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Another great memory was writing "broken" HTML comment tags so you could disable "auto-inserted" ads from Geocities and Angelfire (and other) sites so you could look cool with your premium, ad-free site.

Just put this out there:

The higher the stakes, the less we should trust what we're "told". Esp if we're told to "believe and don't question".

It won't always be obvious to you directly, why something is wrong or corrupt, rather this is a sense we have to develop over time: question the people and ideas that we're supposed to "trust".

If you have an erroneous view of life and it's origins on earth, you'll come up with variations of this type of thinking.

However, life didn't evolve through a random walk of chemical reactions turning into complex systems with the ability to replicate and gain ever increasing complexity over time. Not possible.

Entropy is increasing.

Terrible for personal freedom and autonomy.

We have to mandate that sellers of essential goods (grocery, fuel) must always accept cash.

Obvious that this will be used against "anti government forces" in the future... which will grow over time to encompass everyone. CBDC discussions already market their ability to limit what/when/how you can use your "money".

Killing cash is just step one. Watch this space.

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Yeah, this should be read that the Federal Govt has to have access to national borders, full stop (agreed).

It doesn't (and can't) address the fact that the reason the Federal Govt wants access in this case is to help non-nationals BREAK FEDERAL LAW.

An appeal to incredulity is not an argument.

It IS strange, using the evolutionary framework itself, that useless mutations will hang around for thousands or millions of years (countless generations) before dropping perfectly into an extremely complex system, that itself is but a small part of a larger complex system.

Evolution teaches that small, immediately useful mutations build upon one another, reinforcing the beneficial nature of the mutation. It's impossible to build large, complex life systems (with a large number of prerequisites at each step) this way. For example, the Heart, Blood Vessels and Blood. They're each extremely complex but useless without the other two.

How would evolution slowly evolve a heart with no blood or blood vessels?

How would evolution slowly evolve blood but no blood vessels or heart?

How would evolution slowly evolve a network of blood vessels but no blood to carry or heart to pump?

This is absolutely untrue.

It's strange that an uncoordinated, random walk of mutations would keep a profound number of changes in tact, ready for some other random bit to take place and it all just "fall into place". The eye didn't evolve. Hearing didn't evolve. Smell didn't evolve.

These explanations are always full of "must have" and "must have been". This line of thinking is just hopeful projections of desired causality.

Strange that an uncoordinated, random walk of mutations would keep a profound number of changes in tact, ready for some other random bit to take place and it all just "fall into place". The eye didn't evolve. Hearing didn't evolve. Smell didn't evolve.

This line of thinking is just hopeful projections of desired causality.