lurker
7d ago
Well, might as well take the opportunity to hop on my hobby horse since when the hell else am I gonna get to talk about this on the the motte?
I'm pretty well convinced the oxygen catastrophe never happened, not in the sense that there was no oxygen spike but rather there was no mass extinction caused by this. When you look into the evidence for such a oxygen caused mass extinction, there really is only two peices, deduction that changes in environment cause mass extinctions and an apparent mass extinction happened 2.1-2 billion years ago. However I have 3 serious objections to this line of logic, first being the timeline. Oxygen started accumulating 2.4 billions years ago, so life existed just fine with high oxygen for 3-4 hundred million years before suddenly going extinct? Secondly, we recently discovered the gabonionta, apparent multi-cellular life from about 2.2-2.1 billion years ago. Theres been a lot of debate over whether these even are fossils or not but recently the tide seems to be turning that they are. That means there was on the contrary to the oxygen catastrophe hypothesis, a flourishing of life. Okay, but also there was also undoubtedly a mass extinction around this time, so what happen?
Did you know that the largest crater on earth is the vredefort crater? Thats it's 2-3 times the size of the chicxulub crater? And that it impacted about 2 billion years ago? I wonder if that would cause a mass extinction or not?
Unedited quickly typed out cause I'm gonna be late for work if I don't leave it here.
lurker
8d ago
I mean sure, you can word gnosticism in terms of utilitarianism but that doesn't make them utilitarians, gnostics are virtue ethicists like everyone was back then. They put the most value into the virtues of wisdom and knowledge, hence the name. Once you accept the premise of gnostic belief about the world being a prison then the conclusion simply follows from that regardless of ethical system, in this case all ethical systems share the same conclusions given gnosticisms premises.
Also, I figured you were using dualism in the zoroastrian sense rather than the cartesian sense, this is maybe a bit more reasonable of a claim however I still don't think most anti-natalists in that sense either, nor would I say standard gender ideology is either, baring the gender angels types.
lurker
9d ago
Since when are gnostics utilitarian? And in what sense are secular anti-natalist's dualist?
lurker
9d ago
I really don't see the intellectual continuity from gnosticism to modern anti-natalism other than they both oppose having children. As far I can tell they have as much in common with each other as either does to the shakers.
lurker
10d ago
Tangential to your point but alex cooper has that high cheekbone look so popular in hollywood that I find absolutely repulsive, so I would not in fact date alex cooper if given the chance.
lurker
18d ago
Just to add my own piece to this, my family never got a home computer till 2001 for my birthday. I remember cause 9/11 happened two weeks later. I think you're the one thats atypical. Although I did grow up in a poor rural area. Maybe you grew up in a big city and thats why you think everyone had a computer in the 90s?
lurker
26d ago
If you ever get back into it I'd love to join your group. Used to play EP with a russian DM but y'know, he hasn't had the time to play since 2022 :(
lurker
27d ago
Is this a version of johnny comes marching home made for the jovian republic from eclipse phase?
lurker
2mo ago
Yeah, of course I would.
This might come as a shock to you but my stance against ethnic cleansing is principled. I am not a conflict theorist on this issue. It is the thing itself I take issue with, not merely that it is being done to the wrong people.
lurker
2mo ago
Well, I'm glad you admitted to being in favor of ethnic cleansing at least.
lurker
2mo ago
I gotta ask, do you honestly expect this to be even slightly convincing to anyone who isn't already on board? You sound like every denier who has ever had to justify something unjustifiable.
And, if you wanna go for right makes right morality, then surely you'll be perfectly fine if one day the shoe is on the other foot and the Palestinians achieve military supremacy?
lurker
2mo ago
Secondly, it's extremely impractical, if not impossible to remove 6 million Jews from land they've now lived on for (at least) three generations.
Is it? The Israelis didn't seem to have much problem expelling the Palestinians from land they had inhabited for much longer.
lurker
2mo ago
I wouldn't use clavicular as an example. He certainly doesn't look bizarre. There are better male examples.
lurker
2mo ago
As far as I understand it this sort of look is a result of runaway intra-female competition. Sure, it starts off with seeing who can become the most attractive to men but after a few years of insular debate and no male input you get this bizarre caricature of what a hot woman looks like.
lurker
2mo ago
There is enough global strategic reserve capacity to cover the missing 20% of global production for about 6 months.
Sadly this is not even remotely true due to the max rate we can get those reserves to market. Generally the max estimate for how fast you can get the reserves out is ~4.4 mbd, which is itself only about a fifth of the missing supply.
lurker
2mo ago
I'm interested to see which runs out first, oil supplies or the copium supplies traders are huffing in extreme quantities.
lurker
2mo ago
I really doubt this is how it'll play out. You're not gonna get ships trying to run the strait on mass until theres a ceasefire.
lurker
2mo ago
While I broadly agree with this point I heavily disagree with their choice of architecture. Why must everyone make the same souless glass and concrete blocks everywhere? If you're making all this money at least do something more interesting with it than making a bigger glass tower than anyone else. The artificial islands are working in the right direction imho.
lurker
2mo ago
Irans sinking ships docked at port. I don't think anyones questioning whether they'd shoot at blockade runners.
lurker
2mo ago
Again, just look at the chart I posted, not even their own ships are going through. Unless you think iran only exported 1 tanker a day of oil?
lurker
2mo ago
Yes, I know that port doesn't have capacity for all of irans oil. No, that doesn't mean they're sending it through the strait, it's just not getting out. You can look up transits of the strait, theres barely anything going through and mostly not oil tankers.
From first principles and basic biochemistry the dinosaur doldrums made a lot of sense and it was dead wrong. From first principles and basic biochemistry the ediacaran biota being immobile jelly filled nutrient absorbers made a lot of sense. From first principles and basic biochemistry orthogenesis made a lot of sense. History has shown this repeatedly to be a bad way to do paleontology.
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