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  • Do what you think is right, but spend some time considering if it's right or not first.

    Recognizing when you're not considering and just going by intuition or emotional response would probably already put you ahead of most of us.

    Empathy seems to be necessary (but I'm not sure if sufficient) for logical moral consideration because you cannot justify your position if you purposefully ignore another's, and considering someone else's perspective without prejudice is empathy.

  • It would be a real shame if someone helped it along to a rapid, unplanned, disassembly.

  • My state has 10 million people and made over $300 million in tax last year distributed around $100 million each divided between roads, schools, and local municipalities/community organizations.

  • Referring to people, staff as resources. Nice and dehumanizing.

  • Same had a little acer mini laptop in early 2000s I used it for notes, office apps, etc during college and between the battery life and how much more portable it was than the giant laptop I had at the time it was great, it ran BSD without any fuss too.

  • Accomplishing difficult challenges & goals feels rewarding, pretty sure it's mostly dopamine and some adrenaline

  • A person born in 467953 is -465928 years old

  • My favorite is probably Russell's teapot, but Daniel Dennett had some good ones in the intuition pump book too.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

    It demonstrates the burden of proof is on the person making claims, including if the claim is unfalsifiable.

  • No they are absolutely not the same thing. Nazis were extreme right wing, authoritarian, Catholic, antisemitic, white supremacist, bigoted, anti intellectual and education, violent, ignorant fascists. Maga are extreme right wing, authoritarian, evangelical, antisemitic, white supremacist, bigoted, anti intellectual and education, violent, ignorant fascists.

    Edit: also the Twitter guy literally stated in public that empathy is a weakness instead of the foundation of morality. When an American psychiatrist Gustave Gilbert interviewed high ranking Nazis at Nuremberg he had this to say:

    "I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy."

  • Robo quest, Doom 1 2 64, dark forces remaster, and bolt gun were all pretty fun and quick on the shooter action

  • Monster sanctuary (turn based monster collector) and Roboquest (arena shooter) were a couple from recent years that stood out to me

    For older games nethack and dwarf fortress are great if you can look past the graphics

  • It's more run away/chain reaction type events you want to avoid I think rather than a low % inflation or deflation that remains relatively stable, swing too far in either direction and you'll have problems.

  • Swamp thing from the saga of swamp thing by Alan Moore

  • Donated, I'd rather be on a foss platform that can defederate/block bad faith interlocutors than a corpo platform that forces their anti user pro monetization shit on everyone who uses their platform.

  • I already did

  • They would survive for awhile after diagnosis on a starvation diet, maybe weeks, and slipping in and out of a coma but it was a death sentence. There's stories from the 1920's when whole wards of kids were hit with a first dose that removed the symptoms in minutes. I can't imagine being in that room when all that despair and anguish turned into hope and relief.

  • I thought the demon chasing the Winchesters had yellow eyes