ogre_magi

I find _modern_ cinema spastic and alienating.

The pacing and cinematography of pre-1990 cinema is what feels correct to me.

>that person should still get an equal say in society’s preferences

why?

Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a mosquito?

Do you think you were “lucky” not to be a 100kg mass of disconnected plasma inside the sun?

This doesn’t make any sense. There are different processes in our universe that produce different things, from plasma to rocks to mosquitos to unsuccessful people to successful people.

These processes are different, and their outputs are not fungible. There’s no luck. There’s no sense in which “you” could have been anything except what you are.

Reading this comment was really important to me.

I encounter this “luck” argument that implies dualism, of a self separate from biology and life experience that could have somehow existed in a different body, all the time.

And until I read this comment I felt like I was the only person who found that idea specious.

The entire article is about empathizing with others...

Unless you say exactly what they want ;)

Is it possible he's correct?

This is such a small take.

Climate change can absolutely be reversed by sufficiently determined technological and industrial civilization.

The reason most climate activists don’t acknowledge that is because they don’t want it to be true. They prefer being noble doomsayers before the “ignorant sheep.”

There are (expensive) geoengineering projects that would give humans direct control over global temperature.

Haskelephant

... never?

People are always correct to choose the most inflammatory interpretation?

Wait why are their lives more valuable than others?

Did you know that in English, you can end a question with just a single question mark?

I use this to generate faces for NPCs in my TTRPGs.