Why does it matter? We can't understand the subjective experience of rocks any more than we can bacteria. Why should we rule out their capacity and not bacteria's? There's no more evidence that one has more of a conscious subjective experience than the other, living or not.

By your logic, shouldn't we opt to be more inclusive of rocks if they could potentially have some sort of experience that we have no current understanding of?

If you don't have any evidentiary basis for your inclusiveness, then that makes it completely arbitrary. Why not start worrying about potential cruelty to non-living things like air, or rocks as well?

Agreed. In the long term it's better for consumers if there is competition, but that also means being an informed consumer, making good buying decisions and not being blindly loyal to any particular brand.

If anything, Intel's lack of transparency should speak volumes. They're hoping to just mostly ignore the problem until it blows over. I still think it's more severe than they're letting on, but only time will tell. They're in full damage control mode right now.

Anyone who gets scared off of buying Intel CPU's until they see how this plays out is making a sound decision IMO. Consumers shouldn't accept this kind of behaviour.

On the flip side, this could also make for some potentially good deals on unaffected SKUs.

And now we have evidence to suggest that we were wrong, thus there is a moral imperative to act based off this new information. There is no evidence that bacteria or similar organisms are capable of pain or suffering. If you want to just disregard all science and biology, that's your prerogative I suppose.

Although yeast is technically living, it's more similar to bacteria than animals or other living creatures. It doesn't feel pain and isn't a sentient being - there is absolutely no reason not to consume yeast or foods made with yeast.

I've deleted so many half written comments thinking "If this is what they think, do I really want to deal with the absolute garbage response I'll inevitably get back?"

From the article:

1.4 million fentanyl pills totaling 152.98 kilograms.

This is probably better phrasing.

The weight of the pills is 153kg, not the weight of the fentanyl within the pills. That is substantially different. Like orders of magnitude off.

NPR made it a point to say that some observers worry that the media attention Hoover’s case has drawn could undermine an organ-transplant system with a waiting list of more than 100,000 people. A professor of medical ethics with whom NPR spoke said all indications are that cases like Hoover’s are generally “one-offs that hopefully we’ll be able to get to the bottom of and prevent from ever happening again”.

Obviously the whole thing is horrifying, but it doesn't move the needle much for me on my personal choice to donate or not.

OK, but which direction do the pants open: forwards or up?

Something about the drudgery of modern existence, I suspect.

Yesn't.

That's wild. Did you need a special program to parse stuff out of the data stream? I guess it would mostly come in as http reaponses, so it wouldn't be too hard, but still an interesting problem.

Just to give an idea of the unlikelihood we're talking about here, you can model this as a Bernoulli process with a binomial distribution.

If N is the number of beings potentially snapped, then (√N)/2 is the standard deviation. (If you're curious about why, you can read more here.) So for 8.2 billion people, the standard deviation is ~90,000. The chance of being more than ~3 standard deviations below the mean is 0.1%. That means there's only a 0.1% chance of snapping less than 4,099,720,200 people.

I would think it's basically a coin flip for each living thing. It's possible, for example, that all humans survive, however the probability is so astronomically small, it's functionally impossible.

Same with gut biome. Even with several billion attempts, the probability that even 60% of any individual's trillion gut microbes get snapped would be essentially functionally impossible.

TIL my router can make coffee out of thin air. What a tool.

Wow, you're right. That's an incredibly misleading headline.

So your reaction to Asmon saying something kinda fuckin racist and then recanting, as opposed to just not saying the racist thing in the first place, is to give him more of your attention?

People like him get popular by manufacturing controversy.

(The Center Square) - California is spending $1.7 million per year housing and treating each “sexually violent predator” discharged from state mental hospitals and in the process of transitioning to the community under care and supervision from a third-party contractor, a new state audit found.

Wow, $1,700,000 per person per year sounds rather astronomical...

Between fiscal years 2003-2004 and 2023-2024 California paid almost $93 million to Liberty Healthcare to house, treat, supervise, and monitor 56 individuals the state has designated as “sexually violent predators,”

OK, that sounds more reasonable...

 $93,000,000 / (20 * 56) = $83,036

So which is it, $1.7M or $83K? Because that's a rather substantial difference.

Am I missing something here? I can't find any sources in the article. Did they just make the first figure up?

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