Actually, I went looking for a review of the case, and I found one, and I linked to it.
And of course a brain can die. Starve a brain of oxygen long enough, and it dies and can't come back. Terri Schiavo's family refused to accept that obvious reality for fifteen fucking years, and created something of an abomination in the process. At least she didn't feel any pain or discomfort.
Here's a paper from a year ago.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11795570/
The scientists who reviewed it said: holy fuck. That is an incredibly difficult case. That guy absolutely looked brain-dead and yet he was not.
Yeah. Nineteen years ago, something incredibly unusual happened. There have been 226 major lottery winners since then, but there's only one Zach Dunlap.
...or maybe just by guys who don't want it to be the dumping ground for bitching about mean mods of other communities.
Try ConsumeProduct, HitlersGermany, and ForbiddenFacts. Those are pretty much all repetitive Joooo slander, all day and night, every day.
It was not. There is no universal cancer cure, because cancer is not one universal disease. It's a broad category of diseases that will generally require a broad category of cures.
You can criticize Jews all over Scored/Communities. That's what like half the communities are even for.
On TheDonald, there's a limit, because antisemitism isn't really the MAGA message, and they ban everyone who's off-message.
On Conspiracies, you can criticize Jews, but you are discouraged about whining about TheDonald mods because that is off-topic.
This isn't really about AI. It's about solving all the questions of biology and understanding it completely, with or without the help of AI.
And when we do that... yeah, we as a species will have the tools to cure cancer, and to make dragons, and to live to 500 years old, and to create a virus that only kills people with green eyes, and to change sexes for real, and to get absolutely jacked without working out, and to regrow lost limbs, and perhaps even to make targeted people incapable of aggression or change people's sexual orientations.
It will make the political issues of 2026 seem hilariously petty and pointless.
You think it's a conspiracy that a mod of TheDonald didn't want you on his community?
Looks to me like he removed your post because he doesn't want Conspiracies to be a board that people run off to just to complain about TheDonald.
Okay, but that would seem to imply that consciousness has nothing to do with a soul. Because there doesn't seem to be any realistic way that the mold devouring an orange could be conscious. It can't see, it can't hear, it can't react to its environment in realtime, it can't think, it can't make decisions - it just doesn't have any structures for these things. It's just built with a simple code that says: devour, reproduce, finish devouring, die.
And if a soul isn't related to consciousness - well, then, why bring it up at all?
That said, the soul is the thing that animates living creatures.
You sure about that definition? I mean, maybe you'd say a dog has a soul, but - an ant? A sunflower? A bacterium?
The word you're looking for is "conscious," meaning "self-aware and experiencing a personal reality," not "conscience," meaning "sense of right and wrong."
We don't know what consciousness is. We truly have no idea. Which means we can't measure whether anything else has achieved consciousness. We don't know for sure whether mice are conscious. We don't know whether consciousness is a binary or a spectrum. We don't know fucking anything about it.
We're looking for an answer, but we're not really looking for a soul, because that seems to be more of an idea than, like, something we can actually interact with.
At which point he is legally authorized to seize all company records regarding employment, find the employees, and deport each of them which the law covers.
And yet if he does that, he faces a shitstorm the likes of which he cannot possibly survive politically. And even he knows that. So he doesn't do it.
If he were to deport Tyson's workforce, the price of meat would go through the roof. And when a politician separates people from their food, that politician often ends up with his head separated from his body.
By worshipping jews and obeying everything they do. Definitely of his own free will.
He doesn't worship Jews; he worships money. And Israel has money for him to worship.
Except he says the same thing about the Saudis’ infrastructure.
Yeah, he loves Saudi Arabia. But he hates Gaza. It's full of poor people. It's what he calls a "shithole," and as far as he's concerned, if you live in a shithole your life doesn't matter.
Neat. Trump’s white. He has deported ZERO net nonwhites during his term
Trump would like to deport most of the nonwhites. He's just not that powerful. He says to Tyson Foods: "Get your workforce out of the country." And Tyson says: "Um, no. Your move." And then he just impotently rage-posts into the void.
Netanhayu doesn't control Trump. Trump barely has control over Trump. Trump just has a worldview that rich people are winners and poor people are losers. So when he visits Israel, he immediately sees Jews as winners and Muslims as losers. A few ostentatious buildings is all it takes for Trump to make up his mind about who's on the right side of a war.
He was raised by an extremely devout Russian Orthodox Christian family. He had friendly Jewish neighbors who babysat him sometimes.
This might explain why he doesn't want to murder all the Jews, but it is not the kind of thing that makes you want to murder all white Christians and replace them with Muslims (because Jews love Muslims so much?)
You think that Vladimir Putin - very clearly a white man and a Russian Orthodox Christian - has a burning desire to empty out Eastern Europe so Muslims can move in?
Just about every powerful man has sex with teenagers. The laws do not apply to them, and teenagers are sexy.
