Harrison [He/Him]

Hydro destroys environments, uses enormous amounts of concrete and the related disasters have killed orders of magnitude more people than nuclear.

The same thing except you then have to pay for the disk, distribution and worry about stock and so on.

until you have a library that you can rent games for free close to you.

It’s called a torrenting client

A person is their experiences though, the meat shell on its own can’t ever become the person killed without experiencing life in the exact same way and at the same time as the previous one.

Plenty of outspoken state critics have had the CIA’s highest reward for investigative journalism administered cranially.

That’s 4x higher than car related deaths per number of car owners, and cars require a license and insurance, and doing something dangerous with one can have you lose your right to use it permanently.

Cars have the additional factor that they are practically required for living in the US, so reasonably we would be willing to accept a higher number of deaths than we would otherwise for other objects.

It’s not weird that it specifies a computer program, the use of the term to mean the standard option comes from computing. It’s the value chosen when the computer defaults, as in fails to pay it’s debt (in this case debt being the value it was looking for).

I don’t think there’s any evidence to suggest that people prefer meat because it’s the default option and not the other way around.

Old Zealand is in Denmark

The ol’ head in the sand approach

You could, but the only reason to do so would be to accommodate a small minority’s ethical dietary decisions, which is the opposite of a default.

No one’s going to chose the slop so there’s no point in having it.

As for subway, their menu is largely determined by sales. They do trial other options occasionally, and the ones that are popular stay.

The units of time we use come from a bronze age civilisation that used base twelve instead of base ten. They’d count on their hands using the finger joints of one for single digits, and then the joints of the other for multiples.

Humans don’t need anything but nutrient slop to survive, but the prisons aim for something better largely because it keeps riots down.

Why would the default be the diet of a small minority?

ELLO ELLO, YOU GOT A LOICENSE FOR THAT ROBBERY?

Taiwan has been independent from the mainland since 1949. That’s 74 years. Were people in the US in 1850 ethnically British? Largely yes, and that’s with the US recieving massive migration from other countries, which Taiwan has not had.

The Taiwanese people speak Chinese, practice Chinese cultural traditions, call themselves the Republic of China many even to this day support reconciliation.

Yes

They didn’t say trace. A good artist can use the style of another artist when creating a new work.

The ability and willingness to generate images in a style associated with a person, without consent, is a threat to that persons job security and shows a lack of value for them as a human. As if their creative expression is worth nothing but as a commodity to be consumed.

You can’t own an art style. Copyright only extends to discrete works and characters. If I pay a street artist to draw a portrait of me in the style of Picasso, I’m not devaluing Picasso as a person.

This is true in US law but it should probably be noted that a lot of the “misconceptions” you’re outlining in OP’s comment are things that are legal in other jurisdictions

Art is a part of the human condition. Whether or not it can be commercialised, it will endure as a past-time, just not as a vocation.