Have a mid-40’s coworker. Very likable, smart and capable person. Has a degenerative nervous disorder where he becomes physically overactive. Not epileptic, but hands and legs shake. Body rocks. It became more uncontrollable
Now due to his talents, he has risen to a Senior position in a very large company. Solid guy.
Had brain implants last year. Scars on his head look like he had horns removed; and he jokes about it now. Implants controlled by a phone app
Interacting with him today, you wouldn’t guess he has anything wrong with him at all. I call this a God given miracle. Hopefully this will allow him to live a normal life, but has restored a quality of life so he can be a father, husband and pursue a very successful career
I am sure this mindset will delight China and other hostile nations. I doubt they share your sentiments
AI is likely already here; we just don’t know it in the public domain. Humans are limited by the 100 IQ; AI doesn’t have this intelligence growth rate limitation. As Elon has said, “we had best make it friendly”
If you have Alzheimer’s; you know what the future holds. If you had a car accident and had your spine severed; you know what your future is going to be
Who gets to decide what path YOUR life is going to take; you or some uninvested, unknown bureaucrat with zero accountability over your life?
For me, I and I alone decide whether I am a Guinea pig, sit in a wheel chair or blow my brains out some afternoon. And if somebody attempts to stop me, there will be 2 bags for the coroner to work with
So you imagine that everyone else is saying “oh no, that sounds risky”?
Every advancement ever made, involved risk. From cutting down a tree, making fire to the latest technology. You cannot get out of bed without risk
Knowledge, like a hammer. Is neutral. How it is used defines good or evil.
mRNA vaccines for everyone Demand it for pregnant women. The same folk who are hesitating to have a dentist clean their teeth while pregnant; demand they abort their baby with the vaccine Demand the mRNA for 2+ year olds; who are not at any statical risk, ok to sterilize them with a mandate
But let a quadriplegic gain use of arms/legs? Allow a spine to heal? Alzheimer patient to remember? That’s too dangerous for them to allow YOU to decide
God leads, God inspires but God never tells us to lay down and give up. I believe God has lead his people to do battle, even genocide, to defeat evil.
Jesus taught us to love our enemies; such that their hearts may be softened and they lose their desire to do ill, but seek to become more like us.
But Jesus also went a tad bit berserk when he saw money changing being done in the temple. This was evil with intent. This is a different matter. This is not jealousy or misunderstanding. This is intent, with knowledge
Color me puzzled. There are no upsides to Polio, measles, mumps, whooping cough, rubella, or small pox. These diseases were virtually eliminated off the face of (civilized) earth, by vaccines.
Now, I fully expect to see these re-emerge with the illegal immigrants, flooding our borders. I am open to suggestions.
This is where it get's sticky. One one hand, you could argue that removing perfectly healthy tissue is mutilation, and therefore ethically wrong.
Then, I look at people such as Angela Jolie (yes, she's possibly unbalanced), but she had her breasts removed due to a genetic likelihood of developing breast cancer. So, she made the decision to "hopefully" avoid cancer by removing the tissue, before anything developed. This unfortunately became public (and I would support any decision an adult makes, with pertinent information, for their life).
But to remove tissue on children, for a fashion trend - absolutely not.
https://cancerworld.info/angelina-jolie-cancer-story-breast-removal-mastectomy-surgery/
If this was a minor; I would probably agree with you. If this person has been diagnosed as mentally unstable, possibly agree too
But, imagine everyone who made a bad investment, married the wrong spouse, bought the wrong car, got the wrong degree, etc; suddenly decides to blame someone else for their situation?
It decided. It sought medical advice to provide the services it wanted. It paid money up front for an elective, life altering procedure
When does it assume results for its choices?
I was right about the origins of COVID, it's not natural, it didn't come from Bat Soup. I was right about the vaccine being deadly, I tried to warn you. I was right about Ukraine having bioweapons labs I was right about Election Fraud I was right about vaccine side effects of mRNA, including infertility, mycarditus, blood clots, strokes, neurological issues, and turbo-cancer. I was right about Hunter Biden's laptop being authentic I was right about Joe Biden taking money from China I was right about Ukraine's proxy war I was right about the Biden taking out the Nordstream Pipeline.
Yet, "I" am the "extreme right hate monger"? Then you are the most ignorant, gullible sheep on the freaking planet. Buy a fucking clue.
Necessity dictates innovation. if micro-meteorites are your concern, then a field that stops kinetics would be required. If an energy weapon, then a different field, or perhaps a reflective surface (ie. laser) where the energy is either reflected or absorbed by a material.
If a charged particle (such as ionic cosmic rays), then you would want a magnetic field that would re-route the energy.
With our technology being able to grasp the mathematics required for folding space; but no idea what to use as "handles" to grab space; there may be a solution that manages all of them. We just don't know what we don't know.
What i do know, is I wouldn't want to be shooting a bow at a WWII battleship. I think it would end badly for me. I may not be able to hurt them, but I could make them irritated.
And despite taxpayers being on the hook for paying for the parking, Arena and all the maintenance - that the team uses, for free; the team then sells the big Box Seats for premium dollars.
If the team has a very good year, do the people who invested in the team get a tax break? Oh hell no .... How about the teams pay for their own arenas?
Or, consider a place that didn’t have a “Dark Ages” (500AD to 1000AD) and normal progression happened. Where would we be in 500 years? That’s assuming every intelligent planet is our age, or there about.
To travel these distances they can likely fold space, or are really good sleepers We would pose as much a threat to them, as Bows and Arrows pose to us
Once upon a time, being a parasite on Welfare had a level of shame associated with it. People felt a sense of pride in being self sufficient.
The number of minorities - were a small percentage of the US population; and with that we had less crime, less drug use, less single mother households, and far smaller welfare roles.
Kids may have hated school, but they went there and learned, realizing that what they learned would be needed to support their families later on in life.
Everything we were taught; had been utterly destroyed by liberals.