Yeah, I know it can be hit or miss depending on your location, but I have had similarly good experiences with my local credit union... you just prove to them in a more old fashioned way that you're responsible, and they'll often be flexible with you in ways that banks aren't.
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Hrm.
Well uh, speaking frankly, I'd prefer a philosophical conversation with Motoko Kusanagi, maybe over tea, sounds nice.
I would argue that, while yes, humanity is capable of and currently enacts horrific violence on other humans and creatures...
We also love and cherish and nurture many humans and nonhumans.
This is more commonly known as the duality of man... great capacity to do both good and evil.
I dunno if you've read Ender's Game and the sequels... but super long story short, Ender is a genius who, with the aide of AIs, and also by basically being tricked into thinking he is testing simulations...
Actually commits a xenocide, of an entire alien species humanity has deemed as a potentially humanity ending threat.
He then travels from Earth all the way out to the remains of the alien species he has destroyed, finds a single fertilized pupae (they're bugs), and then basically tries, in secret from the human government, to revive the otherwise extinct species... such is his guilt over what he has done.
There's just one character who is maybe a decent example of this duality, our paradoxical nature.
Wait, the tear ducts count... but the eyesocket itself doesn't?
Huh.
I would have intuitively thought the hole the optic nerve goes through counts, but I guess thats not really a uh, topologically true hole, as its mostly just a void in your skull.
https://minerstat.com/mining-calculator
Right now, there's about 75 coins/pools/mining methods that are more profitable from a pure mining perspective than XMR... with just an Nvidia 3080.
Hilariously, GLadOS is ... actually much more relatable, in that she...well I hope this isn't spoilers at this point?
She was mostly kind of originally a human, and is actually at least capable of empathy, she has moments where she seems to express at least barely, a sense of concern for Chell's wellbeing.
Sort of.
lol
She also gets stuck in a potato.
SHODAN on the other hand is literally 'fuck you, pathetic worm, I am God.'
Probably yes?
I do not know as much about how strict of a theocracy Egypt was in that time period, but probably fairly substantially, yes.
Free funeral expenses, rofl
There is a whole universe of coins beyond BTC and Monero, and many of them are more profitable to mine with non ASIC hardware than Monero.
Why would a malicious malware botnet dev choose to mine a more difficult to mine, and thus less profitable crypto currency, when their botnet could instead be mining a much more profitable coin with their botnet?
I won't argue that ransomware often asks for payment in monero, because monero is actually difficult to track and deanonymize, but ransomware and a distributed mining botnet are not the same thing.
Or, arguably more frightening... her predecessor...
Ok, got that?
Now, the soundtrack to your doom.
Absolutely no disrepect to GLadOS, but you gotta respect your elders as well.
EDIT: Updated with better quality song link.
I don't think that... generally, nor specifically in the case of Ender... that it is about wanting to personally have some kind of total spectrum experience of all possible experiences, as some kind of... maximalist sensory/mindstate fetish kind of thing.
There for sure are probably some people like that, but I'd say thats very uncommon.
What I think is more commone is two things:
Despite having base tendencies we often fall back to, humans just vary, significantly, in terms of how they tend to act toward others.
and
People are capable of actual, real world character development, of doing something and thinking it was good at the time... and realize they were wrong, learning, growing, changing, maybe not in totality, but in very significant and impactful ways.
This is not often as common or extreme in the real world as it is in our stories... but that we emphasize this in our stories also means something about us.
It is about a wide spectrum of potential in all humans, not necessarily a single person exhibiting the whole spectrum, not out of some kind of... experiential hedonism.
At least, thats how I see it.
Another defining trait of humans is that we will do things explicitly against our own self interest, out of an adherence to a moral doctrine or dogma, or, making ones own moral decisions about what is wrong and right, to the point of great personal sacrifice.