No-one said the revolution would be easy, immediate, nor convenient.

You get the treatment you tolerate.

Prepare accordingly.

The point is to show up in large enough numbers that it doesn’t matter.

Revolts aren’t without risk, and typically bloody.

Wow, the comments in this thread are surprisingly bad, even for a shitpost.

Having been in the situation myself, my thoughts were very much “let’s not make them uncomfortable” (meaning feel sexualised), but the first times (as a young’un) it got stiff enough (not that way :p) that the person chose to break the tension. Just don’t be weird about it and everyone can be comfortable.

There are plenty of situations and contexts where nudity isn’t sexual, and I highly recommend getting comfortable with that distinction. I find people and groups of all genders to become a lot more safe with that skill.

What happened to due process? I’m sure they will turn up a receipt if there is one.

I wonder why the cop found it reasonable to skip due process and go straight to execution. Maybe it has to do with how they had to be trained before firing at random civilians?

I mean, you evidently can, actuaries and the OBE do it all the time, and I even offered an example above.

Does it account for all of their existence - no, Is it useful to - only in a very narrow situation, is it possible - absolutely.

I’d argue the more horrible part is that some people do put a value to others’ lives with even less thought than my example, which is why they’re wont to bomb civilians for dubious gain.

It’s easy to put a price, it’s much harder to appreciate the value.

Human cost shouldn’t be too tricky to guesstimate.

An average US person produces about $142k/year (85k in gdp, divided by 60 % of working age), killed with about 40 years of productive life left is about $5,6 million. Add to that the lowered productivity of the close relations due to grieving and change of circumstance, as well as societal loss of morale, and you’re probably looking at a loss of production of just under $6 million/life. And fractions of that depending on disability for non dead casualties (e.g. PTSD or loss of limb might be 50% depending)

The Iranian equivalent is about $400k/life, or less as civilian casualties tend to be older than prime age soldiers.

Now calculating the US cost of loss of Iranian civilian lives would be more challenging (loss of standing, loss of morale, loss of legitimacy, and follow-on actions of instability and discontent).

ICE-tapo?

One issue for a vehicle allowed in traffic is that ypu typically can’t have things sticking too far out of the vehicle in any direction lest someone drives into them. Thus long haulage is put on long beds, even when not very heavy.

Advantages of long beds is also that you can better secure your load along the length, can use standardised vehicles and parts, as well as have an easier time with load balancing and view management.

Giftedness is not really a well defined thing, and different contexts mean different things with them. What is common though is the overlap of ASD, ADHD and giftedness traits, as well as the wrongful diagnosing of giftedness as the other.

An absurd simplification of how these differ can be that ASD have lower filtering of input, ADHD can’t always choose their activation, and gifted people have two or more intensities.

Where someone with ASD might be overwhelmed by emotions, and ADHD person might feel it deeply and/or suddenly fall out of it, a gifted person will often be able to express great intensity, depth and often nuance, especially with expressive training (which the others typically don’t).

Or another example: Where an ASD person might be physically uncomfortable with a wrong color matching, an ADHD person might not be able to avert their focus from it, a gifted person will be upset that the nuance is wrong. Close, but hopefully I managed to convey some nuance.

Whereas the gifted person might benefit from some of the same strategies as ASD/ADHD, there is much that they won’t. Early development of intelligences, arboreal/branching thinking, high complexity thinking, high intensity (especially in their sensitivities: emotional, relational, verbal, intellectual, physical, and others not as well studied), and high perception of detail, need a bit more care to not become self destructive (perfectionism, burnout, poor confidence) or maladaptive (outsidership, manipulative, trouble with authorities).

I don’t know of good resources for children, but some books that helped me as an adult are:

The Rainforest Mind - Paula Prober

The Gifted Adult - Mary Elaine Jacobs

Living with intensity - Daniels & Piechowski

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You - Elaine N Person (also good for ASD)

The concept of Nothingness?

Or closer to Hegel: Nothing is the lack of all differentiation and content, and thus absolutely undifferentiated.

Pure Being is without further differentiation, it has no diversity within itself, and is thus also absolutely undifferentiated.

Nothing is pure Being (and with some other arguments the reverse is also true), they are inseparable and unseparated, yet distinct. And Hegel argues that the Becoming is the movement of one into the other, distinguishing them for a moment only to be resolved again.

You can read it yourself in Hegel’s Science of Logic

Exciting stuff! Hope you share some of your insights as you go, philosophy is much underrated!

Don’t short change yourself, with enough time, effort and application you could still get a degree in the humanities, that’s basically what they do :p

For real, philosophy was mostly around before we figured out empiricism and scientific methods. People had to think quite a lot to come up with models that made internal and validated sense even without evidence. And we still have a lot of stuff we can’t test, but that we wonder about (theology, paranormal stuff, hard solipsism, “before” Big Bang, etc), we just have stricter requirements and more developed methods that we call differently.

This is could both be an excellent question or a less interesting one :p

The less interesting one is answered that by Being you are, and thus cannot become. (Just as u/toofpic describes)

The excellent question is why we can’t Become when already Being, or why we can’t unBecome from Nothing. For that we’d have to read more Hegel to understand the context.

Why is it that when you take away from Nothing, nothing happens? It makes intuitive sense, but why must it be so? What would happen if it weren’t so?

Hegel suggests that the qualities of purest Being and purest Nothing are the same, and that’s why the Becoming takes them into eachother.

I don’t know that that’s useful though, someone else care to explain?

Being is a state, Nothing is a state.

Being (something) and (being) Nothing are opposites.

Yet Becoming requires you to go from Nothing to something, or stop Being something to introduce enough Nothing to become something new.

Long time since I read Hegel though, might be hogwash.

It’s free!

Maybe they’d enjoy a spurtle?

So, you use it to map out an empty office and then to surveil workers?

And I think that’s beautiful

If you’re stable on your meds, it’s also to be expected to be a little numb. Most antidepressant treatment tries to dampen highs and lows, you and your medical professionals will know better, but anhedonia is typically an indication the treatment needs adjustment. Good dosage/treatment should let you feel highs, while keeping the lows manageable.

If nothing matters to you and you experience little to no joy from anything, that’s called depression and is super common to NDies. Needs professional treatment if it stays for more than a couple of weeks or it might become chronic, contact a doctor