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The animated series Pantheon has a scene depicting exactly this, and it's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.

Edit: Here is the scene in question. It's explained he has to be awake during the procedure because the remaining parts of his brain need to continue functioning in tandem with the parts that have already been scanned.

Yep, I like my dynavap. It's a much more pleasant experience than a joint or pipe.

It is also a cleaner delivery mechanism for THC than combustion.

Climate activists can lobby in person when available, taking time away from other things. Oil companies can hire armies of lobbyists - some of whom masquerading as "concerned citizens" - to overwhelm public hearings, buy out media companies to manipulate public opinion and engage in astroturfing campaigns, and directly sway politicians with legal bribery (deliberately being vague about the purpose of "gifts" to maintain the benefit of the doubt about there being any quid pro quo involved).

Lobbying effectively requires resources - namely capital - which oil companies have in abundance and climate activists do not. To suggest that climate activists should simply fight on their terms is ignorant at best and malicious at worst.

Wikipedia - While the Wikimedia Foundation itself is hierarchical, it manages Wikipedia through a process of community-led governance. Every article is maintained by a community of volunteers who engage in open debate to decide on content moderation policies. Wikipedia remains one of the few popular websites to avoid the recent internet enshittification.

Food Not Bombs - An activist organization that serves free food. FNB has no central organizing body, instead operating as a loose-knit group of independent collectives who voluntarily cooperate and exchange information and resources with one another. One specific collective, "A Food Not Bombs Menu," has taken to coordinating the global activities of FNB collectives and helping people start new ones, but has no power over any others.

IWW - The Industrial Workers of the World, while hierarchical, ensures a hierarchy that is accountable to its' rank and file members by means of a robust democratic process, as well as the right of any member union or individual member to leave at anytime and go it alone.

There are many more, but it's late and it took me a while to pick out what I think are good representative examples of different ways an organization can be run well.

They're not dumpster fires because they're run by humans, but because they're run by unaccountable hierarchies. Humans are perfectly capable of running a sustainable and efficient operation if we only stopped to consider how better to make decisions collectively.

I believe this is from Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World. A fantastic read, and one I recommend to anyone who will listen.

Coming at this from an IT perspective, a lot of things that people "already know" seem to evaporate when it's time to actually apply that knowledge. Keeping that in mind, I think a game like this helps to cement the idea in people's heads in a more intuitive way. It bridges the gap between system 1 and system 2 thinking.

There's nothing that irritates me more than when people misinterpret me not because of vague language, but due to poor reading comprehension. Except perhaps when people admire TV villains because of poor media literacy.

Yes, people are arguing it doesn't mean rich men can't enter heaven. People have been coming up with various interpretations of that Bible passage for that explicit purpose ever since Jesus said it - a couple thousand years - for which we have written records.

The "eye of a needle is a gate in Jerusalem" interpretation was dug up from 11th century writings by televangelists who - believe it or not - used it to argue that you could, in fact, fit a camel through it with great effort.

This myth has been pretty thoroughly busted, as has most every other attempt by rich pricks in the last couple thousand years to soften or undermine Jesus' use of hyperbole.

I would suspect this is an intentional dark pattern. They're probably hoping most people will get tired of waiting and click cancel, which sets it back to the default of allowing all cookies.

What are you doing to fight fascism?

a person must exhibit four out of the eight signs and symptoms to meet the diagnostic threshold for ODD.

• Is often touchy or easily annoyed

• Is often angry and resentful

• Often argues with authority figures or, for children and adolescents, with adults

• Often actively defies or refuses to comply with requests from authority figures or with rules

If I were imprisoned against my will I would certainly be exhibiting these 4 "symptoms." Does that mean I have oppositional defiant disorder?

The problem with this is that it can too easily classify behavior that is appropriate to the situation as a disorder. The distinction that a professional might make is that these symptoms are only considered signs of a disorder if they are not appropriate to the situation, and that is a value judgement that cannot be objectively determined. This makes the diagnosis heavily subject to the values and beliefs of the person making it. In my opinion, we shouldn't he classifying these types of situational behaviors as a disorder because the cause is almost always external/environmental, which a psychiatrist is often ill-equipped to address.

Ok I admit, I barely skimmed your first comment lol. Suppose I should read the whole chain before replying late in a conversation.

Probably because it had its 15 minutes of fame, but you can tell if you just look at it for a second. Look at the words on the drink, or the sign in the top right, or the people in the background.

The Finglesham deal discussions will be going well into the night so don't forget your ham sandwich at half past 3.

There would be a much larger variety of toothpaste flavors.

Slow it down there Thanos, just because you can't personally see a solution to our current predicament doesn't mean that genocide is the solution. Do you honestly believe that would fix things? Are you a comic book villain?

You decrie brainwashing by the media and assume that you are unaffected, but you are clearly and dangerously mislead into losing all hope for a better world. The latest shift in climate disinformation is away from denialism and towards doomerism, and you seem to have fallen for it hard.

It is not too late. There are attainable solutions. Political change is possible, perhaps even inevitable. There will be consequences for what has already been done, but we can survive them and we will. What might not survive are the institutions that got us to this point, but we can build a better world in their absence. Don't lose hope, that's what the oligarchs want.

I know it's hard to sympathize with those who refused to see reason and allowed the powers that be to bring us to the point of crisis, but it's important to remember that they too are victims.