make me believe. I have friends who believe in crystals and psychic healing. Oddly enough they only use these things as 'aids' to more...

And if they're a phenomenon that is only perceptible mentally, in some way, we would likely need much different tools than we have today, to detect them. Detecting the changes in a subject's brain wouldn't be sufficient proof. Different people might perceive the effects in different ways, with...