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“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”

― Pythagoras.

@dushman which isn't even that much if you just buy a used one. you can get cars which are cheaper than insurance + taxes for one year.
not much choice anyway in rural areas where you are lucky to have a bus coming every two hours xD
@velartrill

@dushman driving car is usually cheaper if you can stem the initial costs, and the occasional repairs. it's totally moronic that public transportation isn't cheaper. @velartrill

@Pat to clarify, it's kafkaesque because the benefit of doubt has completely disappeared from our societies. it's always straight to full on "it's a witch, destroy the career!".
@tripu

@Pat reason.com/2021/10/08/bright-s

it's really like in wargames now, the only winning move is not to play.

he apologized and tried to clarify that he's not racist only to have that turned against him. it's kafkaesque.

@tripu

I've seen this one before.... But the media reaction was way different...

Wrong is wrong. And threatening political opponents with firearms is wrong.

@worldsendless it's been ages since i used that kind of setup. i mostly use claws-mail, where you can setup caching of messages for offline use for each folder. i'd assume other clients can do this too.
@swiley

@velartrill regarding leaders/followers, you can get to the conclusion that you _want_ someone to be in control because you think it's in your best interest. that is perfectly fine.

i don't think that a representative democracy like we currently have in most western states is a good model, i don't think having an uncontrolled-leader state is a good one. both are unfit for countries as big as ours. nobody can rule over several million of people, it's just mind bogging bullshit to assume that it will work without throwing random groups under the bus.

i think what could work is smaller countries with direct democracy. _really_ let the people decide, not some suits who are more often than not controlled by someones money.

maybe we are just too many people for everything not resulting in dystopia?

@ParadeGrotesque

@shoshin if just ozone layer and acid rain were omitted from that list.

almost the whole world got together and banned/massively reduced usage of CFCs and added SOx capturing to great effect. those were literally triumphs of science and humanity.

@tripu @Pat
> “allow for a positive learning environment”

> cancel professor for not giving context

i really have to doubt that we are still dealing with adults.

@swiley @worldsendless you just have to have a client which can download the messages (hint: any sane one ;)

The great AI was given a single instruction after being switched on. "Minimize the total number of human deaths."

The machine paused and processed for 750ms before proceeding to murder every human on the planet.

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