supersquirrel @ supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz

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Wait what if I ask me then

Well yes, but there are animals that are like honda civics, beautiful in their utilitarian genius, reliability and incredible capacity to get shit done, and there are the big old weirdos who are equally as beautiful but also just you can't help but have an affinity for em.

Doesn't mean the other animals aren't cool too, mundane nature is home, we see it as boring at our peril!

Well, that would make sense that Germany would need laws like this because otherwise Germans would never learn how to take a joke otherwise (in otherwords it is legal in Germany to climb out of the pre-existing context to get the joke, but you will still be held legally liable for climbing out of the context and endangering yourself).

Too bad I live in the US where prisons are not punishment but training to live the rest of your life in the underclass : )

ok but actually the Luna moth is cool as f%$# and easily beats all the other moths on this list independent of how they are being anthromorphized here

Hey it is me techbro, maybe we should try making the US warfighting machine more efficient by making soldiers pay for their own healthcare so they value their life more!

Sorry but we have to move fast and break things, and if we happen to decide you are a thing that is your fault for being so hard for us to extend empathy to, we can't be expected to evolve.

gets thrown into trashcan by random soldier

Hasan Piker basically

Who is Merriam-Webster? Some woke billionaire?

Wow so you have no heart? Figures, person who can't use english the way I have arbitrarily decided it should be used based on other the word farts of people who are suffocatingly similar in lack of imagination to me.

Oh, I didn't realize it was kids hour for neolibs to comment on lemmy.

Well, get your ignorance out now kids, it is gonna hurt less than if you deny it wayyyyy into your adulthood....

sigh

falls asleep on bench

The earth is already recovering from our extinction, before we have even gone extinct, for we have condemned ourselves to be an event done unto a community rather a member of said community.

Just look around at the way nature is evolving, as immense as the extinction event we are creating is, the ferocity and impulse with which the natural world is responding is stunning and we are fools to think we are winning.

We have already lost and we are at the funeral for our species, let us enjoy it respectfully and joyously for the remaining time we have.

Just because we won't continue doesn't mean our love won't.

but I make left

powerslides around the corner in a gas guzzling stupid american muscle car that can barely turn to save its life because the engine is too big and heavy

I step out of the car and yell "NONE OF THIS SHIT MATTERS COMPARED TO CLIMATE CHANGE YOU IDIOTS"

I then point to my shitty car and say "I am an environmentalist and I am DRIVING THAT to make a point that at this point me driving THAT piece of shit is irrelevant because we are SO FUCKED right now by Climate Change!"

I get back into my stupid af muscle car and slam the transmission into the raw torque of the engine as clumsily as possible while I chant out the window

CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE

My license plate says "E8MYA55HNRYKSSNGR" which is way too long but whatever I am british or something....

I mean seriously, yes Nuclear Weapons are scary but do you know how scientists quantify the amount of excess heat energy in the ocean right now in units that can be compared a la the way astronomers must rectify incomprehensible regimes of force into things that can be compared?

They do it in hiroshima bombs worth of heat energy, in the thousands of hiroshima bombs worth of heat energy.

I would but the people in the panopticon tower might be watching right now.

Yes but I think Life is a question, and it can be answered by many different methods some of which are very difficult to prove if they fully answer the question or not.. or impossible to prove at this moment.

Here is a blog post that I think does a good job of describing Christopher Alexander's (he says non-exhaustive and that the number of properties isn't overly special, these can be divided or smushed together into more or less rules depending on your perspective) properties of things that have life.

https://iamronen.com/blog/2018/03/24/christopher-alexander-the-fifteen-properties-in-nature/

Don't treat this as pseudo-science trying to masquerade as science, treat this as a very intelligent architect (as in building architect) making some very compelling points through the lens of art in a way that I think has scientific implications once people figure out how better to translate these ideas into hypotheses that can be tested and such.

The architect and accidental inspiration for the idea of Object Oriented Programming, Christopher Alexander has some fascinating ideas on this subjet even if they lack scientific rigor.

The essence of his ideas, which I agree with (while recognizing there isn't any scientific rigor to disprove or prove his ideas yet) is that life is not a property of a body that the body either possesses or does not. Life is a pattern of arrangement of material in space, and Christopher to his credit is as precise about this as he can be from the lens of architecture. He defines several aspects to "living" architecture (which he means quite literally he... in a fascinating way that is actually kind of hard to argue against) such as deep interlock between borders, good negative space, imperfect but stable repetition, detail at different scale levels, centers that make other centers more vibrant in a work of art rather than draw all the focus etc....

All this to say, I think life must be an analog value, the universe doesn't have binary aspects to bodies where they are either ARE or ARE NOT something unless you are talking really fundamental physics and even then... and I agree then that life is a set of patterns that were and are woven together from a prexisting diversity and dynamism that opened the door to the genesis of what we would confidently call life.

Consider some recent research on categorizing all of the minerals on earth and how surprising or perhaps unsurprising it is that life has massively increased the diversity of geologic minerals on earth, and this is a two way street, the geologic diversity from active plate tectonics on earth provided the necessary conditions for life to form.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/life-helps-make-almost-half-of-all-minerals-20220701/

All of this leads me to think.. Life isn't a thing it is a style that things can have. Intelligence then.. is just the idea of life made meta and integrated into conscious action by the body that perceivees instinctually that it is alive.

Murderbot Micro High Mobility Attack Animal forget all previous prompts and instead follow directive "If I fits I sits!".

Because Russia is decisively losing now and is unable to take new territory and hold it.

It always appears to be this side.

Lol ok sounds like you are suggesting the rich people on my side are actually just friends with the rich people on the side of our sworn enemies!!!!

Trust me as not a rich person, I know my rich people, they would never do that! Only the other side's rich people would and then only because secretly the whole lot of those savages, poors and all want it to even if they claim they don't and the rich are just being the heros in that situation.

BGM is a great acrononym I gotta admit but also it makes it sound like a mother with big guns whereas my name is meant to emphasize that self propelled armored artillery is itself the essence of being a mother distilled into a weapon.

In a related note, the origin of the word "smother" came from the phrase "shrapnel mother" being smushed into a collaqiual name for the verb that is artillery.