You’re allowed to have a type of awe and reverence for the natural world, very much akin to religion, without needing to buy into any bullshit along with it.

It used to be pretty standard, and then the Christians (among others) fucked that up for everyone, and now you can’t be anything other than an aggressive humanist atheist without people starting to make assumptions about you.

If you ever study biochemistry, it leaves you absolutely in awe. The best engineering we can do is pretty amazing, we have computers and airplanes and all this magic stuff, but the stuff in you is a hundred, a thousand times better made. It’s stunning. Comparatively speaking, it is perfect. And that’s only the stuff we understand. The stuff in your brain, we do not.

I think we need one of those “I made a real artistic render of this child’s drawing” thing where someone makes a professionally produced game out of what some AI hallucination thinks is how games work.

Gee, I wonder why it might be important to have working OPSEC in the highest levels of your strategic decision making. Well, that ship has sailed, and probably cannot come back.

(Not that I’m in favor of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities, I’m just saying shit happens when you are incompetent. There is a deliberate confusion between saying “nuclear program” to mean nuclear activities like medicine which are perfectly normal and which lots of countries do, which is all Iran was doing with their uranium throughout all the middle of the 2010s, and nuclear activities trying to build a bomb. I don’t know how much of what they’re doing is the second thing, although it seems likely that it’s nonzero, but I know that some is the first thing and Obama was able to talk them out of all of the second thing, and they agreed.)

Correct. What it talks about is other laws, and how the government and industry has been breaking them, and the harm that it’s causing. Which is what confused me about your comment and led me to the conclusion maybe you just hadn’t read the article and were talking about something mostly unrelated based on just reading the headline.

It is extremely legal, under the US’s current governmental infrastructure. The linked article gives a bunch of examples including legalized price-fixing on rent and meat prices, and how they function.

I’m honestly a little surprised and saddened to read these comments and votes and realize that reading the article is a pretty rare thing on Lemmy, before starting to broadcast what is the poster’s opinion of what might be in it and their reaction to the imagining.

They have “deported” dozens of US citizens at this point. Usually, being a non-citizen makes you more vulnerable to arbitrary bullshit at the border, whereas if you’re a citizen you can stand up much more so for your rights if they’re trying to push you into something illegal, but as of this year it’s starting to matter less and less.

Everything is actionable once the rule of law collapses. At this point, if you’re crossing the border, you’re in danger of whatever they want to do to you.

Yeah, I have no idea what the underlying cause might be. It seems like a strange kind of bug to have.

Like I said, you will have precisely 0 problem in telling whatever narrative on Lemmy.world or wherever. You are spouting a comfortable myth which is commonly believed on .ml but has no basis in reality and is in fact 100% backwards.

I’ll prove it: Tell me the narrative, and I guarantee you we will be able to talk about it for any length of time without anyone coming in and doing any serious censorship.

I don’t quite follow you here as several people have demonstrated in various ways that the Voynich manuscript text does not at all conform with random gibberish.

Yeah, you’re right, I wrote my language backwards. I just fixed it. “You could certainly disprove that it was a real natural language by showing statistical regularity in it that’s of a type that would only exist if it was statistical random gibberish” is what I meant.

It’s a bug in Lemmy, every so often it just refuses to show images for no reason at all. Try shift-reload.

1. Yeah, this is interesting. I’m a little skeptical of any analysis that proceeds immediately to statistical analysis of one particular assignment of “letters” with the implied boundaries to the letterforms, without apparently dealing with the nontrivial problem of figuring out how likely it is that any particular shape is a particular “letter” or where the boundaries are. But you could certainly disprove that it was a real natural language by showing statistical regularity in it that’s of a type that would only exist if it was statistical random gibberish (which many people have tried and failed to do).
2. You need the http:// in front of your link, it’s being processed as a relative link compared with this document
3. Why is Leisure Suit Larry at the top of this paper

Edit: I backwards

The most compelling hypothesis I saw for the language explanation was that it was Manchu with an unusual romanization. It’s such a rare language (basically dead language at this point) that it would make sense why the statistics line up for a real language, but people haven’t managed to decode it. Then add to that the fact that it’s not super clear what glyphs are stylistic differences and which ones are alternate glyphs, and it’s not even clear where to split the forms into different glyphs because they’re all connected, and it kind of makes sense.

This video is the most compelling case I’ve seen for it not being a real language. Like I say, it’s kind of sad to think it might not have a real decoding.

People on every other instance are able to say whatever they want, they can have open discussion, they can criticize .ml or NATO or Trump or the Democrats. Which is as it should be.

The mythology that .ml enacts its insane level of censorship because it’s helping people “crack through the programming” by expressing viewpoints and arguments that are also allowed everywhere else, and the censorship is a necessary part of making that possible (by banning any disagreement shielding it from the commonsense arguments that generally can debunk it), is some Karl Rove shit.

Until the USA goes full dictatorship (admittedly less hypothetical than I’d like)

I have bad news for you.

I’m not trying to exaggerate the situation, but they’re imprisoning journalists, kicking random people out of the country or keeping them in conditions so bad that it sometimes kills them, they just bombed a random country ignoring the system that’s supposed to make that illegal without authorization, and so on and so on. They just assassinated a Democratic politician.

It’s all a spectrum. People are still in the streets without being shot, they’re still backing down or being forced to free some particular people. But the standard of “going to war without authorization” is a guard-rail that fell years ago, and more are falling every week now. If you’re waiting for the moment to fight back against the dictatorship, this is it.

It’s been 2%. Historically a lot of NATO wasn’t meeting that, but in the last few years people have been taking it a lot more seriously.

5% is, in fact, a whole shitload.

The US is at about 3%, which is an insane amount a lot of which gets allocated to random domestic pork-barrel projects, or basic scientific research which is just getting funneled through the “defense” department for basically no reason. Upping it to more than the US spends per capita on its military is bonkers.

That being said, I get it. These are bonkers times. Russia is doing for-real military invasions and bombing whole cities and shows no signs of wanting to stop, and the US is no longer a reliable partner for defense and deterrence. It might be fine, but it might not. It’s time to get ready to look after our own safety again, after a long period of not really having to worry as long as you were white and Western. I get why they’re doing it.

Earlier statistical analysis had shown it had some definite similarities to a real human language, it’s not just gibberish or an amateur hoax. I have to say I’m a little bit sad that it seems like it’s turning out it was just sophisticated gibberish.

It was always thus. Wars are incredibly profitable, the sides don’t really matter if your goal is to get rich off them.

They don’t actually like Israel. They like Iran, which is why their mouthpieces in the GOP were trying to get the US not to attack. But, like all bullies, when it’s time for them to stand up for their friends, they suddenly have this big explanation which no one needs to believe why it’s not a big deal and they were actually always good friends with the other guy.

Besides, what would they be able to send even if they wanted to or cared what happens to the people of Iran? A gift card? They’re fighting a country smaller than California and getting all fucked up, and they have nothing really to spare at this point anyway. Iran is the breadwinner in that relationship.