I think the tribalism, purity testing, and mod power tripping is far worse here than reddit. I was banned from memes.ml two days ago for pointing out it’s in bad taste to celebrate the deaths of American soliders, and I totally don’t support at all what Americans are doing in Iran or Palestine. After a couple back and forths I was banned for spam. I was responding to comments, explaining my position, not spamming. Then to top it off, I was banned from privacy.ml yesterday. I saw a user I was arguing with the previous day using an argument I taught them. I literally explained something to them in a DM, and they were using it correctly against someone else, and I was again banned for “spam.” A single silly “I’m proud of you” comment. Granted it was obvious that they clearly didn’t like me but still, you can’t get caught doing that and not expect me to say something. Very immature.

What I find funny about it all is they’re banning someone who’s on their team. I’m on board with most of the stereotypical .ml ideology (I don’t think we’d get along OP), but some users, and especially those with power, have no tolerance for any dissent. I don’t even think I was dissenting, just saying the evil facist bootlicking troops probably aren’t as evil as they want them to be, so don’t cheer when they die. Is that really too much for some people?

Where are they getting real money to pay people?

The missiles aren’t pointed at countries, they’re for shooting down other missiles. They’re also likely quite small with tiny warheads, so wouldn’t matter much to cities on the ground.

Source please

You’re calling me a bot? In whay sense of the word? Can you find something more recent? Here’s what I’ve found. This metaanalysis from 2020 concluded there was an association. However, this comment points out several flaws in their metaanalysis.

So I guess we don’t 100% know for sure? If that’s the case then I’d guess the effect is very small or nonexistant.

I’m pretty sure this study from 2007 has been refuted

I really want to love this kid and being a dad but at this point it’s a job and I hate my job even though I’m killing it in the effort game.

You will love your kid, don’t worry about that. Maybe you already do. There is no ah-ha moment, so it’s hard to tell. It’s not the same feeling as loving a significant other or a parent. It’s something else entirely and you’ve never experienced it before, you probably don’t realize you have it. My wife was the same way, took her a bit, but she loves it now.

You are killing it in the effort game. You’ve done an amazing job so far. Frankly, if what you say is true, you’re making most of us look pretty bad, myself included. Be proud. Also get your mom to help. From an evolutionary perspective, that’s what grandmas are for, so don’t feel bad asking for help.

I never truly wanted to have a kid for a whole list of reasons including climate change, growing instability, feeling like I already don’t have time to do the things I want to do, not feeling like I have my shit together (on paper I do, but I don’t feel like that), not understanding what it means to be “happy”…stuff like that.

First, you’re exactly the type of person who should be having a kid. So many intelligent, good, empathetic, introspective people choose not to have kids because of the reasons you listed, but let’s be honest, they’re scared little bitches. You’re not one of them anymore. You have a living, breathing stake in the future and you have your shit together because you had a kid on purpose. Could your shit be more together? Perhaps. Does it need to be? No. Your shit is good enough. People in worse situations have kids and it works out.

If you and people like you didn’t have kids, then the only people having kids would be… bad. It would be bad and we can’t have that. So thank you, there will now likely be another good, intelligent, empathetic, and introspective person to take your place someday.

Second, I don’t know what it means to be happy either but I don’t care. I think that makes me happy in some way. But who knows, all I know is I’m not sad, and that’s good enough for me.

Third, you’ll be able to do the things you want to do. Things are a bit busy at the moment but as others have said it’ll get easier. Your wife will continue to recover (but beware post partium depression) and your kid will get more and more capable. It happens fast.

Lastly, ask yourself why the crying bothers you so much? If it’s just the volume, then wear ear protection. That helped me. If it’s not the volume, then what is it?

An excellent frankly episode

Precursors aren’t life. I agree life is somewhat abundant in the universe, but amino acids on an asteroid is not life.

So this all seems to hinge on the creation of black holes. Last I checked we can’t do that, right?

Two questions:

1. Why?

The satellites are part of ADA Space’s “Star Compute” program and the first of what it calls the “Three-Body Computing Constellation,”

2. Why that name? I’ve read that book series and I’m now concerned.

Let’s assume for a second the developer isn’t corrupt and is only spending the money on actual development. Is it even possible to spend that much money making a game from scratch?

Sooo… do you think you don’t have any duty to your fellow humans?

These are not easy questions for the average person to answer, and I’m woefully average. I’m going to take the lazy approach and refer you to a real philosopher. Look up Peter Singer. If you have further questions, then I’d recommend starting from the ground up in a philosophy 101 course, maybe sprinkle some religious studies in there, and don’t forget eastern philosophy/religion. That should bring you up to speed.

Oh you must be new to Earth. Welcome! So humans have been doing this thing called reciprocity, which is a mutual or cooperative interchange of favors or privileges. That means if you help someone, they’re likely to help you when you’re in need.

To bet against the future on this scale – to bank on your bunker – is to betray, on the most basic level, our duties to one another, to the children we love, and to every other life form with whom we share a planetary home.

I’d say we have the general duty to help those in need since we’re living on the same planet. This idea of escapism, that I can build a bunker and hide from the poor destitute masses until they die off, is morally reprehensible. We have a duty to 1) not do that and 2) work together to limit, mitigate, and possibly reverse the damages of climate change so life is alright for the maximum number of people.

How’s that sound to you?

I have read plenty, hence why I’m baffled at your denial of this concept. Frankly, I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith. Underneath all the complexity you keep trying to use as a counterargument is a simple concept that has manifested itself in countless ways throughout history and today.

Ffs, it doesn’t matter whether they’re good, evil, or somewhere in between. It doesn’t matter why they’re prone to violence. The fact that they’re willing and capable means all other must be ready to fight.

In reality such dynamics are currently playing out and they have played out from the beginning of time. Our current world is a product of this process. This is like, game theory or something. It’s like you’re trying to tell me 2+2 doesn’t equal 4 because we don’t really know if there are two twos or some nonsense.

I think we need to go back to the beginning.

We have 9 peaceful tribes/societies/states/whatever. They’re happy to just live within their means and cooperate with each other when needed. In a vacuum, this will continue indefinitely because why fight when you don’t need much and can share?

Now, the asshole tribe moves into the region. They’re greedy, their population is outgrowing their resources because they’re using all they have, furthermore they have few qualms about taking their neighbors’ stuff.

The existence of this tribe forces all the others to arm themselves and maintain some sort of military. The only possible way a peaceful existence will be restored is if the troublemaker is removed. However even that isn’t guaranteed to work now that all have militaries and nothing to do with them.

I feel like you were describing various scenarios the previous paragraph could play out, but ultimately the existence of the violent tribe forces the cooperative tribes to defend themselves or perish.

Yeah but why is the asshole afraid? The peaceful groups armed themselves. Once everybody is armed how do you disarm?