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  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • Then what created your higher power?

    The question is the same, you latched onto an additional point and acted like it not applying invalidated everything else....

    Logic ain't going to work, I'm sorry.

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  • Then a higher power is an absolutely unnecessary step that provides zero benefit...

  • Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader

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  • What's crazy is people bet on it without insider info, knowing that people with it can.

    Some comedian made a joke about it because he read off a bunch of random words that had bets on if they were said. They all paid out because he said them

    The point is for any given bet a bunch of people can either make it happen or know the result before the market adjusts to the public knowing.

    It's like how early scam emails used bad grammer so only dumb people responded, if you bet on poly market, you're already a lick.

    Ironically enough this is also how our entire economy is run, just not as obviously...

  • Congress on Monday

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  • Make em vote on it.

    Put their feet to the fire and say that with all this shit, they're behind trump.

    It won't go straight done party lines, but that just strengthens the fracture before midterms and depressed their turnout.

    We've already had Seconds Impeachments, but what about thirds and fourths evens?

    Just keep fucking impeaching him, fuck it.

  • What honest and harmless test do you put on a potential date?

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  • There's only one test that ever mattered but modern tech made it outdated:

    https://youtu.be/4df17uZyMs8?t=119

    The principle is the same tho, just in general that little things are done by both parties to make it easier on the partner.

    If a guy took the time to open a manual locked car door for his date to let her in first, and she didn't take the two seconds to open his door, it may not be a reciprocal thing.

    But the downvotes are because "test" indicates pass/fail. People get nervous around people they like and they may act stupid or insensitive just because you're distracting them.

    Green/red flags are better. Most shit is at most a caution.

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  • Nah man, I just meant this one specific point, which is why I put it in this thread...

    Shane Gillis said it best (paraphrased):

    Racism is a lot like being hungry, most people aren't always hungry. Some people are, but everyone gets hungry under the right conditions.

    But it's all the "isms", they're all just different ways to describe "in/out group bias" which older than humans, primates, and considering birds even mammals.

    It's a fundamental part of human life.

    The only problem is people weren't getting socialized first due to distance and then due to instuitional laws. And as people age they fall back on earlier "in/out group biases" of what they were exposed to as young.

    Everyone can be guilty of "doing an ism" and most of the time not even realize it, really mean it, or even control it. The brain just stressed and falls back on that shit.

    We fix it by understanding it and working towards the current new generation getting properly socialized and motivated enough to keep doing it

    That's why conservatives fight so hard against "indoctrination" seeing a demographic exists when young is all it takes to stop them from becoming "them" later. They're just another member of the tribe to our monkey brains, they're always be "us".

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  • Then it takes twice as much faith to believe a higher being existed before anything else...

    It's a chicken/egg.

    If you want to be the most scientific these days it's bubbles of reality getting created when two dimensional planes intersect or just come close to bumping up together. Which forms a bubble dimension which would have essentially random physics every time.

    Which is pretty fucking far down the line to "nothing" but at the end of the day, what created the planar dimensions?

    All adding a higher power does is add an extra step. Maybe it's there, maybe it's not.

    It changes nothing. Because something created that first.

    There's energy/matter and no matter what we come up with to rationalize that (even the Matrix) it doesn't explain it the whole way through, all of this is fundamentally impossible and we just have to accept that.

    And also even if there's an afterlife, were unlikely to get all the answers, because it almost certainly be some sort of middle management higher being who is just as ignorant of what made it, till maybe if/when it dies in which case our "ever after" has an end date.

    Like, everyone just has to eventually reach the point they stop caring and settle for a personal "good enough". Organized religion just gives everyone a set playbook which makes it easier to accept.

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  • Huh?

    There's no ethical way or no ethical reason to kill them?

    There's both, it's just bugging me that I don't understand how I disagree with you.

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  • You ever hear about the real weird shit where consciousness predates biological life and wife it will arise everywhere that a form of life could be supported?

    Theory goes there's there's "aromatic rings" of simple chemicals that will naturally arrange into a structure that is 100% not alive. Kind of like a virus, but completely immobile and can't directly interact with something as big as a cell, these are literally a dozen or so atoms strapped together.

    These proto-consciousness can only experience two sensations, and due to arrangement will "prefer" one and avoid the other arrangement. They're super basic and it's really that binary.

    However because they can act like a virus on an atomic level, they change things with the only drive to make things that look like them on an atomic level, because the only thing they experience is that is "good".

    It's sounds nuts because I'm just going off memory, but shits a pretty big theory.

    And is backed up with stuff like how when a crystalline structure is first synthesised, it will eventually be replaced by a different structure that took more initial energy to be produced initially. But after a "seed crystal" (again, atomic level) is present, it will quickly and effectively destroy any synthesis of the original polymorph.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritonavir#Polymorphism_and_temporary_market_withdrawal

    And fuck me if that isn't the missing link between basic aromatic rings and viruses towards the evolution of life as we define it.

    And I'm not saying "missing link" as just an expression...

