The article is actually real. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ate-inside-meticulously-planned-operation-capture-maduro/story?id=128871919

I agree. One can separate SOMA into the mechanics (can’t attack must always run or hide) and the dialogue and story. Both are masterfully done, and the story and dialogue left a deep impression on me for a long time after, the same way art and literature can affect oneself.

The title first read to me: Leaders alarmed at how fair the investigation is (I.e. they want it to be unfair)

So excited! I’ve been playing horror games since I was 10, and SOMA is one of those few games that come that give a whole new perspective on the genre. I am yet to play Amnesia, but currently my top 3 horrors would be Silent Hill 2, Fatal Frame, and SOMA.

Isn’t there a legally important conflict of interest here? The investigation is against an officer of ICE, given immunity by the Executive Branch. An investigation is only trustworthy, at least a bit, if handled by an outside investigator.

Perhaps it is naive, but I think the point here was that the police, technically and legally speaking, are much more restricted. As flawed as it is both legally and in actuality, police is still way more restricted and accountable than ICE is both legally and in actuality.

It’s crazy that the line between good and evil is getting comically obvious: the David vs the Goliath, the weak vs the strong, the murdered vs the murdurers, the (bulk) of the people vs the elite.

Oh well. I was hoping to read it. But I believe you. There was a time when I would never believe stupidity like that can exist. But this is a different timeline.

“… and new to the city.” Aha! She was an immigrant!

My friend is a Venezuelan who came to Canada with his family to specifically escape Maduro’s rule: his family owned a small farm in Venezuela that was extorted mafia-style by thugs that the Maduro government allowed or at least did nothing about (all of this is his words).

Not surprising, he and his friends are very happy that Maduro was taken down.

Tweaking in what sense? Like just default search engines and such, or is it about:config settings?

I’m just curious.

True, but its contradictory in a way to our own experience. From its nature, I can only speak for myself. I can believe that everything outside of me, including humans, have no free will or sentience. No contradictions there. However, I cannot believe that I myself am not sentient - it just doesn’t make sense. I must be sentient. I dont hâve a good argument, its just that its so obviously true.

I think it is possible, logically at least, to have gods, free will and souls even if everything were physical matter, unless you define those terms specifically to be metaphysical but then its like a True Scotsman fallacy.

Physicalism might be the most viable, but that does not mean its viable enough. There are huge holes - we have no explanation for consciousness, sentience, free will, physics still doesn’t explain everything physical, and quantum mechanics is such a weird aberration of physical matter I am tempted to not call it that.

However, nothing beats the scientific method for truth finding at the moment. And, at the moment, the scientific method is content with only giving us physical results.

You prefer GPL?

Me neither! Looks like I’m adding another service to my repertoire

I mean this whole ceasefire thing, especially at this point, is B.S PR. Its like if the Allies were asking The 3rd Reich to make sure they’re feeding their concentration camp populations well, before they kill them.

Wait till RFK hears that “mainstream” medicine is exploring psychedelic treatments as well - then he has ro disavow them to stay a contrarian.

He lost a sprint race to someone who was alive, and now he is on a crusade against all alive people.

My guess is that the US is threatening to cut away school funding, and so schools banned their student government from boycotting Israel.

Sadly, probably true. But my idea is also that making it only decidable by the Supreme Court means it will take a long, long time to revoke someone’s citizenship.