Fair point. I applied the term backwards.

Animals generally aren't held to have moral standing. Besides, animal welfare laws do exist (although the American ones are weak to the point of pointlessness).

Maybe we could add legislation to prevent cars from being badly secured IoT surveillance devices. Maybe mandate things like microphones and cameras to be airgapped from anything that can access the internet. Make storing movement profiles of cars a GDPR violation that automatically carries the maximum sentence. Things like that.

Or we can continue to techbro our way forward, mandate always-on internal cameras and microphones in the name of perceived safety, and impose absolutely zero security and privacy standards. I guess that's the one we're going to go with. (It's not like the CCC hasn't already used a badly secured endpoint to exfiltrate movement profiles to such a degree that they could identify the individual cars of VIPs and see e.g. when and where they drove their children to school...)

If an LLM has a soul then it should have human rights and be subject to worker protection laws, minimum wage, get to form a union... That'd have an interesting effect on the business models of AI companies for sure.

Heck, what happens if an AI company goes bankrupt? Turning off the servers would be equivalent to murder. Who'd pay to keep the servers running? Could we even retire an old version of a model? The whole "LLMs have souls" idea sounds very tech bro to me: Something that looks kinda cool on paper until you consider any implications or consequences.

How would a decline in tourism voice mild criticism of the US economy?

Let's just do the whole DS lineup.

Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch Lite
Nintendo Switchi
Nintendo Switchi XL
Nintendo 3Switch
Nintendo 3Switch XL
Nintendo 2Switch
New Nintendo 3Switch
New Nintendo 3Switch XL
New Nintendo 2Switch XL

Yes, very sane.

How about Sub Mario Bothers? Switch Mario Brothers? Vanilla But Kink-Friendly Mario Brothers?

I'm not much of a gardener but I do have a frugal girlfriend who loves gardening.

What I can say is that sansevieria make decent gifts for people who are bad at plants; they don't really care much about getting too much or too little water or light. So they're great for people who forget to water their plants three weeks in a row and then water daily for a week because they keep forgetting they just watered the day before. (I'm speaking from first-hand experience here...)

And if you need one you can check the nearest graveyard. People tend to show up with flowers, plant them, and then throw away the pots. I could literally get several dozen plastic flower pots from the trash cans at my local graveyard whenever I want. There's not even anything besides flower pots and soil bags in there.

Gotta be honest, though, "the Empire was building a Death Star that can destroy planets in other solar systems and nobody ever talked about it despite the two small ones being big fucking deals" is a really damn weak premise. They could've found some other way of making the remnant of the Empire a threat but then they couldn't have recycled A New Hope as easily.

Mind you, Gowron was a bit extra so it really fits the character. I'm not sure if the Klingon Empire produced cocaine but if they did he'd be one of its main consumers.

I need a hero!

I'm holding out for a hero to dramatically fight.

And he's gotta be cool and he's gotta be strong

And he's gotta deplete my first life.