Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
It’s important to question your beliefs when presented with evidence. My views on pacificism have loosened a lot, for example.
But the two view you mention are ones where the left is objectively correct. Homosexual behavior is a biological fact in almost all animals and non-binary gender systems exist across the breadth of human cultures.
Any belief system which serves as a permission structure for brutalizing others can safely be rejected as false.
They definitely have not. Not publicizing a fool proof nuclear counter-measure defeats the purpose of achieving it in the first place.
You’d MUCH rather your opponent know a nuke strike is pointless, rather than they try and later be surprised that only one lucky one got through.
Sometimes I miss australia.
sin is religious bullshit anyway
Yep, that’s why I used the word.
Suggesting that “people are idiots” actually explains behavior is just like believing in sin - it’s just giving up on understanding reality. It makes as much sense as a right wing christian trying explain away their opponents as sinners.
Be too useless to merit a doppelganger. To paraphrase zhuangzi, few know the usefulness of uselessness.
Sin is never a sufficient explanation for human behavior. Meaning anytime we think “it’s because they are bad”, we’re missing something big.
All behavior is an attempt to meet needs. Any correct explanation of behavior identifies the need and how the behavior is believed to meet it.
They may not be smart, on average as a group. But that’s not why they keep doing this.
Identities with more rigorous behavior requirements often persist longer. It seems counter-intuitive but the greater the buy-in required, the more appealing the identity seems to be.
In some weird and deeply human way, displaying your devotion to these doomed and unreasonable defenses probably increases the individual’s status among their sovereign peers. That’s the payoff that we don’t see when we only look at the financial and legal costs.
The homeric epics are not history. The section of the epic cycle that details the story of the trojan horse is missing - we have only references from other texts. So unfortunately you’re not going to get a detailed explanation of a fictional event from a non-existent text.
It’s incredibly likely that a coalition under a mycenaean era leader did intervene militarally in wilusa/ilios/troy, probably multiple times. But the poetry that survives incorporates elements from different eras of history and can’t be understood as a factual account of events.
(Not a historian, just an enthusiast with an ancient history degree)
I don’t see Aeon Flux mentioned yet. The Maxx is very good too. Duckman I remember being hilarious, but I dunno if starring Jason Alexander counts as a deep cut.
An old boss gave $100 of the store’s money to a conman claiming to be the star player of the West Indies cricket team, who promised a sizable donation when he was able to get back to his hotel room. She got interviewed by the local paper about how she got swindled. Not a lot of money, but not a good look.
Shortly before the interview, write out the details of a time you overcame a problem or did something particularly competent. What you did, how you overcame, the effect it had, the recognition you got.
Not for use in the interview, just to get yourself in a good headspace for displaying your strengths.
Ugh that sucks. I’ll gripe at them about it next time I’m in the area.
Yes, pretending you have questions when you just have insults is a great example of trolling.
“FreedomAdvocate” just immediately sounds like a troll account. Aaaannnnd the comment history is almost nothing but trolling. Surprise surprise.
People always think that the spark of invention is all that’s required, ignoring the social and material tinder and kindling that’s required for something to be useful and take off.
I prefer the original “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders”
Is the lacking sophistication bit a reference I’m missing?
CuntGPT, is that you?
Where I grew up it was between 20 and 30 much of the year. Honestly a 10 point warmness scale is quite easy to adjust to.
I have heard farenheit defenders point out that we’re not water - that farenheit cares about the temperatures that humans care about
A global government would prevent this from ever happening.
A few elites have the power to inflict violence on everyone else and get away with it - aka the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. This allows them to enforce injustice like unlivable wages but also to starve, jail and kill anyone who is serious about taking aware their power.
Setting up a global union would drastically curtail the power of elites, and they would prevent it. You would have to defeat the world’s elite, and in that case a universal wage is small potatoes.
Lol oops. I have no specific thoughts on pacificism, truth be told.