My mind to your mind

Borts Impson

Chunus is friend-coded. Well, more-so canadian woodcutter coded, but he looks friendly.

They do, but not so much that your average home user would notice without having more than enough time to fix the problem.

Read it as 120TB at first and my eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets.

Go troll in hell

There could be ten different civilizations in a radius of 100 light years of us with the same technological level we had 200 years ago and we wouldn’t know.

Source: your anus.

The meaning of that phrase is “don’t assume things without evidence”. We have plentiful evidence that life should be common in the Universe - of which not the least reason is that the Universe is believed to be infinite, meaning there are countless galaxies out there nearly exactly like out own, with planets exactly like our own.

Or because they were toxic assholes?

If that were the case, we wouldn’t see a single rightwinger over here. Unfortunately, there are many.

ML = Marxist-Leninist

That’s a straight lie. ML will quickly ban you for pointing out Russian astroturfing and Russian propaganda, but they barely give a shit about anything else.

Depends on whether the person saying it is a fellow leftie or a rightwinger brainlet. To the first, it’s what you described - an anti-Marxist communist. To the second group, anyone left of Nixon.

Aaah, that’s hot

I guess you’re her little pogchamp, now.

Even the game theory analysis fails, as it doesn’t consider a sufficient number of outcomes nor their branching over time.

It’s thankfully based on pretty bad game theory. The reality of it is that there end up being more negative consequences to attacking other civilizations than either staying isolated or being friendly, and the proposition is riddled with antropocentric concepts to begin with. Sure, in smaller time scales it might be that alien civilizations would attack each other, but over longer times they would tend to form alliances.

Same. It’s just fucking bizarre. Having said that, living by eating the corpses of other animals is also insanity, only to a smaller degree.

They only vaguely understand what humans look like, so…

What, you don’t like playing with sparklers next to a box of dynamite?