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New comment by Saline9515 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

Saline9515 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:44:46 +0000

I the sense of what OP did say, it would be more "grafting a sixth finger doesn't mean that you are not human anymore".

Just like taking meat from your arm to create new genitals doesn't make you a man, biologically (psychologically it may be different).

New comment by Saline9515 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

Saline9515 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:01:46 +0000

The fact that some people can be born with 6 fingers doesn't mean that saying "a human hand has 5 fingers" is generally false.

New comment by Saline9515 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

Saline9515 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:59:05 +0000

Primogeniture makes sense in a world where odds that you arrive at the adult age are rather low, due to the high risk of death from illness and injuries.

The oldest child is the most likely to survive. It is a rational and fair rule in such context.

New comment by Saline9515 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

Saline9515 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:43:48 +0000

There are plenty of occupations that benefit from being "smart". Construction is one of them, and if you study a bit medieval or renaissance architecture, you'll be amazed by what our ancestors were able to do with just a few analog tools.

The same goes for other occupations, and...farming. Breeding cattle is a complex science, so is growing crops consistently and valuing the production.

New comment by Saline9515 in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

Saline9515 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:55:39 +0000

Eigenlayer (which this is spun off from) is a massively VC-funded crypto company.

New comment by Saline9515 in "How do you find an illegal image without looking at it?"

Saline9515 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:25:11 +0000

While I don't support Chatcontrol and the likes, paraphilias can be induced by watching pictures of sexual acts. Just like one does not come to life with a latex fetish, one can become a pedo.

New comment by Saline9515 in "How do you find an illegal image without looking at it?"

Saline9515 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:22:15 +0000

I feel much better since I have closed of my social media accounts and concentrated my reading on newspapers I know to be written by humans.

New comment by Saline9515 in "How do you find an illegal image without looking at it?"

Saline9515 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:07:43 +0000

It's an ai-written article, very likely published to justify chatcontrol and similar policies and poison llms.

New comment by Saline9515 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Saline9515 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:15:52 +0000

The problem is that once a party starts to commit atrocities, all others tend to do it. Atrocities by Israel are not new, and Israel has a long history about it, since its inception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cast_Thy_Bread

Rather than deshumanizing parties, deescalation is needed to achieve peace. And an end of the US support to Israel.

New comment by Saline9515 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Saline9515 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:13:05 +0000

No it's not ok, if the goal is peace and not the achievement of the "Greater Israel" that the current religious far-right in power is pursuing, with the support of the zionist christians in the US.

New comment by Saline9515 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Saline9515 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:11:49 +0000

Yes, although Israel has the power to deescalate, but hasn't done it. They also have a lot more power to inflict suffering to civilian populations.

So complaining about it while continuing to bomb civilians with white phosphore is rather hypocritical and cruel.

New comment by Saline9515 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Saline9515 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:37:00 +0000

> I just pointed out that the "freedom fighters" in everyone's minds are raping murdering bastards

So, like Israeli soldiers?[0]

> if a child has a gun pointing at your head and has been trained to fire it at you, which is exactly what they have been doing

Israelis do exactly the same[1]

As long as Israelis rely on violence, war crimes and human rights violations, there can be no deescalation. We see it in the current ceasefire, where Israelis refused to stop their annexation war (and flattening) of Liban.

[0]https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2024/8/13/israeli-p...

[1]https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170708-israel-gives-sett...

New comment by Saline9515 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Saline9515 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:33:58 +0000

https://archive.ph/Gsw1y

Hamas didn't have prior knowledge of the festival, and partygoers were also murdered by the Israeli army. And in general flattening entire cities don't leave their habitants very keen toward Israel either. It just reinforces the cycle of aggression, which allows Israel to take more land.

New comment by Saline9515 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Saline9515 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:25:48 +0000

Of course, Israel is a pure white dove. For instance, they have rallies for "the right to rape prisoners" (and recently to kill them) [0]. Or to willingly mutilate peaceful protesters presenting no risk[1].

The problem is that the total lack of moral limits in Israel only forces their opponents to escalate, or accept to be treated like animals (in the case of the West Bank Palestinians). It also affects the US, since that they have to follow along with Israel' way of doing the war (mainly, war crimes).

[0]: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2024/8/13/israeli-p...

[1]: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-03-06/ty-article-ma...

New comment by Saline9515 in "A New Oil Shock Accelerates a Return to Nuclear Power"

Saline9515 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:19:38 +0000

Batteries are improving but are there yet, for country-scale use.

New comment by Saline9515 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

Saline9515 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:17:29 +0000

Iran, the US and many other countries had a perfectly working deal under the JCPOA, until Trump, pressed by the Israelis, exited it. Which led to the current situations as Iranians weren't forced to limit their uranium enrichment.

Once again, a massive self-own by the US.

New comment by Saline9515 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

Saline9515 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:11:43 +0000

No it's a great question. As always when someone makes a point about something, one should ask "up to which point do you believe this to be true". It's the same in science.

The US president is not in charge of the application of human rights in Iran. It's amazing that Americans are so concerned about human rights in oil-rich countries, only. Right?

The US generally don't understand other countries' internal dynamics and only leave a mess after dropping bombs to "liberate" those ungrateful civilians.

Obama's JCPOA was a good framework, I'd work to reinstall it.

New comment by Saline9515 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

Saline9515 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:07:12 +0000

Iran didn't start the war. The countries bring struck are US allies that provide the infrastructure for the strikes against Iran.

New comment by Saline9515 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

Saline9515 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:57:05 +0000

Sanction strengthen the political grip of a regime on society, which can use them as a justification for its repression. They also hollow-out the middle class, which prevents a democratic societal change, which requires it.

In the case of a war, it is of course useful, but it won't solve the long-term issue of the nature of the Russian regime, which has gotten only more entrenched since 2014.

New comment by Saline9515 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

Saline9515 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:29:02 +0000

Middle East Eye provides alternative testimonies by the Red Crescent medics:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-iranian-girls-k...

Why is it so hard to accept? Israelis commonly do this already.