I don’t think fashion is just one thing. You’re not going to find anyone promoting the way I’m dressing but I dress that way for a reason and it’s still a fashion choice. You could say I’m counter-signaling for intentionally not following current trends but that’s still just a different version of the same thing.

I’d say that a more accurate statement would be: “Following current fashion is wearing what you think others expect you to wear”

That’s not a helpful answer.

It objectifies women

By what logic?

You couldn’t really warn future civilizations about the dangers of a true Artificial General Intelligence - because there probably wouldn’t be any future civilizations.

And even that assumes the problem magically solves itself once humans disappear, which it wouldn’t. A real AGI would be perfectly capable of continuing to exist without us around.

That’s why I don’t immediately judge people when they say something I disagree with. I want to know how they arrived at that conclusion. Their reasoning might be solid - just shaped by different life experiences and beliefs that led them to a different view. And that’s okay.

I can still see them as an intellectual, trustworthy person whose opinions matter to me, because I trust they’re capable of independent reasoning.

It works both ways too. Someone agreeing with me means next to nothing if it’s just an adopted view they accepted as fact without ever really thinking it through themselves. The “stamp of approval” from people like that is basically worthless.

Mopeds used to have pedals as well. The term comes from Swedish words motor and pedaler

eBikes requiring pedaling is mostly just a software limitation - not a hardware one. I can’t quite see how it stops being an eBike after you disable this limitation.