It's silent. And it's also not written, you just leave a big enough space right before syndicalist.

Don't you just hate it when you're oiling down your cruise missile and hit the launch button by accident? If I had a nickel for everytime I accidentally bombed a country...

Hey, fair enough. I was being a bit of a catty bitch. I apologize for the attack-type tone in my comment(s), I certainly could have handled that better. I wish you a very splendid evening!

Fuck off, this isn't a soapbox to push Russian propaganda

Just using what I got from your comments, that's all. Not justifying genocide, not spending all my time talking about how "bad" the Ukrainian government is. I'm an anarchist, I don't believe in "good" states. It just doesn't mean I'm automatically going side with a state during a war. I don't believe that the will of the people are what make up the state. The Russian government is the monster in this scenario for sure, not trying to equate the two nation-states or say they're on the same footing.

Yeah, this shit's fucked. It's bordering on saying that being a good anarchist is when you're a statist/reformist during wartime. This whole monologue about supporting the Ukrainian state (but not really (but kinda tho)) by picking the lesser of two evils seems devoid of anything substantive. But hey, maybe there's another strawman they can throw our way about how being critical of the Ukrainian government is akin to justifying genocide

I feel like we're all talking about the same thing. Doesn't me standing with Ukraine mean that I wish for the safety of the Ukrainian people, not that I seek to justify the actions of the Ukrainian state? Critiquing both the Russian and Ukrainian governments doesn't exactly translate to saying that Ukrainian people deserve to die, or that it's some sort of play at being the enlightened centrist

Sure, but that seems like a conversation more suited for metaphysics than science. Before we can even formalize reincarnation into an empirically observed process, we have to state what we're even observing. What measurements will tell you about consciousness? What are the relations (mathematical or otherwise), that can be used to experimentally verify consciousness? Is consciousness an amount? An ordering? Is it an object? If so, is it simple or composite? Are quanta of consciousness unique or indistinguishable? Is it an emergent phenomenon, or is it foundational? These questions need to be addressed, if a scientific study about consciousness is to be constructed. All I've heard from people talking about consciousness in the spiritual sense don't specify enough to give a useful account of how to formally define it, so that it can be observed and experimentally measured.

I don't think a metaphysical account of consciousness and the general concept of things turning into other things is rigorous enough to be able to test or observe. Also, I feel we should be very careful about the wording of "scientific fact". In my experience, anything that I've come to know as "scientific fact" has always had counter-examples and nuances which arents addressed in the statement of the "fact".

I don't think it does.

I just don't trust people that don't have my experiences to make a good decision about how I should live my life. Their own biases and prejudices will factor into it, and I personally think that should not have any effect on my agency as a person. If I am not actively harming anyone, then I don't see why anybody else should get to restrict who I am. And no, people having to show empathy towards others when interacting with them does not constitute "harm" in my view. You would need to be putting the agency of other people in serious jeopardy for me to consider it harmful.

Everyone has flaws, and I don't consider that as a "negative view on human nature". I just consider it our current situation, and I deal with it accordingly. Whether it's "human nature" seems like a fruitless discussion. We all have the capacity to change for the better, and there's no barriers to doing so except for our own presumptions about what exactly constitutes "human nature".

But things are different now... This time we're doing it in space! And there's spaceships! I'm sure this will work out perfectly well, with no problems of any kind...

/s

That's some ghoulish shit. It seems some people are really taking this opportunity to go mask-off white supremacist

What do you mean?

Time to get shitfaced!

This just in! World Bank determines no ethical concerns with exploiting the global south for profit.

Fool! You dumb-dumnbs want anarchism, but you don't even have an authority to force people to work for you?? Doesn't everybody want a subservient worker population?? /s

It's not about the money, it's about sending a message. A clear message that they don't prevent crime, and simply waste money on abusing people.

Same as what I think about anarcho-capitalism. It's an oxymoron

But they're CHEMICALS. CHEMICALS, I say! When I put it like that, doesn't it sound scarier? Everyone knows natural herbs aren't made from CHEMICALS!

How about "imperial mildrinker"? Always find that line hilarious

Deterritorialized Ego! It's been quite a while since I've heard that term. I was more of a theory person, so I ended up learning about topics like Lipshitz free field cybernetics, and genetic folding in hyperbolic geometry. I still have yet to look into derealized symmetry breaking decision trees though, I've heard it's a riot!

Is there a place I can go to keep track of these metrics? Hoping to get that fabled SJW status someday ☺️

Social Studies Jockey?

I'm going to be honest with you, that looks like a squirrel just letting out a massive fart. Hehe

(My apologies for my crass behaviour)

That's absolutely hilarious, but I don't understand what some people are so broken up about. Art doesn't have to just be some solitary work that must never be touched or modified, preserved only to be sold amongst some pompous rich assholes

Petrichor!