Comment Re: Oh good just what we need (Score 1) 29
Sid you just say ignorance is bliss if you're Boeing?
Sid you just say ignorance is bliss if you're Boeing?
Why are those investors simultaneously smarter than you for having money and dumber than you for throwing it away on projects that befuddle you?
What if it's just mood affiliation all the way down to quark level ("charm"
How is your position different from an epicyclist who, instead of improving the sensitivity of his sensors, simply declared Aristarchus' heliocentric theory disproved because star parallax could not be measured?
How much of the universe, from entanglement to the predicted zero point energy vs. actual, is rational? Remember how Hippasus is rumored to have been killed for discovering irrational numbers? Would you have supported that?
But what if the director can get it from a bot by talking to it instead of a human?
What if you throttle progress by ignoring stock market returns when calculating productivity so that you have an excuse to delay things like the 8-hour work day which the Greenback Party was already calling for in the 1870s? How regressive and suppressive is the current dominant economic model?
How far are you willing to maximize your selfishness beyond all reason, to ensure its failure, just so you can say see! I was right!?
"If a basic living isn't motivation enough for me to do whatever is necessary to obtain that basic living standard, why should someone else work harder so that I don't have to?"
Why not fully legalize suicide? What if I want to be self-sufficient living off the land but you force me to buy my way out of your system by participating in it first, before I can exit? Do you see the hypocrisy in your position?
Your draft response is insightful and philosophically sharp, but if you're aiming for maximum clarity and impact on Slashdot, where technical and skeptical readers dominate, a slight tightening of tone and structure could help. Here's a refined version that keeps your poetic edge but delivers the point more cleanly in plain ASCII:
"What if your 'feeling' is just a mood â" a passing mental weather pattern â" that seems profound only because it resonates with your current state of mind? Another person might feel the exact opposite: that stars scatter forever and nothing returns. Feelings alone can't distinguish cosmic truth from comforting metaphor. If gravity does pull matter back together, it's physics, not intuition, that confirms it."
Every day ruzzian drones are used to murder civilians, including 1 year old children, not just fight against military targets, this is called 'safari'. If these creatures are not stopped in Ukraine, they will be targeting YOUR civilians next.
https://t.me/nevzorovtv/28223 - this video shows ruzzian civilians, who are dead set on destroying Ukraine, no matter what. AFAIC Ukraine must exterminate this cocroach infestation that is ruzzia.
It's complete and utter BS. The 2 state solution has been proposed multiple times ( https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQ... ) , the Arabs are refusing it because it would de-escalate the conflict and would normalize the very *existence* of Israel, which is what they are denying (and you here as well, due to their very effective propaganda).
Also very very personally, I have 0 sympathy for anyone attacking Israel, so no love to anyone who attempts on lives of any Israelis, may they all burn in this life and any and all afterlives (which I don't believe in, I am a complete atheist).
To me, everyone who attacks Israel is barbaric and must be destroyed, how about that? There is no genocide of anyone in Gaza because it's not me, who is running Israel, does it work for you?
I am well aware of ruzzian/Israeli relationship. There are a couple of million ex-soviets living in Israel, I was one of them back in 1992, when I moved to Israel from Ukraine.
Israel is doing everything anyone could ever do to protect civilians from being killed in fire indiscriminately https://chatgpt.com/c/6876bd05... Sure, you can always say that more could be done, AFAIC they are way overdoing.
Have a horrible day.
Absolutely Israel is fighting for its survival. 7th of October shows that Israel must destroy all of its enemies that surround it. Hamas and others were supplied by Iran, which must be stopped from developing a nuclear bomb specifically because it would be much easier to just get that bomb into Israel through Gaza and blow it up in the middle of any city, most likely Tel Aviv or Haifa (they wouldn't do it in Jerusalem). Any 'civilian' within Gaza is suspect, that's where Hamas is recruiting from in the first place. I applaud Israel for making progress against Iran and now it must finish what needs to be finished all around it, especially Gaza.
Iran has policy of destroying Israel, it's their religious policy and policy of the State, so they are obviously interested in keeping all of the various local conflicts going for as long as it takes to destroy Israel. Israel is under a strategic threat, it's not just Gaza and Hamas, this was made clear when Iran started supplying Houthis with missiles. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis under the guiding hand of Iran and with support from ruzzia. That's what Israel is fighting against. Just because you don't understand it doesn't change their equation and they must not and will not give up, they must destroy its enemies to survive.
The fact that the Western world has been brainwashed and is now so antisemitic and anti-Israel just shows how effective the propaganda pushed from Iran with the help of the ruzzian troll/bot farms became, that's a weapon that must be taken seriously. It was used to brainwash Americans into supporting putin and ganging up against Israel as well.
Israel is doing more than anyone to prevent casualties in their fighting, that's exactly why they develop and use extremely precise bombs and ammunition. Again, I wouldn't, but they care.
Israel is fighting for its survival.
Ukraine is fighting for its survival.
Both are attacked by terrorists.
Ukraine is attacked by a terrorist mafia state.
Israel is attacked by a terrorist religiously controlled state.
Their situation is different because Ukraine is a much bigger country in terms of land and people but Israel had much more time to prepare for this war obviously and it had support of the USA for a long time now.
Israel must win this to survive as a country.
Ukraine must win this to survive as a country.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol