Fun will now commence.

They’re literally a tool designed for hyper fixating.

Telescopes cause autism, got it.

#1 is more ascii art than an emoji, but that could be a cool thing to integrate into a picker—customizable ascii text that you can search by keyword.

Why go to a website at all? Emoji pickers should be integrated into the OS I’m pretty sure both Windows and KDE plasma do this natively.

I think they were worried about their branding being associated with violence. In the 90s, there was a ton of anti-video game propaganda branding it as violent garbage that was corrupting our children.

Ironically, video games are very good at conditioning human responses to iconography. So despite the Red Cross’ hostility, video games still succeeded in conditioning a lot of people to instantly associate plus signs (any color) with health.

XKCD #2347

Averages may vary slightly, but there is way more variation within a gender than between genders, meaning gender doesn’t play a significant role in the performance of most tasks.

For example, the difference in strength between the strongest man and the weakest man is much greater than the average man and the average woman.

Experience is by orders of magnitude the most important factor in someone’s performance at any given skill.

It’s kind of ridiculous that any skill is gendered.

Why should we embrace Down Syndrome when we could eradicate it?

I’m not saying that either. Check out the edit on my original post.

I’m well aware of the difference.

First of all, HIV doesn’t make sense as an example because that’s a virus, not genetic.

I’m also not debating the scientific legitimacy of CRISPR. It’s obviously much more valid as a science than the eugenics of the past.

Sure but the same thing can be said of any illness.

No, it can’t. I’m not even talking about illnesses. There are plenty of examples of genetic diversity that and not intrinsically bad, but many would prefer to change because of stigma. What about sex? Height? ADHD? Skin/hair color? All of these could arguably make someone’s life more challenging. But we should make our society more accepting of this diversity, not altering our genes to remove it. That is eugenics. Period.

There are wonderful anxiety-riddled or depressed people in the world. Should we prevent them from getting anti-depressants because it would make them less unique?

This argument makes no sense. You’re comparing informed consent medication with editing an embryo’s DNA? Also, anxiety and depression, as an example, do have genetic predispositions, but are mostly triggered by environmental factors. Which again, brings us back to fixing our society, not our genes.

Yes! I so badly want this game to get the same remaster treatment that AoE II got, but as is the case with most licensed games, the IP will probably keep it from ever being updated again.

https://github.com/thunderbird

Yeah, I’m not arguing against curing Down’s syndrome. I updated my post to be clearer.

However your “Ship of Theseus” argument makes no sense and is completely irrelevant.

Weird, it must be an instance-specific thing, because it’s not censored for me.

That’s the answer. It’s institutional homophobia left over from the AIDS epidemic.

I have mixed feelings about this. At first it seems great, but the line between “genetic defect” and eugenics can get very blurry.

There are many people with what some would consider a “defect” to be fixed that live incredibly fulfilling lives and bring an irreplaceable uniqueness to the world.

EDIT: I guess this wasn’t clear from my original comment, but I’m not arguing against this particular use case. I understand very well the challenges that down’s presents to both the person and their caretakers. I’m saying that I’m weary about the precedent this can set while there is no legal boundary between curing crippling diseases and simply changing undesirable (in the parents’ subjective view) traits.

Fuck Nintendo. No other company has as much active distain for their fans. And the damage they’ve done to game preservation is immeasurable.

The meme isn’t complaining about auto-updates. The meme is complaining that “Update and Shutdown” doesn’t actually turn off the PC when it’s done updating.

Y’all only have 1 comma in your AWS bills?