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So, this fourth of July weekend Anthrocon is convening! Well over 20k people have gathered and gone on pilgrimage to put on colorful costumes, act like idiots, and have questionable liasons. I know we even have a few furries here on these forums, so I figured I would make a post about it and a...

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-wants-ban-furry-subculture-schools-2046441 So, personally, I don't want kids budging in on furries, either. They're annoying, and a lot of furries are pretty gross. They are the source of an endless spigot of "puriteen activist", when they come out of religious...

So, I saw an interesting link recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/AwWHuByCW4 The article from the link indicates that AI has resolved how addressing functions for the delivery of proteins inside a cell, enabling the development of potential new drugs. In identifying this, however, it...

So, I'm worried. I'm not sure when the last proper top level thread was? I know we have some Christians around here of various stripes. It is undeniable that he has been ticking off boxes. However part of the very message of DUNE was that these events can also be engineered. There's still...

For my brother's wedding, a collaborative effort between my biological father and myself. I designed the fittings, shaped the branch, and made all the drafts, and then he cast/machined/carved the fittings and put it together. The stones in the gears are synthetic sapphire, the foot stone is a...

Just a silly thread on the ability to generate a "sensory phantom". The exercise is this: imagine an apple. Can you see an apple? How clear can you get the apple to become? Can you taste the apple? Can you feel the weight of an apple? Can you feel yourself take a bite out of an apple? And so on...

Posed as a question because I'm not sure this is the right forum or whatever, but here goes. A thread to discuss the computer games you are playing today and/or in general.

So, recently, I've been playing with analytical tools to do some dumb shit. Willans formulae are functions that use brute force to check for primality, by taking some product and all of its products. Currently, I have been playing with a constructable wave form as follows...

So, because someone has otherwise expressed that it is "annoying" to them to discuss such topics in the open forum at large, I'll put it here, in this dead pit of a forum. This thread is not to debate whether it is wise to discuss this topic. This thread is not to debate whether the kernel of...

I some other threads, I've discussed this, but I think it bears closer examination. To this extent this thread is NOT about how someone accomplishes being "non-reproductive". It is not about how or why people end up "trans" or whether or not they need treatment of any kind for it. For the...

https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2024/03/minnesota-lawmakers-no-more-making-money-off-family-vlogs-child-influencers/ I have for some time been of the opinion that people should not post pictures of any "real" child online.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/ohio-chick-fil-a-owner-drove-across-states-to-commit-statutory-rape-of-15-year-old-sheriff/amp/ Take with a grain of salt because it's the NYPost but holy shit. Isn't this the second time they have been run by a pedo?

Let's have some fun discussing something stupid that isn't politics or religion for a while, but squarely on the subject of belief and skepticism... So, I have my own thoughts on this, strangely enough, however this is a thread for the *non-trivial* discussion of what fairies are/not, and not...

So, I'd been saying it for years that this was possible. The poster of the video is pregnant. The poster of this video is married to a second individual, who presents as female, due to Swyer's syndrome. This is as much as I know about the specific case, and references available are those, if...

So, in the ML community, there is a big buzz about fearing what AI can do and become, and about making it "safe". This is called "alignment" and this is a thread to discuss that process. Why M&P and not technology? Because this is about the idea of ethics and how and why we can and possibly...

Recently there has been a lot of talk about regulating AI, and of something called "alignment". This is, in many ways, a political issue. This thread is here to discuss among ourselves the politics of regulating AI from the perspective of us Infidels.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/03/new-einstein-shape-aperiodic-monotile A thread for the new, strange shape.

You know, they were an adult when they were 13! They are definitely an adult, if 13 year olds are adults, right?

https://apnews.com/article/child-marriage-west-virginia-legislation-ecc44b342fce93e2e66eb2b8b7c6c9ed?utm_source=apnewsnav&utm_medium=featured Brought to you by the same party politics that argues "but they aren't old enough to decide to delay puberty!(DeLaYeD PuBeRtY, Oh the HoRrOr!!!111)" And...

So, after more than a decade, Dwarf Fortress has finally been released on Steam and has been given the graphical overhaul of a lifetime, with a completely new interface and sensible sprites. Really more of an interactive storytelling machine, Dwarf Fortress focuses on the fate of a new dwarven...