balthamael

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by balthamael 9y ago
Not to brag here but I think brutal is a bit of an overstatement. From what I can tell Seattle gets like 9,5 hours of sunlight now. That's almost two hours more than Stockholm, depending on the day. I have friends living in Luleå and t
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by balthamael 9y ago
That doesn't make any sense. The days in Spain are longer in the winter by a wide margin.
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by balthamael 9y ago
Apple is for "sheep", what else is new? Like removing the headphone jack to underhandedly force people into Bluetooth headphones(with Apple conveniently owning Beats, who has the biggest market share of aforementioned headphones)
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by balthamael 9y ago
From what I understand this issue is ridiculous is the States. I also live in Sweden and in my town 1Gb internet is included in my rent, using the city's network that had basically built fiber in the entire town. On top of that we have
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by balthamael 9y ago
Is easy to read to much things into something you don't have a good understanding of. But from my experience, assuming racism or something similar is usually premature and overly simplistic. There may be many reasons why a white person
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by balthamael 9y ago
Any consciousness vastly superior to ours would be so complex that we wouldn't even be aware of it. So it wouldn't matter what it would do to us. It's the same with most animals. We might as well be gods to them. An ant lives
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by balthamael 9y ago
The thing is, I think it's the only real way to achieve anything of lasting impact. There will always be ways to exploit various systems, you can only react, not prevent in those cases. Because of entropy, complexity is always increasi
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by balthamael 9y ago
The only viable forms of government i see now is a benevolent enlightened dictator or a scientocracy. The only way to remove manipulation is to remove emotion from politics. So you either need someone who knows what needs to be done and can
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by balthamael 9y ago
V for Vendetta was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not a manual or goalpost. Britain really has gone to shit. Probably one of the last countries I'd want to move to.
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by balthamael 10y ago
I don't see this as a new problem tbh. It's a function of human nature. We like to think that we are smarter and better than our primitive ancestors but the fact is that we are exactly as dumb or as smart as they were. Only thing