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Really? Name one for me.

It’s an untestable “theory” that has no predictive power and explains nothing. It could be entirely true or entirely false and it would make no difference. It’s literally useless.

And as an adult, you’re suddenly in a new house that doesn’t have the dozens of tweaks that you fixed in the past years, and you’ll have to deal with the moronic amateurism from the previous owners.

Which is exactly what the people moving into your house will say as well.

I mean, he doesn’t demand worship, but you will get an extra burger during grilling if you say a prayer.

Ohhhhhh, its solipsism in a trenchcoat.

Indeed, I can’t solve the problem of hard solipsism, but neither can you. I can only say that we’ve made a pretty successful run at things by just assuming we all share an objective reality.

And if that reality doesn’t exist outside my brain, I’m a pretty fucking impressively smart girl, with some really fucked up issues.

To say anything about the world, you blatantly obviously need consciousness first. That’s the status quo. The burden of proof is on materialists.

Burden of proof for what? That you need a brain to make observations of the world? That’s not a hard claim to support.

You, however, seem to assert some form of magical super-consciousness that seems utterly undisprovable

For many people, the foundational promise in a relationship is being monogamous. If you betray the foundational promise to your partner, that shows they don’t give a shit about everything that’s built on that foundation.

You foundational promise could be “Brush your teeth every morning” and it would be no different.

I wouldn’t be so dismissive. This is a very active area of research

Well, like with all religions speculative fields with zero evidence back it, I’ll consider it further when they present some empirically testable claims. Right now, it rests on the same level as “The rock-god Unk-Amun who lies in backyard created the universe via timetravel, which can be shown by the number of atoms in Unk-Amun”.

Or possibly “The number of peas on my dinnerplate shows the level of my household’s Runath”. What is Runath? Well, it’s obviously the thing that’s measured by the number of peas on my dinnerplate.

it is a panpsychist theory

That does not speak in it’s favor.

Scientific thought demands proof of consciousness using matter as the base assumption

Would it? I’d say that would depend on the theory being defended at the moment. Which one are you talking about, and how does it define consciousness?

Helping people move is fun. Moving is hell.

Adopt, don’t shop, even when it comes to humans.

My position is that I don’t care if abortion is murder.

I argue that killing a sentient being is acceptable if it’s done to maintain bodily autonomy. I would further argue that everyone who opposes mandatory organ harvesting argees with the position that life is ranked lower on the scale of morality than bodily autonomy.

It’s just that most people are scared to say that out loud.

Outside of Lemmy? Probably my dismissal of the hadiths

Nah, that’s a pretty popular opinion. The majority of the world dismisses those. Even the most popular holy books have about 75% of people disagreeing with them (and an even larger number disagreeing with any particular interpretation.)

Im fine with trans people and non discrimination but my whole life sex and gender terms were one and the same for me and most folks in everyday language. The idea of identifying pronouns for myself seems laughable to me.

I think telling someone your pronouns is fine, and if you tell me I will make an attempt to use them (I will remember exactly as well as I will remember your name, which is to say at least till the moment I meet the next person). I have NEVER met anyone who had a problem with this system, and I run in circles that have a very much above-average amount of gender stuff going on.

And if you DO get upset because I didn’t proactively ask for your pronouns, instead of just telling me, then we’re really not going to be talking much anyway.

The number is apparently correct. Plastic caps/lids make for the 2nd most common item (by count) of SINGLE-USE plastic marine litter. Cigarette buds are number 1 with 19% though, and cotton bud sticks are 3rd with 10%. As a total of the whole (so not just single-use), plastic caps are 5%. Plastic string and cord from fishing makes up over 15% though.

Plastic bottles make up 5% of SUP marine waste, so apparently, people do throw away 2.5 times more caps than bottles. They’re also much easier to lose, when not attached.

source (in english, despite the link) from the EU, via google

So, if you reduce the number of bottlecap thrown away from 13% to 5% (as in, the same as bottles), that’s a pretty big drop in marine litter. And it’s probably a LOT easier than teacher smokers not to be fucking pigs.

Science-based thinking has put matter as the fundamental element but actually has never been able to prove it.

The scientific method has never proved anything ever. It just fails to disprove, and the theory gets stronger every single time.

I would posit that you (and Plato) are just wildly defining undisprovable concepts that serve no purpose and can neither be proven nor disproven. Which makes your hypothesis more like a religion.

But the Force is Mass times Acceleration!

Have it airgapped.

When somebody publishes a bullshit paper that is eventually withdrawn, every subsequent paper citing the fraudulent work can also be withdrawn as being unreliable.

It depends on how foundational it is, of course. If you could swap it for a dozen other papers, nobody cares. If you’re continuing the work from a retracted paper, you’re fucked (but then, you probably would have noticed some errors pretty soon anyway).

I have a friend who basically ran a series of experiments based on a paper that was complete bullshit. And like any good biochemist, he figured he was screwing up, or the equipment was faulty, or the substrate was more cursed than usual. Lucky for him, after weeks of smashing into a brick wall of failure, he started asking other people, who also kept failing and then they figured it out.

Well, not all the time anyway. How many humans were buried with hats on?