Thanos’ reasoning is idiotic.

People are a resource. If you eliminated half the people, not only have you wasted all resources that went into those people, but you’ve wasted everything those people could produce. Minus half of agricultural workers would probably mean way less than half production. The post-snap world would be a place of austerity and starvation. You could recover sure, but it’d be time for another snap.

What if the great filter is just when civilizations learn to live sustainably at home? Perhaps the assumption of infinite population growth, resource consumption, and expansion is flawed.

That’s my optimistic thought for the day.

The problem isn’t that we pet birds, it’s that we eat them. Or more specifically we gather them in huge, unsanitary populations in close contact with humans as they are raised and slaughtered.

This reminds me of how people think AIDS spread from other primates through bestiality, when bushmeat was the correct answer. I guess it’s easier to imagine bestiality than the consequences of carnism.

*not vegan, Just finding it harder and harder to dismiss them.

Look if cosmologists have to admit that they lost 95% of the mater in the universe, It shouldn’t embarrass philosopher’s that they can’t define what truth is.

Liberals are conservatives, they hate leftists.

Ironically medical care is a right to prisoners but it’s not for everyone else.

Medical care in US prisons is largely handled by a few for-profit companies that make money by providing inadequate care or refusing care at all. Prisoners routinely die from medical neglect. Healthcare behind bars is more capitalism, not less.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms2211252

Oh, and healthcare is not a right, it’s the State’s duty to care for people in it’s custody. That means prisoners have no agency over their care. For example if you’re arrested at an accident, the EMTs gain consent from the police, not the patient. This is how EMTs can administer anti-psychotics and strong sedatives on the sidewalk after the pigs have kicked your ass.

https://apnews.com/article/investigation-police-use-of-force-sedation-injections-demetrio-jackson-621909ba7491abc2af8ad2e33ba3415b

DAE remember that the OceanGate CEO bragged that Boeing helped them manufacture the sub?

At the time Boeing disavowed, but who you gonna believe?

Some people think God is an English teacher and his cock is a giant red pen.

Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy.

It’s kinda hard to describe. I recon it’s a parable about American colonization and the genocide of the native people. Like a map of how a project like that gets done and who benefits from it.

It’s like a melodrama in that it’s light on plot, and character motivation, but without the extreme circumstances unless you count the pervasive, persistent, and senseless violence. (that the characters themselves barely seem to notice) Not exactly a supernatural tale, but filled with dream logic, oh and the literal Christian Devil is one of the main characters.

This is the only book Ive ever read twice, back to back. I got to the end and was like WTF, turned to the first page and started again.

Had a friend with problem neighbors kids cutting through his yard to get to the store. He was friendly with the parents and didn’t want to stir shit. The neighbors were super all-natural, hippie, no chemical types, so he told them he switched to a new fertilizer packed with micro-plastics and forever chemicals made by Monsanto that he had to sneak in from Mexico because it wasn’t allowed in the US. That fertilizer sure worked because the trail the kids were carving filled right in that summer.

Currently it seems that there is a negative correlation in some places between intellectual achievement and fertility

It’s ironic because the more people who accept the plot of ‘Idiocracy’ (2006) as plausible or scientific is evidence that humanity is getting stupider.

The physicist and the philosopher are both claiming that time is the order in which we observe things happening, the actual dispute is over the most fundamental force in science: nomenclature.

I feel like the people most affected by paywalls, i.e. people who read their news, are already pretty well informed.

There’s plenty of access to quality journalism, more than ever, the problem is that no amount of quality or availability can compete with misinformation tailored to addict, comfort, and flatter it’s audience. You can’t inform people against their will.

Everyone lives in layers of self-constructed fantasy and coming into contact with reality is called trauma. At least according to Jacques Lacan.

Lots of times you can ‘one and done’ a series. Dune comes to mind as a great novel on it’s own even if you ignore the rest of the series.

But I understand what you mean. The only time I’ve been glad to read an entire series was Kings “Gunslinger”.

Oh, the production quality on Lightning is trash. The drums sound like their not in the same room with the the microphones. Part of the charm. It sounds like a band who doesn’t know any professional producers.

Metallica: Ride the Lightning

I love this album, but can’t stand any of their other stuff.

Fog of War (2003) is just heartstopping for anyone interested in 20th Century American history. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/

Grizzly Man (2005) is mesmerizing all the way through despite it’s quirky protagonist and predictable conclusion.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427312/

This is a bad take. Software updates that fix life threatening defects are as serious as any recall.

It’s motivated reasoning. Either the people making this argument are Tesla owners, simps, or shareholders and are trying to protect the phantasmagorical value of the company.

Saying “my car’s drive-by-wire software gets more firmware updates than my printer” is not a flex.