I think the “human problem” is another problem entirely, and imo handwaves the fact that there is one very specific gendered dynamic where this is a problem, to the point where we in the comments are going like “well obviously there are going to be some rapists in mixed company, and given the opportunity to rape…”

That is rape culture right up in here, and there are things we can do to mitigate it.

It’s like both cars and cyclists can injure pedestrians but there are reasons why one of these is much more prevalent. Bad analogy but hopefully you can look past it to see my point.

Lol no, but I did fall down the stairs as a lad

I get how you mean this, but it’s so fucked up that a house party is “an extremely dangerous position” to be in.

Yeah ofc it’s everyone’s responsibility to stay aware on a path. I cycle every day, usually not on a path but when I do I have to be very careful.

Although I’ve found the real hazard isn’t usually dogs but little kids, and people look at you weird when you leash those things so I get it

Aren’t bad tasting drinks fun though? Like it’s a sensory experience

Yeah, not to be pithy but the first step is admitting there’s a problem. That’s where we’re at now (or trying to get to).

It’s so weird to me that sports/gambling have become so conflated. Clearly a lot of money has been thrown at the businesses running professional sports to land us here.

Cigarettes is a perfect analogy. It’s not even an extreme comparison, both are undeniably a net harm to people, but are somehow normalized.

Haha thanks, I did double check this wasn’t just about video games first. :9

They’re not customers, they’re users. And I didn’t mean to intimate that the competitors weren’t also evil in this racket.

I’ve got a deck of cards in my coffee table that I like to play solitaire on. I keep tweaking the house rules to make it more fun.

Actually I’m not sure I’d call it “fun” so much as “relaxing.” But I do enjoy myself.

Literally because it scaled

It is the duty of every citizen to go into the vats

It’s kind of silly to rank them by which one is “more right” compared to the others, it also doesn’t necessarily map on to harms caused.

But yeah that space could at least be empty and shift everything right. Obviously the matrix is bullshit to begin with though

That’s a deep cut

or we can delete the account at which point the user will think “hey if I have to re-register anyway, why not go to a competitor”, losing out on that business

Yup, that’s evil. That’s sick thinking that doesn’t respect your customers’ agency. Kind of unsurprising when your business is predating upon gamblers, but still evil.

But it’s so obviously flagrantly predatory… I really thought this would be too far, like legally.

Conversely, if someone is honest and says, “this is just how I like it I’m not really sure why” I’ll at least respect it because they were honest, and a silly (little) rule that exists because of some cope or something is something I can relate to.

Yah not loving how nd just becomes whichever one you’re thinking of, or just some vague difference. It’s like the “Asian” of cognitive differences.

Like ocd and bpd exist, for examples.

I mean I do it sometimes too, but it does exclude

Do people think of cybernetics when they think of transhumanism? I can see the continuum, but I think of transhumanism as being about more fundamental changes

Good old slow and steady sensible destruction, like when I was a kid!!

It’s like a paradise, spread out with a butter knife!