One wonders (not deeply) how these people think someone gets to be a US citizen, ordinarily, if there’s no birthright citizenship.

“Well, my parents were US citizens.”

Oh? How?

“THEIR parents were US citizens!”

Why?


“The Constitution!”

The one that says if you’re born here, you’re American?

Charging your cellphone to full uses as much energy as a few hundred chat gpt requests, roughly. Datacenters as a whole use a lot of energy and water, but for the compute usage, they’re massively more efficient than running a ps5 for example.

Anything that at any point you loved but then became too cool for, know that someday you will turn back to that thing and say, “Oh, no. You were fine; you were more than fine. It is I who was cringe.”

I’ll save you time, New York Times. The answer is yes. It is also ethical to use a library, and to give a book you have read to a friend.

New York Times article headline- is it ethical to buy used books and music?

Echolalia is a speech disorder characterized by the involuntary repetition of words, phrases, or sentences spoken by others. It is an automatic imitative action that occurs without conscious awareness.

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