Interesting that you list vice versa. What do you typically use instead?

I’ve never seen anyone use “demure” in a serious context. It seems to always be used to convey a mocking tone.

Relevant XKCD

In theory, the value they create is in handling all the home maintenance. Of course, many of them don’t do their jobs in practice.

I mean, this is how businesses work in general. If you don’t buy their products/services, then they wouldn’t be able to continue providing them.

I understand that we’re trying to draw attention to exploitative landlords, but if anyone can afford to keep their property regardless of whether or not you pay rent, it’s the exploitative ones.

Agreed. There’s a particular Chinese seitan dish that I really like but I don’t know what it’s called. It tastes kind of like a sweet curry flavor and is very juicy. Would anyone happen to know what it could be?

There’s also voting to voice what you want to see in a community. If you block every community that has content you don’t like, there won’t be anything left.

Well, if that’s how it worked before, they must’ve changed it. I installed it last night without paying and it never blocked me.

we can only do that in our fiction

At present, yes. The hypothetical is in the future, possibly in one where we’ve developed interstellar travel and we can be the ones visiting the alien planet.

Another one of the million projects in my backlog that I’ll never get to.

There’s one major problem with this kind of website that I’ve been wanting a solution for, and it’s that people often only leave reviews when they have an exceptionally bad experience. So when you see a product with lots of negative reviews, does that mean it’s actually bad? Or is it just a very popular product, so lots of people will find issues with it? I think the solution to that is some form of review pre-registration. When you buy something that’s intended to last a while, inform the review website of that purchase. Then if something goes wrong and you leave a negative review, you can see what percentage of purchases are affected.

since they are by definition far beyond our technology

How so? Aliens aren’t going to suddenly come into existence and have super-human technology in that same instant.

Are you talking about DeArrow? The website gives you the option to pay or just download without paying.

Before I started adblocking, I’d get “relevant” ads in that I can understand how someone of my age/gender might like it, but they’re never things I’d purchase myself. I just want a mostly empty home with as little visual stimulation as possible, and buying more stuff doesn’t help with that.

So yeah, I’m definitely saying “ads don’t work for me”, but it’s probably only because these companies refuse to make ads targeted to people like me.

All you really need for tasty roasted potatoes is salt, which you wouldn’t be able to see. Paired with some garlic mayo ideally.

The majority of Mozilla’s income comes from advertising for Google

In the context of the American general public, a healthy burger would require a very different ratio of meat to bun to veggies, at which point most people probably wouldn’t call it a burger anymore.

There are so many different types of tofu and different ways to prepare them that all taste vastly different. That stuff is basically a blank canvas.

Even if it were a credit card, wouldn’t the estate still have to cover all debts before inheritance? So it would effectively be the same thing.

there are traits exhibited by conscious entities which we don’t observe in those which lack consciousness.

Implying we have a way of determining whether an entity is conscious or not. That’s the entire point of contention here.

That’s pretty cool. It does feel easier to read, but I can’t tell if that’s placebo or a real effect.