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Israel needs Hamas to want Palestinians to starve or else Israel doesn’t have an escape goat to rationalize genociding Palestinians. As a result the narrative will be Hamas want to starve Palestinians.

Than what do you precisely mean by “easier”?

I did not say that war and conflict don’t happen, I am asking you to prove that in a general way they are more efficient than adaption, co-operation, co-existence or simple non-engagement and avoidance are as strategies.

Precisely and I know everyone has forgotten the concept of gravity wells* because Star Wars and other scifi shows constantly shows spaceships constantly flying up and down from planets like it is no big deal*… but ALL of those resources are stuck in the bottom of a gravity well which means the value of a bulk amount of any of that material is far less valuable than it would be distributed in space in other forms that could be mined without paying an immense energy tax (asteroids and smaller rock bodies than “planets” in general, i.e. why mine an earthlike planet when you could mine a pluto like planet or smaller?).

Sure, maybe aliens have Stargates or some other magic teleporting/portal device where they can appear magically on the surface of the earth and then warp back to somewhere outside the gravity well of Earth… anything is possible I suppose but if we can’t assume that nature doesn’t allow such a blatant paradox/violations of the conservation of energy than we can’t really have any speculative discussion about anything since it might just be superceded by magic at a later point.

The most valuable thing to an alien sentient species capable of such immense power would unquestionably be the genetic diversity of all living species on earth and that really would be the only scenario I could conceive of where aliens might desire to destroy humanity, I could see them having some kind of gardening philosophy where they could see we were a threat to the biological diversity of a potential ongoing source of genetic innovation and wanted to protect that by eliminating us… but even that is a stretch… from the timescale of an interstellar voyager, mass extinctions are simply the closing of one act and the beginning of another in the story of evolution, the evolution of life on Earth in all its complexity cannot be understood without taking into account mass extinctions… so then what would make an alien species decide to see the mass extinction that humanity is precipitating as fundamentally different?

Of course it is possible that an alien invasion force could show up and blow us up with lasers to harvest all our coal… but I think there are basic axiomatic assumptions people bring to the table about assumed ways that alien contact would bear out that are just downright silly and I will not stop making fun of them until this genre of conversation becomes more mature.

Um, yes it is. This is a very well known general truism. Destruction is almost always easier than creation.

Certainly spilled milk can’t be put back in the milk jug, but I don’t think that proves destruction is easier than creation rather it underlines that what makes destruction devastating is that it cannot be reversed in the way the construction of something can.

My point is, why do you narrowly frame the choice as either destroying a complex painting or creating one?

You are asserting a knowledge of something that you cannot possibly assert.

There might be some truth to aspects being made here, but overall yes I completely agree I think this is leaning precisely into the kind of worship of the aesthetics of violence/guns that leads to things like the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the film set for the movie “Rust”.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/23/alec-baldwin-threatened-to-assault-30-rock-director-was-challenging-on-show-new-book-says/amp/

If you want to learn how to safely handle a firearm or other weapon and integrate that knowledge into the games you make, cool… and I mean I guess this is news? but it turns out integrating genuine outside knowledge into video games can be interesting. However you could have chosen literally any other hobby or niche body of knowledge to obsess about and integrate into your video game development and gotten a similar if not larger return in your investment of effort spent not directly practicing getting better at making video games.

By the logic being argued here about weapons, would be game developers should prioritize becoming experts at fishing wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy before guns because fishing mechanics are in an absurd amount of video games and no matter what type of game you make you can probably integrate a fishing minigame into it. Further, it is very rare that game developers actually try to create realistic fishing games even though there is evidently a lot of interest in fishing in videogames.

Also… Euro Truck Simulator 2 has sold 13 million copies… do we need to consider the fact that game developers should maybe get a commercial truck drivers license before developing games because of the indication of how clearly players desire realistic truck driving games?

I completely agree!

How so?

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No, it really isn’t!

After expending the energy and resources to get into Earth’s orbit, it’s probably a lot more efficient to subjugate or destroy the dominant life form than to try and figure out how to communicate with it to achieve the above objectives.

Why? How so?

Pathetic, though it doesn’t surprise me at all Brown University folded, it is full of (mostly) smart wealthy people (or just very very smart people trying to get a prestigious career) who just want to do good in school and not rock any boats.

Cowards.

Brown President Christina H. Paxson said the deal preserves Brown’s academic independence. The terms include a clause saying the government cannot dictate curriculum or the content of academic speech at Brown.

Lol this announcement itself clearly marks the end of Brown’s academic independence and credibility.

Has a paywall

Why would Aliens desire war with us?

This must be understood as purposefully setting up the conditions to rationalize systematic violence.

The AI is just a silly cartoon slapped on the face of a much older, simpler and more brutal strategy of gaining power, which is to magnify crisis so it can be exploited.

The tone of the article makes it seem like they were retired because they weren’t considered useful, if that was an intentional medium term procurement decision by the UK great that is genuinely awesome and very smart I just don’t understand why this information was presented with such a warped framework then by the article. From the perspective you are arguing for the UK is giving Ukraine some of their most powerful artillery with the intention of using the knowledge gained in the Ukraine war and elsewhere to build a next generation weapons system that builds on the success of systems like the AS90. Presumably Ukraine will be involved with that next generation self propelled howitzer development as well at least to some capacity.

The RCH 155 being an obvious touchstone here though I would reiterate that I think threats to artillery are so thorough and deadly on the modern battlefield that tracked and wheeled self propelled artillery are necessary to deploy in tandem to reduce predictability for enemy assets hunting friendly artillery.

I am not trying to nitpick, I appreciate your input I am just trying to explain how backwards the spin is on everything around this, it is disorienting. The article devolves into a fear of drone attacks, which is obviously very deadly, very real and very common but ultimately I think from an editorial perspective these narratives about artillery are strangely ignorant about how much force is exchanged with artillery fire on the frontlines and how the vigorousness with which drones are hunting the artillery are a reflection of how much the enemy desperately needs to destroy them.

This isn’t a kink for many reasons but at a basic level these people cannot seperate raw irrational desire/axiomatic beliefs from rational thought and ethics, thus these people cannot establish a bubble of consent to engage in kinks within.

No, these people are the farthest thing possible from someone with a kink who has a mature relationship around it (see as positive examples most bdsm communities and how sophisticated and nuanced their discussions are around agency and how to ensure it for others).

I know you probably agree with the spirit of this and I am not trying to nitpick you here, I just think it is important to reiterate what “kink” means, continously reclaim the word and not fall into patterns where we confuse two VERY different things.

These people are awful people, they do not deserve the title of “kink couple” lol.

The Register is a great reliable indepth IT/tech news publication I value for the quality of its information, the headlines and general editorial tone drenched in a refreshing icecold sarcasm towards silicon valley is a definite bonus to the experience though.