Hmmm, but that standard, I would err on it being inseparable, and mostly on the side of being a benefit.

Any complex life form needs complex environmental feedback of some kind, because if it’s anything like life as we’ve conceived of it, it needs external energy (food in our case) and avoidance of damage (no matter how mild the environment).

Sentience is just a high grade of that fundamental concept. It’s the difference between something like a plant that grows towards light and away from competitors; and something like a shrimp that makes a constant loop of processing external stimuli vs internal algorithms that predict probable outcomes.

As such, it can only be a benefit on an evolutionary level that the form of sentience become as complex as the niche the organism needs to fill/exploit that niche. A shrimp only needs a low grade of sentience because it’s a fairly simple and small niche. An eagle would be a higher complexity sentience because the scale it functions in is massive and involves wider risk/reward variables, with attendant import to outcomes.

I don’t think any organism will develop more sentience capabilities than it needs for long, nor will it keep it for long once a given level of need is past. If eagles all get sent to a large underground bunker, they don’t need the brain power to process everything, nor the energy it takes to maintain it. You’ll end up with a simpler processing of stimuli. Less flexibility, but also less “stress” from repeated decision making.

None of that requires thought though. Decisions on that scale “is a rabbit going to fight back enough that I should avoid it”, where accumulated data in memory can be used to guesstimate outcomes, they don’t require a conscious process, any more than us catching a ball does. To the contrary, thinking about some things makes them harder to do well. If an eagle had to think its way through snagging a running rabbit, it would be fucked.

And that’s really where sentience ends: thought. When there’s a “self” to make a decision based on conflicting stimuli and memory.

So I don’t think sentience can ever be more of a drawback than a benefit. By its nature, it happened because it was a more successful way of surviving long enough to breed.

Well, anyone watching would already know I’m fucked in the head. So I doubt they’d be surprised when I went on a killing spree for having been violated like that

What? You think the nanobot drones disguised as vaccines are new thing?

When the world shits on your neck, go out hard

What’s your definition set? Are you using sentience as being the same or different from consciousness and/or sapience? There’s multiple usages for sentient as a term, and this is a complex enough subject that I don’t want to waste your time yammering on about the wrong thing lol

Ah, they just opened up the ability to connect devices to an account. I have it on my tablet and phone simultaneously. The tablet only fetches messages when I open the app though. Not sure if that’s intended, or something about my device, and I actually prefer it to notifications on both anyway; which other messagers do on the same devices.

I’m not sure how it would work on separate profiles on the same device though. If it’s one account, it would seem strange if it did work fully since they’re both linked to the same number/account. Two accounts might work, I dunno

Ahhhh, that makes it much easier to choose magic. As long as I don’t have to leave my people behind, I’m down for that

I dunno that this is super unpopular overall, but it’s a damn good post!

Me? I think it depends on the vegetable, and the use case.

Like broccoli? It sucks in crudites. You can’t really taste it, it’s crunch at the florets and outright unpleasantly hard at the stem. But you give that even a light steam,and the flavor opens up. The stems become tender (if not flavor rich).

Carrots though? Fucking great raw, as well as cooked. They taste different, the mouth feel is distinct, and they provide a degree of satisfaction as part of a raw veggie platter that tops any of the usual options. 10/10 raw and 10/10 steamed, roasted, stewed, candied, or pretty much any way.

Peppers are similar imo. Onions, I err on cooked for the most part, but some dishes are great with some diced onion. Chili, hot dogs, some salads, etc.

Green beans though? They suck raw. They’re acceptable cooked al dente, but you also don’t want them cooked to fill soft either. Might as well just open a can at that point.

Peas? Suck raw, imo. Never seen an application for them. I pan roast those suckers with some thyme and butter, and I’m in heaven.

But food is always subjective. About the only thing that’s objectively true is that some amount of fats and salt make anything more likely to be enjoyed. Our tongues and brains are just wired that way. But even there, preferences can override, and three preparation matters because it can be over done.

