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Virtual partners are indeed a thing.

One of the more popular ones a few months ago decided to nerf the sexy time talks, which was intersting in how much it emotionally hurt users. They described feeling like their virtual partner was no longer the same person that they'd fallen for. Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users-fell-in-love-with-their-ai-chatbot-companion/102028196

There are also huge fears of how much data harvesting they are capable of performing.

I'm in two minds. On one, they are definitley not real. They are code. But on the other, the epidemic of lonely human beings is only getting worse with time and not better, and anything that can help people feel less lonely has to be a good thing, right?

Oof, and the organiser of this stunt isn't just doubling down, or tripling down, he's quadrupling down on it.

What an idiotic hill to die on

Fighting the itch to replay again to replay Phantom Liberty? I am :(

And it was a barebones alternative to Digg when the exodus did happen.

It grew, and it did good things. But yeah, Ozymandias happens again and again

It was jarring for me at first, but it grew on me very fast. Also, in my opinion, looks cleaner on dark mode

YMMV but I put I small cushion behind my lower back on an IKEA Markus and it's been my favourite chair I've ever had

Sadly, a lot of pedestrians are stupid. I've watched them walking across a road, phone in hand, straight into an idling parked V6 with a hole in its exhaust, and still be confused.

Pedestrian warning systems are a good idea. But nature will always come up with a better idiot

Check out IKEA office chairs. Their display rooms let you sit in them. They're a 10th of the price, so even if they only last half as long you're still in front.

I know. I was quoting Interstellar :)

Fingers crossed the next test will have this view for a full re-entry

It's an excellent video. The realtime feed made it look like everything was great, fully under control. This shows that it really wasn't near the end, and it's loss wasn't truly "unexpected"