NaibofTabr

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[–] NaibofTabr 49 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It is abusive. They react exactly the same way an abusive partner does when you try to leave the relationship.

Also, if an individual person collected and compiled data on another person's activities the way they do, we would call that person a stalker. But somehow a massive corporation doing it is OK.

[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if it's just Earth, if we assume there is a degree of randomness in species assignment then you've got decent odds of reincarnating as an ant:

We conservatively estimate total abundance of ground-dwelling ants at over 3 × 10^15^ and estimate the number of all ants on Earth to be almost 20 × 10^15^ individuals. 1

And of course, massively high odds of being a bacteria. There are probably ~40 trillion bacteria living just in your body right now:

They estimate that the range of bacterial cells goes from about 30 to 50 trillion in each individual. 2

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 3 weeks ago

Granpa always wants excitement
He'll try anything new
So he made some homemade bungie cords
He would've been eighty-two!

[–] NaibofTabr 48 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Seriously though, her Wikipedia page is ridiculous. When the hell did she have time to raise children?

[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 4 weeks ago

"recidence"?

[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 4 weeks ago

Ooh, that's gotta hurt!

[–] NaibofTabr -5 points 4 weeks ago

You must be fun at parties.

[–] NaibofTabr 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Right, that would be the kind of "collective action" that I mentioned... it doesn't have anything to do with preventing nations from going to war with each other... the UN doesn't have that kind of authority and never did.

[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 4 weeks ago

Oh yes, I'm aware. I still think it's funny enough to share with players who haven't heard it before.

[–] NaibofTabr 29 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

This might seem callous, but... the purpose of the UN was never to prevent wars from happening. The UN is an international forum, it is not a world government. The purpose is to create a space for nations to talk to each other, and to organize collective action on issues that the majority of members agree on. The UN was not intended to override the sovereignty of member nations - if it was, nations wouldn't join in the first place.

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 4 weeks ago

Everyone in the PRC supports the CCP.

It's because the ruling party is so good that everyone loves them unconditionally, of course.

[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Really wondering how long we've got before Copilot in Excel causes some major accounting errors.

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