The first paragraph of your comment doesn’t really connect with the next two. How does the pilot/psyche having to link with the robot/body implies Shinji, Asuka and Rei are part of the same psyche?

Anyway, you’re ignoring all of the other mentally ill characters.

• Ryoji hates himself so much that he flirts with anything that moves just to try and prove to himself that he is worthy of love.
• Misato is so lonely that she’s pushed into a toxic relationship with Ryoji. At her worst, she goes full pedophile just to get some affection.
• Gendo is so jealous of his own son that he literally tries to destroy the world so that he can be alone with his wife.
• Naoko was so obsessed with Gendo that she was not only glad when his wife died but also couldn’t say no when asked to help him bring her back to life via cloning. She then killed the clone and probably herself.
• Ritsuko is fucking her mom’s lover. Enough said.

It’s a story about a bunch of mentally ill people abusing each other. It’s very crude and meant to show the worst parts of humanity and what trauma does to them.

I always took “work on yourself” to mean “go to therapy”. That’s always a good start.

Saying it’s “not a competitor to a 5080” is disingenuous. It’s also not gonna be a competitor to the 5070 and will barely compete with the 5060, and that’s assuming NVIDIA somehow only improves upon the 4060 by 15%, which would be their worst generational leap in like 10 years. The B580 is an almost 2025 card with 2023 performance. Its only purpose is to force NVIDIA and AMD to cut down their prices.

But not everybody is making a statement about morality. He’s purportedly saying “capital punishment is bad and we should get rid of it”. If you make exceptions, all you’re saying is that you’re in favor of keeping it around for really bad people, which is exactly where they are now.

Yes. Unless it’s pot of greed, then you can have 0 copies.

That’s the point of taking a “moral stance against federal executions”, though — nobody deserves it.

He could be sending a message, and that’s what Trump is actually pissed about.

That actually makes sense.

That may be true but singling out 3 people who are currently harmless and saying “you get to die” feels somehow different.

I understand that and, if you ask me, those 3 guys are pos. My problem is that he said he did it to take a moral stance against death penalty. You can’t do that and go “except for these 3 cases”.

While I’m overall glad about this, leaving 3 unpardoned inmates really corrupts the “moral stance against federal executions” justification and makes it seem like he is in favor of capital punishment but only for people he thinks deserve it. It also makes it seem like he believes it’s his decision to decide who gets to live and that rubs me the wrong way.

I know it’s a joke, but Mexico has been a US colony since the NAFTA was established.

Mexican here. Those are the states unpleasant accents so I’m on board with this plan.

I will look into this and adjust my behaviour accordingly. Been meaning to get a bidet anyway.

Expensive, yeah; wasteful, no. It might even save toilet paper for people like OOP since it requires less wiping.

This seems more likely. The same guy also wanted me to buy a suit because jeans and military boots give clients a bad image of the company. We did all of our business through the phone.

Used to be a phone salesman. Got there at least 15 minutes late every day. It got so bad that one time I got there 15 minutes early and when my boss saw me get there he shouted “Steve?! What time is it?!”. Nobody cared because I outsold everyone else by so much that I was making double what they were, until the boss of my boss’ boss decided to start micromanaging the branch and basically told me I would be fired unless I started showing up on time. Boomers have weird priorities.

That seems reasonable but that’s also what this study was supposed to put to the test so we can’t just assume it.