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It’s dangerous to tell people that they have no free will.

Those who do not want to think critically will just convince themselves that the world is falling apart and that they can’t do anything about it because it’s all predetermined any way.

Others take advantage of the idea of a predetermined future as a license to do whatever they please. Any terrible thing they do is not a problem to them because their actions were already predetermined, they couldn’t help it because they were destined to do these things … at least that is what they tell everyone.

I believe there is a middle ground … our biology, our environment, our genetics and the universe as a whole runs like a mechanical clock with predetermined movements … but we are provided with enough options at every movement or critical point to determine our future.

We will never be able to change how our universe works but we can choose how we can exist in that universe.

When you do get that connection … go the extra step and install a ‘backwater prevention valve’ … it’s a giant one way valve that is attached to the main drain line as it leaves the house.

It allows water to always easily flow out but if it ever happens that water back flows into your house for some reason … the valve will stop any flow from entering your house.

I’ve always planned to get one but my situation is too difficult to install one.

I’m sorry but … what an absolute mess

You mentioned that your main drain is a bit higher than the floor of the basement. I have the same situation, my drain is about two feet off the floor of my concrete basement. The washing machine drain was placed to drain towards the lowest point of the main drain. Everything else in the house with a drain is in upper floors.

I’d rearrange the plumbing to build a drain as close to the four foot level as possible for the washing machine … instead of trying to build a solution 6 or 7 feet up in the air … you’re asking for trouble if you are making your washing machine drain up to a high point.

I remember once renting a place that was an old house with a brand new concrete basement … the main drain was close to ground level that went to a septic tank and field. Their solution was to install the washing machine in the basement, drain down to the floor level, then to a grey water pump unit in a big box that was 3x3x3 feet … and that pushed the water up to the main drain. I don’t think washing machines are meant to push water that high up and you will probably constantly have a bit of grey water backing down to the washing machine.

You get to lead the most powerful nation in the world

Every time you want a break just relax and if the boss shows up just restart your computer. Tell them you’re waiting for the system to boot after it froze or installed an update.

All of the biggest ones … no corporation should be allowed to amass so much wealth that they could literally control entire countries or regions of the world. The fact that this level of power and control exists means we value money and capital over human life or even more terribly the value of millions of human lives.

Apocalypto

2006 film

I’m the guy dancing in this image

Loose piece of tape … then press on the weird recessed piece of tape

I’m Indigenous Canadian and my dad was born in the wilderness in a very traditional lifestyle in northern Ontario. His first and only language was Ojibway/Cree, he understood English but seldom spoke it as he preferred his our language only.

As a teen in the 90s I loved watched TNG and I watched it as often as I could whenever I could. I never stuck to a schedule and we only had the most basic satellite TV package we could afford at the time. I was so engrossed and loved the show so much that my dad at one point asked me … ‘It’s amazing that people are up there now that are doing all those things’

I had to explain to him that it was all just as show that was fake and that none of it was real.

To me … this is my favourite TNG moment … that the show was so convincing and well performed that it made my dad believe that it was real.

To be fair, my dad was probably the most intelligent person I’ve ever known and an excellent teacher. In his prime, he often just walked into the wilderness with nothing but a knife in the fall and came back midwinter with a stack of furs to trade and make money and then head back out again with very little to survive on. He just wasn’t that aware of what the outside world was all about.

Sounds about right

That’s the ignorant thinking of moralistic cultures throughout the ages and even today.

There have always been ‘honorary homosexuals’ in every culture, every time period and every place throughout humanity. These were just people who were just homosexual and if they were tolerated because of one cultural, religious or historical reason, they just came up with a tradition to keep them around. The practice didn’t happen because there no women around, the practice happened because there was always going to be some individuals who would identify in different ways.

I’m indigenous Canadian and I grew up in a fairly traditional culture. My first language is Ojibway-Cree and I grew up around a lot of Elders who were all born in the wilderness. There were always a handful of people in our circles who identified differently from everyone else. Even our Elders knew this and they didn’t anything unusual about it all … it’s just how people are and we were all taught and saw that it was just a normal part of humanity.

It was only when everyone started talking about it all in terms of Christianity or some modern religious morality that it became a problem.

In our modern world … There is nothing wrong with an individual’s sexual identity … There is something wrong with how we all see an individual’s sexual identity.

The fact that you are there and aware of what is happening to your country is hope for change. I always sound doom and gloom in my posts but I’m also hopeful for the change. I’m Indigenous Canadian and my entire life has always felt like failure in everything me and my family has been exposed to for generations. The greatest thing I learned from all of it is to never give up … even in the face of overwhelming odds.

They are really earnestly and as hard as they can trying to put the raging fire out with a cheap children’s water pistol that isn’t working very well.

*100 years … America has been doing this since before any of the world wars

In a burning house with three people, one is fighting the fire, one is pouring gasoline on everything and one is on the couch watching TV.

Robotics and AI are becoming more and more human

Humans are racing towards becoming the dumbest intelligence on the planet

We should be crossing paths soon

Why does Captain Planet look like 1980s Dolph Lundgren

It works about a well as video editing capabilities from the start of the movie making era from the 1920s onwards. You can make a simple basic straight forward production that can be shared online. It makes great documentaries or just simple straight forward film production that doesn’t require any special effects.

They were able to make full featured films in the 1930s and 40s with far less editing capability. The only limitation is your ability to capture great images and content with your camera and video equipment.