To be happy at other people's misfortune is not ok.

I honestly don't think this applies here. This is a direct result of their own actions. No one forced them.

To me this is a case of: You reap what you sow.

S tier: Keyser Söze...

Did you read the comment you replied to or did you just spit out this pre-packaed reply that addresses nothing the original comment raised?

10 bucks to the first one to hit the plane.

Not really. Just that consciousness is an incredibly complex thing that we don't really understand.

Dissociation as a side effect of a medication I was on.

It is really hard to describe. It was as if I was a passenger within my own body and mind. I was watching myself do and say things with no feeling of presence or control.

Why is the British empire so aggressively hated right now?

You communicate in English, so the British empire will be the focus.

The colonies we had were far better treated than most colonies of the era, or ever to be honest.

Reads early Aus convict history and the extermination of the Aboriginal people. ... Are you fucking delusional?

If you want to educate yourself on the subject I suggest reading The Fatal Shore and Aboriginal wars:

New book reveals sophistication of Indigenous tactics during frontier wars

The killing times: Australia’s map of frontier war massacres updated

We didn't rape and pillage as much as everybody else so we were the GOOD GUYS!!

You are not to blame for the actions of past members and of the society you live in but to hand wave away the historical reality of colonialism is not helpful in any way.

Yes, every people's history is filled with this shit, that does not make it better.

Simply put.

We wouldn't notice anything.

Our perception of the world would be based only on the compute cycles and not on any external time-frame.

The machine could run at a Million Billion hertz or at one clock-cycle per century and your perception of time inside the machine would be the same.

Same with low ram, we would have no indication if we were constantly being paged out to a hard drive and written back to ram as required.

Greg Egan gave a great explanation of this in the opening chapter of his Novel Permutation City

Got a followup?

No?

Didn't think so.

Were you expecting a reply while you typed the comment?

I'm not saying anything goes either but if people around you use less and fewer interchangeably, there is no communication breakdown at all.

Do you know the correct times to use practice vs practise?

People thinking the English language is static and has to follow rules.

This Is English, my friend. The top dog of non-proscriptive languages where meanings change over time and reflect current usage.

Want to force everyone to follow the rules?

Start speaking French.