Something that always gets me when I see an old pet photo:
Photographs weren’t cheap back then. You couldn’t just take your phone and snap a picture. For most, photographs were an indulgence. Something for special occasions
These cats were *loved*
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
I doubt it. Being on the left means you're constantly annoyed and exasperated by other leftists, but you do it anyway because it's about a commitment to human liberation. It's not a social club
Israel is proof that a good propagandist does not buy into his own stories. A propagandist must always be aware that he is peddling a lie - otherwise, you lose sight of how the out-group thinks, and ergo, how to appeal to them.
The only semi-interesting part of this hantavirus discussion is finding out a huge percentage of people have just invented an alternative history where COVID either came out of nowhere or that the medical community actively tried to downplay and dismiss it.