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I’m trying so hard not to hate this post but you have given me so many reasons to

• use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others

• mismatched fonts

• comic something font

• no human readable data next to the QR code

• mismatched gradient radii in the corners

Make it stop 😭

EDIT: For those who care, this comment falls into the category of “said in jest, meant in earnest”. I know it’s all on-brand and comedic, but my gut reactions are what they are 😂

oops, you’re right. fixed!

Waiting for the precedent so the Church of Satan Satanic Temple can abuse the fuck out of it to start forcing churches into seclusion

Think of PTSD as the conditioned response to stimuli.

Instead of “happiness” it’s “panic, anxiety, etc”

Instead of “bell” it’s a bunch of other triggering stimuli associated with violent partners/family

Counselors want to replace those negative pathways with positive ones. They want to recondition the brain to have better responses to the stimuli that trigger negative behavior.

you still didn’t answer my question about all the people who lived before the Quran. Were they all immoral? Was slavery morally allowed before the Quran was written? Or were they immoral but ignorant of their immorality only because nobody had told them yet?

So then everyone before the Quran was immoral? literally not a single human being existed before the Quran was written who was moral? Or were they immoral without knowing it because nobody had told them “slavery is wrong” yet? That seems profoundly unjust.

It’s also important to note that according to Surah Al-An’am 6:112, any human who rebels against God and dedicated themselves to leading others astray is classified as a demon.

So I guess enslaving an atheist activist like Richard Dawkins is morally acceptable according to you? Since he is, according to the Quran, a demon?

I don’t think we understand sentience yet. I think it is possible, if not likely, that there are sentient things which we believe are not.

i also don’t think a heart is relevant at all to sentience, as it plays no role in perception which I believe is the core of sentience. The heart is just a pump that moves resources through the body.

I don’t think a nervous system is necessary either, unless you define “nervous system” very broadly. I think any sufficiently complex sensory input system would be enough to provide the elements of perception required to foster sentience.

As for the brain… I’m not convinced it has to look like a brain as we know it. The brain provides several primary functions, but only a few of them are related to perception (many are instead related to automation of bodily functions).

I think any system that can receive input, store a memory (and I don’t mean cognitive recall, I just mean historical record in the loosest sense), and perform complex conditional responses based on the input and memory, could produce something we would call sentience.

at what point do you distinguish a thing from the components it’s made of?

You say neurons have qualia, but its parts certainly don’t. Proteins don’t. Lipids don’t. Molecules don’t. But when you put them together in a specific configuration you say they do?

How is this different from silica? Why can’t a thing composed of silica have qualia even if the parts individually don’t?

so do you believe everyone was immoral until 150 years ago (participation in and tolerance for slavery) or do you believe we are immoral today for denying the right to own slaves (as allowed by religious texts)?

As much as I wish this could have happened, Joe’s chances were even worse than hers. Every time he got behind a podium, his polling numbers dove even further.

I was betting on Florida Man as the culprit from just the headline, but the linguistic content made it obvious that this was a deeply Australian man

Oh no you just unlocked a memory I haven’t recalled in a long time: the infamous “wat” video

Completely unrelated to OP but I really want to believe your username is a “treating people like objects” joke

Marriage is a state-sanctioned merger of assets and rights. It provides a legal authorization for decision making related to your spouse, shared property ownership rights, rights regarding power of attorney in an emergency, and tax benefits.

Everything else is religious/social ceremony and can be achieved without the need for marriage certification.

I know several people who didn’t “believe in marriage” until their SO was in the hospital and they weren’t allowed to visit or make decisions for them. Pretty horrible watching the estranged parent or second cousin making decisions about the health of your 10+ year partner, against your wishes, with no recourse.

Yes. Please list things that a sitting federal politician can do when both chambers of Congress and the presidency are in opposition party control, which are not purely performative nonsense

There are two types of people in the world…

People who need closure…

“Never trust a tech worker” they said, using a device designed by a tech worker, running software designed by a tech worker, accessing servers maintained by a tech worker, on a hosting service implemented and managed by tech workers, through an internet service provider employing tech workers galore.

honestly it gives me disappointed big sister vibes

Good lord I desperately want to know what is going on here. Where are they? What are they talking about? What is their relationship?

I am so curious!!!