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Starmer should obviously lean into this and start producing Dune style images of him as a sandworm god emperor

A very brave woman and absolutely unforgivable behaviour by parts of this Labour government.

Instead of a fire alarm I have rigged a bomb to explode in the presence of fire I expect this to serve as a formidable deterrent against fire.

umm actually, neutrality means you're choosing the side of the milk hotel

You beat me to it. But yes! This is literally how we got trump.

Also republicans absolutely hate on other republicans. This whole fucking trump thing was fueled by it.

I've been thinking about moral philosophy a lot and I've come to the conclusion that I don't think we should do bad things anymore.

Two Toronto-Area Synagogues Are Struck by Gunfire

3 synagogues shot at in a week. This attempt to intimidate the Toronto Jewish community must be unequivocally condemned and thoroughly investigated. We are deeply relieved no one was injured.

Yeah, the purpose of toxifying particular malicious views/activities isn't to convert people who already hold them, it's:
i) to deter any waverers from going over to them
ii) to rally *opponents* against it

I think you can see it's effective as well in the myriad ways those groups will attempt to rebrand and sell a softer more palatable version of the view/activity

"We're not antivax we're just pro vaccine safety"

"We're not holocaust deniers we just think the numbers are inflated"

Etc etc etc

I think in the case of Kemi it might be accurate to describe her as plotting against herself.

It's important that ministers are able to reach out to ordinary people who just happen to have been born in 88 and have a healthy interest in classical architecture.

"there is a long standing view" is not the same as "there is a plausible view" much less one that you can "support as well as any other"

I'm very aware. I have a philosophy degree. My point stands.

He doesn't think his reputation was ruined by the Iraq war.

Just like antivaxxers who continually think they're vindicated he lives in a closed world of his own curation where he was never wrong.

And also what do you mean by "the people who insist ai can't be conscious" what kind of AI? There's a difference between suggesting LLM aren't conscious and that no AI could ever be conscious.

We don't have a solid grasp on the nature of consciousness but no "rocks are conscious" is not a remotely plausible view that "you can basically support as well as any other"

You seem to be confusing not disprovable with plausible.

It's also incredibly stupid to think this would actually erode support for the Iranian state rather than shore it up, or at least make people feel like they're stuck against a rock and a hard place.

The videos from Tehran are just hellish. This is an infernal crime by the US and Israel.

I’ve never been less confident in my ability to guess what *might* happen. I have no fucking clue.

Can anyone help?

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

All the while we were looking for the adults in the room when maybe what we should have been looking for was the insane clowns in the posse.

Nothing says “we are liberating you from a bad regime to give you a better life” like bombing desalination plants and oil refineries

And as someone whose father very likely developed leukemia as a result of post-9/11 environmental exposure to toxins I am *extremely*, *personally* aware of the long tail of what is happening in Tehran.

trolley problem diagram, with Sisyhpus pushing his boulder as the trolley car, and text that reads: Sisyphus is rolling a boluder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accomodate him or his boulder. If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship. Is Sisyphus happy?

a question for the ages, really.

Who doesn't aspire to be a great and acceptable leader

Is she also a longtime fan of the antisemitic show that platner went on?

very entertained by the apparent assertion that a logo on a t-shirt worn during a podcast interview is clear and conclusive evidence of someone’s political beliefs but a symbol that he decided to get permanently inked into his flesh is not a relevant concern.

"Your Best Version" tweets: When a girl says she doesn't understand why guys care about her body count... Try asking her this:... Arthur Cruz @arthurcruzd tweets: When you pour coffee into milk, they mix and you can't unmix them. They are now one (one latte, "one flesh"). When you open your intimacy to someone, you allow souls to entangle and mix. Passion accelerates this, and you can't unmix it.

That is not a normal way to think about people or coffee Arthur.

Please don't order "one flesh" at the coffee shop.