Asimov invented the three laws of robotics and spent most of his robot books pulling them apart and exploring why they wouldn’t work but why they couldn’t really be improved, either.
Most robot revolution stories assume the danger is when robots stop obeying us and start thinking for themselves.
Asimov’s stories suggest that the real danger is robots doing exactly what we tell them to.
I think that’s both more realistic and actually scarier.
The Laws of Robotics were designed to be flawed, because it reveals flaws in our humanity, as well as it makes it an ethical goldmine to explore fictionally.
But there are way too many idiot professional writers who don’t seem to understand this, and deem them the gold standard rules for robots.
They also have some on amazon I think, but I always buy from their site because I like to make sure my money is going into their charitable works too.
From their website:
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PM 2.5, PM 10, dust, allergens, post combustion particles, germs,
shavings, biologics, odors, scents, mold, mold spores, particles in
wildfire smoke, volcanic particulate pollution, and other airborne
contaminants. The benefits of particulate respirators are confirmed by
leading health providers worldwide. Highly efficient filtering masks
help protect the mask wearer from particles as small as .254 microns.
I can’t get through allergy season (so, the whole year round apart from the dead of winter for me) without mine, and it also helps to filter our scents and other stuff. I’ll even wear mine if I have to walk down the laundry aisle at the grocery store cause the scent of all that stuff in one place makes me wheeze and feel like my throat is closing.
You can also choose if you want one or two filers. They are sadly, not replaceable, but they do last a good few years. I’ve had mine for coming on four years no and it’s only just not starting to need replaced. I can tell because the ragweed hit my lungs like a tongue of bricks this year. But I do know it’s still working cause on the days when I don’t wear it it’s substantially worse.
Anyway, hope this is helpful!
How easy are they to breath with on? These sound like they might be useful for me but I can’t even feel like I’m breathing proper with a scarf over my face.
I don’t find them all that hard to breathe with on, though there’s a definite adjustment period of getting used to it being on your face.
Cause it definitely feels like there is something over your face, but I have found that sizing up helps with that. Also the two filter ones don’t cling us much cause the one filter one you’re sucking all your air in from one side and that can sometimes feel a little close for comfort for me. So yea. Two filters are easier to breathe through, I feel.
And for everyone asking me about perfumes and strong scents:
I use mine to filter out perfumes all the time. It doesn’t get rid of it 100% for me, but it reduces it from “like being kicked in the chest repeatedly” to a mild trace scent.
I actually used it at a candle making workshop not long ago where we were using a LOT of peppermint oils (fml) in an enclosed space (fmlx2) and once I had it on I was fine, no migraines, no wheezing or residual ill feelingness afterwards.
So. Yea.
I rarely recommend products lightly, but I’ll stan behind vogmask. Wearing it can mean the difference between being able to go outside and be social some days, and pair boning with my air purifier because the air hurts to breathe.
Got one when the fires got real bad out here and the smoke in the air was horrific. Surprisingly comfortable, took some adjusting but not bad at all. Also comes in many fun colors.
Yup! Spoonie with terrible allergies here and man this thing is a lifesaver when I clean!
tired: not wanting rvb16 to change established continuity with time travel wired: wanting rvb16 to retcon seasons 9 and 10 with time travel
timeline where york’s mom got the abortion
Why ya gotta hate York so much
Boring milquetoast cocky asshole who cares more about his feelings for Carolina than her feelings about anything. Can’t do his job for shit yet somehow remains high on the leaderboard. He gets victim status for demanding Carolina leave with him rather than explain anything. She gets bitch status for refusing his demands. Fandom rides his dick into the sunset.
So, we all know the importance of a hunter’s cloak. Each Hunter’s cloak has a meaning, a story behind it. It’s a key part of a hunter’s identity.
And this got me wondering.
In Shakespearean English (particularly in Romeo and Juliet) there was the whole thumb biting thing. We probably are all aware of the “I bite my thumb at thee” thing.
I can imagine some of the older Hunters or Hunter’s that learn of this incorporating it into modern (by Modern I mean with regards to the Destiny universe) times.
This develops into a thing of pulling or tugging at one’s cloak. It’s not literally pulling a hunters cloak, but more of a metaphorical thing, just like how the phrase “I bite my thumb at thee” didn’t involve actual thumb biting.
I can see the phrase “Do you pull at my cloak?” or some variant of that being brought into mainstream hunter vocabulary as a way of asking someone if they said something insulting. For example:
Hunter 1: *says something rude about Hunter 2* Hunter 2: Are you pulling at my cloak? Hunter 1: Me? I would never pull at a cloth like that.
I can also see calling or referring to a cloak as a cloth as an insulting term in hunter lingo. Partially because it is disrespectful to pretty much what the cloak means to its owner, and partially because I feel it would be like a hunter comparing a cloak to a Titan’s butt towel.
But yes, I can imagine some of the more dramatic hunters using the variants of the “Do you pull at my cloak” and then it becoming a mainstream hunter thing to say when someone talks shit about them.
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