    They were intrigued by a molecule called ribo-aminooxazoline (RAO), which they discovered could react to form two of RNA’s nucleotide building blocks. RAO is among a rare class of crystals that enforce a single chirality: Once a crystal starts to grow from either right- or left-handed versions of the molecule, only molecules with the same chirality can bind to the structure. Such crystals, if they started with an initial bias, could have caused chiral RAO to build up.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/breakthrough-could-explain-why-life-molecules-are-left-or-right-handed/

    We need a good explanation for why a bunch of random shit lines up in one of two distinct and binary alignments because life needs that. And that's what this this

    Meaning life could spring up anywhere at any moment which is what you're talking about.

    Bonus pessimism:

    https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/mirror-life-risks-molecular-chirality/

    Just because "our" side won the alignment war here on Earth, doesn't mean that's true everywhere. It could just have easily went the other way and developed what we call "mirror life" and scientists are actively trying to create it right now even tho that could wipe out everything bigger than basic bacteria...

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  • That's why it's controversial, it gets the people going...

    Even with all the disclaimers input in there with it, I 100% knew someone would say it was racist for zero logical reason, even without me saying that's the reason it's controversial.

    It changes absolutely nothing about how we all evolved from an (actually insanely small) population that lived in Africa very recently on an evolutionary timescale. If anything it debunks racist beliefs that there's large divides between who left and stayed.

    But well intentioned people get mad and call me a racist, every single time.

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  • the other sounds like a racially charged propaganda piece.

    Exactly what I'm talking about.

    Bring it up and people will literally change what you say and label it racist.

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  • Our ancestors might not be "from" Africa.

    There's huge gaps in the historical record because of that whole ice age cycle thing.

    Sapians may have evolved somewhere else, but either slowly migrated to Africa as safe haven or just died out everywhere else as glaciers bulldozed all traces of evidence.

    It doesn't really change anything, we'd still all be descendants of the same people. I just don't think we know enough to for sure say the absence of evidence is the evidence of absence.

    It's not that long ago we thought all our ancestors lived in caves, just because evidence was most likely to be preserved then

  • President of Iran's soccer federation says world cup participation in US is in doubt.

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  • If you don't feel safe in the home of the FIFA peace world champion, where can you feel safe?

    /s

  • Congress to vote on Trump’s war powers in aftermath of Iran strikes

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  • That's been the goal longer than they've been alive...

    MAGA just inherited the "progress" towards dictatorship that started before the Business Plot in the 1930s and ended when he beat Jeb! in 2015.

    The accelerationissm is due to neoliberals giving up the fight on our behalf for a couple decades.

  • How to register to vote in the 2026 primaries [United States]

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  • No matter what happens vote in the primary.

    It's more important than ever because having a majority doesn't mean shit if a handful obstruct.

    So we have to ensure every seat has the best person possible, regardless of if they're already in office or not

  • Congress to vote on Trump’s war powers in aftermath of Iran strikes

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  • which even George W. Bush did

    Yeah, that's how a fucking ratchet works...

    When we alternate parties and one party doesn't fix shit and the other isn't held responsible, they're just gonna keep doing what they're doing. Which isn't the same behavior, it's as far across the line as they can geta away with. And every time it works it sets a new line.

    The obvious goal is the dissolution of Congress and that should have been clear to anyone whose paid 10 minutes attention at some point in the last 50 years.

    Authoritarians will always work towards a dictatorship, it doesn't matter how many different groups pictures themselves in power, they all work towards the consolidation of power which makes it easy for every authortarian group regardless of alignment.

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    The reason why the US president loves McDonald's so much is simply because he's a world-class narcissist and it sounds like it's named after him. That's it.

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  • And even then he could do that with any food place that doesn’t display his name.

    This has been happening since the 80s...

    Now it's completely unavoidable, unless it's someone close to you that manages to do it to the pile at the last second.

    Like, I'm not saying trump is rational, I'm explaining his irrational logic for why he got used to it.

    Anywhere in the country and most of the planet, someone can go buy $200 worth of McDonald's and delivery it in under an hour. It's what he's used to

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    The reason why the US president loves McDonald's so much is simply because he's a world-class narcissist and it sounds like it's named after him. That's it.

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  • It's because he's paranoid about being poisoned...

    Long before he was president he'd send people "undercover" to buy large amounts of fast food, then he'd eat a random portion. I suspect he even has others eat from the total first. That's why he always serves to cold to sports teams and the like. He's used to the crazy delays it comes with, he's likely never had it fresh.

    It's also why he's so fat. If everytime you ate it was from a pile of cold fast food and even after full there's a pile left, anyone would over eat and become as obese as trump. That would take a godawful amount of willpower to resist, but constantly caving to cravings would fundamentally rewire your brain.

  • Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history

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  • Nixon: "Is the Viet-goddamn-nam War a joke to you?!"

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/

    Motherfucker was prolonging foreign invasions before his own election

    Doing another Middle East invasion on schedule and just not hiring Kal Penn to make it sound necessary is horrible, but it doesn't set trump apart from American presidents in the looseset sense of the definition of "modern".

    Now that the majority of Americans understand how fucked shit is, we need to use the momentum to fix shit, not just rewind to when people didn't pay attention.

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