Counterpoint: if you have critiques of Ukraine government policies or their president, now is not an appropriate time to voice them, since they’re fighting an existential war against a country that launched a war of aggression against their neighbor, who also happens to be the neighbor of a bunch of NATO countries. If…

Either, a.) the blogger was high when they read the Friedman piece and their brain melted or b.) As I’ve long suspected, G/O media is actually a front for the Russian intelligence services. The stirring up of racial animosity, acting as a caricature of wokeness, etc are all straight out of the Russian troll playbook.…

Wow, Russian trolls even jump on Jezebel articles. Fuck off 

Good god, it is NOT a fair point. The reason people are concerned about this war and paying attention to it, and “opposed” to it, is because the country starting the war has 6000 fucking nukes, and a seemingly irrational leader whose developed an obsession with restoring territory that once belonged to the USSR, and…

Yep, it’s about race, and white people. That’s why people are paying attention. Not because a country armed with 6000+ thermonuclear weapons just launched a war of aggression on NATO’s doorstep

Is this really a question that needs to be asked? “But why?” How would you feel if, in the WNBA, they decided to let Shaq play?

Why does everything on G/O media have to be talked about in terms of race?

And she’s entitled to feel however she wants to feel, but that’s quite a stretch when it involved different countries ... and one of those countries is Russia, the #1 organized doping cheats in the world? Probably Putin threw a few bribes at some officials to get it so Valieva can compete. Seriously. There’s a decent…

I think you don’t know what disingenuous means? One is in the USA, and was suspended by the US anti-doping agency, and one is competing for the “russian olympic committee” and was not suspended by the Russians, because, of course? You really think if the Russians had some black athlete who tested positive, they…

: I’m fully aware who is and isnt responsible for their bans, just saying overall)

What does this have to do with anything though? No one’s saying it makes sense; the idea that marijuana is banned at all is pretty obviously antiquated and nonsensical. But the primary difference between these two situations seems to be the USADA unquestioningly operates by the rules of WADA and auto-banned…

Did you read the article? It’s talking about the challenges of getting people to develop emotional attachments to robots.

“ it’s fucked that people are simulating sexual assault against unwilling people.”

“its that people interact with it in a way that implies it has sentience but only in certain ways.”

Wow, really digging out the strawmen here. Like, 3, in two paragraphs. Who said the women didn’t have a right to be upset? “It certainly wasn’t an enjoyable experience.” But the level of upset, was, a video game, that you didn’t pay for and they you were beta testing i.e. playing to see what needs to be changed,…

That is very not obvious, and has been proven wrong again and again, and despite being proven wrong again and again, is always stated whenever there’s some new technology. The same exact thing was said about violent video games. And movies. “This is going to corrupt the children blargh! Isn’t it obvious that if these…

But also there seems to be this misconception that the “metaverse” is a real thing. Right now it’s a Mark Zuckerberg fever dream. Personally I don’t think VR is ever going to be more than a niche thing that a small percentage of people are into; I think most people actually like their entertainment to be casual and…

Nah, that’s a wild assumption you’re making. When you get enough of them together, some people are always going to act like jackasses. To get overly worked up about something like that, or to think it means more than it does, is a hard way to go through life. The reporting is about someone who had a bad experience as…

I wonder what the bot says back when you’re pretending to have sex with it and you blurt out “Yeah ... you like that, you fucking retard?”

Look, if you’re going to try to say that something like this leads people to objectify and abuse women, bring some evidence. Obviously this particular thing hasn’t been studied on a large scale because it’s a very small niche. But this has been studied in the context of porn and violence in movies and video games. And…