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If they could read they’d have some strong feelings about this reality

A lot of them tend to just be maps of where people live yeah. It’s not informative

Did I say “all cities?”

Like many maps, this is just a map of cities

Why would the war being over change that? If anything it would make it worse.

What? There are many, many reports of Russian conscripts being killed in Ukraine

“Our mandate was to combat criminality and that is exactly what we’ve been doing,” she said. “By providing food, water and necessities to these illegal miners it would be the police entertaining and allowing criminality to thrive.”

Oh my god

Sure you would say that, because you’re not an idiot. The Trump supporters will happily accept that the external revenue service collects money from external countries because they’re idiots.

Wow that’s worthless

Everything is wire if the voltage is high enough

The real answer: hire a law firm, entrust them with your documents, write into your will what you want to happen with them, and then go on about your business.

You think a woman choosing to enter sex work is being exploited? OF and the NFL can be exploitative platforms, but because they are corporations, not because someone on the internet forgot to save the people taking part in those enterprises

So does the NFL. Are you making sure NFL players are saving for retirement, too?

Right I think your last point will be the thing we look back on in wonderment. You mean you used to have to TELL the website what you wanted? How am I supposed to know??

Bro what

Human memory is kept in our brains. You’re using precise words - like memory - imprecisely

Fear is an emotion, and we can’t know about whether animals (or depending on where you fall on the qualia debate, other humans) feel that emotion. We can measure their behavior, though, and there are a great many studies on animal fear and avoidance behaviors, including ants.

Ants don’t have a memory in the sense that you or I think of. There is no collective memory of “avoid that place” that lives in the minds of ants or a hive because some ants had a bad time in that place, as far as we can tell. However ants deposit pheromones as they navigate the world. Other ants follow along later and maintain or update these pheromone “trails” (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4590477/). Ant pheromone signaling is a deep body of research but there are both positive (go this way) and negative (don’t go this way) signals.

They have no principles. They believe nothing except what is politically expedient. They will say this, do the opposite, and insist their plan worked. Don’t play along, consistency is only relevant for people acting in good faith.

IRS are absolutely essential workers