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I can't downvote you even if I wanted. Progressive narratives are not young. The current flavor is young but the US Progressive movement is ~130 years and the Christian eschatology with God removed that it is based upon goes back to the Enlightenment era.

For Catholics the Bible is very important but it is a map not the territory. Tradition is equally important and there is also Revelation, in the Creation, in the Universe and in our own human nature.

You're reducing everything to a book and missing two millenia of reflection upon human nature, on our purpose in this world, the thousands of books written, the millions of debates, you're missing out on a corpus of knowledge that is rich and can't be found elsewhere.

We value the map not because it's old and we are indoctrinated to, but because we see territory and roads that don't show up on the modern maps. The old map is hard to read and uncomfortable, but it leads to true places, whereas the modern maps are pretty, colorful, with good UX ("everything is allowed"), but route you to bad places and dead ends.

Have you read this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)

So you don't believe in black holes or dark matter? Because neither of them, among many other things, have absolute physical proof. How do you even cross a street or go outside if you don't believe and can't have absolute physical proof that you will not be harmed.

Progressive narratives and ideas are much more prevalent in modern society than religious ones. It would be easier to argue that cultural indoctrination makes progressists feel that way.

I did but I will read it in full later. Summarizing the encyclical was a waste of time. Summarization is good for quickly probing the topic, tone and quality of a work. Here the topic is obvious, the Vatican tone is extremely consistent and encyclicals so far were all well written and thoughtful so there was nothing new to learn.

Any serious Protestant (mainline and knowledgeable) listen and give weight when the Pope speaks. They would certainly refuse the Pope authority and inerrancy ex Cathedra but not necessarily disagree with him. Theologically there's much less division between Protestants and Catholics today than in XVI. A large share of disagreeements are due to residual historical animosity.

> I don't believe.

You believe that you don't believe.

> But religion is different: if you believe that homosexuality is wrong due to your religion, there is nothing i can argue about. Your priest told you this based on some book or story from 2000 years ago and you do not question this.

This isn't the Church doctrine. The Church doesn't target homosexuals or even homosexuality in particular but ALL sexual practices that deviates from the unitive and procreative aspects of human sexuality. Christians don't believe in this because a book written thousands of years ago say so but because deep in their souls it makes sense and is the truth for them. Homosexuals are welcome on the Church as any other sinner what is ridiculous is to expect the Church to condone sins and bless sinful relationships be them homosexual or heterosexual.

> I know plenty of strong christians and muslism in germany who do not like homosexual people. And its dividing our society.

Perhaps it is something else that divides.

The Vatican is guilty of being the most charitable organization in the world.

It's also quite possible that the enlightenment and industrial revolution would've happened anyways, that the world wars would never have happened, that humanity would be living in a fairer society: without the doom and gloom of climate changes and nuclear war; without the blurring of truth that promote hate narratives and nihilism; without the reduction of man to it's economical value. But neither of us have crystall balls.

What you ignore is that the Church historically was a patron of Arts and Science, a preserver of history, works, documents and even pagan mythology. How many scientists has the Roman Church executed? One, Giordano Bruno, and it was not even due to his scientific views but rather his heretical views. Just as comparison, how many scientists has the Chinese Cultural Revolution executed?

All of the examples you gave caused much more tragedy than the system they meant to replace.

But those wars are typically fought to maintain the US status, to preserve its ability to debase the national currency effectively siphoning wealth from the world economy. Self-preservations comes first. I'm just describing the system.

Just don't ask it about what happened in 1989.

You're confounding your subjective personal experience with the whole. Google can eat the cake and have it. They already are profitable, they already have scale, they already have market penetration, Google is already installed in 72% of mobile devices, they have cost efficiency due to TPUs, they probably have the best data, at least for serving ads. OpenAI has no chance in outcompeting Google, not in ad-based revenue.

To be fair both are publicly traded and owning shares would give you voting rights.

Indeed the issue was leverage. The problem is CDBC. The govs plan is to end money fungibility. Once they get that leverage, MasterCard or central bank is just a detail.

You can move out of country but for that you need to buy tickets but your cards don't work anymore, your bank accounts are frozen, cash isn't acceptable anymore and digital currency isn't fungible.

The state has the power to cancel a person. If MasterCard denies to service you well at least you can look for a competitor or sue. Anyway digital authoritarianism is inevitable. PIX and this Euro system are steps towards CDBCs.

It is a common trend for companies to optimize for visible CapEx at the cost of increased but invisible OpEx for consumers.

