impairedimperator

My house is wood and was built in 1923.

Houses are made of wood in the US because we didn’t chop down our forests in the 1500s. European houses generally fall into the category of 1000+ year old stone or modern brick

Most houses around these parts are made of wood, not concrete.

If you’re switching to concrete, emissions will be worse than pretty much anything else you could use. Concrete is already responsible for some 8-12% of all global CO2 emissions.

Meh, they had willows to chew on back then too.

That explains all the rising depression and anxiety.

After all, the things that make life worth living are the new iPhone.

I would not pull the switch, that’s my solution to all permutations of the trolley problem.

I meant did you try bending your elbows further than that?

They technically could go further. Or is your mind/willingness limited by your body?

Have you ever tried moving your toes? Not as a whole, but individually. Like your fingers. The nerves are there, the brain connections are there, the muscles are there…can your mind grow enough to make them function?

You are correct. I do make a guess as to who feels what. I just don’t feel the need to limit my guesses to some arbitrary definition of life that does feel pain and life that does not feel pain. All life feels pain. Plants included.

How do you measure emotions?

Like, how do I know that you have emotions? If I punch you, how do I know you’ll feel pain? I’m not gonna feel what you feel, I can only observe your response. Stimulus, response.

Same thing with plants. Same thing with dogs.

As to your last point, it wasn’t that long ago that Very Smart People argued dogs don’t feel pain. Of course they obviously did, and of course most every normal person recognized they did…but that wasn’t what we “knew”, as a society. Hell, it wasn’t until like, 50 years ago that we recognized human babies felt pain prior to being able to vocalize an “ow that hurts”.

Perhaps it makes people feel better to know that dogs feel pain and lettuce doesn’t. But that’s almost certainly not a true statement.

Edit: also, how much of your body controls your brain? Like, have you ever considered bending your elbow in the wrong direction? No? Why not? Why is it the wrong direction? It just is, right? That’s how the body works?

No, but they will release chemical signals that attract predators of things that eat plants, while telling other nearby plants to start moving nutrients into their root structures to minimize damage.

Just in time for the GPU I bought specifically for this game three years ago to shit the bed…sigh

Investors don’t care about the companies they invest in, they care about return on investment.

If it destroys the company, they simply invest in another company.