Ok, thanks for the clarification and your patience with what i pointed out. I made the mistake of using the word “mulato” once since i arrived at the US, aware that it existed in English, but unaware of its connotation. It was very embarrassing, but thankfully people were understanding of my mistake, and explained to…

So I am, you can be Hispanic and white. Did he sound like a native Spanish speaker? That is the critical point for what I was saying.

Was the dude hispanic? In Spanish “mulato” and “mestizo” are the normal words to refer to mixed race people. I knew the word existed in English, thanks to the dictionary, but i was surprised it had a negative connotation in English.
I looked into the history of the word, and i was also surprised to find the origin, it…

Men talk like that, and i used to think it’s not a big deal. I used to think it’s all talk, kinda like a penis-measuring contest.

“Akin to flag-burning” is exactly right. Flag burning is, or should be, a legitimate way to protest the political project represented by that flag.

I really doubt that would be the case, because feelings and drives are specifically written into ourselves. Just not into the thinking-brain, but into the reward mechanism. A reward mechanism is something that we might or might not add to an AI (it could be part of the secret of building friendly AIs) but it’s…

My friends who use them tell me that the good dildos feel way better, and are more versatile than the real thing. The only reason why they would prefer the real thing is because they also like to embrace some meat.

No, the point is how self-aware the AI is. If it has consciousness of its own existence separate from its use. And beyond, if it was designed to want to be free (which is a programming feature hard-wired in us by our evolution).
We derive pleasure from being free to do what we want. Our genes reward the attainment of…

With the advent of artificial wombs, and the help of some ovary donors, sexbots could be made capable to become pregnant and take that pregnancy to term, in time.

And we are on our way to develop artificial artificial wombs.

Yes, it was “stolen” and published “without her permission”.

Tragic beauty stories never seem to find a resolution because the answer is obvious: the makeup business needs more women of color chemists, marketers, spokesmodels and ambassadors across the board.

I agree with what you say except that they can cause real harm.

Being a Spaniard, i find the American-style service very annoying (not their fault) and very wrong. The idea that the serving staff have to be so incredible solicitous to the customers or they will be screwed up money-wise is revolting. And they are solicitous to the point of being annoying, at least to a person who…

This is so distressful, I am, i have been but now it’s worse, in constant fear. I’m new to the US, not even a resident, just a legal alien on research visa. My fear is not even for me, as i’m white. But my gf is African American.

Just the thought of her being murdered like that, of being taken away like that girl’s bf…

Americans are so cute ;)

She did, i understand she’s a business analyst for VMWare.

That’s not the only alternative. Another alternative is making such a valuable worker, somone who is investing a lot of money (the money she’d be making somewhere else) in your business, an associate. Maybe in other sort of business it wouldn’t work, but in a small restaurant is exactly the model of workplace where it…

There’s no Lady Stoneheart.

There’s no war in Ba Sing Se.