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New comment by hellofriend_ in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

hellofriend_ — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:55:07 +0000

If you’re against the EU you’re with Hungary and if you’re with Hungary, you’re with Orban and Putin: an enemy of democracy

New comment by hellofriend_ in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

hellofriend_ — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:38:17 +0000

We should absolutely be “screeching” about any attempt to push or rebrand chat control. You’re framing it as some sort of business as usual type situation where a dumbass politician does a thing. Absolutely not the case and you’re either uninformed or a bad actor. There’s layers of lobbying, corruption and ideology to unpack here https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then

New comment by hellofriend_ in "A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life"

hellofriend_ — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:14:21 +0000

Look, the leap from “a human in a lab coat mixed some chemicals and got something that grows and divides” to “therefore no God (or no transcendent intelligence) is necessary for life to exist”

is not a valid inference. It is a category error dressed up as science.

Demonstrating that intelligence can produce life (or a lifelike system) is the opposite of demonstrating that intelligence is not required. It is literally evidence in favor of the design hypothesis, not against it. The only thing it would rule out is a very narrow version of young-earth creationism that says “God would never let any natural process produce life under any circumstance”.

Also, scaling from “possible on a planet” to “therefore no intelligence was required anywhere in the process” is still the same non sequitur, moving the (apparent) design from the origin of the first cell to the origin of the cosmic initial conditions and laws that permit planetary abiogenesis.

This equation of “intelligent design = creationism = Adam and Eve” is a cultural artifact of the American culture wars, not a reflection of logic or the global scientific community.