CapriciousDay

I can't believe Saudi Arabia are nationalising Pokemon Go when the UK won't even nationalise regional water monopolies. Honestly these things were never great for privacy and given the state of things I'm not sure I'm more concerned about a Saudi entity tracking me than a US one.

Not good news for gay Pokemon fans in that country though.

Of course we've all got mental health problems. Our economy is entirely oriented around paying us to service bullshit and then going "what I don't understand" when we have economic problems. Maybe if we get a few thousand more engineers to spend their entire careers pushing numbers with no intrinsic value around that'll fix the problem.

Nobody needed a crystal ball to know Starmer would be this shit.

Definitely just poking a stick inside a printer

I guess fundamentally I see the mind as arising out of physicality and emergent constructs within that physical system rather than being fundamental. The reason the Gaia hypothesis appeals to me then is because it is just an extension of that emergence idea but across the whole world

All capitalists are humans but not all humans are capitalists so it's a bit of an overgeneralisation.

Maybe like a limited Gaia hypothesis. The whole planet is a conscious thing, we are its braincells and its hands.

Imagine doing this during a massive bird flu outbreak, in a country that was essentially founded on biological weapons based genocide.

Well I think there would be some obvious physical limits because of finite processing power like maybe a minimum distance, a maximum viewing distance, a discrete time interval and so on. Maybe some of the system would be modelled stochastically because being fast is more important than being accurate when simulating such a big system.

Any time there's a ready meal from the supermarket and for some reason the adhesive is way stronger than the plastic film. You end up with loads of bits of film just sort of stuck to the rim of it. Super annoying.

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham suggested at the Munich Security Conference over the weekend that Trump’s demand was a clever ploy to bolster declining popular support for the Ukrainian cause. “He can go to the American people and say, ‘Ukraine is not a burden, it is a benefit,’” he said.

I continue to be amazed by how frequently the entire spectrum from ~~mainstream liberal~~ regular conservative to ~~Trumpist conservative~~ fascist fall back on a line which is tantamount to "they're not tricking you, they're tricking someone else! Totally trustworthy!"

This from the same people who told you to inject disinfectant and are actively distancing themselves from international medical consensus.