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He should know, he's the one that put a shotgun in its mouth over a decade ago.

Yeah, this is the part where the Nazis were rounding up the gypsies. That's where we are right now.

You’ve got upper management written all over you.

We need a decent replacement for this, stat. Once they go into IPO mode it's gonna get real shitty, real fast.

Indeed. I would put the odds somewhere around 79.4%.

Counterpoint- all sports are silly. That’s why they are called games.

I don’t dunk on wrestling fans anymore because people are free to enjoy whatever they want. But it’s always been like this. It didn’t change - you did. Personal growth!

I would disguise myself as a book.

Has anyone thought to test her for rabies yet?

That is an important point that I missed in what I read of the article before I got grossed out. Thanks. I'm still not sure about this line of research because if (when?) they do make something that achieves a level of sentience, consciousness, or even just the ability to feel, will it be able to signal to us that it is happy, content, in agony, mental anguish, etc? The thought of being trapped in that situation is terrifying.

Yeah and it was just a bunch of sedated live rats pinned to little trays with their brains exposed and a bunch of shit stuck everywhere into their bodies that I had to see while working on the lab computers.

I'm not going to get into an argument about whether there's value in animal research (I think there is) but there's some horrifying shit that comes with it, and I'm just pointing out that I've directly worked with plenty of scientists that are completely unfazed by that shit. So while it may be a few cells on a mesh now, they won't stop at that.

The hard truth is that there are a lot of completely un-empathetic scientists out there.

Some of the shit I saw them doing to animals when I worked for Baxter still makes me sick when I think about it. And I only had to go into that lab a couple times.

The right drugs will get you a real girlfriend.