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@sun Ahhh... are you conservative, nationalist or libertarian? Usually, if you're one of these three, you will be rejected by the majority of the open source community. Sorry to hear it!

@sun We can add Christian to the list as well. Also a group that the open source community loves to hate on.

@lain Rest assure, that if the world, in its imbecillity would ever agree to that, the 2 million would quickly increase, Iran would wield nukes and the entire region would be destabilized.

The key focus should instead be to remove all taxes on oil and gasoline. Tihs would be very benficial for the common man, therefore the politicians will of course never do it.

@Charles_in_Charge @shortstories @Sovereign @zeke @GoonPatrol @James_Dixon @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @KingOfWhiteAmerica @multiversal_gangstalker @thatfightnerd @thefinn will take mankind hundreds if not thousands of years to outgrow religion.

@KingOfWhiteAmerica @shortstories @Sovereign @zeke @GoonPatrol @James_Dixon @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @multiversal_gangstalker @thatfightnerd @thefinn

I do not think there is any scientific evidence for it doing anything at all.

@James_Dixon @shortstories @Sovereign @zeke @Charles_in_Charge @GoonPatrol @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @KingOfWhiteAmerica @multiversal_gangstalker @thatfightnerd @thefinn

You make hte positive claim so the burden of proof rests on you.

You have not presented any empirical evidence, therefore what you claim does not exist as far as I am concerned.

@thefinn @shortstories @Sovereign @zeke @GoonPatrol @James_Dixon @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @KingOfWhiteAmerica @multiversal_gangstalker @thatfightnerd

What would anyone "do" with it? Isn't it just some kind of jewish mysticism?

@shortstories @zeke @Sovereign @GoonPatrol @James_Dixon @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @KingOfWhiteAmerica @multiversal_gangstalker @thatfightnerd @thefinn

I actually _have_ heard about supernatural things from people in iceland. Yet... the common factor is... it's always stories, it's never repeatable, and it never happens in the vicinity of scientific equipment, and of course, I've never seen anything myself.

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So for me, I consider it nothing but stories until empirical evidence is presented, at which point, it becomes an interesting investigation into the unknown.

@Charles_in_Charge @shortstories @Sovereign @zeke @GoonPatrol @James_Dixon @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @KingOfWhiteAmerica @multiversal_gangstalker @thatfightnerd @thefinn

Incorrect. Fire, electricity, thunder, lightning, some forms of mental illness, there's millions of phenomena that are repeatable, that have been explained through repeatable experiments and so on.

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I do understand your yearning for god and meaning in life, and that requires, for some people, the belief in ghosts and spirits, and from a pragmatic point of view, this is ok. it gives you please, a feeling of superiority over "scientists" and a deep convition that there is "something else".

@Charles_in_Charge @shortstories @Sovereign @zeke @GoonPatrol @James_Dixon @Kalogerosstilitis2RevengeoftheJunta @KingOfWhiteAmerica @multiversal_gangstalker @thatfightnerd @thefinn

But the scientific facts remain, there is no god, demons, or supernatural, since no one has ever presented empirical proof of it.

Freud taught us that religion is a mental illness, or something similar to the appendix, psychologically speaking, so it

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Incorrect. At some point, complete agnosticism becomes ridiculous which Russells teapot shows us. If there is no empirical evidence, for 1000s of years, from 8 billion people, it does not exist.

if you show me repeatable empirical evidence, that can be tested in a laboratory, I will change my mind.

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We have take off! 🚀

@lain Either you are a powerful man, or that was a small company.

@ThatCrazyDude No, we're in the same boat here. Trumps star is falling.

I guess there are two things at play here...

1. He's getting old, and it is starting to show. We must remember that the amount of stress he is experiencing on a daily basis is far, far above what we experience, and at that age. It takes its toll.

2. The upcoming election does not look good. He is therefore getting desprate. He gambled on a quick win in iran, based on erroneous information from israel, in order to go

@lain Excellent choice! The Donald Trump of BBQs!

@lain Interesting... that's nothing! I thought it would require at least several GPU cards and at least 20k USD or more in hardware investment.

@lain How much hardware dose it take to run those models at home with reasonable performance?