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Literally just mainlining marketing material straight into whatever’s left of their rotting brains.

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[–] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Donald Duck is correct here but also that’s precisely why techbros are so infuriating. They take that conclusion and then use it to disregard everything except the one thing they conveniently think isn’t based on chemicals, like free market capitalism or Eliezer “Christ the Second” Yud

Dismissing emotions just because they are chemicals is nonsensical. It makes no sense that that alone would invalidate anything whatsoever. But these people think it does because they are conditioned by Protestantism to think that all meaning has to come from a divine and unshakeable authority. That’s why they keep reinventing God, so they have something to channel their legitimate emotions through that their delusional brain can’t invalidate.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He's not though

life is necessarily more ordered and interesting than dead rocks

therefore it is a good thing to create more life, both on earth and eventually to turn dead planets life-ful (if this is even possible)

we are definitely conscious enough to at least massively increase the amount of life on earth (you could easily green all the world's deserts under ecocommunism)

[–] WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Our purpose in life is not reproduction.

I think enabling mass reproduction of plant species in the Sahara Desert is cool and good

(and yes I've done the calculations, no the Sahara doesn't "enable" the Amazon, it's like 3 grains of sand per square foot)