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Zero. Angels are fictional.

The challenge is even merit judgements are subjective and we tend to unconsciously favor those who are like us. We don’t even realize we’re doing it. If the person is similar to us, we prefer them. In a world being run by white males, more white males get selected due merely to being similar but not due to being better. The need is to correct for that existing bias, and what we’re seeing is people attacking the correction mechanism for being biased. I’m tired of living in this bizzarro world alternate reality.

Apologies for my role in it. I genuinely thought he’d know of the top 2 or 3 options right off the top of his head. Mea culpa.

Curious what @Sensei might say here on this subject (tho he’ll probably mention something about building your own network and running Linux which is clearly not the point… existing paths and providers only is the question in the OP)

Evidence would come next. I eagerly await your proof.

When you strive to “prove” that trees are conscious, does your success require that your audience have neither brain nor ability to think?

Changes? Very little. Amplifies and accelerates? Orders upon orders upon orders of magnitude. And it’s a global issue now. This is the new world order, not the bullshit people were walking around with sandwich boards about a decade or two ago.

And when they are ignored, and the people ignoring it have control over the soldiers and machinations and weapons, and when even local authorities are on board with those ignoring it, then who / what serves as the enforcement mechanism to stop them?

Just raising this back to the top 🧠🧐

Horseshit

Which is far easier and far more likely when you purposely install leaders who are loyal sycophantic yes-men across all of the top layers of the chain of command.

Even Trudeau has been pushed out of power in Canada. Even Canucks are not immune from charlatan right wing extremism

The President of Congo just offered the United States ownership of his country’s minerals to entice President Trump to put an end to the war backed by Rwanda. Congo holds more than half the world’s Cobalt and Colton. They also have substantial deposits of Gold, Copper, Tin, Lithium, etc. China currently has a considerable influence in Congo’s mineral sector, and before them, it was the Europeans. https://x.com/behizytweets/status/1893351121386905911?s=46&t=QjfV_ZHNvP2ulzJ-j8JFcg

Depends on whether the entire country as a whole became a state or if individual provinces each became states, but it’s moot bc it won’t happen. It’s all trolling to distract us from the more heinous shit they’re doing.

And access to competitor data

I cannot join you in that conclusion https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3956087/

Ask 10 different people what it means and you'll get 12 different answers.

Then, yes. Bees are that.

How are you defining consciousness?

Pro: He's human and therefore mortal. Con: We’re unlikely to confirm his mortality today.

That was his point, IINM. It was tongue in cheek. Trump and cronies will simply blame Biden for their own failures even though it's chronologically impossible... and their fans will eat it up without any hint of scrutiny or irony.

They do now

And the theory of sexual selection doesn’t explain why cigarettes cause cancer. So the eff what

Greenland belongs to Denmark, and Denmark has been one of the single biggest backers of Ukraine. They significantly increased their military spending and used the extra funds to give more weapons to Ukraine for defense. It’s not entirely unreasonable to think Trumps focus on Greenland was a negotiation ploy intended to gain leverage and get Denmark to pull back their huge levels of support for Ukraine and help Putin.

It also requires us to clearly define what constitutes life and what are the boundaries of those metrics between "is life" and "is not life." So, we could do all kinds of things in a lab only to have our fair contributor here move the goal posts and say, "yeah but THAT's not life."