Eugenics aren’t suddenly okay if they’re only accessible to some people. Healthcare on the other hand should be available to everyone but it’s still a net positive even if it isn’t available to everyone.

I always make it a point to upvote content on smaller communities I subscribe to; I like to think it helps whoever posted the content to know that despite the very low engagement, people are in fact seeing it and appreciating it.

You said ‘or otherwise regulate’, not ‘and regulate’, so I logically assumed you were making two independent proposals and chose to respond to one of them, omitting the other for clarity.

I don’t even think it’s a counter-argument, really. As soon as prosperity becomes a factor, it’s a “rich people only” feature, regardless of what other guardrails are in place.

but make people pay […] if they want the additional data to screen for more precise things.

Isn’t that just worse than giving the data to everyone, though? The more expensive you make it, the more of an exclusively ‘rich people’ service it becomes. As if kids with rich parents don’t already have enough advantages in life, let’s make sure they’re physically peak, too?

I know ‘slippery slope’ is a logical fallacy, but I think it’s applicable here.

We scan for disease, easy sell. But since we’re doing it anyway, let’s also include physical defects. Why not also include autism? I mean we have the data already, and these parents are paying for the service, why shouldn’t we give them that information? And if we’re doing all of that, why not also give them data on life expectancy and intelligence? Maybe physical traits - after all, they’d really prefer a blond haired, blue eyed child.

Gattaca was a great movie and definitely didn’t portray any social issues whatsoever stemming from actions like this!

I think most of us are, but a lot of us made the switch quite some time ago… mid-2023 was a pretty big migration wave, and so have largely forgotten about Redditisms. :)

For what it’s worth, that’s probably more of a Reddit thing; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that asked on Lemmy.

That extra bit of context definitely helps to frame why someone would be asking you those things!

I’d bet some significant amount of the hype was from people thinking “Oh, sick! The Marathon franchise is getting a revival!” without realizing that the new game had essentially no relation to the Marathon franchise they remembered. I don’t know who they think is sitting around thinking, “You know what I want? Another live service extraction shooter.”

If you earned 100,000 bits every day since the first day the Earth existed, you wouldn’t even be half way there today!

Yeah but that isn’t as impressive sounding.

Did you know the wayback machine saves 150,000,000,000,000 bytes worth of webpages every day?! If you stacked 150,000,000,000,000 bytes end to end, they would reach from earth to the moon and back SEVEN TIMES! That’s enough bytes to fill 18 American football stadiums!

Is the implication, then, that people with money are never dangerous individuals?

In some cases she’d be better off approaching a bear, but she won’t know it until it’s too late.

Sometimes he’d be better off approaching a bear, too, and also won’t know it until it’s too late. This isn’t a gender thing, this is just a “some people are shitty” thing.

A better approach would be to try to pick up a woman who’s alone, offer her a drink*,

A bit of a tangent, but I really hate this. Not meaning to call you out, this is a really common recommendation for an icebreaker and it’s also reinforced by popular media and the like, but it always feels to me like the implication is that if a man wants to approach a woman, they must buy something for them as part of that process. Like it’s a transaction fee to be given a chance.

Thanks, I hate it.

Antifa Ost in Germany

Aww man, I didn’t know there was an official soundtrack for Antifa! Germans get all the cool stuff.

Unless I’m misunderstanding your question, the specific server is more important than the software they’re running; it doesn’t matter if the software is being developed long-term if the server shuts down in the short-term… your community will go down with it.

Couple years ago, lightning struck a tree on our neighbor’s property across the street. We didn’t see the strike, but we heard it; the tree basically exploded. Some of the branches fell onto the power lines and started an electrical fire, so it was a whole big thing. Bunch of people standing out on their driveways watching the police and fire department trying to deal with it.

Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.