dukeofdummies

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[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Oh I agree, it's horrifying. And I have noooo guarantee that it's me doing the jump. Don't misunderstand I am NOT the only real mind in this example. I'm curently just hitching a ride on said laser beam. No guarantees that I will be the same or even exist if somebody so much as moves a pebble into the past from the future.

Existential dread all the way. If we get time travel I think it's as horrifying a prospect as teleportation on a universal scale with only the traveller maintaining continuity.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What happened to the timeline you left? It must still exist. You couldn’t have been the only consciousness that was experiencing it. To think otherwise is some extreme solipsism.

Why does it need to remain? It seems like solipsism to assume it must remain because it's your point of origin. If something or someone has the power to drop something into the past why wouldnt it overwrite everything? I don't see why consciousness even gets applied. The universe keeps on whether I am alive, asleep, or dead.

I see the path of time like a laser beam in a house of mirrors. If someone has the power to add a mirror somewhere. Yep, the whole beam after the fact is a vastly different pattern. Any multiverse would be entirely virtual and theoretical.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

You don't share food if you're starving. You don't share time if you work 12 hour days, every day.

If you spend all your energy on survival, you got no energy to spare on anyone else. I bet our hypothetical starving person would be moral and share, if they had the chance and materials.

If they don't... then it's not a matter of won't it's can't. People are more likely to share food they have excess of, time they have excess of. If they can't spare it, they won't.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

So what, then bribes and intimidation just... aren't actually effective ways of bending morals?

I gotta say I have 0 papers backing me, but I feel like the fact that the very concepts are words in the English language carries some weight.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly it was only 4 years ago. But Iowa does feel like that sometimes.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

... How much are you willing to overlook to keep yourself from going homeless?

There just ain't enough protection for whistleblowers right now.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Oh god it's a live action remake??? This is depressing.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

yeah 28 Years Later I could see potential with. the rest I'm kinda.... meh.

Although there have been titles that surprised me the last few years. Puss in boots 2 in particular. I expected nothing from that and found an amazing gem.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Jesus Christ, that tops the worst thing I've ever heard a therapist say.

I heard a tale about a therapist in Iowa who after talking about issues with anxiety recommended eating brains shaped foods like, broccoli and walnuts.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Didn't the half cent we ditched in the 1800s have the buying power of a dime today when we ditched it?

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I'm not. What do you get as a reward for blowing the whistle? Genuinely?

  1. There's no bounty, even if there was you wouldn't get it for at least a year after you blow the whistle.

  2. Once it's discovered it's you, you're fired. There goes your paycheck, your health insurance. Now your home is in jeopardy and you have no decent income verification to get a new one.

  3. Good luck working in any job even remotely related to what you know. You now have a stigma in any background check and while a privately owned mom & pop might look at you favorably, there ain't a single corporation who will take pride in hiring you. You're risky.

The most ethical person, is one with no debt, who owns their home, and has 8 months expenses saved up. That's not most Americans right now.

[–] dukeofdummies@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Wait, really?

It's literally one of the tamest things they did as college humor. It's absolutely sfw

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