You got prompted by your manager.

archive.org

This is reductive. What you're describing already happened in codebases without AI. LLM's just speed up thing because they are a great calculator and not a replacement for human input.

I live in a country with "free and universal" healthcare (Brazil). And guess what? I also pay for private healthcare and both sucks. Even the local private doctors (outside of healthcare) aren't that great and they are expensive. Maybe your local reality is different but for us that live the other side of the coin AI is a net positive.

The cost of creativity/innovation.

Thanks for the conversation. It's fun to talk about different things and explore new ideas even if hypothetically.

To clarify, for a Christian the issue wouldn't be that doing A is forbid or that the belief of it being wrong would be challenging for mental health. The issue would be simple that doing A is wrong.

> just try for yourself.

More probably the conclusions from the project manager are positive exaggerations because it would directly benefit from the continuation of the project but let's consider the possibility that RV works! This would be a fantastic evidence of psychic/paranormal phenomena that would make anyone reconsider other paranormal/spiritual claims that we're previously dismissed. Which creates a dilemma because if I'm non-receptive to paranormal phenomena it will not work and there's no point in trying and if I'm receptive then it's unwise because divination is sinful according to the majority of religions.

I imagine there's a "reality" be it real or fictitious where RV and other forms of divination works but ain't widespread enough to be scientifically acknowledged because those really capable of it knows it leads to eternal damnation so they don't practice it or share it publicly. In this same "reality" it's possible that the CIA as other intelligence agencies successfully used divination to acquire intel but discontinued it as they did with Blackbird because nowadays the have much better ways like software backdoors, spy satellites and even OSINT. And to note at best RV produces subjective intel which is non-optimal.

"Remote viewing has demonstrated it is of value and has a high rate of success... We do not evaluate our product. All evaluations are done by the professional intelligence analysts who assign the project. Collection of intelligence through remote viewing is not an experiment. It is a successful collection method. The army effort is not research and development, it is operational collection..."

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0011002...

Obviously people lie but a compelling report.

I also had similar good experiences buying batteries on Aliexpress. The issue with those typically isn't intrinsic quality as the batteries are most of the time good but lack of quality control. Bad batteries will reach the market and this is specially dangerous with packs with many cells like e-bikes packs.

Hydreletric have big negative impacts on local environments. Enormous areas are flooded, the course of a river is diverted, during droughts the operator will restrict the flow of water exarcebating the drought and vice-versa during floods. It's bad for fishs and other animals, it mess with their reproduction habits. It kills river navigation. The decomposition of forests and vegation under the flooded area will release a lot of methane offsetting it's "green characteristic". It puts the local population at risk because a dam can burst and wreak havoc downstream destroying everything and killing those close with no chance to escape. That's rare but pretty common if compared to nuclear accidents both on frequency and average magnitude.

For comparison:

Chernobyl disaster: 2 killed by debris (including 1 missing) and 28 killed by acute radiation sickness. 15 terminal cases of thyroid cancer, with varying estimates of increased cancer mortality over subsequent decades.

Derna dam collapse: 5,923 (confirmed). 14,000–24,000 (estimated).

The main reasons why Brazil invested in hydros instead of nuclear are:

- US embargoed Brazil's nuclear program.

- It's more attractive for those making the decisions to build dams. Brazilian civil engineering companies like Odebrecht already have the know-how to build dams and the extraoficial pocket filling channels that make politicians & authorities happy.

Enviromentalism typically is a retarded ideology that does more harm than good.

I have an induction cooker. It doesn't have the gas issue but magnetic, eletric and eletromagnetic fields are orders of magnitudes above the safety values according to my measures. I don't know how safe that is on the long run (and AFAIK nobody does). Yet the scientific consensus is slowly changing to show that non-ionizing radiation isn't as safe as previously thought and is linked to brain cancer and male infertility among other things.

> "As Brazil intensifies its crackdown on companies tied to illegal deforestation, this ruling could help pave the way for future legal action, including against JBS, the world’s largest meat-processing company."

This will never happen. JBS is a big financer and friends with the ruling mafia (government).

Just to give you an idea. The owner of JBS bought a bankrupt energy distributor for a bargain and soon after, the government announced a recovery plan for this distributor through a fee that is being paid on the electricity bill by consumers across the country. Also JBS became big as it is today due to generous over-the-counter loans with negative rates by a state bank (BNDES) during the Worker's Party (PT) previous governments.