Seriously these Quentin Tarantino defenders

Bologna is pronounced more like “boh-loh-nya” in italian

Damn, I guess this is what 21st century censorship looks like

In my opinion, the main purpose behind law and punishment is deterrence from immoral actions. Punishment for its own sake is in no way good, it’s a necessary evil to deter immoral people from committing immoral actions. If there were no immoral people, there would be no one to deter and thus no use for law.

Sure, internal morality can get twisted, but only when it’s based in instinct (self preservation, subordination to authority, etc.), and that’s what I mean when I say pseudo-morality. Rational moral principles, on the other hand, are relatively reliable, clear and consistent. The main moral frameworks (deontology, consequentialism, virtue ethics) agree on most significant scenarios, the differences are in the specificities.

The scapegoat phenomenon you mention is a great example of instinct (the ingroup-outgroup instinct), being taken advantage of for political manipulation. Education should include teaching people to recognize these instincts and when they’re leading them astray in rational thought.

I think simply achieving material flourishing isn’t enough to make people moral, mainly because there are other instincts at play. For example the desire for status and power. This is what drives people to immorality even during material satisfaction. I also believe it is the main driving force behind capitalism.

I think that in an ideal society, everyone would follow their own moral values and laws wouldn’t even be needed. That’s probably not achievable, but we can at least try to approach it.

I think the root of immorality is the prescriptive morality which is commonplace today. People only act pseudo-moral because either:

• They are afraid of punishment (fully selfish reason)
• God, the law, or whoever else said so (deferral to authority)
• “Society would collapse” if they didn’t (still a selfish justification)

in reality, very few actually have internal moral values. As soon as those reasons disappear, they see no reason not to act immorally. Alternatively, they follow this imposed morality so strictly, that they don’t notice when it leads them to immoral actions (take for example religious fundamentalism or fascist regimes).

The solution is of course education, but our current education systems are terribly suited to producing moral people.

Well the models were trained on bacteriophages, so it’s pretty much impossible that the viruses could be human pathogens, still scary af though lol

It wasn’t really meant to be, my opinion is that following the law for its own sake is a form of slave morality and a betrayal of one’s own moral principles, but I guess the meme is vague enough to be interpreted any which way.

I’d say find a local tea shop and get small amounts of a couple different types. The tea that makes it to western markets is usually pretty low quality, black teas are the most likely to be decent. There isn’t gonna be a huge quality difference between brands either. If you want really good stuff, you gotta order online from specialized sellers, usually from asia.

Also, ditch the tea ball thingy and get a steeping basket or steep straight in the pot, the leaves don’t have room to expand in there and you don’t get good flavour.

I can try to recommend something more specific based on which flavours you like the most (earthy, woody, chocolate, malty, fruity, floral, vegetal, grassy, nutty etc.)

git push origin main doesn’t have the same ring to it as git push origin master

Any organic material will combust at 3300C given enough time

My windows install started bluescreening a couple days ago and won’t boot, might be this exact issue lmao, anyways, I got linux and neither the energy nor time to deal with microsoft’s bullshit, I’m tempted to wipe that garbage off my disk for good

Looks like Fomitopsis betulina to me, probably started fruiting when the tree had already fallen

I imagine In a Silent Way would be incredible in a crime drama, for example over a murder scene, with all the other sound cut out and just that playing (more like “foreground music”, if that’s a thing)

How does suffering give life meaning? Sure, a balance/contrast between pleasure and suffering can help create meaningful experiences, but that’s a different case

I view dirty vocals as an aesthetic choice rather than emotional, they pair better with distorted guitar tones, and with metal, the focus is more on rhythm than melody anyways, so a more percussive vocal style makes sense.

Edit: + I kind of like the fact you usually can’t understand the lyrics straight up, because it’s easier to ignore them if they’re bad and just enjoy the instrumentals, and if they’re good, you can still follow just fine once you know them

What do you even do if you get a fine like that? Die? That shit is life ruining…

Essence sounds so fucking cool, like some offering to appease the machine gods

Also, financial literacy applies to capitalist systems, by glorifying it, they are glorifying capitalism