I've always liked the idea that eventually every civilization just invents vats of dopamine you float in blissed out and that's where society just ends.
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I've decided I'll juat use a Mac for work and play PC games on a docked SteamDeck. No more need for windows.
Personally I prefer the Great Khan of Illinois
Feeling the warmth return to my extremities.
As the airports begin to buckle they're going to fold on the shutdown very soon.
Him and Schumer really just damaged their own brand and people's opinion of their leadership. They'll be gone next year.
Only Schumer hasn't. Hochul, Jefferies, and Obama have all fallen in-line as of this comment.
We had three deaths in this way when i was in highschool way before tiktok was a thing
In far-right group chats and forums, they adore Vance — but they can’t stand that he’s married to a brown woman.
Vance is deeply online; he’s fully aware that his family stands in the way of his dream to become MAGA’s chosen heir.
This is the same man who once called Trump an “American Hitler,” only to later accept the role of his vice president.
To me, this statement makes one thing clear: he’s setting the stage to divorce his wife and abandon his children, all under the convenient guise of religious conviction.

Can you even form a civilization without being an pleasure seeking organism? Chemicals that produce pleasure or pain are fundamental to how life motivates individual creatures into doing basically anything.
If an alien body doesn't produce the good/bad chemicals then what motivates it to do anything?