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@JayAlver @walquear @TierZoo Like what?

@impossiblebones @walquear @TierZoo Most carbonate minerals can be formed abiogenically. Plenty are formed *only* abiogenically.

Project Hail Mary review: 1: Best movie I've seen in quite some time 2: I wish I vibed with the Rocky/Grace humor more. I've not read the book since 2021 but from what I remember, I felt like the bulk of the comedic lines were between Grace and Stratt, not Grace and Rocky. Grace and Rocky had a more serious friendship in the book. Movie rocky feels like he is teetering on the edge of Big Bang Theory humor at times. 3: I was bummed we didn't get to watch them nuke antarctica 4: Them leaving out relativistic explanations for Grace not aging and Rocky having extra fuel was frustrating.

@walquear @JayAlver @TierZoo What's an abiotic carbonate mineral?

@impossiblebones @JayAlver @TierZoo yes, Venus's volcanoes emit CO2. the fact that Earth's volcanoes emit CO2 has nothing to do with life, the vast vast majority of carbon on Earth is in abiotic carbonate minerals

@taire_e @PWestoff Because no matter how much we try to civilize the shit skins, they remain ungrateful, violent parasites.

@PWestoff Why can’t we as a civilization with how highly Educated we are get past the color of skin

"The accusation of racism paralyzed three hundred million people and made them accept the unacceptable, the worst that could happen to them: their own annihilation, their erasure as a civilization.” Renaud Camus - 2019.

@rubabbx @PWestoff This is billionaire gaslighting. I guarantee that the problems of lower fertility rates are miniscule next to the problems of importing a billion monkeys.

The 'racism' debate cuts both ways, but painting immigrants as invaders overlooks their role in keeping services running amid low fertility rates. Millions of non-EU migrants have integrated successfully, enriching food, arts, and innovation while addressing labor gaps. Real solutions lie in better-managed borders + effective integration, not fear of substitution

@Dulloldguy @PWestoff No, we never had ‘vast’ numbers of any of those groups. I’m not sure you understand just how many monkeys are flooding into the West.

@PWestoff We had vast numbers of irish here. We didn't become Catholic, we had vast numbers of jew come here, we didn't become Jewish We had vast numbers of west indians, and we didn't become Rastas. Calm down.

@KeithLeisure @JeremyTate41 No, what’s your point?

@impossiblebones @JeremyTate41 Does your lack of belief free you from your obligation to obey Nature’s laws?

The single most insightful person about modernity and enduring truth over the past century is GK Chesterton, a 300+ pound British journalist with bad teeth. He was only right about literally everything.

@Creepertrainz @TierZoo You understand that once an astrophage is ‘charged’, it can’t absorb any more energy.

@impossiblebones @TierZoo You do realise just how much CO2 that is? Decided to do the maths. Astrophage have a radius of 10 microns and a dry weight of 50 picograms. To cover 10% of the sun you'd need 100 trillion tons of matter, and Venus has about 5 million times more CO2 than that.

@Andrewnsnyder So rights can be self created. Interesting…

@impossiblebones God

“In The Lord of the Rings, the conflict is not basically about ‘freedom,’ though that is naturally involved. It is about God, and His sole right to divine honour.” - Tolkien, Letter 183

@JayAlver @TierZoo Are you sure volcanoes on Venus emit CO2? They do on Earth because of all the biogenic minerals in the crust.

@impossiblebones @TierZoo Even ignoring the fact that this process would take too long to help humans, Venus is volcanically active and more CO2 is being emitted constantly so there would be an equilibrium level of astrophage that might still be too large.

@Bidya_James One day you’ll find one stupider than yourself. Then you can get them to follow you!

every day i discover the new stupidest person ive ever seen

@Pathfinder4545 @_OKJ__ Theologians often base their arguments on not knowing what words mean.

@impossiblebones @_OKJ__ Thats incoherent.

The story of the fall in the garden of eden is an incredibly stupid story. It’s like a father who puts their child in a room with a venomous snake, then tells the child not to touch or go near the snake, knowing fully well that the child has absolutely no understanding of the consequences of touching the snake and then seriously punishing the child and all the child’s descendants that have absolutely nothing to do with the initial event, for being bitten by the snake. And then calling the father all loving and good. No story ever written is more stupid.

@MattisRedacted You can’t have a designer without a purpose. So what’s the Sun’s purpose?

Who caused the sun? Get cooked nerd

@misfitpatriot_ Also, Severus Snape is so obviously a White name. Can’t they at least change it to DwayZee da Killa or something?

I don’t care too much about changing a fictional characters race from a previously depicted version, if the fictional character wasn’t also described as fucking “milk” colored in the original version. You wanna make Bodhi from Point Break Venezuelan in your awful remake? Have at it. But if you’re going to cast Snape, your first call should be Adam Driver, and your second call should be Keanu Reeves. Have fun explaining why you put the one black professor at Hogwartz in the role of teaching “dark” arts to a bunch of white kids. 😑

@darwintojesus Morality is objective in the sense that it’s created for a purpose, and thus can be measured by how well it objectively serves that purpose. In the same way that a hammer of steel is objectively better than a hammer of raspberry jam.

A plane crashes into your house, your family is dead, you’re devastated. You learn it was a drone, it malfunctioned. Did it do anything wrong? No. But what if it wasn’t a drone, a man was flying it but he lost control, it’s an accident. Did he do something wrong? No. What if he flew it into your house but he lost his mind the day before and was totally nuts. Did he do something wrong? No. But what if he was having a bad day and decided he wanted to kill some people and cause suffering. He was of sound body and mind, knew what he was doing and could have done otherwise. Now did he do something wrong? Absolutely. What changed? The man is understood to be a free acting moral agent. But if morality is subjective… that means what is right and wrong should depend on MY attitudes and preferences, not someone else’s abilities. Yet someone else’s ability directly affects whether we see this act as moral or not, even though nothing else changed. The family is still dead. If you’re a moral subjectivist, how do you explain this?

@darwintojesus I don’t think you know what ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ mean. If morality is based on the opinion of one single Being, you literally can’t get more subjective than that.

@darwintojesus But Christians don’t believe in free acting moral agents. They believe everyone is an instrument in God’s plan. So how can the murderous drone pilot be held responsible? Only atheism allows moral culpability.

@agraybee What, like a high school team wouldn’t let the rich kid use his fancy shoes?

I don't think JK Rowling really understands sports as a concept because what do you mean individual players can bring their own vastly superior equipment that gives them an advantage.

@politicalmath They did on Cobra Kai.

The reason you can't cast Snape as black is that Snape is an uncool sniveling little dork and no one is going to buy that an attractive black guy is an uncool sniveling dork

@JeremyTate41 There is no reason other than Christian fan fiction to think any of those things happened on March 25.

Today is March 25th, the day J.R.R. Tolkien chose to have the One Ring destroyed. Why? In Catholic tradition, this is the date of: •The creation of Adam •Abraham's sacrifice •The conception of Christ •The crucifixion of Christ