Saeculum [he/him, comrade/them]

I have no idea how you justify or even begin to consider assigning a 12th of all births as having some inherent necrophiliac tendency?

Probably with similar reasoning used to justify that the position of planets and stars relative to the earth can have any effect on a person’s personality or daily life.

Imperial population is likely several trillion at the low end

Earth/Terra alone is supposed to have a few quadrillion.

and when they do go around, every bin is gonna be overloaded so every shift will be mother fucked, people will walk and there will be garbage piling up everywhere.

Every council where I’ve lived is already on three week collection, and it’s fine actually.

Bin collection is entirely delegated to local councils, there is no unified national authority on them, and this instance is just for south Gloucestershire.

It’s a tiny bit more when you consider that this is literally just south Gloucestershire, home to about 300k people.

Nature has already shown us that it’s possible, and anything nature can do, we can iterate and improve upon.

It probably helped, though it’s not like they were ever getting across the channel.

Supposedly, this is what allowed Britain to build a welfare state after the second world war as well. The poor actually saw general nutrition improve during rationing, and they witnessed what the state could accomplish if it really wanted to.

The rich realised this, and figured out that if they didn’t throw a bone to the working class, they were going to end up dead, and so compromised.

Climate change won’t kill all of us, and neither could a wordt-case nuclear exchange. It’ll be a problem for someone eventually.

could just be something totally unknown to science

Any thoughts on brain organoid computers related to this?

All the math done to estimate the computation required shows absurd numbers required at minimum

Nature fit it into a space the size of a human head with a bunch of redundancy through an unconscious process of trial and error.

What’s the observable difference between something that closely emulates human behaviour and something with a “soul”?

LLMs almost certainly aren’t going to be where it eventually comes from, but I have no doubt we’ll get there some day.

and our pure arrogance wouldn’t stop us from creating another self and causing that self to suffer.

People already have children.

and our pure arrogance wouldn’t stop us from creating another self and causing that self to suffer.

People already have children all the time, this is just what humans do.

yeah i want to see them driven away and hear their lamentations, etc etc.

Terf Island doesn’t have a lot going for it, but one of the few bright moments we’ve had is when the fascists took to the streets and got the absolute living shit beaten out of them by a hundred thousand angry Londoners.

It’s the only sensible reaction to the fuckers and something that should be brought back.

When did assault become a justifiable response to someone trying to talk to you at your door (even if aggressive). It’s not like she was posing any physical threat to him, so how does that merit a physical response? Is this just something I’m not American enough to understand?

The war on Christmas will end only when it withdraws from its illegal occupation of November.

Wow, if only we had a word for involuntary uncompensated labour enforced by violence.

Depends on where your house is, and if it’s urban or rural.