Ogmios @ ogmios @sh.itjust.works

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The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.

Very interesting read, but I'll disagree with the last line. There is a vast amount of information communicated face to face which simply can't be translated to the written word, and so very important cognitive tools which have evolved over millions of years simply don't function the way they're built to function. If you look at some of the most celebrated intellectuals ever, like Socrates, you'll find that they never actually trusted the written word. My own ancestral culture literally forbid recording knowledge in writing, trusting only the spoken word.

You're completely misrepresenting OP. They're saying that they believe science is a good thing, not that it simply exists.

This has been an enduring problem with all journalism.

The problem with assassinating leaders is that it turns the population into a headless mob, and plenty of innocents suffer tremendously anyways.

Modern military technology has made such concerns much less important, as any conflict is increasingly devastating.

You're not wrong. I still remember the day I picked up a newspaper and saw the headline "video games earn more than movies for the first time ever," and I immediately knew where the industry was headed. In retrospect, I was 100% correct.

Weird people were forced out of the industry over the past decade or more, for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with making games.

Well we've done literally fuck all about China, so why should India be different?

Apparently our closest and strongest ally is the only nation Canadians can summon the will to resist.

Clearly they would rather be consumed by other things instead.

Well we're going to suffer until enough people do figure it out.

The sad part is that this is a very well known phenomena, yet people become too consumed by everything else to even care about learning of such warnings left behind by long dead civilizations.

Civilization exists because enough people know that we're better off working together than against each other.

Social media addicts are probably the only people in the whole world who don't already distinguish between different types of immigrants.

no u

Because the real world doesn't operate on social media logic, so they actually respond with real human reactions.

They are attempting to address a social crisis brought on by legions of retards who never even attempt to understand anything about the world, and just parrot whatever social media tells them, oblivious to how incoherent that makes society.

If you don't like how they're attempting to solve it, then I would strongly recommend you actually start looking for something real you can meaningfully contribute to society, instead of just serving as attack dogs for any random person who types up something which triggers your feels.

You want to help improve society? GREAT! But it actually takes a lot of hard work to sift through the metric ton of confusing and conflicting information to actually understand anything about what's really happening, and most people are completely ignoring that part, thinking that people smarter than them will use the Internet to instruct them on what to do day to day. If you only ever get involved when other people are telling you what to do, you're nothing but a tool.

Sorry that you're inconvenienced by people making too much noise, as small impotent men deploy the powers bestowed upon them by corporate technologies to destroy their entire way of life.

Lmao. Sorry, calling it unrelated isn't going to make the world love China.

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes up 5% of the universe. There was just one problem—they had no idea where most of it was.

For anyone like me who's brain went immediately to dark matter after reading the headline, it's related but not the dark matter itself.

I'm talking about the Chinese people choosing to murder their own daughters at birth because the government attempted to implement strict population controls, and everyone wanted boys so they could make more money as adults.

Professing to the belief that slaughtering massive numbers of infant girls is an improvement of conditions, is a bit of a spicy take on these forums.

You can't do something that fucked up and just expect the entire world to pretend it never happened.

China's artificial "culture" which was installed after slaughtering their own history, isn't worth preserving.