You are paying less monthly if you commit to annual pricing, if not, you can still pay monthly pricing which is higher. Commitment means you will likely be a paying customer for a year at the least and hence company gives you a discount. What’s the insidious aspect? The whole thing can be confusing, yes, but it does what it says.

Consciousness is a spectrum.

Maybe it is the same level of consciousness but different physical limitations? Simply imagine being locked in in an insect body with different perception and abilities, and a wiped memory.

Then maybe orcas are much more conscious than us?

Even if that were true, how could you possibly know it?

Observing animals' behavior (in the wild and through experiments like the one here) and studying how their brains work to see that they often have the same kind of mental features as us (including whichever you'd classify as consciousness) - just at varying degrees of sophistication.

Some would argue that "consciousness" is something non-physical that has no impact on the physical world, and so is not physically detectable or responsible for any behavior, but I feel then it inherently cannot be whatever we mean by "consciousness" that we're directly aware of and talking about in the physical world (because that itself is a physical impact).

... with insects on the low side, humans are mid, and dogs are top

Dogs are on top but just below cats haha

Thong… omg haha

Haha but pedantically it’s a correct use of the word :)

> A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thong

Pendantically, too.

Took me a minute

Video on which this very small article is based on: https://youtu.be/f2WDfsiLiRA

The article itself is just explaining what the video contains, and then embeds the video.

And still it’s the top result in Google if one searches for Anna’s archive. How is it that that search result hasn’t been removed?

Presumably, the home page doesn't contain any copyright violations. This is only DMCA stuff targetting individual links.

well if publisher DMCA request to google then I don't know why people get mad about

its still piracy at the end of the day and publisher have right to license etc, people mad about this maybe dont have to deal this as a business

How does Orion manages to run chrome and firefox extensions when even iOS chrome and firefox browsers can’t?

Own voice amplification is nothing new and has been present at least since iOS 18 and hence was/is present in Airpods Pro 2 as well.

But was it a mistake born out of a mistake?

The main idea of what I am saying is that some entity could have kicked things off, for whatever reason, and not be able to stop or control it. Perhaps they were just like you or I, and they released some tech which formed the universe as we know it today. Perhaps they are outside of this universe and cannot see into it or control it, perhaps they were inside and were obliterated, perhaps they are still here somewhere sitting around waiting for the universe to end, who knows! Everyone expects a god to be all-powerful or something, but they could be some mortal being who only had a lot of power for a moment when they knocked over the first domino. We probably can't know how the universe started, in any case, so this is all just brainstorming for new sci-fi and fantasy novels at this point.