Man I don't exactly love two out of four of those genres myself, but this thread has a few commenters that seem to want to pretend they're the adults in the room but in reality they're just a bunch of miserable cunts that either hate music or only want to listen to the same fucking popular shit over and over.
Like, popular music is fine to be clear but so is wanting to listen to weirder stuff.
Vaccines could theoretically be used to train the immune system to essentially attack cancer cells in much the same way we already use immunotherapy. Though as far as I understand it, we have yet to fully develope one.
I think you are jumping the gun. I'm a soft anti-natalist (because people do not choose to be born), don't believe in free will, and I kind of resent being born myself and the expectations that come with it. I've not loved life much and one of the main reasons I've not killed myself is that I am terrified of dying now that I'm alive.
By my own ethical analysis, I don't owe the world anything on an intrinsic level. I did not choose to be here and I've not forced anyone else into the world. Like sure, I'll help in a pretty conventional emotional/empathy sort of way for people around me in the present. And can empathize with kids in terms of feeling bad about how screwed they are though what with the state of the climate. Not my fault though.
If I had brought a new human being into existence I'd probably be in a perpetual state of anxiety over the responsibility of giving them a good life since I'm the one that fucked up and brought them here. Luckily for me that's not happened and probably wont with my plans to get a vasectomy once I have the cash and a full vacation day or two for recovery.
But yeah, fuck you. I guess we're just mortal enemies or some shit? Get your stick out of your ass. You aren't morally superior.
I don't have any kids and I believe when I'm dead I wont be conscious of anything so I really struggle to care unless its something that can be done faster.
That said, I kind of actually do think its physically doable within my lifetime, it would just require some technological advancement in automated construction and energy production.
I don't think we're ignoring that, so much as there is an overwhelming amount of bad shit to talk about stemming from this single incident.
And to be honest the bigger issue revealed here isn't the failure to protect classified information or that they're bombing Yemen (In a vacuum at least) right now but the fact that they are violating the law also by using an app that destroys documentation of their conversations. This has implications not only legally or militaristically but also that they know they want to do shit that would be illegal and evil enough that they don't even want to use standard classified channels, not just bombing of Yemen but probably more future evil shit.
This mess isn't on some of us. Some of us tried very hard to prevent this outcome and now suddenly we're expected to clean up other people's fucking mess.
I find it deeply disturbing that when I opened the comment section of a post discussing 400 (now over 700) dead people, mostly innocent children, men, and women, in less than 48 hours, the first reaction was to blame “Arabs,” “Muslims,” “Tankies,” “Leftists,” and “Pro-Palestinians,” using these minority communities as tokens.
Tankies are not "minority groups"...
This is a glaring display f hypocrisy, these groups are portrayed in a positive light only when it benefits politically, only to be thrown under the bus when they are no longer useful…
There is no hypocrisy. Arabs and Muslims are portrayed in a positive light to counter the American far right's frothing hatred of them, that was the core reason.
Any human capable of experiencing empathy would have first reacted with disgust and indignation at the unfolding genocide, rather than resorting to scapegoating and divisive rhetoric, but it may also not be organic comments, what do I know…
"divisive rhetoric" you sound like a fucking centrist.
It’s definitely stuff like this that interests me. I think eventually - when the dust finally settles - people are going to have to start talking again.
I think I'm done doing this though. I've done the work of being a patient debater for too long. I just want to give into hedonistic mud slinging at this point because I kind hate to say it but I think the world might be politically doomed anyway. I might as well get my jollies.
I just burned all my patience to nothing obsessing for so long. Decades of my life. And even if I somehow recover my political energy, I'll still be living with the knowledge that my country let Trump win a second time. That 70% either voted for Trump or failed to vote against him and let him win. Its really hard to have hope with that knowledge. I'll probably just kind rage for a bit, and then when I save enough money I want to flee to some other country if possible.
You don't need to worry about insulting me. I probably deserve some insults.
I hope you manage to avoid the bitter void that I've fallen into.
Ehhhhhhhh. I had fun here and there primarily because I was playing with friends. I probably would have had more fun if I played something else though, sunk cost fallacy influenced me.
There was one dude who was an antisemitic rightwinger and seemed to start adopting softer stances like "You can't really blame Jews for being bankers historically, its just kind of where they ended up being pushed into by other religious groups. It doesn't make sense to hate them for that." or something to that effect. And he even started mixing some left & right leaning econ together.
That is the most notable example I can think of at the top of my head. But there were little bits and pieces that got chipped away I think for each interaction for the more open minded debaters I argued with.
Some were extremely stubborn though. I remember an anarcho-capitalist that was just dripping with disgust for socialists and basically never budged. He was a Youtuber too, I don't remember his name though. Motherfucker hated me lol.
On some things sure, hes confident about virtually everything he says. But I suspect what you think hes incorrect on and what I think hes incorrect on are different things. I even suspect you disagree with stances that aren't even stances he actually holds.
Buy a Steam Deck.