You go to lemm.ee, feddit.uk, lemmy.ca or what ever instance you wish to join and create an account there. Just like you went to lemmy.world and joined that one.

Possibly yes but that doesn’t help if one is morbidly afraid of approaching women for example.

However my point was that it’s a bit pointless to ask why would someone become something when by definition it’s involuntary. It’s like asking why would anyone be under 6ft tall.

Incel = involuntary celibate

You become one by not being able to find a life partner or even a one night stand. Not something I’d really blame the individual for.

Strawman

How many more apes do you think should be sacrificed before it’s properly ready for human trials?

I don’t agree with the premise. Being a shitty person doesn’t mean everything they do is also shitty. Musk singlehandedly popularized electric cars, he’s the first person to develop re-usable rockets thus cutting the price of transporting stuff to orbit by over a half and he’s also responsible for being the first to create a truly global satellite internet effectively for the whole world. If you can’t give him credit for any of that then you’re simply just not looking at it objectively but rather with emotionally motivated reasoning.

I started my own business which involves going into people’s homes and fixing shit. I’m meeting a ton of new people nowdays, granted most of them are either elderly or single older women / moms.

My intention is to not make you feel more comfortable. I’m only providing more up-to-date info on what you just said.

I doubt it has any use in reality.

Some possible future use cases would be things like:

• Restoring Mobility: Bypassing spinal cord damage to regain limb control.

• Treating Neurological Disorders: Modulating brain activity for conditions like Parkinson’s or epilepsy.

• Restoring Vision and Hearing: Bypassing damaged pathways to directly stimulate the brain.

• Enhancing Communication: Translating thoughts into speech for those with severe impairments.

• Prosthetic Control: Enabling natural movement with brain-controlled prosthetics.

• Treating Mental Health: Targeting brain circuits to manage depression or PTSD.

• Memory Restoration: Helping those with memory loss, like in Alzheimer’s.

Didn’t it already fuck up in the first human guinea pig?

Nope. He’s doing better than ever. Some of the threads god pulled out because it turns out that brain moves inside the skull more than they anticipated but they’ve made up for that with optimization and system updates. The performance of the first unit is better today than it has ever been. This is coming directly from Noland himself who has been quest on several podcasts.

You think neuralink has not been properly tested and vetted? It’s perfectly fine not to want to have anything to do with stuff related to Musk but atleast be honest about the true reasons then. The uninformed opinions I’m reading here are solely based on emotions.

The first chip works better now than the day it was impanted. It’s not exactly that it’s “failing”, some of the threads got pulled out because it turns out human brain moves inside the skull more than they anticipated. However they’ve managed to make up for that with optimization so the performance today is better than it has ever been.

By using Lemmy we’re already filtering out certain people and opinions. I personally think that the more control we have over what we see, the better. I don’t think it’s opposing views people want to filter out. It’s the ones having those views and being dicks about it.

Unavoidably so but then again, going sideways because of a downvote is just more data on who you might want to block.

Echo chamber within echo chamber I guess.

It’s not the people whose opinions I disagree with who I usually block. It’s people making snide comments like this while fishing for upvotes. I’ll reserve my attention to the ones who have something to say rather than ones just wanting to make noise.

If this mean we’d be able to see who has up- / downvoted a comment on our own and possibly on other people’s posts then I’m all for it. This would be highly useful at filtering out the people here I want nothing to do with.

Well debate about wether taxes are good or not are a whole another discussion. I live in a wellfare state myself so I don’t mind the relatively high taxes I’m paying because I’ve benefited from what the government spends it on my whole life and continue to benefit in the future as well, not to even mention the people less fortunate than me.

If you’re broke, disabled and unable to provide for yourself the government will provide you with an apartment and money for food. 200€ a year is pennies compared to the benefits people like this are receiving.

I don’t know where you live but the property tax on my house is 200€ a year which is less than half of what I spend on groceries every month. If I end up disabled and without a job, the property tax, from a financial perspective would be among the least of my worries.

Having rented before and now owning my own house I can gurantee you that there’s a major difference in the freedom between those two.

You think homeowners should not be required to pay property tax and build whatever they want on their property disregarding all safety regulations and building codes? I can definitely see how that would go horribly wrong…