Ozempic!

That’s a fairly normal expression?

But that’s the thing, he behaves like a parody of one.

You’d think an evil narcissistic rich guy would try to deal in the shadows, but Trump is just brazenly open about it.

You’d think an evil narcissistic rich guy would try to hide his pedophilia, but Trump literally publically lusted after his teenage daughter, and mentioned how Epstein has a similar taste.

It doesn’t matter what, Trump behaves like parody - and still his followers can’t see it.

Honestly, it is. Donald Trump is a parody of an evil narcissistic rich guy, of course he’d turn the country into an evil narcissistic parody of itself.

I still can’t believe it.

Imagine you get invited to the White House. Sure, the current president is a PoS, but still - it’s a once-in-a-lifetime honor. And if nothing else, there’ll at least be some really good food.

And then you arrive there, and the first thing you see…

Alright, but we don’t know which things will be dangerous decades into the future before we actually test them that way. So how long then do we have to test anything new before it is widely available? 50 years? 100?

Okay. Congratulations, your system failed, because some of those issues take decades to manifest.

The biggest recurring element of the listed problems (at least 3/4): we didn’t know about the problem when we started using the stuff that caused the problem.

How does any other system fundamentally solve this without completely banning research & development?

The only system that doesn’t create any new problems is one that’s static. Humans aren’t static (we’re born, we live, we die) and we live in a non-static environment. Unless you manage to completely isolate us from our environment & take away all our free will, you’ll never build a system that doesn’t create any new problems.

World Curling rules 2025, rule 5d:

The curling stone must be delivered using the handle of the stone.

https://worldcurling.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Rules-2025.pdf

If there’s a rule saying “you’re not allowed to touch the stone”? No, I don’t really care about it enough to find it confusing.

Alright, then it’s the Canadian guy.

What’s so confusing to you about the idea “don’t touch the stone”?

You’re not allowed to touch the stone with your finger. The swedish guy touched the stone with his finger. This is not hard.

When someone doesn’t know an initialism?

No, they did include “trying to stop it”. For example the ICC projections assume that, towards the end of the century, we start becoming carbon-negative by figuring out effective carbon capture.

You mean the ozone hole that spurred quick international collaboration and resulted in effective regulations which banned the harmful compounds wherever possible, leading to a slow yet steady recovery?

Wonder what’s the difference compared to climate change. Oh well, if we keep increasing emissions surely things will get better!

We wouldn’t stop strip mining by switching to hydrogen, but we would increase our reliance on fossil fuels.

He didn’t specify one term in 2020. His aides kept making comments in that direction, but nothing definitive. Back then it made me afraid he’d try to stay for a second term, because that seemed like a sure way to lose…

Since it’s unscientific for me to assume your experienced pain, there’s no moral reason why I should let my assumptions affect my behavior. Consequently it’s just as moral for me to eat a potato as it is for me to eat you alive. Am I understanding you correctly? If not, please explain what your standpoint has to do with the discussion, as you’ve already ignored my previous attempt to bring it back to the topic.

No, I’m simply going by my best guess, informed by what I know about the current state of research. That’s not conclusive evidence, but it is morally incredibly hard to argue against it.

After all, I cannot measure pain for humans besides myself. You may just be a philosophical zombie. When I’m treating you like you can experience pain, I’m presupposing your feelings. What if you’re programmed to act scared of pain & secretly wish to experience it?

I do not know. Does that mean you may have a lesser pain experience than plants? How should that affect my decision making?