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“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years!”
Ferdinand Foch, 1921
“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years!”
Ferdinand Foch, 1921
Conversely, there are many other people from his time that definitely did exist and verifiably so. I have a bronze coin minted in Judea by Pontius Pilatus. I can look at it, I can touch it, it’s real. Even as an avowed agnostic, I see no reason why Jesus couldn’t have been a real person (minus the miracles that were almost certainly later additions).
I do agree that in the grand scale of things we’re actually very early. That alone would explain a lot.
Unfortunately we’ve pretty much used up all easily available resources. Anyone ‘starting over’ would have a much harder time getting the things they need to really get the ball rolling again.
When humans first discovered gold they practically only had to scoop it out of rivers. You’ll be hard pressed to find any streams with such appreciable production anywhere in the world today.
Nah, I’m willing to bet there is actual physical life in our very own solar system (apart from all life on Earth, of course). Europa’s oceans for example have a decently high probability of hosting microbial life.
Of course, discovering primitive life all around us would be a bad sign the great filter is still ahead of us instead of behind us…
The most boring one: most species off themselves before they fully get off their starting planet. We will go the same way. Take your pick from climate change, war, pandemic, … or even a combination of several!
Exactly this. In ancient Roman times, emperor Caracalla was infamous for having many of his enemies outright killed. One of these was the brother of a soldier who was assigned to his personal guard at the Rhine border regions. When Caracalla got off his horse for a piss, he got a gladius thrusted between his ribs. For all his might and power, he very much brought that on himself.
Sometimes people like that soldier are the last line of justice in the world.
I agree, all the evils of yesteryear are still there and active, just either well-hidden or people simply don’t care/pretend not to know (cfr football world championships in Qatar, …).
We’ve made enormous progress technologically, but humans are still the exact same as 2000 or 5000 years ago. We’ve changed exceedingly little in that time, and the few things that have changed could be reverted very quickly if shove comes to push concerning climate collapse etc.
Best I can do is a token effort as long as it doesn’t upset the shareholders.
Depends on the capabilities. If i can automatically open my garage door with my mind or draw a bath, or control a cursor on a screen, then no. If it enables entire new ways of experiencing sensations or memories, or ways to share them, or fully immerse you in a virtual world indistinguishable from reality, then maybe. If it’s not from a company Musk has any hand in.
Yeah, this smells of “He saves, but he rapes. But he saves more than he rapes!”
Don’t care, hug kitty!
Brave souls. Space is one thing, but Boeing… Godspeed heroes!
Ahh, digitalis. Love 'em. Quite lethal in decent doses and supposedly hard to trace unless they’re specifically looking for it.
Not that I would know…
If anyone would pay to see my 40-yr old shriveled cock or asshole, you bet I would let them.
Buy physical gold & hide it (and well, not just in the house).
What are they going to do? Sue your descendants for something they can’t prove?
Me and my SO bought our house 15 years ago. Add to that she was a shrewd negotiator who pitted a few banks’ offers against each other for an even lower rate.
Yet even back then, the only way we were able to put down a down payment for a modest house in a modest environment was because both my and her parents had saved something up and were willing to do this for us. If we’d been kicked out at 18 with no kind of support we’d still be renting today, no doubt.
So I can definitely appreciate that we were among the lucky ones, and even back then it was already hard. My heart bleeds for young people today, especially knowing it’ll get a whole lot worse before it ever gets better, IF it ever does…
Alcohol and drugs. Lots of them.
This fuckery is going to cost him the election end this year, and we’ll ALL pay for that for many years if not decades to come.
So, thank you Biden, in a roundabout way, you’re really just as bad as Trump is. Still wouldn’t vote for him, but dammit If can’t understand protest voters.
I specifically ask for sources to my questions and to notify me of any possible controversies or counterclaims.
Some of the capabilities of todays’ AI’s are incumbent on the user, not the system itself.
Before AI’s existed you could also get badly sourced claims or outright misinformation. The key is to remain critical and sceptical about ALL your sources. I don’t see AI as a new source of information, just as a new way to get and organize that information.