prosthetics and bionics are taking leaps and bounds
Heh
prosthetics and bionics are taking leaps and bounds
Heh
Not more powerful, just more willing to do whatever to get what they want.
If good people always lose then why do we still have good people? Why do good acts still occur?
I don’t know but if I did I might buy it
Computing resources got cheaper so development didn’t need to be as careful.
If one month you have $100 for food, but the next month you’ll have $2000 are you still going to eat like you’ve got $100? Of course not!
But another part of the problem is that when development was slim you also weren’t running very many things at once. I can remember writing different autoexec.bat and config.sys files to boot straight into whatever game I was going to play. Most to all of the resources were available.
Now we’re constantly running a handful of things. The OS itself is huge, plus a browser that you haven’t closed with a handful of tabs, plus the app for the store you bought the game from, and whatever else is in the background, and so on. So you feel the drag more because everything wants as many resources as it can grab before something else does.
Which is weird. I don’t know how they even hold the fork.
I don’t feel you replied to anything I have said in good faith.
That’s fine. I don’t feel like you’re here in good faith either, so I guess we’re on equal footing.
misusing the word “citation” isn’t noteworthy
I disagree. It’s a misrepresentation. These are common in your rhetoric, like your position on sanctions, but we’ll get to those in a moment.
You didn’t respond to the US artificial famine in Yemen that is active today at all.
Or any other genocide the US has participated in, but you choose to specifically call out this one.
I didn’t anticipate you talking about Russian or Chinese sanctions and wasn’t thinking that way.
Then perhaps you should be more careful with your language choices. You said sanctions are bad, but these ones aren’t. Yet you didn’t address where the line is for you, despite just admitting these ones aren’t bad. Whether they’re good or not is, presently, immaterial.
I was mentioning sanctions in regard to oil rich nations
No, you mentioned sanctions. You may have intended to be more specific, but you weren’t. No one else knows what is in your mind so if you want to discuss things in a productive manner you need to be able to do effectively. Saying one thing and meaning another is not that.
the wars and sanctions that I have looked into
Are not the entirety of the wars and sanctions that have been taken. If I judge you only by your worst actions would that be fair? This is by no means a claim that the US is any one thing or another, but pointing out that you can’t pick and choose when you’re trying to make a judgement of morality.
at the expense of starving children and causing unneeded suffering.
I will point you at any international policing action ever. Do you think innocent German children in the 1940s felt no repercussions from the war? The same question works in the 19-teens and following. Whether they’re right or not, unless you’ve got a better solution, they are, on occasion, necessary. Innocent have suffered because of the actions of the powerful, both above them and against those above them, for as long as there have been people. In the words of John Lennon, “you say you’ve got a real solution? We’d all live to see the plan”.
I don’t know where you’ll separate new lines of thought from existing ones. I frankly don’t care. You can reply to everything or nothing. It’s more important that you come to understand you do not have the position you appear to think you do. I doubt you’ll get there today, but I hope you can at some point.
I really cant be bothered citing more
You haven’t cited anything. You’ve made reference to them at best. Saying a thing is not citing it.
Sanctions in general impoverish and kill many. They are a type of light economic mass murder.
So then things like Russia sanctions are bad too? If so what do you suggest as an alternative? If not when do you draw the line?
I think what we actively do and did, is MUCH WORSE.
You made that clear, but you didn’t really express how. Have we been responsible for more death? More negative impact to lives? If that, how is it measured? Does it make a difference how much time it has been going on? If we’ve killed less per year is that better?
If one guy kills your family in front of you, but the other pokes you with a needle every day of your life, who do you have stronger feelings about? Who is the bigger villain?
Yes, America has a history of being terrible, and it doesn’t look like it’s stopping any time soon, but it’s just the most obvious, current bad guy. That doesn’t make it the biggest in history or now. That doesn’t excuse current practices, but it also doesn’t mean hyperbole (real or perceived) is going to help you.
I assumed it’s the one who used the phrase “these days” regarding a social issue like it’s unique to now.
A worthwhile thing to keep in mind whether it’s for tea, supplements, or whatever, is that medication is based on things that were observed from “natural” sources.
For example, willow bark was/is/has been used for pain and inflammation. It also contains salicin which is similar to acetysalicylic acid, which you’ll know better as aspirin.
Does that mean all the things people say do a thing work? Not at all. Do some of them have varying degrees of effect of some percentage of people? Yes.