Honytawk

America isn't a country.

You are talking about the USA

Yanks

Big deal, some humans would too.

That's ... normal

Midichlorians are what give people the ability to move objects with their minds.

You're thinking of Miranda-class

If we don't give it incentive to want to stay alive, why would it care if we turn it off?

This isn't an animal with the instinct to stay alive. It is a program. A program we may design to care about us, not about itself.

Also the premise of that thought experiment was about paperclips.

Err, you only know how shady the US is because those idiots keep broadcasting their shadiness.

The CCP on the other hand does their best to hide how shady they are through censorship and propaganda.

That isn't lame, that is just a different playstyle.

It is more fun, you should try it sometime.

The bean boy turned into a bean and thus the family had to eat him

Yes, but only diagonally

Only if they enjoy it

That is what I love about Belgium/The Netherlands, we don't have an Amazon. So a local business called Bol.com took over.

It isn't exactly next day delivery all the time, but close. And pretty good deals as well.

Never ordered anything from Amazon, and never will.