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If the purpose of a hospital is to only cure enough patients, the question becomes; “Why is the purpose of a hospital to cure just enough patients?”

You aren’t supposed to just use it to argue in a circle. The purpose of a system is what it does, so, why is that the purpose of the system and why do we have that system?

It implies that the system is working as intented, and that’s why we need to destroy it to build an entirely different system.

Huh. Tried web searching and the results were Israeli 🤷‍♀️

I’m not even sure. 079-325-3442-9 (or is it 0-793-253-4429?) seems extremely fake

The purpose of a hospital is to cure just enough patients.

And the purpose of Ukraine is to be caught in a stalemate. The West gives them just enough support to never lose, but never enough support to win.

And the purpose of the British government is to pretend like it is responsive to protests.

And the purpose of buses is to burn gasoline and support the oil industry, when trains or trams would be much more efficient.

And the purpose of arguing on the internet is to waste everyone’s time while accomplishing nothing

Etc etc

Why? The purpose of the system is to not work, so there are no democratic checks.

The world won’t end, but we are absolutely on track for billions to die. If not from cataclysmic climate change, then from the inevitable start of WW3 triggered by climate change.

Things are, in fact, really fucking bad. We don’t need even more bullshit making it even worse.

The situation is already apocalyptic. Making it even worse just means we all die even faster.

America produced 4,000TWH of electricity a year. This report says “22% of household consumption in 2028”, which if I commit the faux pass of mixing data it gets me 7% of US power consumption.

7% is a fucking lot though?? That’s an immense amount of power going towards slop instead of making our lives better or growing the economy or actually being productive.

It’s like we just decided to start burning our limited reserves of natural gas for fun.

Actually, I’m just emotionally surprised that three different people jumped on my dick to bother me about this.

Sure, but now you have to make a bunch of assumptions about things we can’t test or observe to keep the universe consistent with determinism. It’s not impossible that the universe is predetermined, but there’s just no reason to believe it is. You’re making more of an aesthetic argument than a scientific one.

It’s not that there aren’t other ways to explain the universe, but rather, none of those alternatives are more predictive or descriptive. Not only can’t we find hidden variables, we don’t need them.

You can believe there are angels dancing on the heads of pins (or whatever) and that’s the hidden variable causing uncertainty, but there’s literally no reason to. You’re introducing addition unnecessary complexity when we can explain everything without it.

That’s called Hidden Variable Theory, but there’s also no indication that this is how the universe works and everything we find just reinforces indeterminism and uncertainty.

The most notable development is the math working out to make hidden variables irrelevant i.e. they do not actually help us better describe reality or predict outcomes of measurement.

The math doesn’t seem to care whether God is rolling dice or not.

Oh it’s even worse.

The universe is indeterministic. It’s probabilistic and uncertain, but that doesn’t mean you actually have a choice. Your “choices” are just determined by quantum dice rolls.

Anything can happen, nothing is certain, but you still don’t actually exercise will over reality.

Because if you get captured alive, you likely will rat out your allies due to the torture.

This is based on the assumption that torture works, which again, is doing the regime’s work for them. It doesn’t. People under torture will say anything and everything, make up anything their captors want to hear, which means the torturers aren’t actually going to get useful information. You don’t have to “hold out” against the torture, you just go insane and anything they get out of you is gibberish.

I recommend reading Shock Doctrine, torturers are great at completely destroying people and ruining them for the rest of their lives, but that’s it. There’s nothing left after that. It’s a fate worse than death. Definitely don’t get taken alive.

The resistance movement must go underground.

USAmericans need to study Palestinian resistance and Israeli colonial occupation. Gaza is coming.

Don’t think you can be a “tough guy” or be a revolutionary, most of us (including me) wouldn’t last 5 minutes of torture.

You’re doing the regime’s work for them. “Don’t resist citizen, there’s nothing you can do when we come for you.”

Plastic is just the next stage of evolution. Once our brains are replaced entirely with plastic we’ll enter a new era, no longer inhibited by our disgusting flesh.

Don’t talk shit about duodecimal 😠

I don’t know why they even left Reddit. Were they really that mad about app development?

They’re also living longer - smog has been greatly reduced and they have access to better healthcare than ever before.

That was just a sensationalized story - they sealed the extra doors on a building but left one open, so they could do controlled screening. I think it was actually just that one building too. They didn’t weld people inside buildings to die 🙄

As a result they had one of the best COVID responses in the world and saved countless lives.