supersquirrel
Well it is too late for that, aging neo-liberals made sure of that :)
Me too, but even if he wasn't likable, he is good at rhetorically debating people on points of leftism in a way that I think is very productive for a lot of men to at least hear out.
I hope.
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You know both sides are heavily using AI in the actual negotiations and it has got to be an absolutely hilarious shitshow for anybody privileged enough to get a front row seat.
The home, run by an order of Catholic nuns until its closure in 1961, was one of many institutions in Ireland where unmarried pregnant women were placed—often forcibly—and their children hidden, mistreated, or adopted without consent.
“All those lovely little children and babies, that’s the one thing that drove me,” Corless told The Irish Times. “That’s all that was in my mind—these babies in a sewage system, they have to come out.”
Holy shit we are definitely living in a satire simulation running as a VR experience for people living in a less funny but just as brutal reality.
Like holy shit you can't write this shit, this has got to have people at The Onion quaking in their papery and layered exteriors.
Hasan Piker basically
They're lying. They weren't tricked. Trump openly and repeatedly showed how he felt about immigrants of all kinds. Everyone knew it, everyone knows it, everyone will always know it.
This is a cruel delusion you tell yourself, obviously the people you are referring to exist and there are lots of them and they should be shamed the way you are shaming them but there are far more scared, desperate people who feel as total strangers in a crowd of faces that stare at them as if they don't fit in that you casually throw under the bus along with the genuine fascists.. and make that mistake at our peril my friend.
Plenty of people were tricked, no not everybody knew it, heck tons of people didn't even know Biden had dropped out of the presidential race when they went into vote, and no matter how you feel about it I simply will not let you make negative conclusions about immigrants and other minorities that were tricked into voting against their interests without any actual evidence to back it up.
Cite your sources, or stop claiming that immigrants and others weren't tricked. This is a toxic narrative and it must be stopped in its tracks.
It is our job as leftists to speak to these people who are afraid and say "don't take my word for it, see how these people who claim to support you are trying to kill, maim and destroy you and your families", and NOT our job to lambast these people for entering into a cruel battle royale for reasons we could only really ever judge if we were in their shoes and doing badly.
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.
Because Russia is decisively losing now and is unable to take new territory and hold it.
my bad