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I think spicy food is eaten in Spain, in India and in Thailand, because the spice acts as a disinfectant, which removes all kinds of germs (and therefore diseases) from your body, which is especially important in hot and humid climates, because bacteria spread like crazy there?

My dad's re-learning Python coding for work rn, and AI saves him a couple of times; Because he'd have no idea how to even start but AI points him in the right direction, mentioning the correct functions to use and all. He can then look up the details in the documentation.

You shouldn't feel pressured into making a wish.

I guess a part is that science seems to meticulously avoid the question "why do we live", in a non-technical way, in a way that actually gives people a sense of meaning.

That and mental inertia, i.e. some things change very slowly.

Just maybe with a bit less sex appeal?

Counter point: sex appeal is fine.

It's the people who are pushy irl who are the problem. IMO you can still be very "sexy" and as long as you don't push it, that's not a problem.

The animal and human dichotomy seems mostly religious in nature.

Agreed, and interestingly, it can be interpreted in one of two ways:

• Religion says that animals and humans are different.
• Religion is the difference between humans and other animals, i.e. other animals don't have religion.

I guess both are true.

Short question: how would they enforce that? What if I use some obscure messenger that nobody has ever heard of? What if I simply use telnet or netcat to send messages to other people?

I'm introducing the theory of an "r-factor" that measures how capitalistic a country is.

r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.

r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.

in-between them, there's a linear interpolation.

(i invented that "r-factor" as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)

i'm for r = 0.5 btw.

And Windows 13 will be a single stick.

From the link:

It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

From the link:

A species of oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres (100 feet) through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said Friday.

So, what's chasing you?

I have always wondered how do you do it: How do you fly?

There's nobody that I don't like

Yesss.

flying squid

the cooler mia

max

gandalf der 12

ygthur (or sth)

and a lot of german home instance ones (ranslite, nudel, kühe, ...)

and probably a few i forgot rn

I swear, it's no longer possible to distinguish satire from reality.

The truth is that nobody ever really cared about anyone else

That is not true. I care about people. Please don't make overly generalizations like that. It's not fair.

Yeah, the question "when to ban something" is indeed a tricky one.

I propose that all good-faith arguments must be allowed, no matter whether they advocate for sovjet communism (so called tankies) or ultra-liberal capitalism or what.ever.

The only reason to ban something is if it's personally insulting (e.g. non-sarcastic name-calling) or having the direct intention to hurt someone.

Yeah, jumping to extremes is indeed a problem for serious, honest discussions.

IMO there's just too much money that "news" sources make by being polarizing. They know it increases their view-counts. And to them, that's all that matters.

I think we need neutral, neutrally-financed news sources. Question is just, how do we organize that?

Hi there, I'd like to share my viewpoint.

(let me say up first that I'm not a conservative, not in the US, but still try to give good-faith understandings)

So I think a major pain point for conservatives in the US is that the traditional lifestyle (being a farmer, traditional family, ...) are harder to uptain today than they were in the past.

Another issue is that conservatives don't like that their children are being taught non-conservatives viewpoints in schools. Consider: how would you like it if your children are required to go to school by law, but then the schools don't teach them "your" way of life, but a totally different one. It makes you angry.

It would technically work, yes.

But also, you're wasting a lot of storage space that way, especially if you do it often. You really only should backup your home directory, it contains all your data. You can simply re-install the rest from the internet.