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There are other countries in the world that have elections apart from the US. More of them than ever before in one year are having them in 2024.
There are other countries in the world that have elections apart from the US. More of them than ever before in one year are having them in 2024.
“Say John from Texas is dying of hunger. He asks me for food, but I refuse. If John dies, is it my fault? Arguably, I merely allowed him to die, which while not exactly benevolent, isn’t exactly murder either. Now imagine that John doesn’t ask for food, but goes off to the market, where he’ll find plenty of people willing to exchange their goods for work that he can do in return. This time though, I hire a couple of heavily armed baddies to block his way. John dies of starvation a few days later. Can I still claim innocence?”
You know that immigration is a net positive for every western nation right? People coming to a country wanting to make a new life contribute to a its society and economy. They also help populations keep growing as birthrates are falling. It would be nice to see these sorts of arguments made more though, if that’s what you mean?
I also like the phrase “rot economy”, though it does reach a little wider
This doesn’t solve the problem. If the universe is indeed infinite then there are infinite cases of our evaluation and infinite identical yous out there. If the Boltzmann brain hypothesis is true though, there are vastly “more” of those. It’s a larger infinity, making it much more lively you are a Bultzmann brain than a full physical person.
The Boltzmann brain
The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in a void, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about in the manner cosmologists think it actually did.
Try this https://archive.is/kDsEb
I know right? It’s incredible they weren’t collecting it already.
Do you think someone got stuck in the rubber?
So just to point this out again, we all know they’re terrible because they’re an incredibly racist troll too right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpH3O6mnZvw
I actually quite like this idea. Or we could start using number base 12 instead of 10 everywhere else.
Or is Dune about the folly of different types of dictatorship; sadistic, benevolent, religious or machiavellian? Taking only the first book (because that’s as far as I’ve read) every leader is thwarted or confined by the consequences or weakness of their own style of leadership.
Why stop there? Emblazon it onto the irises of passersby with a high-powered laser, so it’s scarred into their vision permanently.