Holy shit we are definitely living in a satire simulation running as a VR experience for people living in a less funny but just as brutal reality.

Like holy shit you can’t write this shit, this has got to have people at The Onion quaking in their papery and layered exteriors.

but I make left

I would but the people in the panopticon tower might be watching right now.

Yes but I think Life is a question, and it can be answered by many different methods some of which are very difficult to prove if they fully answer the question or not… or impossible to prove at this moment.

Here is a blog post that I think does a good job of describing Christopher Alexander’s (he says non-exhaustive and that the number of properties isn’t overly special, these can be divided or smushed together into more or less rules depending on your perspective) properties of things that have life.

https://iamronen.com/blog/2018/03/24/christopher-alexander-the-fifteen-properties-in-nature/

The architect and accidental inspiration for the idea of Object Oriented Programming, Christopher Alexander has some fascinating ideas on this subjet even if they lack scientific rigor.

The essence of his ideas, which I agree with (while recognizing there isn’t any scientific rigor to disprove or prove his ideas yet) is that life is not a property of a body that the body either possesses or does not. Life is a pattern of arrangement of material in space, and Christopher to his credit is as precise about this as he can be from the lens of architecture. He defines several aspects to “living” architecture (which he means quite literally he… in a fascinating way that is actually kind of hard to argue against) such as deep interlock between borders, good negative space, imperfect repetition, detail at different scale levels, centers that make other centers more vibrant in a work of art rather than draw all the focus etc…

All this to say, I think life must be an analog value, the universe doesn’t have binary aspects to bodies where they are either ARE or ARE NOT something unless you are talking really fundamental physics and even then… and I agree then that life is a set of patterns that were and are woven together from a prexisting diversity and dynamism that opened the door to the genesis of what we would confidently call life.

Consider some recent research on categorizing all of the minerals on earth and how surprising or perhaps unsurprising it is that life has massively increased the diversity of geologic minerals on earth, and this is a two way street, the geologic diversity from active plate tectonics on earth provided the necessary conditions for life to form.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/life-helps-make-almost-half-of-all-minerals-20220701/

Because Russia is decisively losing now and is unable to take new territory and hold it.

https://m.youtube.com/@suchomimus9921

It always appears to be this side.

Lol ok sounds like you are suggesting the rich people on my side are actually just friends with the rich people on the side of our sworn enemies!!!

Trust me as not a rich person, I know my rich people, they would never do that! Only the other side’s rich people would and then only because secretly the whole lot of those savages, poors and all want it to even if they claim they don’t and the rich are just being the heros in that situation.

Who decides who the powerful are :P ?

the left would rather spend all their time attacking one another for being the wrong brand of left, rather than actually go out and do something productive.

citations needed

The word “scramble” here is being used in an unusual way per the most common meanings. Interpret “scramble” here to mean something more like this for defense companies who are stoked about WW3.

Oh wait sorry, US dollars are outdated, I should have posted a picture of cryptocurrency…

Ghandi holding No Justice No Peace sign

Iran getting a nuke has always been imminent to the story necessary to Netanyahu, to him we are just in the last few frames of the last scene before it has cut to the next plot point, the reason he has been acting like an angry hate baby for all this time is the story has been paused (because it is a shit story) and we just unpaused it.

Well, Joe Biden really unpaused it by giving Netanyahu complete free reign and then doing such a bad job that he handed all that power and potential directly to one fascist Donald J. Trump but it makes centrists and neolibs feel better when you only blame Trump.

Catholic Islam is a radical sect

Sorry *Christianity

Just chillen in this blueberry patch, man it kinda smells bad what is that?

isn’t this just another way of admitting it is a skill issue?

Israel and trump appear to be claiming to have defeated the Iranian air defense

Yeah we know they will claim that no matter how far they have to stretch words.

sure it isn’t

lol bro whatever, those studies are all funded by big Grizzly Bear so they can get even easier snacks then fishing for salmon

lol bro whatever, those studies are all funded by big Grizzly Bear so they can get even easier snacks then fishing for salmon