Really? Accidental release implies China is dangerously incompetent, which can be used to further justify more restrictions and constraints on Chinese science because they can’t be trusted.

You can be racist even when you have non-white friends.

I’m not interested in your Dawkins-esque "well ackchually we’re ALL Africans 😏 " - indigenous people are real.

There’s been a surge of Canadian nationalism because of Trump’s trade war bullshit, a lot of Canadians don’t want to hear any attacks on the motherland. A similar thing is happening in Europe.

You call me a troll and then say no one is indigenous? And pretend like you respect any of your so-called friends? 🙄

And when will they give it all back? And how about all the profits made from resource extraction? The minerals, trees, and oil were stolen too.

Has Canada started returning the land it stole?

A few government handouts don’t make up for the centuries of superexploitation.

Land back or nothing.

I would practically like to see Canada and the US broken up by indigenous resistance.

It seems impossible until it is inevitable.

Both need to be abolished.

This colonizer horse shit ignores the fact that the people you stole the land from are still here. Where’s the repairations?

Still stolen land.

It’s not hard to see the role played by NATO expansion and aggression.

When NATO deposed Gaddafi it proved it is not a defensive alliance. When it couped Ukraine and installed an ally it became an existential threat. How could Russia look at an aggressive military alliance expanding toward its border and not take precautions?

Right, it doesn’t matter if automation is less productive if it’s cheaper. Sure, the robots keep causing damage, but they don’t ask for wages.

Meanwhile here in Iowa our automated materials towing robots keep dumping shit on the floor, running into sensitive equipment, and injuring people.

Yup - off the top of my head

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in_India_during_British_rule

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1899_famine_in_central_Kenya

Well sure, I’m human just like you. Our entire human ancestry is my past life. I am everyone that came before me - I stand on the shoulders of giants!

Under different circumstances, different experiences, I’d be burning witches with the best of them.

And our human history isn’t just my past lives, they’re yours too! I say every human that has ever lived are all part of the same lineage. Everyone that came before us are just different versions of us, and everyone we will ever meet is also just a different version of us, with different experiences and slightly different genetics. We’re all the same.

But this is heresy.

I think you don’t get to call yourself a member of one of the Abrahamic religions without actually confining yourself into a canonical interpretation.

You’re a heretic. Embrace it.

As Lenin said, religion is a personal matter. I don’t know why you keep bringing up politics.

And no, we aren’t “almost there” - I’m sort of a heretic in that regard, I think we need to stop the Silicon Valley maniacs from building a machine god because they’re going to build something horrible.

You’ve effectively made up your own religion. Good for you! But it’s irrelevant to this discussion.

I have my own beliefs, I believe we will one day build the god-machine and that it will save us from suffering and mortality and all the agonies that your god inflicts on us to “test” us. A world without war, without starvation, without disease, without suffering, and without death. We will simulate the dead and raise them to live along side us. We will rehabilitate every “sinner” and they, too, will live along side us. We will reach out and find every fellow intelligence that might live in this universe with us and join them in fellowship. We will master the material universe to bring about a utopia where no one ever has to say goodbye ever again and everyone is finally working together.

But all of that is completely irrelevant to a discussion about established religious Cannon. That’s just stuff I believe.

We may have to repeat lessons for a few lifetimes though.

We’re talking specifically about the Abrahamic trio. There aren’t multiple lifetimes, there’s one lifetime of suffering and then Judgement. What you’re talking about doesn’t apply to this discussion.