Good time of day

That was a very tone deaf response.

:DDD

Neither of the two planes that fell down recently were Boeings.

Might take a while for the mods to get mad. I don’t see how anyone could get mad about such a cute and whimsical little goober.

Meh I can understand uncaring, since that’s just the lack of being caring. But yeah plenty of nihilists also slap on some attributes of active malice as well.

A bit late, but having now just watched the movie, I can say that it’s probably the best movie I’ve seen about absurdism. Loved it.

Yes, ahead of what was practically feasible.

Ai generated imagery.

(The lines on the road all conveniently end when they are behind someone)

Most philosophers (all who were/are not nihilists) would disagree with you here. You can’t say that “they just didn’t think hard enough about it”, just because they arrived at different conclusions.

That’s one of the neat things about philosophy: There is no absolutely true framework or theory. It’s all just different ways of looking at things.

I may be out of the loop:

What’s up with .ml?

It wasn’t about George Floyd as an individual. It was about what that case represented. People weren’t rioting to get him back alive, they were angry at the system which caused his death among many others. Police killing black people is a thing that keeps happening over and over again in the US. It’s a systemic issue that is never fixed. Floyd just ended up being the face of a movement born out of a lot of frustration about police brutality in general, possibly because of the way that situation was filmed. If he hadn’t died, then some other case would’ve served as the catalyst for the same movement.

Oh and the exact manner of death was quite irrelevant. Either he suffocated due to having a boot on his neck, or then he OD’d and the officer killed him by omission, failing to provide medical attention. Most likely it was a bit of both.

Damn you went all out with the absurdity of that straw man. Nice one!

Politicians are constantly criticizing their opponents without necessarily presenting alternative solutions. A murder done with a political motive is a political murder. A political murder is a political message. “The system sucks so bad that there are people out there who are willing to take arms because of it.” That’s the message, in case you seriously still had not figured it out yourself.

The book was only referenced in order to emphasize that political motive by bringing up the fact that the health insurance sector is rotten and many have grievances against it. The methods the author would prefer are irrelevant to that fact, as the shooter clearly arrived at a different conclusion.

It was a murder. Mentioning the name of the book gives it a political motive. A political murder is a political message. It’s not that complicated, I’m just pointing this out to you since it evidently flew over your head earlier and the other commenter didn’t spell it out for you.

That was a reference to the texts the perpetrator had written in the shell casings he used, which were a reference to a book. He definitely sent a message with the act, and it was very much a political one at that.

The pursuit of capital is a thing elsewhere, yes, but that pursuit isn’t in control of legislation (at least as badly as it is over there in the US). Instead it is (mostly) controlled by legislation. This is the crucial difference between the US and most of the developed world. This is what would need to change before your dream of a legislative solution could be realised.

The image is a satirical (I’m guessing meta-ironic) contemporary imitation of the work of late David Eugene Dees, a conspiracy theorist and graphic designer.

A contemporary imitation of David Dees’ work? I adore this. The world needs more of this.

Hydrostatic equilibrium yes, but equal? No. We agree that centrifugal force is a factor. Now ask yourself, why would gravity suddenly strengthen at the equator to get the surface acceleration to stay equal to that of the poles?

It doesn’t. As a result the Earth seeks a new hydrostatic equilibrium, bulging out at the equator. This in turn strengthens the centrifugal force a bit while also slightly diminishing the force of gravity (because more of the planet’s mass is farther away). So the same effect is taken even further. Local differences add a layer of noise on top of this, but the end result is that the net surface acceleration is measured to average slightly less at equatorial regions than at the poles, with for example Singapore getting 9.7639 m/s2 of downward acceleration, while Helsinki gets 9.825 m/s2.

Not sure, but I think the last line is a suitable commonality to be called a template name.