cloning is pretty simple: you end up in both places. there’s no magical continuity of experience, both clones are equal and will 100% feel like the original and have equally valid claims to such, and to a third observer it would basically just look like two very confused identical twins who share their memories before the cloning.
You obviously wouldn’t end up with a single conscience experiencing both points of view at once, lmao.

it’s just like copying data on a computer, it’s all the same data so it’s nonsensical to call any copy the “original”.

i don’t think soap with grit added would have ever been considered a luxury product, low-quality soap still looks way prettier

not to worry, plenty of people type with a single finger flying across the keyboard, many still know cramping fingers 🥰

it’s only a problem if you think the sole thing defining “you” is an intangible soul that for some reason wouldn’t just transfer between or get copied alongside instances of yourself

the line of reasoning you talk about has always been so strange to me, you’d be talking to a person walking out of a transporter and insist they’re dead, as they look you in the eye and ask if that’s an insult

it’s just the ship of theseus, at what point do you consider it a new ship?

like think about it, people only start questioning if it’s the same person after they learn how transporters work, doesn’t that indicate that it really doesn’t matter? if people can go their entire lives with neither them nor anyone around them noticing a difference, how could they somehow be a different person?

but then on the flipside there’s stuff like star trek, which since it’s literally the inspiration for cellphones is remarkably normal

even the fucking tricorders aren’t that far off these days, just today i used an app on my phone to identify plants automatically for fuck’s sake, that’s insane!

i’ve definitely seen things like that, i think mostly “artisanal” soaps with like ground coconut shell or something, but the thing is that it tends to look like shit.

good old “if you see an engineer running, you should probably follow them”

4 out of 5 dentists recommend using toothpaste and couldn’t possibly give less of a fuck which brand you use, the fifth dentist was on vacation

i mean it’s also important to note that companies can blatantly lie

feels a bit strange to not include the full quote, which changes the sentiment quite a bit:
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.”

and this is why people need to be informed of the ultimate legal loophole: the law is simply a collective agreement, if enough people make it clear to everyone else that they think the law is nonsense we can just change it regardless. It’s not a magic document enforced by fae.

“this is not what we meant by brain plasticity”

i assumed it was just glass or similar, maybe the same material as those moisture-absorbing silica packets

weeds are plants with the capacity for spite

knowing that we’re basically identical to people back then, yeah that checks out.

a long hike to collect good rocks? fuck yeah

yeah but you don’t eat the pinecone lol, you pry it apart to get to the non-wooden bit, because basically the only things that eat wood are fungi and beavers.

…what kind of pine nuts are you eating? the ones i’ve eaten are just seeds, not made of wood. i wouldn’t want bark or wood chips in a salad, would you?

the plane is a classic example of survivor bias: only the planes that didn’t get shot in critical areas returned, but at first the response was to add armor to the places that got shot the most, which is the wrong action since clearly if they got shot that much it didn’t really matter for the survival of the plane.

dwarves all have a chronic case of flabby repairman asscrack

only the woody things survive, because they’re woody and thus pretty difficult to put in a salad