Fun fact: if the air is dirty and the water is poisoned and all the plants and animals are dead, people will want to have lots of kids.

It is shocking that primates like us can thrive on a plant diet given that all primates have always thrived on a plant diet.

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After this Trump debacle, I’m a lot less tolerant of average people. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

It’s disgusting how much normies hate drugs, and how little they give a shit about mental health. If Matthew Perry were alive, he’d be the first to condemn a government that won’t let people imbibe whatever the fuck they want.

It was his right to kill himself. Fuck everyone who thinks otherwise, you despicable hypocritical monsters. Wanna help people like him? Legalize drugs. Provide mental health support and stop this ridiculous fanatical opprobrium against drug use. But anyone who supports these kinds of kangaroo court proceedings to imprison people who do and sell drugs certainly doesn’t care about human health or flourishing.

Seriously, one of the easiest ways to identify people who are philosophically and ethically illiterate is to ask them if drugs should be illegal.

It makes me sad that the US immigration officers responsible won’t die in prison for this injustice.

AI is digital. It is a set of instructions that can be written on paper. Biological brains are analog, by contrast, and there is currently no reason to think that digital computation can produce subjectivity.

That’s good and bad.

It’s good, because our approach to artificial intelligence (putting a lot of processing power into a Rube Goldberg machine) cannot “come alive.” Such a machine is like a calculator, unmotivated and inert.

That’s bad, because it will ALWAYS do what people tell it to do, the way a printer will print whatever you tell it to print. Such an intelligence will never develop normative understanding (or morality), never know that it is alive, because it is an inanimate process.

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All of Star Wars is dumb as shit. I don’t know why you guys have such a hate boner for three specific movies or how you even pick them out of the pile.

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Another psychopath. His telltale indifference to reality gives it away. That’s the hallmark of the soulless.

You just blew this guy’s mind.

You think it’s normal to lock the US population into place, decrease housing market liquidity, reduce inventory, and drive up home prices?

Here’s what I think is normal: the primary residence, which is traditionally the primary stock of wealth for the working and middle classes, should not be taxed. Period. Your second house should be taxed. Your third house should be taxed. Your huge boat should be taxed. Not your home.

People need to stop their war on the US middle class, which is rapidly disappearing. The majority of the wealth is in the hands of the top 1-10%. Not the middle 50, or the working poor, who are the most impacted by this moronic tax.

Behold, the impact of property taxes:

The “profit” is realized as soon as the sale goes through. Your financial illiteracy and the confidence with which you wield it is astonishing.

I don’t have an error. If you buy a house for $200k (average price for houses in the US some years ago) and it now costs $500k (average price for houses in US today), this tax makes it LITERALLY impossible for you to sell your house and buy another one. This is a new phenomenon.

The issue is that a “profit” on a home sale is not a profit at all, since that money needs to be dumped back into the purchase price as soon as you move. The tax straight up makes it impossible for families to MOVE. What are you not understanding? These aren’t landlords. They’re just people trying to move from point A to point B.