The personal is very much political, pokémon.

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Mean words on the internet are rather different from violence, one would think.

Er... they're suggesting that we brand sociopaths and basically ends it at that. I'll pass on a world where having a bad day could lead to enforced disfigurement.

I'm not agreeing with the pro-branding-person, but let's not make the mistake of conflating a bad day and diagnosable sociopathies.

Fair, but this sort of scenario wouldn't exactly exist in isolation right? Would a society that is willing to physically brand people with a permanent "STAY AWAY" marker be super tight in their regulation of diagnosis? lol. This conversation is insane.

Tide pods are actually delicious however.

As is the state of OSS medicine.

> That is a privacy nightmare

I don't want to disappoint, but the future will have no privacy whatsoever.

There will be privacy until the singularity, don't worry.

Continued encroachments on privacy and personal autonomy may indeed deteriorate them, even cripple our ability to protect those rights, but simply worrying about that doesn't mean I must go gentle into that good night.

Tactile and audio feedback matter a lot; think of eating (shelled) peanuts v. pistachios.

Do you remember when this philosophy was called animism?