Oh something to add about free will. Something that i find interesting is in people who have had the 2 halves of their brain cut off from eachother due to a seizure treatment they could have the person sit somewhere where they can only see half of their body. Then they’d tell one half to hand something to the other half. The person would do it as told. But if they asked the other side why did you pick that up and move it to your other hand the person would just make up a reason. Theyd be like “Because i felt like it”. As one side of the brain processes speech and the side that processes speech wasnt aware they had been told to pick that object up. So they just had to make up a reason for why they did it. Which the person did believe. They werent lying. They genuinely thought that they just did it because they wanted to.

This places unnecessary restrictions on their ability to simulate things. For example we could all be the exact same student living every single life as every single person. Including all the babies who get spawn killed. Or alternatively we could be 8 billion or so students all participating in the same simulated world with altered memories. Each of us randomly assigned a life at this snapshot of history.

Also the argument of im conscious so i have agency doesnt really jive either. Your memories could all be fake. Your decisions all manipulated in a way youd never notice. The idea we have free will at all is debatable honestly. I mean we didnt choose to exist, and we can’t choose to stop existing. Your body won’t even let you bite off your own finger go ahead and try. There are always guardrails in place. We have limited agency even if we assume the decisions we do make are our own.

I tend to take the view of humanity itself being like a super organism. All of us en masse are collectively reacting to the material reality around us, and operating much like cells in a body might. We can individually choose to do some things, but generally we are slaves to our own personal reality. Where we were born, who our families are, who we meet, etc. The Human species itself continues to grow and develop on a macro scale as we go about our lives. We are like many small pieces that make up a greater whole. Its like how we view Bees or Ants. We see them as “hive minded” but they really arent. Theyre all individuals who are part of a greater whole. They all do things independently as well. It just so happens that these independent choices thanks to evolution line up to be coordinated, and seem as though they are all controlled by the same “mind” because they are all reacting to the same stimulus, and all have the same goals, and similar psychology.

So thinking of humanity as a unit, rather than thinking of all humans as individuals, gives a new perspective. Why simulate 1 small part of a greater whole, but not the rest of it? Everything causes reactions. Even a baby that dies right away. It has an effect on the world that ripples out in ways we can’t begin to measure. The mother reacts to its death, maybe becomes bitter, is rude to someone on the train, that person goes home to take out their anger on their children, their children bully others at school because of home troubles, now how would that child being bullied know it was because some womans baby died last week? Not even the bully knows that. In fact there isn’t a single human being who knows that. Because everyone only has pieces of it. All of us are interconnected in ways we can’t fully understand.

If though you could simulate 1 day for the earth. Then have a student live that 1 day as every single person. They’d begin to understand a bit. Bringing it back to capitalism. Capitalism itself corrupts. Its a system that rewards selfish and destructive behaviors. greed. What better way to teach a student about that then to have them live as both the miner who slaves away, and the mines owner who happily benefits? And to live as the victims of climate change when the coal gets burned, and causes worse storms. To see the world from all these different perspectives. To experience both oppression, and being corrupted and committing atrocities yourself. To learn first hand that nobody is immune to reactionary thought. To learn how to recognize the warning signs, and avoid them. To grow your empathy for your fellow humans by literally standing in their shoes.

Frankly i don’t think we live in a simulation. But i was thinking well if we do its got to be socialists doing the simulating. Capitalism wouldn’t do something unless it was for profit, and i don’t see how they could profit from this. So why would socialists simulate our world? I think one of the most plausible reasons is as i described above. To learn from history so as to not repeat it.

I do get why you might see it as torture. I do think though that we should keep in mind with the level of tech required to simulate an entire world the same group could probably easily just scrub through your memories of the time you spent here and get rid of anything too traumatic. Once its over it might feel more like watching a horror movie from the first person. Where you know what went down but it doesn’t effect you the same way it would to actually experience it. With tech like that something like trauma might not even be a consideration. They could probably snap their fingers and fix issues like that.

Kinda funny tho to imagine your the student who dies .05s after being born and you wake back up and the teachers like “Bad luck i guess not sure how your gonna turn that into a 5000 word paper.”

Thatcher ’s inner circle, which then reflected the interests of Britain’s ruling elite, had changed course economically. It marked the ditching of the post war “consensus” politics, by which both Labour and Tory parties followed broadly the same policies, and introduced harsh “monetarist” doctrines, the forerunner of neoliberalism. They advocated shrinking the public sector and dismantling heavy industry in favour of financial marketization.

This approach contradicted the entire history of British capitalism which had become a major world power through manufacturing and industrial development. When Thatcher came to power, manufacturing accounted for 40% of UK GDP. This fell dramatically for the rest of the decade and up to this day, now accounting for less than 10% of GDP.

From that Article. I will do a bit of language policing and make it more palatable to liberals. You can use these methods to avoid language which might hurt your grade without entirely giving up on being accurate.

Thatcher ’s inner circle, which then was influenced by many special interest groups, had changed course economically. It marked the ditching of the post war “consensus” politics, by which both Labour and Tory parties followed broadly the same policies, and introduced harsh “monetarist” doctrines. They advocated shrinking the public sector and dismantling heavy industry in favour of financial marketization.

This approach contradicted the entire history of British Industrialism which had become a major world power through manufacturing and industrial development. When Thatcher came to power, manufacturing accounted for 40% of UK GDP. This fell dramatically for the rest of the decade and up to this day, now accounting for less than 10% of GDP.

Just an idea for how you can present it. Id keep in mind you getting a good grade is more important than trying to change a bunch of liberals minds in that moment tho.

Is this like the cyberpunk 2077 timeline or something? Theyre gonna privitize the military?

It does. If the masses decide something you said, did, made, etc is different than what you intended there isnt much you can do about it.

It does support english ya and even works outside China for navigation. It doesnt have all the same locations like resturants and stuff sometimes tho

Yeah thats why i mentioned them saying it was proof of christianity specifically. A lot of christians refuse to aknowledge other religions being equally valid (or more so tbh for the older ones.)

Someone told me one time they believe in specifically the christian god because the world is so perfect, and i was like what fucking world are you living in and how do i get there?

Just lie. This applies to a lot of stuff like this. Dumb rules that shouldnt exist. Lie to bypass them.

i smell nazi scum.

UTC+08 Id be having a great time with all of China to explore.

Amap - Chinese maps app - extremely common China W

I never used most of them. I quit reddit when genzedong went dark. Quit tiktok when the ads got more common a year ago or so. I still use a FOSS frontend to watch youtube videos does that count?

Honestly if your using a heavily commie site and not taking opsec precautions to hide your real IP then they already know it.

What i did for work stuff that needs windows is i got an old Thinkpad T440S and put windows on that and just use it for work. Things worth like 50$ lol.

If you want a nice private messenging app briar (doesnt work for iOS) is good. Its peer to peer, encrypted, routes messages via TOR, works over bluetooth too or local network. Another option ive been doing if you want to just keep your data away from the US is use Chinese apps. Amap for navigation, Wechat for chat, etc.

My 73 year old grandmother also uses it and says its “minty fast” lol not sure what that means. She latched onto the name when she heard it.

If you have newer hardware mint isnt what you wanna use. It is more stability focused. There are other distros that arr more geared towards faster updates and supporting new stuff faster.