Lemmywinks

A bunch of very rich people really wanted Brexit, that’s why what was touted as a ‘non-binding’ referendum (“just to see what the people want”) was treated as very much binding once the Leave campaign won it (by a couple of percent).

Coincidentally, the original date they wanted to have it all finalised for just so happened to be the same day as new EU regulations about declaring off-shore bank deposits came into power.

This is the real problem. The payment processors wouldn’t give a shit if it wasn’t for a very vocal minority of batshit religious busy-bodies.

What you’re saying isn’t the ‘current best guess’ though, it’s a fringe theory which relies on some incredibly speculative concepts with no evidence to back them up (i.e. the assertion that, if you created another brain with the exact same configuration as your current brain then, your conscious experience would automatically transfer over to it. We have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, whereas the concept that the destruction of your brain results in your death is well supported by the available evidence).

We don’t know what consciousness is, that’s my point. It’s called ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ for a reason, there is no consensus.

For claiming that you are what your brain does, and the (implied) correlation that another identical brain would therefore continue to manifest an identical experience. All of this is entirely conjectural, we have no evidence one way or another.

Your caveat that you must be cut and pasted and not copied doesn’t help your argument, in fact it does the opposite, because it is not theoretically impossible that two identical versions of “you” could exist concurrently.

Again, you have no evidence for any of that.

Right, but even if everything did work as intended there is still the possibility that it might not have done, and that possibility helps us understand what is actually happening, which is that you are killed and a copy of you is created somewhere else. There is absolutely no reason to believe that your experience would magically transfer over to that copy.

You have absolutely no reason to believe that.

What happens if there’s a malfunction in the machine and the copy is made at the other end without the original version being destroyed? Do you think you would experience both perspectives simultaneously?

Not the victims, just a comparatively small subsection of their grandchildren.

Race isn’t a real thing, scientifically speaking, it is a social construct (like ‘justice’, or the ‘Easter Bunny’). ‘Racism’ is actually a shorthand for ethnocentrism.

Really? Why is that any stranger than Christians trading with non-Christians, or republics trading with monarchies?

Who tf said anything about scientology?

The image that you posted, obviously.

It appears to claim that scientology was influenced by Hinduism, Mahayana Buddhism, and Taoism, which is a pretty ridiculous claim.

https://youtu.be/ZcO10Fim0C8

they also believe god meant for the existence of poor people. blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth (while the rich and famous go to heaven)

Which is extra funny when you remember that Jesus explicitly stated that rich people don’t get into heaven.

It’s funny how eugenics is widely accepted to be a bad thing when applied to humans, but for some reason “genetic purity” is still lauded for plants and animals.

The real threat to wildcats comes from humanity destroying their habitat (which is why the European wildcat, once endemic to the whole of Britain, is now only found in the north of Scotland). I’d personally imagine that hybridization is preferable to genetic extinction, as far as the wildcats themselves are concerned.

Also, like I said, Scottish wildcats are no longer found in the vast majority of Britain (through no fault of the domestic cat), so unless OP is in a particularly rural area of northern Scotland it’s a completely moot point either way.

Outdoor domestic cats and wildlife: How to overrate and misinterpret field data

Sure, the birds/ants/etc aren’t going to kill the zombies, but without any tendons the zombies aren’t going to pose much of a threat.

It means 2d animators have to be paid and treated well, while 3d animators are easy to exploit.

I dunno, I’m pretty sure you’d only have to hold out for the few days it would take for the birds/ants/etc to eat through the major tendons on all the zombies, rendering them immobile, and then you’d be completely safe and the massive clean-up project could begin.

No, you’ve remembered that wrong. It is immune to the bacteria that live on its teeth, if it bites you then you get a bacterial infection that leaves you paralysed, then you get very slowly eaten alive by a komodo dragon.