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Couple things: People do indeed not even begin to grasp how massive space is. Radio signals take a half hour just to get to Mars and that's when its closer to us. We have gotten really good at looking for specific things that might signify advanced life at amazing distances, but its still...

Ignoring the technological limitations, the idea of uploading our minds into hardware in any scenario is pretty much the same as ending the human race. We would not be human anymore in any practical sense. Thats also not considering how much of our mental state is driven by chemical activity...

Communalism exists in many animals, not just us. It requires a common goal for all the group members to work together towards, each according to their abilities. At the simplest level, this can be the basic instinct of raising young or defending against a common enemy/predator. At its most...

I agree with your general sentiment, but I think you are reading me saying incorporate things into your worldview as somehow replacing. Ideally, you want existing beliefs revised and updated as new reliable repeatable data becomes available. In other words, the scientific method applied to the...

Well sure, but now you are adding more complexity and we are back to Titan_Atlas's original post point and have a system becoming ever more vulnerable to selfish bias and corruption. The whole thing is a giant mess, like quicksand really, where most of the seemingly sensible solutions get you...

Maybe, but other avenues run the risk of having emotion creep in. That invites a solution where someone gets to play god and the person who gets that privilege is likely a strong personality and not an objective thinker. Of course our "academics" are largely completely corrupted with the...

You are right, but if there is not a solution people can come up with what are the alternatives? Simply grasping this shit makes you nihilistic and cynical, because its all so pervasively ingrained into the human mind that there is literally no solution where you are left with humans after...

Just run it at us all game and don't even try to hide what you are doing. Packers cannot stop an even mediocre running attack.

I have found most of the latter of your post anecdotally true, for sure. Part of it is echo chambers. As a young white kid growing up in rural whitey Wisconsin, my mind just assumed everyone was literate because everyone I had ever interacted with or been exposed to was literate. Conversely...

What you say about human conflict is largely true. What is unique now is watching the most powerful civilization in history (with access to the some of all human knowledge literally at its fingertips, abundant wealth, abundant energy, and near total global supremacy) completely destroy itself...

Short answer yes. Complicated answer is once you know how Heuristics work, even on a basic level, none of this becomes surprising and it becomes very hard not to be a cynical nihilist. Sort of how people who know the science behind music theory not enjoying music as much, because you have...

Read up on heuristics. Lithose has extensive posts on the subject, but the short version is our ape brains cannot handle social circles beyond a certain size without employing numerous shortcuts. Smart (and often unscrupulous) people learn to exploit these shortcuts in others for personal...

Not sure if they will swipe from this, but the old EU books had a short story explaining it. And another where he tracks down Han afterwards (Han is fucking around on the eve of his marriage doing some illegal shit because he is Han) and Boba gets him by whacking the other guys after him. Boba...

NE really needs a game manager QB to do what Bill wants, which is why I think he was (by his standards) so publicly upset when they traded away Jimmy G. Assuming Bill wants to hang around and prove he is the one with the mojo, I would aim for someone like that. Problem is there are not a lot...

No his team can still win if he has an off day. Teams like Seattle, GB, and Tampa, not so much. And of those three Wilson is both the most consistent. Plus the NFL is all in on the BLM dick sucking, so Wilson would be getting it even if he did not deserve it (which I think at this point he...

@Brahma You never know. Santa might leave you Fitzpatick under the tree.

They also started losing SBs and the along with it the ability to snap their fingers to get decent vets at a bargain price. Plus that 2019 was probably the most utterly anemic SB in history against a Rams team who's one productive offensive player was hiding a major injury.

RE: The Pats, drafting has rarely been their main road to getting talent. Pats were masters of getting guys with a little bit left in the tank to come in and sign sweet short term deals for a chance to get a ring. Then Darth Bill would trade you off to some dipshit franchise and your stats...

I agree to a point, but that D is completely fucked without him. Pretty sure two wins are directly attributable to him.

Well, the Chargers are always the Charlie Brown of the league. Been that way since Fouts retired. For the 9ers, this is a new situation. For the Chargers its standard MO.

If the 49ers were not being raped by the injury monster, they would have the best D in the league, hands down. I think their coordinator is probably the best in the league (maybe Bellicheck might compare?) but it does not matter if half the starters are hurt and the Offense can't get off the...

Found it.

This. I also think its a mistake to just jump from relationship to relationship, but I also do not walk in your shoes....

Fitzpatrick is the backup for the Dophins. Tua has to shit the bed hard enough for Fitz to get the starting job again by all known laws of the universe. Thats the Jets window to at least one win.

There are only three actually good defenses in the league right now: Titans, Rams, and (usually) Tampa. No one else has been remotely consistent, let alone "great". This is basically going to be remembered as the "steroid stats" era of football, offensively at least.

This is pretty much what it was like being a Packer Fan the last few years under McCarthy and our porous defense. If the QB has anything less than a perfect game, you lose. I will say the argument for Wilson as MVP probably gained some more merit, since a slightly off night was clearly the...

To get to this point you have to have well defined villains. Thanos was reasonably well defined within but not before the IW movies. Loki, who is not really a big part of the comic SW, is well defined. Vulture is the next most well defined villain they have at this point. Could they pull off...

Yeah Gore should be in the HOF, no doubt. He is probably the closest we will ever get to someone as prolific as Jim Brown (the GOAT imo) at the position in the salary cap era.

And will be for a while, until another team in that shitshow division manages to win a second game. So yeah two wins will lead that division through mid-season.

Several teams, notably the Pats and a little bit here in GB have been using that strategy for a while. Its ruthless, but economical. Plus every RB turns into a headcase, especially the good ones as they start circling the drain...... Zeke, Lynch, Lacy, Gurley, AP, ect. You basically have to...

McFatty's career summary will read "I was so fat and useless I dragged Favre and Rogers down with me."

MdMuffin is so much entertaining when he is not coaching your team. Sorry Cowboys fans, but you hired the worst coach in history with a SB Ring.

You guys also are not considering how much money gets flushed down the shitter in things like advertising and distribution. Basically, half of the cost of any movie being made in the last two decades went to bloated advertising and distro deals. Streaming eliminates a LOT of that overhead...

It is creeping into federal employment, too. Trumps EO put it on hold, but its only a matter of time before these blue hair liberal arts cunts manning the HR departments try to push for it again. Fucking annoying. @Big Phoenix - Find out if another branch (or even another company) can use the...

@Chukzombi He is, but I think a good long Doom arc ending in him helping against Galactus would make a good series of stories (and more or less has happened in the classic comic books). Making Doom the central figure would keep things more grounded and also let them address the biggest flaw of...

Oh really?

Defense in general has been horrific across the NFL this season, for the most part. There are a lot of reasons for it, but I think its mostly the lack of pre-season and no actual crowd noise to disrupt snap cadences. I can name maybe two ok Defenses and two actual good ones (and the good ones...

Everything all encompassing from Marvel post Infinity Guantlet was just, well, weird. Secret Wars was some seriously convoluted material that frankly would just not grab anyone's attention because most of the villains in it have not been developed well by Marvel, especially Doom. Honestly...

I mean, if we are going to count rings that are earned during cameragate and deflategate, I guess we have to count these too.

1) TB had some pass rush, but really that was the usual Rogers sucking after a bye routine. He gets dialed in to one receiver, happy feet, and holds on to the ball to long a lot. TB's D is good, but Rogers had one of the worst games of his career yesterday and he always drops a turd after the...