This is not pedophilia. It is just flouting the law and cultural norms because they want to and they can.
Weird thing to say. The obvious question, then, is: if you think it's so easy for Putin to conquer and occupy Ukraine, why hasn't he been able to do it for the last four years?
Depends on what you define as "winning." There's not a single scenario where Zelenskyy triumphantly marches into Moscow and puts his boot on Putin's face, but there are plenty of scenarios where Ukraine is restored to its 2021 borders and both sides claim victory.
There's probably even a scenario where Ukraine gets restored to its 2013 borders and Russia's ensuing claims of victory are completely preposterous.
Nobody "put Gates in charge" of "fixing overpopulation." He was spending a pile of money providing contraception to the poorest countries and increasing their access to vaccines. He was doing this to try to make himself look like a saint, while he was actually spending his time trying to fuck every attractive woman who walked into Microsoft or his charitable foundation. And I'm almost certain he was making regular visits to enjoy some teenage prostitutes courtesy of one Mr. Jeffrey Epstein.
And this really fits what I've personally observed about ultra-rich people: they're petty, and they're horny, and they love to show off their toys, and they act a lot more like overgrown teenagers than like architects of global control. For the most part, what they really want to control is how wet their dicks can get.
The US supporting Russia now that Ukraine is winning.
We're not, though. Just this month we shipped out another few hundred million dollars worth of armored vehicle components, munitions, and maintenance equipment to Ukraine. And last month, the State Department approved a $2.68 billion "sale" of air defense equipment to Ukraine - I say "sale" because basically the way it works is the U.S. and European countries give money to Ukraine and then Ukraine uses it to buy our equipment.
You're probably thinking of the October 9 deal that Trump cut with Putin to buy 1.8 million metric tons of diesel. That one's pretty fucking transparent; Trump is hoping the deal will lower gasoline prices juuust long enough for some undecided voters to say "Oh, maybe the Republicans aren't so bad after all, I'll vote a Republican ticket then."
It seems to have backfired, because so many Republicans hate Russia and feel betrayed.
Frankly, it was a stupid plan from the get-go. That's part of the reason I struggle with theories about "global elites" controlling us all - so many of America's most powerful men are so fucking stupid that it's hard to imagine any kind of coherent plan for social control coming from them.
SiB are mass-produced,for a years already, but I bet you heard about them for the first time from my post. :) How it could be that all mass-media soaked with everything lithium, lithium here, lithium there, litium investments, lithium technology, lithuim EV and lithium power storages, but nobody dare to tell a thing about sodium batteries? Lithium-connected stocks should stay high, aren't they?
And all you have to do to answer that question is simply look up the specs. Lithium-nickel batteries hold considerably more charge-per-gram than sodium-ion batteries, making them the ideal choice for phones and cars, two of their main applications. Nobody wants a heavier phone that dies sooner.
I didn't copypaste articles, I linked them so everyone could read them themselves.
Meanwhile you... weighed two AA batteries you have lying around, on your kitchen scale? Without doing any measurement whatsoever of how much charge they hold?
That's roughly the equivalent of weighing a pound of lettuce and weighing a pound of peanut butter and then saying that lettuce and peanut butter have the same number of calories because they each weigh one pound.
And also, you bought a commercial AA battery, and now you're saying there's a conspiracy making that kind of battery unavailable?!
Never trust a person who says "Lie" as though it were a complete sentence.
A sodium atom is 3.3 times heavier than a lithium atom; that's basic chemistry. You can confirm it with a single glance at the Periodic Table. And that does indeed translate to battery weight and energy density.
Here, have some sources, instead of just relying on someone burping out the word "Lie" when presented with facts he doesn't want to be true.
"Sodium ion gravimetric energy density is currently around 130 Wh/kg to 160 Wh/kg."
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/03/22/sodium-ion-batteries-a-viable-alternative-to-lithium/
Lithium-nickel energy density is considerably higher - up to 290 Wh/kg. Not precisely three times, because atomic-level chemistry doesn't translate perfectly to actual finished battery cell metrics - but considerably higher.
https://www.battery.mba/resources/lfp-vs-nmc-vs-sodium-ion
Here's a whole industry whitepaper about the benefits and drawbacks of using sodium-ion tech in EVs. The industry is not "keeping it from you" in some kind of conspiracy. They're openly trying to figure out the best applications for it and where it can supplant lithium and where it can't.
https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/trends-in-electric-vehicle-batteries
I checked on this, and there's variation.
Every government agrees that three days is just a good practice. Three days is about as long as it takes a modern police and fire force to manage something like an earthquake or flood and get the city open again.
But Germany recommends 10 days of food and 5 days of water. Sweden, Finland, and Norway all recommend one week of food and water. Japan recommends two weeks due to its earthquake problem; the states of Washington and Oregon also recommend two weeks because they're seismically (and volcanically) active.