well ‘god’ is a pretty nebulous term. the olympian gods, you can disprove most of them with a satellite photo or a helicopter. the norse gods are a little harder to disprove. the christian god is pretty easy to disprove.

It is true that nobody should have to worry about proving negatives on people’s obviously made up fairlytale bullshit. it is sometimes fun to point out that if you define your god sufficiently, it can be and has been done.

and I would love to not worry about religion, but im queer and live in the united states, so I need to be pretty on my toes about that shit if I don’t want to be raped to death in a very pretty building/strip mall.

you can’t prove that no god exists, but there are a lot of proofs that the christian god cannot possibly exist.

and it’s important to remember: a christian is only one god less atheist than you. they need to prove zeus, shiva, quetzocoatl, and loki don’t exist or their religion is just nonsense.

years, dear. it’s years.

it’s slightly curved, because earth is not flat, and is constantly spinning. also there might be weather/air current concerns that would save time/fuel. this is like the first thing you learn drinking on the other side of a bar from someone who has ever interacted with the ‘actually doing things’ side of any aircraft.

plus security concerns. lots of shady crap in california they don’t want just anyone looking at from above.

explain in detail

please do.

no, this is SF to LA. It was the estrogen in the water that turned the flight path gay.

into? probably. helped by? probably larger.

and it’s altadena, which was recently the hub of some pretty big mutual aid efforts, so there’s a chance some of that might actually happen!

if you’re poor when you get the money, you still get taxed. only money made AFTER you get rich is safe.

also, please send very well armed help. if you don’t liberate us, america will start invading soon. first it will probably be canada or greenland, but that shit won’t STOP at any point.

it’s not just the ability to boost false or suggestive narratives.

every single major media platform out of silicon valley has a procedurally refined algorithm to turn your son brother cousin etc into a nazi. this is on purpose. use a fresh OS install from a fresh connection, and go to youtube. search for the most anodyne shit, but especially things a boy might be interested in-lego builds, space ships, tips for running faster. within a few hours of suggested videos, which do auto-play if I remember right, you’ll be seeing fuckers like andrew tate and jordan peterson. within about two days of letting it run, without clicking anything but ‘yes im still watching’ you’ll be seeing dudes talk about “BLOOD AND SOIL!” and why your next door neighbor’s car breaking down means we must exterminate the jews. facebook does this. instagram does this. tiktok does this since a couple months ago. this isn’t just some fluke of an unconsidered system set loose in the wild having bad effects-this is deliberate and engineered.

they target old people and young women too, but it’s not as simple and not as well refined. these are attacks. these systems are attacks on your society. they are actively trying to turn people, and young men are the most vulnerable group, into nazis, into useful idiots and potential stochastic terrorists. this is not hypothetical. the perpetrators of recent genocides have talked about how useful a tool it is.

these systems are attacks, and they do have a body count.

but that would be communism. which would mean you need ‘anti communists’ like musk to fight it. sorry. had almost this exact same discussion in california fifteen years ago. you need some extra extra justification to back it, which means you’re going to need really good messaging. kinda hoping you can skip the bullshit we went through on this that gave the nazis time to fuck everything up.

hey, speaking as someone whose democracy was absolutely murdered in silicon valley:

ban conservative and algorithm driven profit-motivated media, social and otherwise. this may include youtube. ban large language models and their outputs. this is the chief tool of fascists used to create their propaganda and murder the concept of truth. make your (great?) grandfather proud; kill some fucking nazis wherever they poke their vile heads up.

I genuinely believe that if we had done this, we would be… still fucked, but fucked by neoliberals, who leave a wad of cash on the bed rather than stabbing us so they can cum. please don’t repeat our mistakes. maybe also fortify your southern border. sorry.

it’s not even dim witted anymore.

not that they aren’t, but the function here isn’t stupidity, it’s solipsism, entered into by an inability to cope with the complex horrors of the world and ravenous hunger for easy answers that could be called stupidity. these ex-people do not give a shit about material reality. if something material harms them, they will think up excuses in their fantasy world for that harm to have occurred, that do not run counter to, or at least do not disrupt, it’s internal logics. they are effectively dead, living in their afterlife, we’re just stuck here with their meat, and them infringing on our reality. they are in a very real sense invaders from another world. not one that truly exists, but invaders from there all the same.

I’d rather they report nothing. I’m for global thermonuclear annihilation if that’s the only way to make this happen.

every fucking inch, and a bag of each of their blood too, just for the symbolism. or filtered them through that loophole in the 13th amendment for a decade or so, men women and children.

I would argue they don’t understand it, they just need to respond to it. they would be better at war if they did. they are beyond ‘understanding’.

it was. it got us the nazis. letting a single confederate officer (who wasn’t a double agent or something) avoid the noose was such a huge mistake. not dispossessing everyone who claimed to own another human completely was also a mistake.

yep, every single officer needed to hang if we wanted to genuinely win that war. at least have their families banned from holding any government office, elected or otherwise, and from holding more than a certain amount of property, for a generation or two.

sparing so many nazis the noose was kind of a huge mistake. re-wilding huge portions of germany would have been the move to try and cut out this social cancer. we transplanted that shit into every world power after the war.