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> It looks like with religion not in the picture as predominantly as in the past, peasants still don’t argue against the rules.

The priestly class has become less relevant, yes. I never said it was the only game in town, or the only way to justify force

> It also looks like religion has been around before peasants and is present even in relatively flat hierarchy communities and proto-societies where control was less relevant or hard.

I wouldn't equate that to today's religion. Pagan beliefs about the sun chasing the moon aren't what I'm talking about, I can forgive true misunderstandings about physics and astronomy etc... I'm talking about prohibitive moral codes originating from a ruling class concerning the domestic and mundane

> Historically, power structures co-opt rather than invent religion.

Couldn't have put it better myself.

> It's not an immediate end of humanity, it's the slowly eroding collapse of institutions.

It's just too vague to rebuff...

Another disaster would be great the for the universe the same way we think we were great for the universe

I think you've come from an npm world because c++ still doesn't have a great library ecosystem if thats what you mean.

> In other ecosystems: if Chrome were designed in Rust in 2008, there would be no crates.io to pull from. There would be no NPM, since Node followed V8/Chrome's invention in 2009. Maven Central had ~50K packages in 2009[2], which was a lot back then. In 2026, Maven Central hosts over 3 million.

Yeah, this is all web development stuff.... Doesn't apply to c++

> You can take the metaphors, and some of the prescriptions as to how to behave or to best deal with some situations.

Then I've got better ideas. You kind of need the man in the sky or it's pointless noise.... Ie just a list of personal preferences invented by someone, followed by a bunch more. That's the number one reason god was invented.... To make it so peasants can't argue against the rules

> Christianity has no rules on how to treat slaves other than one or two sentences in the epistles of Paul telling people to be kind, and another encouraging freeing slaves.

That's what I told you lol... Some moral code, huh? Slavery permissible

> This is far form endorsing slavery

It's right next to it. Rules for slaves would permit slavery wouldnt they? Absolutely delusional chain of thought to say the bible was against slavery.

> . it was regarded as a necessity for society to function at the time.

This weak excuse again... What changed? Why would god change his mind like that? Are we to believe every Christian prior to now was stupid but YOU have a truthful understanding? Or might it be people made up the bible and that's why it contains such mundane domestic concerns like what hat you can wear at what time?

While we're at it, what else from this ancient religion is no longer relevant? It's many passages on how to treat each other would probably be good to delete, times have changed.

I assume you don't stone adulterers either, or any of the other things god has changed his mind about over the years.

> the religions that survive today

Didn't most religions allow slavery? Islam, Christians, Jews, Hindus... All had rules on how to treat your slave but never printed slavery should be abolished. Funny how no major religion allows slavery any more isn't it

> a toolkit that teaches one generation after another methods to take wisdom and grounding from it and to seek something more

Its full of superstition from a couple thousand years ago.

HolyC in 640x480

Web development is such a mess man, it's all one bit hack trying to make programs out of documents

It's because they been taken to court for mindlessly parroting shit they hear, but instead of actually verifying the truth of the claim (ya know, the entire purpose of a journalist) they just put it in quotes as some kind of "buyer beware" disclaimer

Aren't there open models you can get for free? What are their intentions?

I think you overestimate the competence of interviewers. They could well give you terrible advice

> We live in a time now where libraries are free and plentiful and pretty good.

Specifically what are you talking about here? Chrome is c++ I thought?

Sounds like you're describing the shit show that is web development

> Against the evidence of every branch of the natural sciences that studies the problem from every conceivable angle and consistently say the effects are actually going to be much worse.

I'm not talking about meteorological outcomes but sociopolitical ones like massive migrations, outbreaks of political unrest. I also think climatologists step outside their remit when they make such claims.

I don't doubt 1.5c, I doubt the end of humanity

> Do you think that a 1.5C+ increase in global temperature in a century is also something typical of the natural cycles?

Yes. By definition, we are part of nature. But it wouldn't matter even if it wasn't, my contention is that it won't be the apocalypse it's made out to be.

> For people who have ADHD, they have dopamine dis-regulation

I hear this vague idea all the time. It's not true.

> Okay, having executive function and the ability to function normally is not euphoria.

Never said it was. And why always so vague.... "Ability to function normally", what were your disabilities? What was restored to you when taking the meds?

Neither do dogs lol tell me the name and location of this park so we can verify this 6 times an hour dogshitfest

Yes

> it has nothing to do with regular germs!

You're severely misunderstanding how germs and infections work. But germphobes have the phobia as a response to stress, its never a logical position they take.

You're feelings rule your intellect on this one I'm afraid, that's a textbook definition of irrationally

Lol you wouldn't be here without it though.

> biodiversity will be restored

Restored? What are the appropriate levels of "diversity"?

Some facts humans cannot handle: - lifeforms suffer unimaginable agony every single day. - life is finite - humans are not beyond the natural order, human made global warming is natural, it won't end the planet or even us. - humans think because suffering makes them sad, suffering must be the bad. (Apart from when we don't like the other person or they've transgressed us in some way, were ethically clear to mete out violence)

I knew the germphobes would be all over this one.

> Children who play there willmdevelop all sorts of misterious allergies, skin rash conditions, asthma and so on!

No they won't you hysterical boob. Youre fear of germs is irrational. Get a grip

> it is the need for a full food-chain of animals to keep populations in-check

The error you make is that there is only one, global ecosystem, and it sorts itself out. We won't be matching the power of the dinosaur comet anytime soon, and even that gave rise to mammals and eventually space travel so just chill... We dont need to do a thing

The latter. You are basically English, and look at us... Not a single wild predator larger than a rat. No bears, wolves, wild dogs, wild cats, not even snakes or spiders or hornets cos we killed them all. I'm just not sure it's possible cos America is so vast and has land borders

But his last line was about catching and preserving fish.... Which is the opposite of eating fish. I'm not sure what he was answering

> They observed that pickled vegetables preserved the veggies for months.

Kind of a tautology. Why would they think to pickle something in the first place?

Fish and/or poultry have been eaten in every civilization we've ever known about....

The whole point of the elite is that they don't have to do the hard work.... It's like Jefferson being out in the fields picking cotton whilst paying for a bunch of slaves.. a highly dubious proposition

You're talking about the common misconception that this planets ecology is somehow broken, that humans are supernatural (literally above nature) and that only other humans can fix it.

I'm also assuming that you're goodwill for other species ends at insects and bacteria