I think we’re just getting started.

Ah the Rittenhouse defense

My cx-50 is awesome, I got it because my old Mazda3 was awesome and super reliable. (as far as cars go, which are all dirty death machines)

Wow your beard is greyer than mine!

I have to stick to stuff in the Svengoolie league, I get too scared lol. I can handle comedic gore like Shaun of the Dead. I can handle Twilight Zone if I’m not alone.

I like this one, it’s easy to say and clear.

Ah thanks for the info!

Lol, I got some straight up psilocybin gummies all professionally packaged, I had a packaged molly chocolate bar too!

Humanity is not a plague upon this planet, that is eco-fascist talk. The better way to understand it, it that humans are natural part of the sustainable world just the way tree and rabbits are.

And just like cancer is an error in the genetic programming of a cell, and it’s not the cell that’s bad, it’s the program, human destruction of the planet is not a result of healthy humans, it’s a result of bad programming in a very very small number of people. Humans aren’t the problem, the few humans running an errant program are the problem.

Just like a human can be killed by cancer cells if the body does not take care of them, humanity can be killed off by psychopaths.

Psychopathy is to humans what cancer is to cells. The way to a healthy body is to eliminate cancer cells, not put draconian rules on cancer

Ah! I was pronouncing it like “Nah Tzi Web-Site”

This is great, I’m sure I"m not the only one that now no longer thinks of Google as a safe place for my email and photos. And their search sucks now, there’s not much reason to have Google in my life at all anymore. The era of Google is over (I hope!).

No way? Like Muscarine gummies? Now that’s crazy I want some (for science).

Assume companies that advertise on Xitter to be NAZI sympathizers.

Carrots grown in baby calf blood serum.

What is this? Sounds interesting?

Ah I used to do one that searched for Mersenne Primes. Installing BOINC now.

Something for all the business people who demand MS Exchange and get them to shut the hell up.

Bring DJBDNS up to modern standards, rewritten in Zig, optional ability to integrate with systemd.

Enterprise Arch Linux

A program written in Crystal that allows you to define computer networks in a DSL and generates diagrams, basically UML but much better.

GNU Hurd

Plan 9

I feel like the ability to experience empathy to whatever degree is biological, but whether one actually sympathizes and acts compassionately is due to knowledge and experience.

An empathetic person could learn about something, sympathize, and decide to act compassionately. Or that same person could understand another’s plight and not sympathize for some reason, such as propaganda telling them that person deserves what they got. Or they might sympathize and not act compassionately due to negative consequences, socially, legally, or otherwise.

If effect, they’d act as a “bad person” but would not be a “bad” person deep down. Which would different from someone who cannot empathize (a psychopath) or someone who can empathize (understand), sympathize (feel the other’s pain), and decide not to be compassionate, which I’d categorize as sadistic.

For example, I have a feeling that some not insignificant number of people who might be called “transphobic” simply have no experience with or knowledege of actual trans people. Those with the ability to experience empathy to any significant degree would understand the plight

I think it’s all about empathy.

The ability to experience empathy, like any other trait varies at the biological level (and probably other levels as well). It only makes sense some would be born with little ability to experience empathy, some with so much empathy they worry about ants, but most people in the middle.

Those with little empathy (and therefore little sympathy or compassion, as those come from empathy) don’t allow morality to restrain their behavior so they tend to rise to power.

Most of the world’s problems are because people who are effectively psychopaths are in charge everywhere. The psychopaths have created a world through capitalism that pits us against each other and brings out the worst in us.

This blows my mind every time I’m reminded.

They were responding to the US installing missiles pointed at them from Turkey and Italy.

And was that unprovoked? The U.S.S.R. didn’t make any threats or moves against the U.S.? Asking for real, I don’t know. I’d imagine pretty much every move in the cold war was some sort of response to the other side.