remarkEon

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by remarkEon 20d ago
Except I haven't devolved from anything. It's entirely consistent, and the whole chain confirms that it isn't possible to coherently debate this with people whose starting position is insane, like yours. At it is insane to
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by remarkEon 20d ago
Amazing. I do not owe a foreigner a debate or explanation on how their contrived and ridiculous claim about the origin of my country is wrong. You start off by violating the very same rule that you now claim that I am violating, and then
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by remarkEon 21d ago
>The very existence of the US is predicated on ethnically cleansing the continent of native americans and large-scale ecocide. This is your original comment. "Predicated" means "to establish". So, your claim is the Un
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by remarkEon 21d ago
No worries. Sufficient encryption, or encryption breaking, technology trends toward behavior as a weapon. As such, the military is highly, highly interested in mathematics generally, and cryptography specifically. There's a ton of real
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by remarkEon 21d ago
My point is math is a weapon.
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by remarkEon 22d ago
Most of the important maths research is funded by the Department of War. NSF is a good chunk, I'd have to look it up, but I wouldn't be concerned about this at all. Math is important for the war planners, always has been always wi
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by remarkEon 22d ago
All true but the kind of alignment problem you're talking about is only possible when the core of a society is directed at inspiring, bold, massive projects. There's not much on offer as an alternative to Muskism. It's worth
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by remarkEon 22d ago
Yes I already said I understand that you hate the United States. Is your actual point that you want to play some sort of "which country has the highest body count in their history" competition? I'm not distracting (or distrac
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by remarkEon 23d ago
The most important part of incarceration is removing what is a quantifiable risk to the public from the public square. Everything else is secondary. The point of a state having police powers is to ensure for the common good, it is not to co
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by remarkEon 23d ago
Anti-social people as a group is a larger population than just the homeless, mentally ill, and drug addicts, though these subsets are obviously a significant portion. The superset includes people who are genuinely anti-social in their nat
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by remarkEon 23d ago
Okay. >Also note that you didn't actually address the factual claim, you just went straight to an ad-hominem. That in turn reads like you don't actually have a response to the claim and are just trying to distract from that fac
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by remarkEon 24d ago
The comparison between Texas and Israel-Palestine is laughable. In the former, American settlers moved to an empty territory at the invitation of the Mexican government on the condition that they obeyed Mexican law, converted to Catholicism
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by remarkEon 24d ago
All of it. If I thought I wanted to discuss technology with communists I'd join reddit.
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by remarkEon 24d ago
>further back it took Texas from Mexico in much the same way Israel is taking Palestine Genuinely laughed out loud at this. This single statement, monstrously ahistorical as it is, allowed me to dismiss everything else you're saying
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by remarkEon 25d ago
Setting aside for a moment whether or not whatever they are doing is or is not a genocide (I don't pay attention to that matter, it doesn't concern me and the outcome of that conflict has nothing to do with my country or people),
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by remarkEon 25d ago
I genuinely applaud the sentiment, but it's no longer possible. Maybe back in the 1990s this would've been an excellent trade block but all countries are no longer similar or internally homogeneous enough to make such a prospect f
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by remarkEon 25d ago
Most countries in Europe have more restrictive abortion policies than a state chosen at random in the US. Your perception is unbelievably flawed. Almost this entire thread has a cartoon/marvel comic version of "US BAD, everyone el
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by remarkEon 25d ago
>[China] has a better track record than the US; trivially, as every other country does. This is a fair take? Really. That "every other country" has a better "human rights" track record than the US, so countries includ
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by remarkEon 25d ago
>China is not interested in being your mommy or your daddy. They just want to make a business deal. Hopelessly naive, and honestly if this is the mean opinion in Canada I have concerns about their continued membership in FVEY.
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by remarkEon 1mo ago
I still run Windows 10 on my PC, and one night I spend about 3 hours with ChatGPT turning off all of the bullshit telemetry and other nonsense that Windows runs in the background. Total was about 2.5 GB of RAM, roughly. Why is Windows like
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
>because we can live in the toundra today No we can't. Have you been the tundra? You can't survive there on your own without technology. These people could.
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
Sorry, you're claiming that people who lived in a desolate tundra 40k years ago are the same as you and me. Can you be more specific? There's both a hardware and firmware element to this. Perhaps the hardware element is transferab
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
They may be honest when they express themselves initially, but their revealed preference later ends up being very tragic. I know several women, and others who are friends of my wife, that did the "I don't want kids" routine o
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
Well, evaluating the nature of this thought experiment reveals what you actually believe about human evolution and development. I find it extremely hard to believe that someone from 40k years ago would be indistinguishable from humans tod
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
Right, but, those people are wrong. "This trait didn't die out in 2 generations. Evolution is over!"
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
I guess I would need to read more of what Gould wrote. For example, did he claim that evolution in other species also stopped?
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
That's such an extreme claim. It defies common sense. You'd have to proclaim that there was some event that _stopped_ evolution in humans, universally. How is that even possible? Especially 50k years ago. I'd be a little more
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
Perhaps it was not a widespread belief among scientists, I don't know, but if you were to posit in front of polite company that humans are today and always have been under evolutionary pressures that select for certain traits you would
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
Your point appears to be that my deeply held belief is more reasonably attainable than as an activity someone can engage in that what should result from "I believe the world is going to end unless all global economies cease activity in
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by remarkEon 2mo ago
>Australian here. What makes you think the "forest fire prevention" methods you outlined upthread are "basic"? American here. They are basic where I come from (the midwest). We learned about them as children. Australi

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