"...patience can change even the grumpiest hearts. Sometimes all it takes is a little kindness..."
This was said about a parrot, but of course it's true with humans too. I try to remember that "hurt people, hurt people" when someone is mean towards me, so kindness is never a wrong response.
Yeah I bet you care about robot ethics now, huh?
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Most conservatives couldn't logic their way out of a paper bag. Without critical thinking becoming a universally-required course in public schools (which cons would no doubt call "liberal propaganda"), we'll forever be at risk of the morons & idiots running our entire species right into extinction.
"I will make a confession to you ... after 10 years of the insanity & the cruelty & the horribleness ... I will admit that what I'm thinking is these people are fucking stupid & they're not reachable."
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The irony of fascists complaining about being discriminated against is hilarious. But the fascists being too stupid to ever realize the irony of it is... well I guess it's just classic, isn't it?
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Nighttime photo of a statue of a soldier at the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C. looking directly at the camera.
Nighttime photo of the last portion of the wall of names at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. with the Washington Monument & White House in the background.
I long for the day that we never need to make memorials for dead soldiers ever again.
Will humanity ever choose to stop being pawns to the tiny portion of old rich men?
There's good money in telling people who are wrong that they aren't wrong.
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"I know this church is true."
– Me, when I was Mormon
"Beware the knowers. They are afraid of what they do not know."
– Charles Bukowski
Vietnam Memorial. The wall of names is huge. Looking at it as I walked through, all I could think about was the mountains of blood spilled. The lives ended too soon. And for what?!
For a few powerful people to have more power & a few rich people to be richer?
It made me sick. And sad.
Don't get too excited. The "reboot" is in the form of a limited series comic book & isn't a reboot at all. It's actually a continuation of the original series set in the same universe.
Still gonna try & get my hands on it though!
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Visited the Pentagon Memorial.
Such a disappointment. I wish I could be proud of them.
I'm visiting D.C. this week. Here's a mall entrance to the Ritz-Carlton where Monica Lewinsky was interrogated by the FBI... so I've been told.
#weirdtouristfactoids
I've considered the idea of moving to a foreign country after retirement. Germany just jumped up a few spots on my list.
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For several years, I worked in Ethiopia and Djibouti. There are still tribes of hunters and nomadic warriors living there. Contact with different cultures, such as Western culture, causes all their values, their way of understanding the world, the stories they tell their children, and their mythologies to collapse. After contact, these stories look odd. The children stop recognizing themselves in their parents, in their elders; they no longer want to go on. Many fall into drugs or alcohol. In the capital of Djibouti, a large part of the population lives under the influence of drugs. The young people only dream of emigrating to Yemen, where the worst kind of slavery imaginable awaits them.
Q. And did something like that happen with the Neanderthals? A. Homo sapiens tools are standardized. Neanderthals, on the other hand, had a much more unique and creative, though far less efficient, way of using them. It’s clear to me that these humans collapsed. Depending on the region, they may have chosen to become invisible, and in others, they simply no longer wanted to go on living. It was an individual and social suicide of the population. This is how humans disappear: when they no longer want to live because their values have collapsed. Q. Does that say anything good about us, the group that prevailed?
Author of The Last Neanderthal:
"Contact with different cultures ... causes their values to collapse. This is how humans disappear: when they no longer want to live because their values have collapsed."
It makes me wonder, if space aliens ever did visit us...
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
A big part of why I go after religion is because if you can teach someone to think critically well enough to reject religion, all other absurdities will fall behind.
And then, more than just the little harms like believing in Bigfoot, it'll stop the big harms that prevent humanity from progressing.
A recent survey suggests that as many as a quarter of Americans believe that Bigfoot exists. And one may ask, "Who cares? What does it harm?"
Because a populace willing to believe in absurdities can be convinced of anything. Even to make a moronic egotistical fascist dictator wannabe our leader.
"Once you start kneeling & praying, it's hard to get back to standing & thinking."
– Cleon XVII (Foundation, S2E8)
America's current rulers have certainly found this fact to be quite... useful.
The reason he wants people to dust off their Bibles is so that they can be damn sure to remember what Jesus taught...
...to make sure they do the exact opposite of what a non-English speaking foreigner said they should do.
The willful ignorance & scientifically-illiterate fear mongering in the comments would be hilarious if not for the embarrassment they are to humanity for thoroughly rejecting the incredible gift of intelligence that was bestowed upon our species.
A reminder that high school dropout conspiracy theorists who think particle colliders will destroy the planet have equal power to choose our leaders as the PhD researchers who use particle colliders to advance humanity's knowledge about the universe.
youtu.be/v0O1TZm7rWY
A Neanderthal man met an unfortunate, drawn-out death. But his ancient misfortune resulted in his remarkable preservation, a boon for today's scientists.
www.iflscience.com/neanderthal-...
Allegedly, some 73,000 humans have already signed up to complete tasks on behalf of the robots in exchange for cash.
The robot war is already won without a single shot fired thanks to late-stage capitalism & psychopathic billionaires.
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I'll be moving to the East Coast later this year. I'm going to miss Las Vegas.
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"Research found that cannabis usage in older adults (ages 40-77) was associated with larger volumes in several brain regions & better cognitive function."
medicalxpress.com/news/2026-02...
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President threatens to sue [Trevor Noah] over joke about Epstein Island
He's nothing but a crybaby. And just like many Mormons voted for Romney strictly because he's one of them...
Also, I want to make it clear that I agree with @thefireorg.bsky.social that Charles Murray should be free to give speeches to college students about how an imaginary person born from an egg after Zeus took the form of a swan and humped a queen is WHITE and it’s offensive woke DEI to say otherwise
Truth. Facts. Reality.
Or as conservatives like to call it, "liberal propaganda".
I received one of those as a gift when I was baptized (1982). A little sad I don't have it anymore considering how rare they seem to be.
I tend to focus on religion, but our addiction to absurdity infects all aspects of our lives.
