i think sbf should have stolen more money

it is ethical to mercy-kill any species of animal except for the only one capable of unambiguously communicating a preference for its death over its life

Okay, but what is a “mercy killing” when it comes to humans? Euthanasia? Assisted suicide? Both are legal, to varying degrees. Both have huge systemic problems.

when euthanasia is legal it’s used as a weapon against disabled people and people in poverty, who often “choose” to die to escape the unlivable conditions they were forced into.

Assisted suicide has similar problems. How can you prove that someone really wanted to die, and there was no coercion involved? There’s the fairly famous “texting murder” case, where the victim’s girlfriend encouraged him to kill himself even after he stopped thinking it was a good idea.

There’s inheritance fraud and the systemic lack of mental health care/meds. Retirement homes that cost a lot of money and maybe you just start leaving Grandma pamphlets about going out on her (your) own terms.

Mercy killings for humans would be easily taken advantage of and the definition would be warped. Is killing a POW after months of torture a mercy? Should it still be punishable by law?

Maybe if we had a better economy and healthcare and mental health support, mercy killings for humans would be moral. Now, they’re just another tool to kill off vulnerable people with no consequences.

Hey, out of curiosity, if someone is poor enough that they want to have an abortion even though with financial support they'd prefer to keep the baby, should they be prevented from having an abortion? What if they're being pressured by an outside party? I think just to be safe we should ban abortion until we can be sure no one is ever pressured into it.

not to mention that like, all of the things that have been mentioned *take time*.

by saying "yeah, lets fix the economy, thats gonna take about a decade. in the meantime you are starving, you are living on the street, and you are absolutely miserable every day of your life and constantly put yurself in dangerous situtation to try and kill yourself."

you are advocating for the torture of a human being for a decade n the *promise* the government will get its shit together.

you are advocating for the family that cant afford the nursing home to put grandma in the state run home on medicaid where she gets $60 a month, the worst food on earth and likely abusive staff. You're advocating for them to go broke and grandma to suffer.

"you're suffering now, but we're going to ignore that to try and make the world better" like, no, you make the world better and you let people have agency over their own lives in the meantime.

Huh, Indonesia and Argentina and the Philippines are the global antipodes powerhouses

Funny how only a tiny fraction of global landmass has antipodes but human inhabitants are disproportionately represented there bc Argentina/Chile just so happen to perfectly nab almost all of eastern china. And the northern SA countries get much of Indonesia

Probably enough to make up for Greenland even

Just realised smth else:

In the city of god augustine of hippo asks and answers in the negative whether there “there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth, where the sun rises when it sets to us, men who walk with their feet opposite ours.” And reading the passage in hs i sniggered bc ofc, he didn’t know about the new world! Tee hee!

But thinking over it now, he… might have accidentally been right? If we interpret the passage to mean on the opposite side of the earth from “us” as in Mediterranean dwellers, the only large landmass with its antipodes to overlap would have been NZ/Aotearoa, which was only settled by humans in the 1200s, centuries after augustine was writing. Weird! I’d need a better antipodes map and history of polynesian expansion in front of me tho to say if there are any smaller islands he was missing

Donald Trump from Home Alone 2 is an anarcho-communist!

Pulled over by a state trooper and slowly but very obviously grabbing a mithril glaive from the backseat

coffee and cigarettes = analog

energy drink and vape = digital

completely false. cigarettes are the energy drinks of nicotine

literally made of a plant, unlike the clean digital perfection of vapes or monsters

coffee and cigarettes = analog

energy drink and vape = digital

I'm just gonna put this out there: as a disinterested third party, obviously everyone doing Minecraft random seed speedruns is cheating. It's incredibly easy to do and the category is extremely luck based, there's basically no way the entire upper echelon of speedrunners aren't cheating. Sorry.

Like it's just selective effects. Everything I've seen suggests cheaters will out-perform legitimate runners by a huge margin because of the random nature of the game, and getting comparable luck by pure chance is a ridiculous grind. Plus, evidence has shown that cheated runs can and do go for years without being identified, and there are some cheating techniques that the community admits they have basically no way to identify. There's like nothing you can do to convince me the Minecraft Random Seed Glitchless leaderboards aren't mostly rotten from top to bottom.

i feel like if this were true you wouldn't see leaps in time that come from the stupidest new "strategies" imaginable. it's been a minute, but last i checked the best times were achieved with a new and legal technique of trying a bunch of seeds at once to find one that's any good. that's such a marginal improvement that even a little cheating would blow it out of the water (and indeed did)

Ok. I understand the one dimensional Schödinger equation ish. But I mean. What I mean by that is it's a differential equation and I can look at it and be like "ok. There's wave functions and they satisfy this. And then you get the probability from the square of the amplitude." So I get it that much. I looked at it on Wikipedia for several minutes last night.

But I don't "get" it in the sense that I could not solve a problem with it. In order to understand this I simply need to see examples. Anybody got like some worked examples of a whatever with the one dimensional Schödinger equation (not the fully generally one I don't get the whole Hilbert space formalism yet).

Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics Chapter 2

Griffiths Introduction to Quantum Mechanics free PDF google dot com. Hold on one moment. Libgen...

What the Fuck is .djvu. Some kinda bullshit format. Converter

djvu is pretty neat, i thought all pdf readers supported it

i wish ppl on this website, and within leftist circles in general, were a little less gung ho about making jokes or statements like "billionaires arent people" "nazis arent people" "police arent people"

there is no level of evil where a human stops being a human. if you decide to kill them for their crimes, then you are killing a human. and sometimes that is justified! oil execs and war profiteers have destroyed countless lives in service of their own sick greed, and given the chance to enact that same violence on them, id probably pop their heads like a pimple.

but it is important that we do not shy away from the reality of that choice. it is a human life that is being ended. a person with interiority, feelings, family.

if we stop considering any group as people, even a group defined by their own evil actions, then we are drawing a line to divide society into persons and non-persons, and stating that those non-persons do not deserve to live.

i hope i dont need to explain why that is a dangerous position to take.

these people and all of their evil, their greed, their hatred, are just as much a part of humanity as art, culture, language, food. they are a part of us that has grown malignant and cancerous, and like a cancer, they must be excised for the sake of the whole--but they are still a part of us, made of the same stuff as us, down to their cores.

evil humans are still humans.

Holy fucking shit your fit rocks

we really stop have to telling people about quantum physics with the Schrödinger's cat example.

he literally made up that argument to show why quantum physics was a stupid idea. yes. it was eventually proved true but it was made in order to show how it was a stupid idea. meaning it's a god awful example either way.

you're trying to explain something quantum with intentionally the most confusing and backwards example of it

it's nice to illustrate where different interpretations disagree with each other but we shouldn't let physics undergrads worry their pretty little heads about interpretations yet anyway

Googling "athena worship earthly benefits vs extra purgatory years reddit"

Surely at this point at least one person has died as a result of the mandatory "your music is too loud" warning. It comes on like every time I drive and if Im using Google maps on my hone I have to swipe away the notification to see the directions. I wonder if it overrides driving mode...