All our lives are absolutely random, even if it doesn't appear so, you were one of trillions of sperm and are one of billions of humans.
It can be argued that everything in your life is down to pure chance. I know that some people don't like that idea, especially when they are somewhat successful and want to talk about all the hard work they did to gain their achievements.
Didn't the embargo start because Cuba were allowing Russian military bases with nukes? Presumably they're not doing that anymore so why still an embargo?
I wouldn't say that I stop thinking, but I can act out thoughts, pay attention to things or have new experiences without internally processing them verbally, although it does help with more complex issues.
If I'm having a shower, I just put soap on a flannel, I don't internally verbalise "put some soap on the flannel, I'm putting soap on a flannel now".
I'm not talking about religious predictions exclusively, I'm saying that every single "end of the world" prediction so far has been wrong.
I don't doubt that the planet is in a pretty dire state, but resilience is one of humanities strongest traits and short of meteor strike or all out nuclear war, there's a good chance that at least some of us will survive.
I am intrigued by what you think 10th century humans had that could destroy the world though.
People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years, they've been wrong every time. This causes me to take further predictions with a pinch of salt.
It was literally in the reddiquette that you're not supposed to use them like that, but in practice, you're absolutely right and that's how they're used.
Practically yes, despite the way that they ought to be used.
It's such a shame. Lemmy should be a place where we can collectively share ideas and debate openly. Comments and posts should only ever be downvoted if they're off topic, hateful or misleading. However, in reality people get downvoted mostly because someone simply doesn't like or wholly agree with them.
It's still better here than reddits awful circlejerks and echo chambers, but not by much and we should be wary of devolving to a state where people are disincentivized to post because they have an idea or opinion that may only be slightly off kilter to the hive mind.
The hive mind has concluded AI=bad and any comment that doesn't go along with the consensus is going to get downvotes.
It's really not that different from the beginning of the industrial revolution, when cotton mills first started to implement the spinning jenny, leaving many workers out of a job who'd go in to the factories at night to smash the machines up.
No one wants to go back to spinning cotton all day now though and it will be the same with jobs taken by AI.
All our lives are absolutely random, even if it doesn't appear so, you were one of trillions of sperm and are one of billions of humans.
It can be argued that everything in your life is down to pure chance. I know that some people don't like that idea, especially when they are somewhat successful and want to talk about all the hard work they did to gain their achievements.