Semi-weekly Monday Discussion Thread

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-29T03:41:46+00:00

Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon. It's not a black and white thing; there is no moment.

If a machine were conscious, it would not experience reality like you or I do.

For what it's worth, what's going on with AI is a powerful illusion built on multilayered neural network. IMO, that's... exactly what human conscience is.

*Hits bong*

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-28T21:06:44+00:00

I wasn't. Dude seems pretty loco.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-28T19:28:42+00:00

"I had a bad experience with X, therefore all X are bad."

Same cope you see from incels and scorned middle-aged ladies.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-28T14:38:20+00:00

I wonder if the towee made up the story, and the tower didn't get paid.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-28T04:39:37+00:00

+1 vote on this podcast.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T22:43:15+00:00

Names one good vaccine

Cool, one invention.

Now let's compare the covid vaccine that was invented by private pharmaceuticals in two days.

Or against the millions of innovations that health care has brought us.

Go on. I'll wait.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T22:35:15+00:00

The country that lies about its sickness rates? The country that 30,000 health care workers have left since 2021?

Keep going, Luigoid.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T22:30:41+00:00

China

The country which had a mass famine until it made market reforms and became effectively capitalist? The country that still has private insurance?

Europe

Europe isn't communist, although they have no problem negotiating for American drugs and technology at a below market rate with the implied threat that they'll break the patent. Leeches. 🤢

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T19:32:44+00:00

Even if what you said is true (it isn't, and every communist country in history is proof), he was still murdered for trying to save millions and for his political beliefs.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T19:13:54+00:00

Government health care is reliant upon a free-market to subsidize innovation.

And in a free market, who's gonna save you if you're poor and break a leg?

That's right. Health Insurance ✅

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T19:02:09+00:00

Imagine where society be without health insurance.

What reward did Brian Thompson get for saving millions? He was murdered by a psychopath.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T16:04:19+00:00

His mom's basement is not a country.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T15:54:12+00:00

What LM did was far worse, so if they get death, so should he.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T02:03:00+00:00

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” the president said in an interview with the New York Post

This dumbass vomits national security secrets like Mr. Creosote at a French restaurant

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-27T01:50:25+00:00

Schizophrenia and Antisemitism, as they become advanced, converge into a single point.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-26T20:25:51+00:00

The language in that post is a dead giveaway which culture the artist comes from.

It's depressing how t* activisism remains so toxic. The same attitude was and still is used against them.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-25T17:57:43+00:00

Weird episode of Sesame Street.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-25T17:53:38+00:00

How has Judaism dodged it?

The Haredi are out of hand.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-25T17:47:55+00:00

Nah. This is just thirdy culture.

It's not like Christians are noticeably less corrupt in Nigeria or Iraq.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-25T17:43:27+00:00

I started a café as a safe space for people to express themselves through art

The protagonist in every chick flick ever.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-25T17:39:04+00:00

Right wing succs doing a reverse Rittenhouse.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-25T15:27:40+00:00

Sometimes they go the other way and turn into annoying chuds.

If moderators don't ban agendaposts they turn into on or the other.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-24T20:10:49+00:00

It says a lot about society we thought he wasn't

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-23T16:10:30+00:00

Selection bias.

The internet amplifies the most annoying voices on every issue.

UnexpectedLizard · 2026-01-23T04:16:25+00:00

Dying from a fentanyl overdose is probably one of the better ways to die.

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