Making money > Everything else. Once we concede that America is hyper capitalist most other problems can be explained.
I’m mostly half-serious.
Making money > Everything else. Once we concede that America is hyper capitalist most other problems can be explained.
And then people wonder where the modern-day civil rights leaders are. The U.S. government will murder anyone who gains the ability to upset the status quo. The best we’re going to get is social media personalities like Dr. Umar and comedians like Charlamagne Tha God.
Top should be German. Stasi vibes
Just played Disco Elysium for the first time and this comment makes more sense now lol
After the reddit exodus I started creating memes for the first time and posting them on Lemmy. I’ve learned that it’s harder to be funny than I thought. Also a lot of time/effort and I have actually important things in my life that I focus on. Reposting was also kinda fun but what’s the point really
Seems like the Internet is just circle jerks these days
Are you implying Americans started colonization, or…?
The internet is now just a bunch of segregated echo chambers.
I don’t think that “both sides are the same”, but there is a Venn Diagram of shared interests under the two party system; the overlap is fairly large (e.g., both parties are susceptible to lobbying, both parties fight to maintain first past the post voting, etc.)
Watergate Part Two: Electric Bungaloo
“Got more soul than a sock with a hole…”
Oh you have a micropenis? Prove it.
After years of this sentiment being passed around online it’s clear that shit isn’t going to happen until we have a military draft/Vietnam War level incident. The pot is boiling too slowly for most of us to jump out. And even if we do try to organize a strike or civil disobedience, the government has gotten good at assasinating leaders that threaten the system.
I have set up emudeck. Works for nes, snes, gba, ps1, Wii, and ps2 without issue. It’s only when I tried Wii U and ps3 that I ran into into problems. I do know it’s possible, but I got tired of tweaking
I’ve been trying to get Wii U to work on Steamdeck. I’m only intermediately tech savvy, so this gives me motivation to give it another go.
There are a lot of claims here, but I’m going to focus on one in particular. I don’t think we have any moral obligation to reach our potential as a “creator race”. Taking into account your initial starting point, consider the following argument:
If this argument is sound, then the possibility of intelligent life does not depend on us. To me, this weakens any suggestion that we are morally obligated to fulfill our intellectual potential.
Perhaps one could object to my argument above on utilitarian grounds. If we can create more intelligent life than already exists, then we will be increasing the total amount of good in the universe. We are morally obligated to increase the good in the world (however “good” is defined) and so we are morally obligated to create intelligent beings. But this is a non sequitur. It isn’t clear that the creation of more intelligent beings will result in more happiness than misery. In which case, on a utilitarian analysis, it could turn out that we are morally prohibited from creating intelligent beings.
I know this isn’t the crux of your post, but I wanted to engage philosophically since posts in this community often go unanswered.
Me at American Airports: Why the fuck do I have to take off my belt/shoes and throw away my water? They just let me walk into a crowded airport with this shit…