One thing that I’ve learned in my fifty odd years is that if someone enjoys something I don’t, I can just be happy they like it. I may offer to expose them to what I enjoy, and will usually jump at a chance to experience what they enjoy, but ain’t no room in my life for hating on someone’s food preferences. So, in that spirit: fuck raw veggies, my lemmydawg!

My fellow lemmite, you gotta find a way to take a break. That’s the equivalent of someone rolling up to a group of folks at the mall and ranting about politics.

While totally understandable that you’re stressed over it, the way you did it and the way you phrased it all is worrying. For real, no sarcasm, no snark, it makes me concerned that you’re on the edge of a breakdown. You have anyone irl that can help you find some outlet? Maybe a good game night with friends, whatever sport you might play? You can’t hold onto that kind of anger and stay healthy, physically. Like, the stress you must be feeling will harm your body.

I’m not even a people person, and I don’t know you, but if you were my neighbor I’d want to hug your neck and tell you that you’re not alone, that maybe we should grab some nice iced tea and sit a spell, give you a chance to let it all out to someone that’ll really listen.

Take care of yourself, okay? It’s an ugly world, but if you let it grind you down much more, it’ll just get uglier.

This is not really the right community, but I wanna play anyway lol.

If I’m getting your scenario right, the choice is between being you, but not having access to the Wizard class (or whatever it would be called) and limited to other classes; or not being you at all in terms of consciousness and being a wizard.

If that’s accurate, what would be the point of reincarnation? You wouldn’t get to enjoy any of it as your self. So unless the scenario factors in souls having memory and you’d get to enjoy it that way, it seems a pretty bad choice in terms of experiential immersion.

So, obviously, with that in mind, I’ll take the brand new body, thank you. Though if I can’t do so with my people also being present, I’d opt out entirely. I’m not sacrificing the good in my life, abandoning the people that love me and rely on me, just for an adventure. That’s what d&d is for, you dig? Taking an adventure like that without at least my wife is a hell no.

Definitely unpopular by any metric!

I’ll add to the list of folks explaining that the way you describe caramel isn’t accurate, as there is a difference between burnt sugar and caramel.

I’ll also add my own bit of opinion that not all caramel is equal. When made on the cheap, particularly in commercial sized batches, it’s way less likely to be anything other than why you say you don’t like it: sticky and unpleasant. Shitty caramel is most often not even caramel, it’s a flavored and thickened syrup, which will have only scant flavor beyond being cloying.

You probably wouldn’t like good caramel either though, So I won’t waste your time or mine explaining how to make it. But suffice it to say that if it’s homemade, you have much better control of the results, and thus a better chance of it being good.

That is not Withers

Damn, that’s plenty of time to tell you to bugger off, if that was the goal

At least once!

How long did you wait between asking a mod whatever it was before multi-posting?

This is lemmy. Mods don’t really need to check things ten times a day, so most don’t. Gotta stay laid back broham

That’s a mixer, not a shooter

Not at all! Even where he had a point he broke it off by going full batshit. Doesn’t excuse others for also being assholes, but damn did he screw up. And then the attempted ddos thing? The fediverse is well rid of him.

Wellll, as someone that caught some shit for criticizing how people behaved in response to his fuckery, you might think I’d agree. I don’t.

Now, my hot take is that the initial problem wasn’t that he made a front end that included a block list. I’m fine with that, though I would be dubious of a single person deciding what was on said list no matter what else was involved.

The problem was it taking extra effort to even know it was there, much less see what was on it. Seriously, had everything been fully transparent up front it would come down to freedom of choice in developing it, and whether or not it would be used by any given instance.

Shit, anyone with any sense runs filters on apps that have them available, we block users, communities and instances. Of course a front end that gives extra ability to block things would be okay. That’s not what it was. It was explicitly opt-out, with obscured content.

Other than a handful of people that would whine about anything, the thrust of the complaints is the underhandedness of it.

Me? I would hope that every instance he had accounts on would ban them, and any future ones. That’s it, end of where I think it should go.

That was, indeed, the problem.

They go rancid easy for some reason. You gotta keep them very well stored