Semjeza

Yes, we know. That’s why it’s funny. But it still makes the point.

But have you ever seen them make a “zero-suit” version of a male armoured guy?
Don’t recall Master Chef or the Doom Marine running around in their skintight underlayers.

Additionally, Samus debuted in a game with no characterisation, and iirc, you only found out she wasn’t a man when she stripped down at the end of the game if you did well.

Two points:

• using stem cells so it remained biological brain cells, rather than a mechanical reproduction.
• they directly stimulate it with electricity and it then has a response to that stimuli, they don’t seem to be hooking it up to check for additional processes; it’s a step up, I guess, from direct stimulation for motor function in a frog - but not anything more revolutionary.

So, guess I’ll need to update my post slightly, but the core point remains.

That said, I felt that they were saying for half of it that they were running Doom on a braincell using computer, rather than getting a braincell computer to respond to it for half the article. Oh well.

Sadly if you need to make ppts regularly, OpenOffice and Libra Office don’t come close to Powerpoint in terms of features…

And sadly I’m far too incompetent a coder (and already torn 4 ways between family, job, MtG:judging, and rest and hobbies as I’m hugely introverted) to be able to help change that.

That said, the word processor, spreadsheet, and graphic design application are all a head better than the proprietary versions I’ve tried.

I’ll acknowledge that Michael broke laws while (the thoroughly vituperable) Rowling has not.
But I don’t hold that to be an arbiter of morality.

For me it comes down more to how they seem to view other living beings.
Michael has no clear evidence of deliberate, knowing, harm. Yes, he should’ve known better, and without being in his head I can’t know for sure… But it seems to be plausible.

Meanwhile J. K. (I feel more comfortable with a gender neutral name even now everyone knows me but gender bending is right out) Rowling has made it clear that she doesn’t value trans-people as much as cos-people and is willing to set up conditions which greatly increase sexual assault against trans-women if it might only slightly reduce the threat of sexual assault against a single cos-woman, and does not find issue with cooperating with actual neo-nazis and crypto fascists who have strong misogynistic and homophobic stances on anti-trans issues - despite claiming she doesn’t want to harm those groups. She is choosing to value particular groups and ignore, and create, suffering for others she seems abhuman. (And yes she has a tragic back-story of an abusive husband and marital rape, which she says is why she must ensure gender is immutable.)

But - evil and harm can’t be compared and the totally different natures of what they do make comparison even more pointless.
If you continue to enjoy either of their work (or that of any other harmful person, be it Marquis de Sade, H. P. Lovecraft, or whomever) more power to you - but just try your best not to fund She Who Shall Not be Named’s warchest.

Ehh, Michael was fucked up by his circumstances and dad… He did terrible things, but I’m not sure how bad he knew he was being to those kids.

Rowling has made it clear any money she makes from a year’s back will be basically fully deployed to actively make trans people, and anyone who might support them, worse off.

But harm and “bad” are all inquantifiable, like all things that matter.

Besides, all of this is a very post-19th century problem where celebrity itself and the parasocial connection with creators has become such a large part of how people self-identify and find community. (As with Capitalism consumption = identity.)

Exfoliate and excoriate the brain of Joanne Transphobe Rowling and all that…

But I appreciate your awareness and sense and deployment of knowledge of the in universe rules (perhaps even to an extent more than the author did).

We’ve yet to be able to replicate it from the old parts of meat we know are involved in it with the addition of electricity in the ways it should need in even the much simpler flesh of insects, amphibians, and reptiles. Best we can do is make a muscle twitch without causing observable thought/emergent nureaul processes.

So even if we can, we’re so far from it that thinking we’re on the cusp seems delusional to me.

Edit: as response shows, we have in fact also gotten it brain cell “twitches” by direct stimulation of braincells. Sadly it didn’t seem to be rigged up to measure overall brain activity.

So you’re not including culturally and socially Muslim countries which make up a huge proportion of the world’s Muslims?

Indonesia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Türkiye; none of them count as Muslim for you?

Because those countries don’t execute people for blasphemy (even if some have their own human rights problems).
Nor for being gay.

There are plenty of culturally Christian nations in Africa who have the death penalty for homosexuality. Yet I presume you can see enough variation in Christians across the world to not decide that that is a reality of all Christians. Maybe you’ll claim that since few-no governments are explicitly Christian that it doesn’t count.

But yeah, if you said Islamic theocratic nation, I would agree with you.
But then I think that Indonesia, Uzbekistan, and Türkiye count as Muslim nations.

And also, this is the comment I replied to; not a criticism of theocracy.

Hating a culture or religion for its backwards, antiquated attitude to people being different is not racism. Islam is not a race nor a country.

So all those Muslims from Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Istanbul, and the Alevi, Hui, Kurds, are all included in your comment. And they’re the people I’m saying you’ve been misrepresentating in comments like that.

It kinda is, if it’s based off of anbundiffernetiated stereotype of adherents of the religion.

I’m going to assume that you don’t have any problems with Alevi muslims, the Hui, and probably fine with Muslims from Indonesia too.

But by focusing on an incorrect stereotype, well if you feel better giving it another name: bully for you. But racism is basically just a synonym for xenophobia,