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Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon — Nature in c/biology@mander.xyz

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

It's a brave new world..

Northern Ireland’s Unionists Are Fighting for Survival: A sense of betrayal by Westminster and lost status have fueled extremism and weakened commitment to peaceful power-sharing in c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Act like jerks and lose support - who'd've thought.
The article seems to try to paint the more extreme unionists as the good guys and ignore that they were terrorists too - just not in England.
Pushed for brexit, pushed for a hard border with Eire.
Fuck around and find out.

SpaceX to push the envelope with record-breaking 16th flight for a Falcon 9 booster in c/spacex@sh.itjust.works

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

List of flights 1058 has done until now can be found here

I hereby name thee Chaosbringer in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No one is stopping you from joining a server full of Nazis.
Those openly avocating violence and cruelty towards others who are being neither violent or cruel aren't "just another reasonable point of view that deserves to be heard"

Possible Defederation of sh.itjust.works in c/amateur_radio@sh.itjust.works

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't migrate from reddit in order to give Nazis a platform. If instances don't want to federate with instances that don't police hate speech/ advocating cruelty/violence to people who are different then those instance are well within their rights.

I'm sorry Dave (originally posted by u/samcornwall on Reddit) in c/chatgpt@lemmy.ml

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

If only Aurthur C Clarke knew..

The Church opposes human composting alternative to burial in c/atheism@lemmy.ml

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Neither churches nor funeral directors should get to override the wishes of the deceased.

If you were about to Time Travel and you couldn't stop it. The magic portal has already opened and is sucking you in; But you could choose an era to end up in. Where would you go and why? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Agent Smith did say it was the peak of human civilization..

Israeli settlers attack West Bank villages and towns for second day, one Palestinian killed and over 35 injured in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

FFS can't they let people live in peace? Did it occur to them that if the answer to "Do my actions make the world a kinder place?" is "no - the opposite" they might need to stop?

How long is too long? in c/main@sh.itjust.works

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

If its a serious question thread and I don't feel it has been answered well then I may comment even if it's weeks old.

‘There is no answer to the question, „Why not be cruel?” There is no noncircular theoretical backup for the belief that cruelty is horrible.’ (Richard Rorty). Do you agree? in c/philosophy@lemmy.ml

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm still not sure where to put myself.
In terms of descriptive ethics, there seems to be a common core that different belief groups agree is bad/undesirable/not admirable, which maybe fits something like 'harmony' or 'empathetic cooperation'.

I'm also not entirely sure Hume's guillotine is all that safe. That's because I'm not sure that there's non normative reason - one can describe our brains as made of 'proto-normative' neurons that fire lots with "good" inputs, and shun "bad" inputs - which in a sense would make all our reasoning a bit normative.

Part of me thinks that we shouldn't need a non moral reason to be moral - if that makes any sense.

Couldn't the answer to "why be moral?' just be "because it's the (morally) right thing to do" - should we expect or need a non moral reason to be moral? So maybe if that's circular, in this one instance i'm not uncomfortable being circular...

Feddit UK - UK Lemmy instance on the Fediverse in c/ukcasual@lemmy.world

[–] JadedIdealist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It looks to me like it isn't in the list at the federation info maybe that's why?