group .. um .. eating .. long rooted in history perhaps .. but not in our DNA methinks .. so maybe due a rethink .. coz .. well .. itza nice to mix it up a bit dontchya fink 
.. I mean a bit of a change once in a while creates new possibilities and perspectives .. it is .. ya know .. a fact, mate 
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Some humans dream of starting human colonies on other planets, but what if those distant worlds have native life? Big Think's Ethan Siegel looks at the ethics of such colonization, laws that would apply in space as much as on Earth, the relevance of the "Star Trek" universe's "prime directive," and more. "Our ignorance is so great — and there are so many who value both fundamental knowledge and the personal safety of themselves and others so cheaply — that I frequently fear that it will be the most reckless among us, rather than those among us who carefully consider and scrupulously reckon with these issues, who will ultimately be the first to engage in genuine colonization efforts," he cautions.
Big ThinkAsk Ethan: What right do we have to colonize other worlds?In all the known Universe, Earth is the only planet known to have native life. What should guide us in expanding humanity beyond our world?
I am deeply saddened by Pope Francis' passing. Reading his environmental encyclical "Laudato Si'" was a life-changing experience for me. It lays out in clear, uncompromising prose the combined socio-ecological crises we all face. It is a document for everyone - Christian and non-Christian alike. Worth a read if you have never picked it up (link below).
Rest in peace, Papa Francisco
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Here is a link to the text with a PDF download:
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www.vatican.vaLaudato si' (24 May 2015) | FrancisEncyclical Letter Laudato si' of the Holy Father Francis on care for our common home (24 May 2015)
From: blenderdumbass . org
The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were e...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/equal_rights_to_kids
"An era of cut-throat competition, followed by a rapid process of amalgamation, has thrown an enormous quantity of wealth into the hands of a small number of captains of industry. No luxury of living to which this class could attain kept pace with its rise of income, and a process of automatic saving set in upon an unprecedented scale." - J. A. Hobson "Imperialism a Study"
Sounds familiar...
A demigod being killed and then reincarnating is as Eastern #philosophy as you can get.
Nevermind, just me alone with intrusive thoughts on Easter Sunday.
Cheers!
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) https://lobste.rs/s/x1izrz #compsci #philosophy #practices
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
lobste.rsOn the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) | Lobsters
@burgervege Pour conclure cet "aparté" sémantique, je dirais que Benjamin Constant, en rejoignant la vision spinoziste de la liberté - c'est à dire que la véritable liberté est celle qui passe par la compréhension des causes qui nous déterminent - nous rappelle la nécessité d'une conscience critique.
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Homo Hortus · La Liberté au-delà du Libertarianisme : Une Réflexion CritiqueLa liberté individuelle est souvent célébrée dans le libertarianisme, mais cette vision peut ignorer les dynamiques de pouvoir qui façonnent nos vies. Pour atteindre une véritable liberté, il est e…
From an old book I found via Jason Stanley's "Erasing HIstory"
Very good treatise on anti-colonialism.
"No mere array of facts and figures adduced to illustrate the economic nature of the new Imperialism will suffice to dispel the popular delusion that the use of national force to secure new markets by annexing fresh tracts of territory is a sound and a necessary policy for an advanced industrial country like Great Britain. It has indeed been proved that recent annexations of tropical countries, procured at great expense, have furnished poor and precarious markets, that our aggregate trade with our colonial possessions is virtually stationary, and that our most profitable and progressive trade is with rival industrial nations, whose territories we have no desire to annex, whose markets we cannot force, and whose active antagonism we are provoking by our expansive policy."
J.A. Hobson *Imperialism, a Study*
I submitted my first academic paper! "Neither/Nor: A pragmatic philosophy for oscillating between conceptual and experiential knowledge" https://www.bryankam.com/p/an-academic-exercise?r=447n8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false @philosophyofmind #philosophy #psychology #history #science #anthropology
www.bryankam.comAn academic exerciseWould you like to read my article?
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Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #12
April 17, 2025
#Anarchy #Anarchism #Socialist #Socialism #News #History #Politics #Economics #Philosophy
"𝙽𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚖 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚏𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎. 𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍."
─ 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘌𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯
"The direct influence exercised by great financial houses in “high politics” is supported by the control which they exercise over the body of public opinion through the Press, which, in every “civilised” country, is becoming more and more their obedient instrument." - Imperialism A Study by J.A. Hobson (Book reference from Jason Stanley *Erasing History*.
Once Again. Those that own the media control the propaganda. This book is from 1902.
“The eve of the French Revolution found every wise man in Europe – Lessing, Kant Goethe, Rousseau, Lavater, Condorcet, Priestley, Gibbon, Franklin – more of a citizen of the world than of any particular country. Goethe confessed that he did not know what patriotism was, and was glad to be without it." from John A. Hobson
"Imperialism, A Study" this book was referenced by Jason Stanley in his "Erasing History"
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." #stoicism #life #philosophy
Gosh, it is charmingly written, and reminds me of tenets of thought I have come across in #geopolitical works like The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers when they discuss #America
> At first sight there is something surprising in this strange unrest of so many happy men, restless in the midst of abundance. The spectacle itself, however, is as old as the world; the novelty is to see a whole people furnish an exemplification of it.
This is us.
The umbrella Trump abandons, as it won’t fit through the door of Air Force One without him going through the trouble of closing it.
We are this umbrella. Trump won’t bother to do anything for us, nor anyone who isn’t MAGA
We are the umbrella.
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