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Ah, you’re right.

And also has nothing to do with upvotes.

While I don’t doubt that there’s a market there, I would never in a million years pay money for a “power user”'s reddit posts. Fucking wild.

(and maybe I should give it a try at least)

It’s often pretty explicit, but legitimately quite good. It’s got an old school vibe with a modern bent.

And, returning to the original question - How exactly is that treating individual intelligence as a choice and not a genetic trait?

I wonder if your sensitivity to this bit is because of your own perspective on where you sit intellectually or financially

Literally what you said. Feel free to clarify if that’s not what you meant.

Choice to have a baby ≠ choice to “be dumb”

Lol. “You’re dumb and poor”. What an informative reply. Thanks for clearing that up.

Setting aside the ableism of your reply, it still in no way relates to how intelligence is treated in the movie that is being discussed.

How exactly is it treated as a choice in the movie?

The movie is about how “dumb” people outbred “smart” people and it ruined the planet/humanity. Replace those traits with the races of your choice or any other genetic trait and tell me if you’re still OK with that narrative.

You’re defending eugenics.

I’m aware. Feel free to read my entire comment.

Nah. The existence of evolution in no way validates your pseudo-science racism. Billions of years of natural selection doesn’t equate to your garbage notion that “certain people” shouldn’t procreate.

Actually, it’s more like Revelations from the Bible. Trump is the devil, corporations are the horsemen, chatgpt is the mark of the beast and israel is in conflict. It’s all right there!

Now if that made you scoff or roll your eyes, realize that conflating our real, actual lives with fiction is just as useful. It’s entertainment, not prophecy. Can we just fucking stop already?

*less than

“What did you see, DenverCoder9?!?!”

That thing is such a nuisance. Makes the modlog nearly unusable.

That’s great. I’m glad to hear it is having at least some positive impact despite my reservations.