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58·11 hours agoThis is the road that “pre-emptive strikes” lead to, and we should have learned that lesson after 9/11.
This admin is just so incompetent it’s undeniable that’s it’s bullshit.
Saying an attack is gonna happen so you have to attack isn’t a valid reason whether it’s an individual or a country. And if you allow it, eventually someone will say that they can’t show us the proof, then they’ll stop pretending they had proof.
Midterms are the kind of the last peaceful offramp, and it might be closed.
Mamdani is great and all, but if ICE is operating in NYC then he’s not doing enough.
If you’re not using cops to detain ICE as soon as they arrive, you need to do so as soon as they try to illegally detain someone or uses excessive force.
You can’t just let them have free reign
19·12 hours agoJust block people.
And they can block you too.
There’s a lot of weird people on Lemmy, that’s not a bad thing, it’s normal for online spaces at this stage. But some people will dominate your time if you let them.
Most recently, someone accused me of trying to manipulate people because of my age and gender.
“Online no one knows I’m not a dog”
That type of stuff rarely comes up, so when people just constantly mention it, it gets noticed.
So just stop saying it, and problem solved
Maybe it’s because the draft age is an F-18?
Not only is Iran pretty big with weapons too, China sees this as an opportunity to test out some higher level tech that can’t be tested by Russia.
Planes just dropping out of the sky won’t be the only unexplained shit we see.
I’m honestly surprised the plane/drone dropped kamikaze microdrones havent been dropped yet. It’s basically the shotgun approach to beat missile defense and I don’t think even Israel could block it.
Would be some straight up 300 “block out the sun” type of shit and the next level of horror in war.
Then what created your higher power?
The question is the same, you latched onto an additional point and acted like it not applying invalidated everything else…
Logic ain’t going to work, I’m sorry.
Then a higher power is an absolutely unnecessary step that provides zero benefit…
There’s only one test that ever mattered but modern tech made it outdated:
https://youtu.be/4df17uZyMs8?t=119
The principle is the same tho, just in general that little things are done by both parties to make it easier on the partner.
If a guy took the time to open a manual locked car door for his date to let her in first, and she didn’t take the two seconds to open his door, it may not be a reciprocal thing.
But the downvotes are because “test” indicates pass/fail. People get nervous around people they like and they may act stupid or insensitive just because you’re distracting them.
Green/red flags are better. Most shit is at most a caution.
Nah man, I just meant this one specific point, which is why I put it in this thread…
Shane Gillis said it best (paraphrased):
Racism is a lot like being hungry, most people aren’t always hungry. Some people are, but everyone gets hungry under the right conditions.
But it’s all the “isms”, they’re all just different ways to describe “in/out group bias” which older than humans, primates, and considering birds even mammals.
It’s a fundamental part of human life.
The only problem is people weren’t getting socialized first due to distance and then due to instuitional laws. And as people age they fall back on earlier “in/out group biases” of what they were exposed to as young.
Everyone can be guilty of “doing an ism” and most of the time not even realize it, really mean it, or even control it. The brain just stressed and falls back on that shit.
We fix it by understanding it and working towards the current new generation getting properly socialized and motivated enough to keep doing it
That’s why conservatives fight so hard against “indoctrination” seeing a demographic exists when young is all it takes to stop them from becoming “them” later. They’re just another member of the tribe to our monkey brains, they’re always be “us”.
Then it takes twice as much faith to believe a higher being existed before anything else…
It’s a chicken/egg.
If you want to be the most scientific these days it’s bubbles of reality getting created when two dimensional planes intersect or just come close to bumping up together. Which forms a bubble dimension which would have essentially random physics every time.
Which is pretty fucking far down the line to “nothing” but at the end of the day, what created the planar dimensions?
All adding a higher power does is add an extra step. Maybe it’s there, maybe it’s not.
It changes nothing. Because something created that first.
There’s energy/matter and no matter what we come up with to rationalize that (even the Matrix) it doesn’t explain it the whole way through, all of this is fundamentally impossible and we just have to accept that.
And also even if there’s an afterlife, were unlikely to get all the answers, because it almost certainly be some sort of middle management higher being who is just as ignorant of what made it, till maybe if/when it dies in which case our “ever after” has an end date.
Like, everyone just has to eventually reach the point they stop caring and settle for a personal “good enough”. Organized religion just gives everyone a set playbook which makes it easier to accept.
Huh?
There’s no ethical way or no ethical reason to kill them?
There’s both, it’s just bugging me that I don’t understand how I disagree with you.
You ever hear about the real weird shit where consciousness predates biological life and wife it will arise everywhere that a form of life could be supported?
Theory goes there’s there’s “aromatic rings” of simple chemicals that will naturally arrange into a structure that is 100% not alive. Kind of like a virus, but completely immobile and can’t directly interact with something as big as a cell, these are literally a dozen or so atoms strapped together.
These proto-consciousness can only experience two sensations, and due to arrangement will “prefer” one and avoid the other arrangement. They’re super basic and it’s really that binary.
