There are people rolling around online espousing ideas about autism/spectrum personality traits that, if taken seriously, would condemn basic healthy human personality traits to a 'disorder' and place people like Carl Sagan in a psych hospital for getting too excited about his special interest in science.

Meanwhile *actual* fascists have invaded the US government and are talking about making lists of autistic people, like Hitler and Dr Asperger before them. For some reason.

Demonstration held by Yemeni community in Flensburg, Germany, in solidarity with Gaza en.ypagency.net/365073

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Just finished watching The Garden of Sinners E1 Overlooking View. The plot was confusing at first, but then I understood at the end. The overall lesson deals with suicide and people with and without purpose in their lives. With people who live without purpose called floaters, and people who live with purpose fliers. There was even some metaphorical imagery. They’re really wasn’t an answer to what path is correct only that the connections made with others can lead you to flying.

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What is the meaning and purpose of life?

You can choose your own goals in life with your own purpose

Your choices have objective physical consequences

Morality is subjective in the sense that you get to choose what type of physical consequences you want

But objective in the sense that once physical consequences are chosen what one must do or avoid doing to achieve those consequences is objective and can not be changed because it is governed by the laws of physics

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This ultimately means that if you do not want to be murdered you should live in a community where murder is punished but that results in the fact that you should not murder because in order to not be murdered by living in such a community and also avoid the communities punishment then you must not murder

This is an example of how you can guide your life by logic instead of vague metaphors of doing what feels good while ignoring the consequences of your actions

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Now Aaron Clarey claimed something like that if soneone feels suicidal because they are so sad then that can give them license to do whatever they want as long as they do not kill themself

He argued that if they do whatever they want to try to feel happy even taking out massive loans that they do not plan to repay

Then there is nothing anyone can do to stop them because you can not threaten a suicidal person with death

And after doing so they might not ferl suicidal anymore

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The Palestinian Statehood Drive Is a Despicable Sham

Western countries are rushing to recognize Palestine not to stop genocide but to solve a political problem. They’re offering colonial lies dressed up as liberation.

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#Israel #Palestine #2StateScam #SnakeOil #Genocide #Hypocrisy #Colonialism #Media
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

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So the story goes this south or central Anerican drug dealer and gang leader owned hippos and when the government e!iminated him then the hippos roamed free causing damage

I was thinking maybe less people would have died if they just ignored him because the environmental damage caused by the hippos roaming free upon his elimination might have killed more people than he would have if they let him continue to live

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

The Israeli government knows how much food is needed in Gaza. It has been calibrating hunger levels for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding #Starvation

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#Gaza #Israel #UN #FoodAsWeapon #Genocide #Famine #Inhumanity #Politics

@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

A group of Turkish bikers organized a motorcycle tour on the cracked ground of the dried-up Akşehir Lake yesterday to draw global attention to the water scarcity crisis and climate change.

The lake, which was once a source of water and a habitat for a variety of animal species and migratory birds, is now completely dry, leaving only a cracked layer of soil.

#Turkey #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe

Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager

Link: danfabulich.medium.com/passkey…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Breaking History Ep 108: Fake Deaths, Kaballah, Sacred Geometry, and Solomon’s Temple matthewehret.substack.com/p/br…

IDF war criminal was identified in Sweden being on vacation.

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a war crimes complaint in #Sweden against Israeli sniper Boaz Ben David for his actions in Gaza.

Video of him being confronted and verbally attacking the person filming him is shared on social media.

Video available on #BlueSky
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And on #Telegram
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#WarCriminal #HRF #ICC #ICJ #Justice #Gaza #Israel #IDF
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @sweden

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Tim decries ‘apartheid’, Oprah’s drug-fuelled trip Down Under, and Sussan Ley’s shifting sands on Palestine

www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/05/tim-wilson-apartheid-oprah-australia-tour-sussan-ley-palestine

Plus what's a mere $2.5 million spent on some shiny new uniforms? The post Tim decries ‘apartheid’, Oprah’s drug-fuelled trip Down Under, and Sussan Ley’s shifting sands on Palestine appeared first on Crikey.

Labor’s shifting views on Gaza leave a trail of mixed messages and abandoned tactics

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A lot of folks are very dismissive of the AirBnB problem. They don't wanna believe it's an issue.

They look at raw numbers and say things like, "it's only 30,000" homes that are no longer rental properties, just build new ones!"

Which is bollocks anyway. But the other thing they ignore is the quality of housing. These are usually the most livable homes that end up in the hands of AirBnB. Homes that people can no longer buy to live in, or rent. It pushes up the price of everything else in the market. Even shitty homes are pushed out of reach. We end up paying more and still don't have access to something half decent.

AirBnB is toxic to any society. It's concentrating wealth into the hands of a few.

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Democrat Rep. Delia Ramirez (IL) spoke at a summit in Mexico City this weekend, in which she told the audience that she is “Guatemalan” before she’s an "American." —This is just one reason why foreign born individuals should not be allowed to hold elected offices.
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I believe his mother was American. Maybe have an exceptions list for some western countries? I don't know, I just don't think having high-ranking elected officials from countries that are hostile to America is a good idea. For every good foreign born Republican there seems to be 2-3 Democrats that I'd just as soon see out of office permanently.
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Ted Cruz did not qualify to be President as he was not natural born. Dr. Shiva ran for President and did mental pretzel twisting to justify his run for President and that was one thing that started to turn me off to him. That and the fact he said Noam Chimsky was hos mentor and he has a leftist marxist revolutionary mentality.

To me i wished Ted Cruz would have placed the Constitution and the natural born requirement front and center and defended it instead of not.

AI, Artificial Intelligence, isn't intelligence at all -- it's stealing

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, isn't intelligence at all -- it's stealingFacebook, Instagram, and Twitter/X have taken all public posts, photos and comments and put it in their AI machines to be mixed and thrown back up in any way they choose. Most users…

Average #UK petition be like:
"Please stop the rich from going out into the streets and beating up poor people " *One million signatures*
Government response:
"We are very proud of our record of convincing the rich to stop using metal bars with which to beat the poor with and talking them down to using just wooden clubs. However we have no designs to actually end the practice even though it was one of the main tenants we ran our election campaign on, maybe next election. You fuckin idiots lmao.