Scooter - Maria

If I wanted to not potentially get harassed by MAGATs, I’d be voting early too, so let’s not assume early voters are a uniform representation. No slacking, pedal to the medal. Vote like your life depends on it.

No, the Linux community is dimensionless. Physical objects cannot fit within it.

Hope this helps.

That makes me feel all warm and tingly, TBH. Love to see corrupt bozos scoring self goals.

I never really appreciated them until watching a bunch of 3blue1brown videos. I really wish those had been available when I was still in HS.

Sadly, that’s chump change for him. 250k sub’s at $120/yr comes out to $30M/yr. That’s ~ 0.015% of his net wealth. Better than nothing though.

Oh, maybe. Is that how it works?

Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

Sounds like they’ve done you a favour. Now you don’t have to see their random hater circlejerk community again.

Isn’t the issue of a single country that the Palestinian population is much higher than the Israeli population, so if there were a single democracy, it would mean that Palestinians would basically be fully in charge?

I think this is why a federated or two state solution is often suggested. Both parties need at least some level of autonomy.

I suspect they may be making a joke that tardigrades are aliens.

What a fuckin hypocrite. I hope he stubs his toe really really hard, then steps on a lego.

Dogmatic? That’s pretty rich coming from the country with so much entrenched guilt that they’re willing to let the same thing happen someplace else because the ones they’ve wronged are now the perpetrators.

The correct lesson wasn’t only that ethnic persecution of Jewish people is to be avoided, it’s that all ethnic persecution should be avoided.

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I’m not sure I’m particularly clear about the distinction you’re trying to make between wanting to be evil, and having a world view that requires you to do a ton of evil stuff.

If we humans have agency, then surely our worldview is at least somewhat a decision we’re culpable for.

Also, there are times it’s appropriate to discuss certain topics, and times it is not. A dissertation about the upsides of Hitler is not relevant to Trump being compared to Hitler, unless you intend to make the argument that Trump being like Hitler might also have some upsides.

Save it for where it belongs: a history book.

You can’t control the face-eating tiger you helped create, you say? Oh look, it’s the consequences of your own actions, you absolute doorknob. :/

Dear Bill,

Please accept the following secret message: “That’s not how secrets work.”

All the best,
Enkers

That’s a big fucking gamble. They better pray that if the would be dictator wins, there’ll even be another chance in 4 years.

I wouldn’t say I’m particularly emotional about it. A lot of people that make arguments similar to the ones you’re making do so as more of a bad faith “gotcha” rather than arguing something they actually believe in, most often as an excuse to kill sentient beings.

Responding to the same bad faith arguments is draining, so if I was bit kurt, that could’ve been part of it.

Now, if anything, I’d say I’m more curious. What does avoiding microbial killing look like, day to day? Do you avoid washing to preserve your microbial biome? I assume you’d avoid contributing to animal death as well since that would also kill their own microbial biome. I find this quite interesting, TBH!

To answer your question, I personally consider myself, for lack of better terms, a sentientist. And to me that entails veganism. I think sentience and consciousness is an emergent phenomena which occurs on a spectrum which roughly correlates to CNS complexity (although there are certainly beings with less centralised nervous systems which are also incredibly complex).

Consciousness produces the capacity for experiential existence and thus the experiences of pain and suffering, and I believe we have a moral obligation to minimize these unnecessary harms that we might cause.

Why does it matter? We can’t understand the subjective experience of rocks any more than we can bacteria. Why should we rule out their capacity and not bacteria’s? There’s no more evidence that one has more of a conscious subjective experience than the other, living or not.

By your logic, shouldn’t we opt to be more inclusive of rocks if they could potentially have some sort of experience that we have no current understanding of?

If you don’t have any evidentiary basis for your inclusiveness, then that makes it completely arbitrary. Why not start worrying about potential cruelty to non-living things like air, or rocks as well?