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Passive income is just labour appropriation and deserves the death sentence.
Some people shouldn’t have kids, and some children probably shouldn’t be born.
Sending humans to Mars is evil.
It is impossible to have people anywhere without gazillions of microbes. Once humans land on Mars we’ve at the very least corrupted any evidence of life, and possibly destroyed an independent genesis of life.
Since all life on earth comes from a single progenitor, this is both an incalculable loss of potential knowledge, and also a greater extinction than all earth extinctions combined.
I propose a moratorium for say 200 years or so, or at least until we’ve explored more than a few square kilometers in detail.
Cold drinks that have to be cold to be good, are bad.
If you want your drink to be good, it has to be competitively good at room temperature, first.
The same for all foods.
I can’t agree. There’s nothing so hearty and warming to the soul as a nice hot bowl of Gazpacho soup.
Rust is for little baby devs who can’t handle a little uncertainty and unsafety.
(signed, a JS dev)You should not expect your native culture to follow you when you move abroad.
Adapt or leave.
Controversial for a good reason
The US isn’t the great Satan, they are quite contemporary satan. Russia, China and Iran are all imperialist, anti democratic and have even worse human rights violations.
You don’t have to pick a side, these are all asshats, some more than other though.
This is either American cope, pure misinformation, or both. Certainly not an opinion, and easily verifiable nonsense (do you want to do it by number of foreign interventions, coups, murders? You name it and, if it’s in the last century, the answers won’t be surprising at all). USA #1, right? And yes, no serious person “picks sides”, this isn’t football, this is geopolitics.
Geopolitics is when you don’t pick sides.
Exactly the kind of take OP was asking for.
Cars 2 is the best of the series.
You’re sick (/s)
I think all land should be returned to my county’s indigenous people. I’m descended from the colonizers.
Consciousness is fundamental to reality. Science-based thinking (but not science itself) has put matter as the fundamental element but actually has never been able to prove it. To be able to prove that matter gives rise to consciousness, you’d have to step out of consciousness and point to matter. Which you cannot do. Not talking about individual consciousness where you can just point at someone’s brain: that experience of pointing at someone’s brain is happening inside consciousness, how else would you know about it.
Not to be confused with Solipsism, that’s the thinking mind. I’m talking about Idealism, the raw state of pure experience before thought.
This is actually an implication on one of the worlds leading theory of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory. It gives a mathematical measure of consciousness (as integrated information) and one of the surprising implications of that is that theres actually no matter that has zero integrated information. If we use this metric to measure human consciousness the implication is that a rock, say, has a small amount of consciousness.
Of course this theory is not without its issues, and I don’t personally subscribe to it, but I think it goes to show you that we all need to be more open minded to alternative possibilities to the typical “consciousness is just neurons firing” view. We don’t actually understand consciousness well enough to be jumping to that conclusion yet.
You’d have to prove all matter has consciousness for this right? Rocks, the sun, hydrogen atoms. We have evidence for the existence of reality before life but not the other way around.
So just to be clear, you think an electron is conscious in some small way? Or are you saying consciousness exists with or without matter?
Children are a distinct category from adolescents (and shouldn’t be lumped together), and both categories should have more autonomy over their own lives, bodies, and education. That includes being able to not consent to child genital mutilation (whether biologically male or intersex, female is already illegal), being able to consent to immunisations against the wishes of their parents/guardians - and likewise for puberty blockers/HRT later on, if they’re trans - and having autonomy over their schoolday, which school they go to, and what their schedule looks like.
Are you as wise and knowledgeable today as when you were a child?
I’m wise enough to know that my life would be a lot better if my opinions over my own body and education were respected at the time.
Did you have such useless, immature, childish parents that your decision making and understanding of the world were on par with theirs when you were little? If so, fair enough, but know that’s a rare, shameful case (for your parents, not you, ofc). Usually, you can rely on your parents’ wisdom and love, especially when you’re young and dumb.
I had religious parents. And religion is a worldview that can distort good intentions and intelligence into doing harm, because it’s not true.
Making out and fucking are basically the same and I don’t get why one is tolerated in public and the other is not.
Sunny weather fucking sucks. Overcast is by far the best weather. You don’t have to deal with sun in your eyes, or glare or feeling like your skin is burning after 30 minutes of standing outside. You can still see everything just fine.
I got to live in San Francisco for a few years and going outside to 10 C cloudy, foggy or overcast weather (almost) everyday was amazing. It was literally the most perfect weather I have ever experienced and the only thing I miss about that city.
All the suppressed and secreted emancipatory technologies should be released, giving everybody interstellar spaceships of their own, in as little time as an afternoon.
Hell yeah brother
Apparently saying new Star Trek is trash writing is enough to get banned from certain instances.
“But NU TREK IS MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY, IT MAKES ME FEEL SMART AND DIFFERENT (and if you dislike it, you dislike me 🥺)!”
They’ll never say it but they don’t have to.
It is, though.