However because they can act like a virus on an atomic level, they change things with the only drive to make things that look like them on an atomic level, because the only thing they experience is that is “good”.
It’s sounds nuts because I’m just going off memory, but shits a pretty big theory.
And is backed up with stuff like how when a crystalline structure is first synthesised, it will eventually be replaced by a different structure that took more initial energy to be produced initially. But after a “seed crystal” (again, atomic level) is present, it will quickly and effectively destroy any synthesis of the original polymorph.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir#Polymorphism_and_temporary_market_withdrawal
And fuck me if that isn’t the missing link between basic aromatic rings and viruses towards the evolution of life as we define it.
And I’m not saying “missing link” as just an expression…
They were intrigued by a molecule called ribo-aminooxazoline (RAO), which they discovered could react to form two of RNA’s nucleotide building blocks. RAO is among a rare class of crystals that enforce a single chirality: Once a crystal starts to grow from either right- or left-handed versions of the molecule, only molecules with the same chirality can bind to the structure. Such crystals, if they started with an initial bias, could have caused chiral RAO to build up.
We need a good explanation for why a bunch of random shit lines up in one of two distinct and binary alignments because life needs that. And that’s what this this
Meaning life could spring up anywhere at any moment which is what you’re talking about.
Bonus pessimism:
https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mirror-life-risks-molecular-chirality/
Just because “our” side won the alignment war here on Earth, doesn’t mean that’s true everywhere. It could just have easily went the other way and developed what we call “mirror life” and scientists are actively trying to create it right now even tho that could wipe out everything bigger than basic bacteria…
That’s why it’s controversial, it gets the people going…
Even with all the disclaimers input in there with it, I 100% knew someone would say it was racist for zero logical reason, even without me saying that’s the reason it’s controversial.
It changes absolutely nothing about how we all evolved from an (actually insanely small) population that lived in Africa very recently on an evolutionary timescale. If anything it debunks racist beliefs that there’s large divides between who left and stayed.
But well intentioned people get mad and call me a racist, every single time.
the other sounds like a racially charged propaganda piece.
Exactly what I’m talking about.
Bring it up and people will literally change what you say and label it racist.
Our ancestors might not be “from” Africa.
There’s huge gaps in the historical record because of that whole ice age cycle thing.
Sapians may have evolved somewhere else, but either slowly migrated to Africa as safe haven or just died out everywhere else as glaciers bulldozed all traces of evidence.
It doesn’t really change anything, we’d still all be descendants of the same people. I just don’t think we know enough to for sure say the absence of evidence is the evidence of absence.
It’s not that long ago we thought all our ancestors lived in caves, just because evidence was most likely to be preserved then
If you don’t feel safe in the home of the FIFA peace world champion, where can you feel safe?
/s
This might be the last straw for a lot of them…
But they’re all carrying a shit ton on their backs by now if they still work at CNN. If they had resigned with everyone for any of the last ethical meltdowns at the company we might have seen change.
They just kept it alive long enough for even more right leaning people to be hired and trained to do their own jobs.
We need to be more like the French where people strike and riot because their college roommate’s second cousin may be slightly inconvenienced. With the understanding it works both ways.
If everyone waits till their personal line, there’s never a critical mass.
Seven current CNN employees who spoke to NBC News on Thursday night, hours after Netflix announced it would not try to match Paramount’s bid for WBD, expressed a combination of fear and concern. They described the mood inside the company as “shaken” and” depressing.”
Keep in mind this was less than three years ago:
Zaslav’s marching orders for Licht were to push CNN more toward the political middle. It makes some sense — Fox News is a right-wing propaganda machine; MSNBC is basically the same thing for the left. You’d think there would be a fair amount of room right down the center.
And that article was about Licht being fired…
He was replaced by this shithead:
In a 4 February 2024 investigation by The Guardian, some CNN staff blamed their channel’s newly appointed director Mark Thompson for what they described as biased reporting of the Gaza war. The staff criticized their network’s coverage of the war, charging that it had promoted Israeli propaganda, and gave more attention to Israeli suffering, and the Israeli narrative of the war. One staffer claimed that this bias was systematic and institutionalized, as many journalists’ stories were forced to be cleared by channel’s Jerusalem bureau before publication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(media_executive)
Meaning the current employees who are now worried, haven’t been worried enough to leave over ethical concerns long ago. And they’re still worried about what is happening.
It’s neoliberalism all over, they keep ratcheting to the right, it fails, so they double down and move further right. We have to accept the people calling the shots aren’t trying to make it work and know it won’t. They just want to drag the Overton window the right under any pretext.
No matter what happens, in 3-5 years they’ll say their only choice is to move to the right, that’s what authoritarians do.
I’m rewatching “From” and one quote stuck out:
Someone is gonna launch a nuke. I hope to God it’s just a single one to remind all these dumb old fucks that they exist.
It’s gonna keep escalating to the point that someone does it, I don’t think it’s avoidable.
Guess we’ll see if the cynical old rationale for funding Israel as a lightning rod is actually effective I guess.