It seems like the idea that the universe’s material has to be somehow finite in depth is itself a human construction

My job has. Unions go hard. They will never get it, you have to take it.

That’s absolutely insane logic. “Everyone’s doing it, it must be fine, right?” You know how many incredibly cancerous and harmful materials were once in common use by everyone?

Because I don’t know their situation, their life. I don’t have enough trust that I’ll just take someone at face value from a small subset. Don’t want to get jumped. Don’t want to get taken advantage of.

I wouldn’t do an Internet stranger’s house. But I absolutely would help a friend’s or neighbors if they so asked.

They’re synonymous!

Being japan doesn’t seem like the worst option. They’re still the 4th strongest economy in the world, with some of the lowest homeless rates in the world

Lol. Yeah, we don’t live in an era where information is that repressible anymore–and it ignores how many germans knew they weren’t free

I didn’t dismiss it as irrelevant and I didn’t use absolutes. You are glazing the hell out of Buddhists though

Can and will. If they were smart, they wouldn’t take what they’re told unquestioningly at face value. Fear does not wholly override logic. Overcoming instinct is what makes a human human

Pray tell, why do you think people become nazis then?

It’s the truth. These people wake up, and they choose to hate. They chose ignorance. They willfully and intentionally choose it. We don’t live in the 1700s. Information to disprove themselves is readily available. Or if they had basic critical thinking skills

Pretending it’s just about “stupidity” is how you avoid learning from History

Perhaps I phrased it poorly. But their opinions are only formed because they’re stupid, through extra propaganda and hate. They’re not opinions someone who actually cared about others can have.

… You think nazis aren’t idiots? Lol. I see you don’t have any actual understanding.

10 and 1 simultaneously. I’ll sit down. I’ll talk politics with damn near nazis. But I’ll also understand they’re disgusting, their viewpoints are formed through pure idiocy. It can be simultaneously very informing and infuriating to get an understanding of how they come about their viewpoints. Same applies to much less extreme examples as well

Well the goals of sending humans vs sending probes isn’t wholly the same. Humans part of the goal is study how humans live there and potentially try to make permanent, ideally self sustaining, habitats there

And we need things that spirituality can offer, and materialism (capitalism) has nearly robbed us of it.

No, we don’t. Capitalism and materialism are issues. Do not pretend the spiritualism is unproblematic by itself, encouraging pseudoscience. Faith and spiritualistic thinking can and frequently are problematic.

Bappy enough that they only shopped there, causing all the small businesses in their areas to close.

I’m waiting for the boost update to support piefed so I can use it.

We need multiple accounts to connect to more instances due to defederation etc

All it takes is one leader throwing a wrench in the process

Btw self funded insulates from that. You can have a committee run it and it blocks a lot of the politics from mattering for it

Would’ve looked a lot better if you commented that when I hadn’t already