Absolutely. I’ve seen moderates/centrists/whatever on Splinter change course over the past few weeks and agreeing with Elizabeth Warren’s stance, for fuck’s sake. This fence-sitting bullshit is infuriating.

It was such a weird time back when acid-heads were making children’s shows.

So you’re just gonna ignore the whole “religious beliefs are subjective and nebulous” part? Not to mention that they aren’t based in science, which is what medical practice requires. So yeah, I kinda do require that a medical practicioner stick to science-based treatments. That’s common-fucking-sense. If you have…

I’m not conflating procedure with person. What if you had a doctor whose religious beliefs included that drugs are bad (or even certain drugs are bad). They could refuse to prescribe you medications that you need based upon this “religious exemption”.

I know I shouldn’t bring you out of the grays because you have a habit of arguing in bad faith, but I really have no idea what the fuck your first point is. If you’re a medical provider, you should provide medical services. Giving someone a religious exemption for not providing one kind of service means they could…

Since when does SCOTUS introduce legislation?

I’m suffering from a case of Poe’s Law, here.

FuUuUUCk these people. Your “personal religious beliefs” have no place in healthcare unless they are what motivate you to help people. If those beliefs prevent you from helping people then you have no fucking business being in that position and should find another line of work.

It’s a quirk of human psychology that’s systematically exploited by cult leaders. These assholes have it down to a science at this point.

The proof is in the frogs.

It’s like someone decided reductio ad absurdum was a perfectly logical way to run a presidency.

My thoughts exactly. Odds that this dude didn’t do some horrific shit on his tour of duty are about zero.

To sort of paraphrase what PV is saying (I think), it would be far more efficient for said AI to get us to turn against and exterminate each other.

I think you hinted at it, but this doesn’t take into account the fact that there are leaps that occur in scientific understanding that change everything. Nor does it take into account the collapse of a civilization, which with the way things are going we can’t exactly rule out. This is more or less a “steady state”…

The big money donors are already funding a PR campaign for him to “clean up his image” and provide counterpoints. It’s everywhere you look at this point. 

Is it weird that I automatically assumed it was an ankle monitor?

That’s usually why anyone uses that tactic.

That would be confusing, but a label’s a label, I suppose.

I should have clarified. It’s annoying and crude as a tactic, but it’s also effective at times. It’s one of those stupid things someone will say to “own” someone in an online argument, and proceed to crow about how they “won” and refuse to continue the debate.

Can planets be “east”?