I think animals should have more rights already. It’d be nice if they could talk or something to help people realize they’re actually living things worthy of empathy.

But to your point, cats and dogs are already among the better-treated animals in large parts of the world.

Compared to animals who get farmed (especially factory farmed), or get the death sentence label of a pest or invasive species.

We have our place on the planet purely by right of conquest.

It’s fundamentally immoral what we do to animals but people just ignore it, accept it as a necessary evil, or somehow block the empathy from their brain applying to animals.

We all should, though.

Desktop OS on a tablet is fine and even preferred depending on what you want it for.

I have a surface and don’t mind using full windows that way.

I have a surface and I love it. At the same time, I hardly use the stylus.

I’m sure it’s the reason many get it, but I also think there’s a large audience for a tablet without one.

Or trying to drive to the shop instead of getting a tow.

I’ve seen that about Ubuntu a few times. Can someone provide me with a TLDR or a good summary article of what’s happened to them? Also is it their server stuff too or just desktop? (I use Ubuntu on my home server and have for years)

Yeah, I miss when there was a social media site that catered to just people you know. Just friends and family.

Plain sparkling water. It’s already my favourite one. I drink it by the pallet.

This is like us too. The important stuff aligns, but we have very different general interests and hobbies.

How different from water does it have to be? Just not in the title?

Because both something like sparkling water and juice are basically water.

But I already pretty much only drink sparkling water so I’ll pick that one if it’s allowed (if the spirit of your question is “no flat water”).

I feel like most people who get their news primarily through Facebook, are horribly misinformed.

So maybe this is a good thing?

Make sure you use it with Firefox. It works better.

That’s better than some I’ve seen. Like 200 for everything and the text could even be “error”.

Or 500 with the text “invalid input”

Although, it’ll probably be one of the coolest months for the next while.

There is no reason what you describe should give rise to consciousness rather than a biological artificial intelligence. The sense of self, the perspective that feels like me peering out through my eyes, is not explained by anything you said.

A copy of me does not equal me because we’d both have separate senses of self. Having copied memories does nothing to affect that.

For me, when a website doesn’t work in Firefox but does in Chrome or edge, most of the time the real reason is due to me switching from a browser with dozens of add-ons to one with 0.

Otherwise Firefox works fine everywhere.

Consciousness is not based on memory or else computers would be considered conscious.

And if according to what you’re saying, a clone with all of your memories would mean you have two points of view. I could take your clone into a different room and you’d be able to tell me what they see. But it obviously wouldn’t work like that because your own sense of self would still be locked in your head and the clone would get its own sense of self, albeit one with the same memories.

Is it me functioning or is it a clone?

The general idea is a teleporter rips you apart and the atoms go to the destination to be reassembled in the previous state.

Whether or not it kills you is speculation. Arguably you’re pretty dead if you’re ripped apart atom by atom, and then a clone is assembled using the same parts.

But I don’t think it’s answerable if the recreated “you” is a clone or not until people can figure out what the mind even is.