ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Isn't "legislator" already gender neutral?
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
As far as I understand when Bluesky launched they announced plans to support federation but they have yet to materialize (if ever).
Edit: looks like their idea of "federation" is rather limited - https://old.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1axebtz/bluesky_federation_goes_live/krpp87x/
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
Groyper refers to fans/followers of Nick Fuentes
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
Especially since the weapon used would likely have been legal even in our strictest pro gun control states like California and New York.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
What do you want to say at work that you think you're being prevented from saying because of potential employer liability under "hostile work environment" standards?
"Our Indian developers are the cause of 95% or more of the issues we face (in terms of delivery speed of new features, software performance, and software stability). We could fire virtually all of the 200+ Indians we have writing terrible code and replace them with half a dozen American developers for roughly the same price (if not cheaper)."
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
Definitely strongly anti trans
ChickenOverlord
7d ago
a) the fact that Iryna Zarutska was stabbed from behind with no chance to defend herself
Sure, but that's where the "relax tax" memes come into play
ChickenOverlord
8d ago
If I were going to steal from Home Depot I wouldn't go for the power tools, I'd go for boxes of screws. That crap is expensive.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
The faith which I’m currently earnestly investigating (Mormonism)
Not much to add here, just wanted to say if you have any questions about whatever I'm a Mormon.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Except that schizophrenia rates tend to increase following legalization (and/or reduced criminalization) of cannabis: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2829844
Definitively proving cause and effect is extremely difficult even in the best of cases. Numerous studies have consistently established correlation, and plausible causal mechanisms have been proposed. I'd say the burden of proof at this point is those insisting that there is no causality.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
From the abstract:
These relationships have persisted after controlling for confounding variables such as personal characteristics and other drug use. The relationships did not seem to be explained by cannabis being used to self-medicate symptoms of psychosis. A contributory causal relationship is biologically plausible because psychotic disorders involve disturbances in the dopamine neurotransmitter system with which the cannabinoid system interacts, as has been shown by animal studies and a human provocation study.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
I realize hypocrisy is a built-in part of being human, and of politicians in particular, but if the dems do this then all of the crap they said about Republicans being obstructionist, unwilling to compromise, etc. back in the Obama era when they tried similar strategies will make for some very easy (and easy to go viral) soundbites.
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2424288/
This study says people who used weed prior to age 18 were 2.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than those who hadn't, and rates scaled with heavier use:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2424288/
They also estimated that about 13% of all schizophrenia cases could be eliminated by eliminating cannabis usage.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
I genuinely cannot understand the drive to "accept" what might well be the worst possible thing to happen to you, personally, or the people you love.
Only if you assume a priori that there is no afterlife, or even if there isn't, you assume that there are actual ways to significantly extend life or outright prevent death.
We need to figure out a way to scan and upload human brains, alongside means of running our minds in-silico.
That's not cheating death, that's making a shitty copy of yourself but it isn't even you. How does that avoid death whatsoever?
Again, this is all madness caused by people who have rejected God and are trying to replace Him with themselves (or technology, or any number of substitutions). It is the destiny of all men to die, kings and vagabonds alike, and you cannot and will not escape it. Run from it, cry about it, rage against the dying of the light, squander your children's inheritance trying to defeat it, but you will always fail. And even worse, you'll make the life you do get to live worse by worrying needlessly about what you cannot change.
In your post a few weeks ago you talked about how you oneshotted yourself with an AI image of what your children could have looked like. Even from a purely secular point of view, children are the preferred method of achieving immortality for most of history. If you want immortality, have a big family. That option is closed off to me due to infertility, but I've made peace with that. But instead of chasing useless pipedreams of immortality, do something that will leave your indelible mark on the future of the world.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Why can't one have a zenned out acceptance of their own mortality while still choosing cryonics?
Because that's a lot of money to spend for a long shot at avoiding something you've supposedly accepted.
And what would you say about the God-shaped hole if the success rate was credibly discovered to be closer to 50%?
It wouldn't change my feelings on the matter at all if we found a 100% surefire way to achieve biological immortality tomorrow. Humans aren't meant to live forever in this fallen world, and those trying to circumvent death are trying to play God.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
I never claimed all or even a majority might like it, just a significant chunk. And that chart is only overall life satisfaction, with the male drop being almost as big as the female.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
It doesn't need to be today, and I hope my death is not one that happens after a prolonged period of illness and lingering, but any sadness would mostly be because I'm leaving behind people that I love and that love me and that my absence in their lives will be painful and/or traumatic.
Along those lines, growing up religious (and still religious) I never really feared death until I got married, and even then only because I fear leaving my wife behind to fend for herself, not because of any fear of my existence ending.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
For me, cryonics is yet another attempt to fill the God-shaped hole in society. You need to learn to accept your mortality; even if cryonics worked freezing yourself wouldn't save you from a bullet or a skydiving accident or anything else.
That said, I'd put your chances at far, far less than 1%. Most cryogenic places have trouble simply avoiding going bankrupt, and even those that stay afloat seem wildly mismanaged and/or incompetent. Best case your head will be frozen to a bunch of tuna cans like Ted Williams.
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Sure, happiness is a state of mind, not a state of being. Men in POW camps in war have found tremendous happiness before, to give one example of many. And I am willing to bet that a significant chunk of women in Afghanistan are happier with the Taliban back than they were under US occupation, especially the more devoutly religious muslim women.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
And potentially face prison time for not correctly complying with regulations.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
From the exact same speech:
I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.
Trump said nothing remotely approaching incitement, legally or morally.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
I think what Trump did was worse. The constitution at least mentions electors, and that attempt to steal an election would have been subject to the SCOTUS oversight. By contrast, the constitution is silent about armed goons breaking into the Capitol, and it seems unlikely that the SCOTUS would have been in a position to rule against them without the mob interfering.
What, exactly, did Trump do on J6? I'll give you a hint, he didn't tell his supporters to break into the capitol and riot.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Yes, that's my point. When it was people blaming Christians for the actions of a feminist activist group his response was
I am personally uninterested in the exact ideology behind restrictions on communication between consenting adults. Besides, targeted media is one to which both feminism and Christianity have objections too.
When @ArjinFerman jokingly blamed it on libertarians in response, he wrote a 4 paragraph response trying to clear them of blame on the issue.
ChickenOverlord
14d ago
Did libertarians (libers) have anything to do with A) payment pricessors coalescing into a handful of entities and B) payment pricessors feeling empowered to block lawful transactions?
Why are you suddenly caring who gets blamed?
Interesting choice of protest to bring up since the Salt Lake City No Kings protest involved the official event security opening fire at a protester who was open carrying (but not brandishing), killing a bystander because they're shit shots, and then lying about what happened and trying to blame it on the open carrier they tried to murder until video footage came out showing otherwise.
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