The Shadow knows...

I can't remember the name of the novel.

It's a horror / thriller set in the Edwardian Era. There is torture, mutilation, cannibalism, human sacrifice, and plain old murder.

The writer felt compelled to give a trigger warning because of some bad words.

I think it's about the support system you have.

You'll meet people who grew up in extreme poverty who are kind and stable, and people who grew up with plenty but are still unable to become adults.

Pretty much every stand up comic does jokes about how only traumatized people feel the need to be funny all the time.

Man here.

One of my favorite crime writers is Karin Slaughter.

I've read dozens of stories written by men where a character remarks on how badly jailed child molesters are treated by their fellow prisoners.

Slaughter is the only one who pointed out that it was most likely because a lot of the prisoners had been abused as children and it wasn't a case of righteous anger as much as it was abuse victims getting the only revenge they could.

Sorry if off topic.

Nobody knew the threat of Hitler better than FDR. He wanted to start arming Britain and France the day the Nazis went into Poland, if not sooner. He had to wait for the right time.

Another example. Frederick Douglas was an escaped slave. He had suffered the horrors not just observed them. When the 1860 election came around, Douglas stepped away form the candidate who wanted instant Abolition and backed Abe Lincoln, who said he would keep slavery if it meant saving the Union.

Douglas decided it was smarter to back the winner and have the ear of a sitting President than it was to back someone he might have agreed with much more.

Politics is a game, learn the rules

I checked the Cambridge Dictionary, no 'edited to add'

Actually, it's as silly a thing as I can imagine, replacing the four letter word 'edit' with a three letter abbreviation that means exactly the same thing. Only someone fond of pretentious academic rigmarole would use it.

And it's so funny to watch you demand proof that ETA is most commonly used for Estimated Time of Arrival.

I guess you've never left your mom's basement and gone to an airport, bus station, or train depot.

Like I said, I keep throwing knowledge at you and you keep spurning it.

I guess that's why I keep replying, a sense of pity combined amusement

First of all 'ETA' is most commonly used for 'Estimated Time of Arrival.'

I shudder to think what it means to you.

Second, thanks for the laughs.

Third, Isaac Asimov, arguably the smartest man who ever live, compared AI and superstitions numerous times in his famous robot stories.

Glad I could teach you something. Actually I taught you three things, but I have no great hopes of you receiving the message

Like it or not, people need political leaders to follow.

Also, AOC has the advantage of representing a district in New York City, the media capital of the world. She probably wouldn't be as well known if she was the Congressmember from Topeka

Again, nope.

You want to ignore reality.

You keep reiterating your point, but it's as meaningless as trying to come up with the sound of one hand clapping.

I will not bother to reply again.

Again, nope.

How can you try and create something you've never imagined?

Your words 'imagine AI never existed as a concept.' Then you use the phrase 'we humans.'

I showed that humans have always had the concept.

If you want to try to imagine a non-human race capable of fulfilling your scenario, go ahead. Just don't call them 'human.'