Hence why I said kind of.

We kind of have that:

https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-simple-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-drinking-water

The problem is that you can’t exactly boil solid food, and its energy intensive. But at least it’s something.

Just make sure it doesn’t turn into another Jamestown situation.

Stealing profits that are already made by stealing? Yeah, I have no sympathy for that.

Tax payers already pay for this shit through federal funding of the sciences, just for the publishers to turn around and steal people’s time and money to view and peer review them. Publishers are thieves, so they can go fuck themselves.

People on the streets is far more soulless than gray concrete housing. Especially because concrete can at least be painted over to make it look better.

You’re judging the end phase with the beginning phase. So of course it isn’t going to be 1 to 1.

I’d rather see gooner shit than boot licking shit

The population is subsidizing you. Everybody subsidizes everyone. That’s how society works.

UBI raises everyone’s standard of living, both in practice and in theory.

Fellas is it gay to have sex with women?

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Few companies will migrate to the U.S., as it’s wholey a disadvantage at this point.

The U.S. is unstable, is actively isolating itself from global markets, requires higher wages, and is run by a psychopath with a cult following.

Everything about it makes it bad for business, so business that can afford to are going to bail and stick with actually sensible countries.

This is an implosion.

Although I think the police states of communist nations are distasteful (I understand why they do them, it’s because the CIA essentially gives them no choice)

This is touching on something I’ve been thinking about for a while.

How the fuck does one secure a brand new nation when established super powers wish to see it destroyed. How do you do that without sacrificing rights?

The answer unfortunately is that you can’t. The preexisting super powers need to die.

if morality were dictated to rational agents through an external source, we could not be sure of its objectivity (i.e., universal and necessary validity). Moreover, the notion of an external source that dictates morality conflicts with our being free moral agents. Hence we must legislate ourselves through our own faculty of reason such that the moral law holds objectively for rational agents such as us.

I agree with everything here until the “must” of the last sentence, as it seems to be based on the implication that said free agents care. There are people who do not care for their own wellbeing, or the wellbeing of others. On a subjective basis, they lack the values that objective reasoning would be built on.

To them that “must” is meaningless. Or worse, they view statements such as that as being dictated to them from an external source.

On top of that, we aren’t completely rational, or able to make completely rational conclusions at all times. We can make attempts, sure. But we have biases, we fall into fallacies without realizing, and like I said some of us just don’t care.

Morality can’t be objective if we can’t be objective.

but I’d rather not recapitulate the entire work. If you’re interested, I would read the following entry page on the issue.

I understand not wanting to do that, so all good.

Though. I’m more interested in a discussion than anything else.

Kant thought that the moral law is a duty that is imposed upon the self by reason.

What is the evidence that this thought is true? How do you objectively prove this?

Kant thought that the moral law is a duty that is imposed upon the self by reason.

So how do you evidence that this value is objective?

if everybody lied all the time, then lies would lose their effectiveness.

How does effectiveness of lying have anything to do with the morality of lying?

If I am ineffective at providing for my family (disability/sicknese/other means for which I cannot control), is that immoral?

Java is inherently cross platform, and works well on linux. So assuming the phone is powerful enough, you should be good to go even if it’s linux.

Definitely worth checking out Minetest/Luanti though, it has promise.