Pets are usually provided with everything they ever need by their owners so they have little reason to show their brutal side.
Pets are usually provided with everything they ever need by their owners so they have little reason to show their brutal side.
Still a strange take IMO.
Bad individual human behaviour often pales into insignificance when contrasted with wild animal behaviour.
Unless you count the ongoing ecocide we as a collective are in the midst of enacting…
As a massive fan of his older work, I was disappointed to see he has since turned his hand to creating transphobic jokes in his more recent material.
Also find it a bit weird that he consistently proclaims how much he loves animals more than most humans.
Chuck some cheese sauce on that cauliflower, add some stuffing and we’re getting there…
Suddenly this hummus I’m eating for lunch doesn’t quite cut the mustard. Actually on that note, include some mustard in the cauliflower cheese pls.
But then you’re just pushing the unknown/undefined part to “feels like”.
We cannot define it properly so we can’t discuss it formally or make assertions like it’s the only thing in the universe that is not an illusion.
You could assert “Cogito, ergo sum.” but that’s kind of been done before.
Seems pretty realistic to me if Covid is anything to go by…
Oblivious fact: Me
Fun fact: Roasting meat alone does not a Sunday roast make.
Stops carving the Sunday roast and holds off putting the apple crumble in the oven…
But we are one of the most multicultural societies in the world and have long since adopted everyone else’s cuisines.
By this logic the Japanese don’t have curries and the Americans don’t have pizza, or any other food for that matter.
Yeah never got this. The nation’s favourite dish is curry. My favourite dish is curry. Isn’t it a running joke amongst Indians how much the Brits love curry?
Things like beans on toast and fish finger sandwiches are cheap and easy lunch snacks for students but not our actual diet.
I couldn’t claim to have a definition as the origins of consciousness are still unknown to science and not formally defined.
However your definition is definitely not the widely accepted one. It doesn’t even offer a proper definition, all it does is push the unknowns to “what it is like to be that organism”.
Who defines what it is to “be” something? What is the smallest unit of “being”? Are we saying that consciousness is an inherent property of organisms or could it be recreated on a computer?
Ok, I agree it can’t be an illusion the way you define it, I don’t think that would be an unpopular opinion.
I also maintain that it cannot be defined the way you define it.
Yes my point was that if there was a hypothetical being outside our universe looking in they could correctly say that our consciousness is an illusion from their subjective experience.
It’s an oversimplification because that is not the scientifically accepted definition of consciousness. It is currently undefined and seems to be an emergent property from the brain, the complex object known to us.
If the universe is a simulation then conciousness could be considered an illusion to those outside the simulation. From an internal perspective it wouldnt be an illusion as it’s the only thing that we experience.
However we have trouble even defining what counciousness is (an oversimplified quote from a philosopher doesn’t cover it) so it seems pointless to make such speculative black and white statements about it.
As of 2023, solar energy accounted for about 4.5% of China’s total energy consumption.
In 2024 solar energy could account for around 5-6% of China’s total energy consumption.
If they add another 170GW in 2025, the percentage could rise to approximately 6-7%.
They hope by 2026 solar will make up 8-9% of the total energy consumption.
If solar is the future then we are screwed because that isn’t fast enough growth… and that is without factoring in the rest of the world who will hit nowhere near those numbers.
Whilst it’s true solar is growing, it is not likely to be the silver bullet you make out.
Another way to look at the source you linked is that despite the ongoing climate catastrophe the US is still planning to add 4% more fossil fuel sources to their grid next year.
It also leaves out the fact that 84% of the current US power is generated by fossil fuels and that figure is not being reduced.
The source is also very US-centric. If we take the IEA’s projections, only 25% of the world’s new energy will be from renewable sources in 2024.
Then there’s the weird choice of counting battery storage as energy generation. At the end of 2022 half of the battery storage was being powered by fossil fuels so should probably be left out of any statistics.
We need people to understand the true scale of the problem rather than generating more hopium. The energy companies have teams of people for that.
The scientific method itself considers any as yet unsubstantiated theory as hypothesis. Applying this to the idea of God would leave one agnostic on the issue.
A couple of prominent examples of religious dogmas disproved by scientific discoveries are the Copernican Revolution and evolution by means of natural selection.
Cavity protection ain’t gonna cut it where they’re going.
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I hadn’t really noticed this, perhaps in hindsight you’re correct. Can you be more specific?
Gareth in The Office was pervy/racist who pretty much needed the abuse to prevent him making other’s lives hell.
With Maggie in Extras I saw it as a best friend banter type thing. The piss taking was done in private and came across in jest.
If you’re referring to Karl Pilkington, I think he new what he signed up for, was playing an exaggerated version of himself for comedic effect and made a lot of money in doing so.
When Derek came out I couldn’t get past the obvious, pretty much where I stopped following his material.