I was hoping to see something more than a link to their instagram where they sell shirts, but oh well. Love the picture regardless.

They moved to vape stuff.

A dog wrote this article.

Iowa actually, Ohio banter is becoming somewhat universal I think. A different flavor of the Florida man meme.

The person that runs my home instance appears to be from Ohio, I don’t think I can sanction that buffoonery. /s

I’ll kick some money towards them once I get bills for the month sorted.

Why?

OH NO, WOKE?!

Stay asleep then, bud.

For the one in the new location its just that, but the person being “teleported” just ceases to be.

The “Ship of Theseus” example is how our bodies work normally, the transporter makes a new you out of separate matter in another place. Nothing implies a transfer of consciousness, just an exact copy of you is there. Of course, I realize that for the purposes of the shows and movies, none of this is a concern, but a real version of this would be ethically fucked up.

“from the point of view of your copy”

This is the problem, the point of view for the original is death. I am dead.

If another perfect copy of you existed, you be okay with being killed? That’s fucking weird.

Are you suggesting my consciousness can be transferred to another body? Do you think that if an exact copy of you were made in another place, that shooting the first version of you in the face would cause you to suddenly wake up in the other body? I’m not understanding how you think this works.

Not even close to the same thing. If you create an exact copy of me at a destination, that doesn’t make me okay with being disintegrated because another me is at the other end.

This. Watching this is why I’d never use a Star Trek transporter.

As long as we aren’t trying to fuck with the transporter technology that kills you and makes another you somewhere else, I’m fine.