It's more the processing that's relevant for pain. No processing, no pain.

For instance, some humans have very specific genetic mutations that do not allow them to feel pain. The peripheral nerves still send the pain signals to the brain but it cannot process them. Therefore, no pain.

There could be a discussion on whether very simple nervous systems (like in jellyfish) without a central component (brain) can process pain. But I'm not a biological researcher or philosopher so that's outside my Lemmy paygrade.

And what makes them different from any other chemical reaction is a little disingenuous. Might as well ask what's the difference between burning a human on a stake and melting glass? Both are just chemical reactions involving heat from a certain perspective.

There is simply no organ comparable to the brain in plants that would allow for plant pain. That's pretty much it.

He'll get a heart attack the moment he discovers the furry subculture of planesonas.

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They're roommates by the way. Like for real, the IRL planes with the same registration are in (or rather "on") the same museum.

Worst I've had in Germany was 7:50 AM to 5:30 PM, that was fun.

G8 was a great idea with no drawbacks whatsoever.

Plants can feel pain the same way a machine can learn. Which means not at all outside of marketing.

In reality they simply have mechanisms to react to damage. But that's not pain.

Pain is the processing of injury in a nervous system. Plants lack the nervous system required to feel anything.

Just like a brain dead human, sponge or bacteria plants cannot feel pain in any meaningful way.

Yup, but hardly anyone in the US decides to do Atlantic to Pacific road trips either.

Lisbon to Helsinki takes 47 hours of driving btw.

And you haven't even reached far North yet, there's still 1000+ km of Finland remaining.

It wouldn't need to break the sound barrier. Killing someone once a day should mean one death every 24 hours (assuming the hand uses its own hand time zone).

The Earth's circumfrence is about 40,000 km, meaning the hand would need to travel at most 20,000 km in 24 hours which requires a speed of 833 km/h, whereas the speed of sound is 1235 km/h.

You don't understand, you're the roommate that would be replaced by the robot.

The term Caucasian is utterly meaningless and comes from the ancient Three Great Races theory. You know, the three great races of which every other race is a subtype: Caucasian, Mongoloid, Negroid.

Here's a helpful map so you can tell who is Caucasian and who isn't:

As for your question: You can see Southern Indians are not yet categorized for certain. Only North Western Indians are certainly Caucasian. Maybe in the future we will learn more about these mysterious people.

Hungarians are Mongoloids by the way.

"We don’t know how many people would choose to pay to see a film in theaters when they could legally download it at home for free.”

How will you download it if you don't have the file? I'd be surprised if any movie theater would choose to share it, especially because they will surely have further agreements that prohibits them from doing so. Basically "I will not share this file or pay a huge contract violation fine".

So the only way to watch it would be through cam recordings that suck. And I believe YouTube and other video platforms could make agreements with A24 to take them down for a while.

But if the easier route results in more uncertainty than the difficult route, and people keep choosing it, people are at the very least preferring uncertainty over difficulty, aren't they?

Sure, but even if EU governments turn fully to fascism that would be at worst as terrible as the current status quo with social media in fascist billionaire's control.