StanielBlorch
StanielBlorch t1_j22dh93 wrote
Reply to comment by Jazzlike-Space in Question About Life Beyond Earth by HealingKami
>mars was like earth many many years ago that means life was there on Mars
No. If conditions on Mars were similar to conditions on Earth, then it is possible that Mars may have supported life, it does not mean that it must have had life.
StanielBlorch t1_j22cj8q wrote
Reply to Question About Life Beyond Earth by HealingKami
>why are we so obsessed with oxygen when we only have proof that it works for us?
The Copernican Principle: the Earth is not the center the universe, and we humans do not occupy any special place in it. Since there's nothing special about us, then any particular trait of our biology is most likely to be common rather than rare or exotic. Since we breathe oxygen, it isn't because oxygen breathing is rare, but because it's common.
It is an assumption, yes, but your assumptions are more likely to be correct (or closer to correct) the less dependent they are on rare or exotic conditions or properties.
Also, since the only forms of life we have any experience observing is the kind that occurs here on Earth, the easier it will be to recognize life elsewhere the more closely it resembles life here.
That's not to say other chemistries which sustain life are impossible, but it will probably be harder for us to recognize them as life the first time we observe them.
StanielBlorch t1_j0lt0eo wrote
Reply to comment by TheCrimsonDagger in The Reality of Universal Basic Income Future by Prototype47
>The idea that someone has to have a traditional job to be productive and socially active is incredibly shortsighted.
Calvinism is the root cause of many a case of misanthropic brain worms.
StanielBlorch t1_j0lsnok wrote
Reply to comment by cloudrunner69 in The Reality of Universal Basic Income Future by Prototype47
How dare people pursue endeavors for the sake of their own fulfillment, rather than labor for the enrichment of their social betters! Degeneracy, I say! Bolshevism! Sheer Bolshevism and blasphemy, I say!
StanielBlorch t1_j0lruw0 wrote
Reply to comment by anglesideside1 in The Reality of Universal Basic Income Future by Prototype47
I think OPs desired solution to this ghastly situation of people not having to labor for the profit of their betters would be the same as the Victorians came up with: the workhouse.
StanielBlorch t1_j0lrgdy wrote
Reply to comment by anglesideside1 in The Reality of Universal Basic Income Future by Prototype47
>the vast majority of us were bored and did whatever we could to feel useful.
I learned to knit. Made my own scarves for winter and my god am I happy with the results. Went way overboard. The extras? Given away to friends and family and the stuff that was still left over went to Goodwill.
I tutored my step-brother's son with algebra and his daughter with chemistry.
OP's outlook is just sad.. I hope they get help.
StanielBlorch t1_j0lqkku wrote
That's an awful lot of words to whine about NOBODY WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE!!!!
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>You think you are going to have a hobby and get to do your own things in
this scenario? Really? Nobody would care! You can learn to paint, sing
or write music. But it’s not going to be recognized
Yeah, dumbass, that's what hobbies are: things you do for the pleasure of doing them, for your own gratification and personal fulfillment rather than the approval of other people.
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>And there we all will be, cows that eat, shit and sleep and consume entertainment non stop.
Jesus, the fucking projection.
>And that is going to be humanity: fat, diseased, unable to speak, or
write or read, feeding through a tube at specified hours of the day,
slowly dying out.
Projection intensifies.
This is just sad. Tell me again how much you love humanity by saying that humanity is worthless unless it's reduced to being a beast of burden.
StanielBlorch t1_jdifmcz wrote
Reply to comment by rtakehara in [OC] In 2022, Mexico traded more with Texas than it did with all of Asia and 6x as much as it did with all of LatAm. by latinometrics
Must be because of that 'NAFTA superhighway' all the regular suspects were shitting their pants about way way back in 2007.