i think the new guy also supports the banderite junta of ukraine unlike the old guy. Reason enough for shitlibs around the world to celebrate 🫠

you’re saying they voted out the guy who rigged votes for 16 years?

no, the ALP support the genocide of gaza and also support banderite neo-nazis in ukraine, just like every major australian party

elites love to paywall access to the upper middle class

national economies handle being welfare states just fine, which isn’t so different from what a UBI would be. Also developed service economies live and die by consumption. A UBI would stabilise and stimulate domestic consumer demand.

Where did i claim a moral superiority? where did i rely on emotional appeals instead of argument?

Gross negligence is when you have an assumed responsibility to act and do not. Like if you have a child under your care or maybe a professional duty of care to a patient.

If you were abducted by jigsaw, and forced into making a binary choice between to completely artificially created options, would you get charged with a crime for choosing neither?

If you’re going to mix reality into the hypothetical then perhaps it would make more sense to hold whoever tied the people to the tracks responsible? unless there is some irrational reason to construct the stupid hypothetical to begin with…

I was thinking that it was a mistake to respond to you and i can see now that i was correct

you can’t just skinwalk through a dream gate! if the t1000 got through it would look like a ditto before transforming or maybe like a metal slime from dragon quest or like a machine elf yeerk from animorphs or like…

the trolley problem is the rigged game. It captures none of the important ‘messiness’ of the real world and ultimately is used to help you rationalise voting against your own best interests within a 2-party political paradigm

i would intervene with the tortoise, and i’d happily wear the consequences. I’m not obliged to be a pure witness nor am i bound by any kind of prime directive. I can explain to my conscience why an extra tortoise exists due to my actions but i couldn’t say the same about the trolley problem without extra information.

For example, if i am being observed then my decision becomes data, which carries its own weight and precedent. If the situation was arranged to view my response, then I am obliged to not participate, to send a signal to the experimenters to not tie anyone up on the tracks for future observers. I condemn everyone in front of me to death but how do i know they won’t be killed regardless? whoever arranged the situation obviously didn’t value their lives very highly…

it’s unwise to negotiate with terrorists, and for similar reasons I would say that it is unwise to participate in a system that legitimises your own destruction

You are not responsible for actions which you do not take, and further, you are not responsible for consequences proceeding from actions you did not take.

The trolley problem is designed specifically to illustrate the simple logic of utilitarianism. It allocates no blame to whoever tied the guy to the tracks, and doesn’t usually include any consideration of context. Unlike reality, the trolley problem reduces a qualitative moral decisionmaking to a pure binary, in a complete vacuum. It exists to demonstrate that one number is bigger than another number, with a couple of extra steps. No relationship to reality.

if you intervene you own the consequences. Who tied these people to the tracks? are they watching me decide? refusing to participate in a rigged game is perfectly rational and moral.

think about all the ptsd and moral injury you’ve avoided. When you meet new people you can present yourself as a good person without it being a lie.

exactly this. Trump is the weakest, least capable adversary the resistance could ever dream to have. Were you expecting the empire to fall without violence?

pied piper

voting for Democrats is enabling fascism. If you think voting is so important why not vote 3rd party or write a candidate in and encourage others to do the same? why not vote for people who represent your class interests or at least people who do not enable and support genocide

something tells me you’re not going to get the full objective history of this from wikipedia

yes flat earthers are used by the social designers to ‘poison the well’. What’s so funny? it would be strange if they didn’t exploit (and cultivate) the immense stupidity of the median person. It makes the job of lying to them easier (and cheaper)

Something like this already happened when we traded the long-term health and fertility of the topsoil for the immediate high yield output of artificially fertilized crops.

By outsourcing the repleneshment of fertility to the relatively fragile and unreliable supply chains and social organisations of man, we assumed management over a delicate balance which previously belonged to nature.

I’m not arguing against industrial agriculture and its commodification of fertiliser by the way. If carefully managed it’s possible to imagine an endpoint of equilibrium where global supply chains increase total system fertility by selectively resting soil and relying more on imports to then switch once local fertility peaks and so on. Really just sane and unmolested market forces should in theory discover such a negotiated endpoint.

Fertility alone is not descriptive enough to capture, say, the importance of biological diversity or the load bearing capacity of local environments to support ecosystems, while also producing exportable outputs suitable for maintaining population growth in humanity.

Perennial crops are also ridiculously underused in overall food supply chains. They are more difficult to monetize in existing commodity forms because their overall system value is not captured numerically.

I don’t have an overall solution, but any solution will require at its core a way to assign value to the work which nature already does to replenish its own local fertility and to price that effect very cautiously in such a way that it becomes cheaper for intensive producers to rest unfertile soil until it becomes fertile than it is to compensate for unproductive soil by importing chemical fertiliser from somewhere else