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Trees are technically a green, renewable fuel (if humanity used them that way). The carbon dioxide released is that which was sequestered during the tree's life.

But oil is gathering material that accrued over vast amounts of time, and using that, dumping huge volumes of co2 directly onto the air. There's no cycle happening there - just pure extraction for our extinction.

May as well give up then.

I mean, not so very long-term (like, now) there's also sodium-ion prussian blue batteries. That's some damned good tech right there, and it's at the beginning of its development arc - there's a lot of room for improvement, and it's already good.

You say "do something" and follow or with "protest"?

Solid.

So, all of the awkward pauses, the lack of inflection - you're saying keep those, just change who it sounds like is speaking?

I use digital ocean as dns host. They have an API, so I check my IP with a script and update if needed.

Bam!

Close enough. This topic deserves significant care - of course, in the end, though, people buy into whatever they buy into.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out when YouTube is working for me again

If the concept of the universe being deterministic interferes with one's concept of free will, then one of these must be true:

• the universe is nondeterministic, or has nondeterministic elements
• one's concept of determinism is incorrect
• one's concept of the impact of determinism on one's own free will is incorrect

But of course, that begs:

• ones concept of free will is incorrect

But that cannot be, because your notion of free will is for you to decide, even if the universe is somehow determinate.

But that doesn't mean the universe is or is not deterministic, it just means one or more of the above three things.

Ultimately, though, I was not making an argument concerning the fundamental nature of free will and determinism, or whether or not the universe is deterministic. I was arguing for completely processing fundamental concepts before you accept them to be true, because often times we accept a lot of false implications alongside the true things we accept.

One's world view holds immense power in one's own life. People do not intentionally act in accordance with things they do not believe to be the case. To accept determinism without fully processing the implications thereof, particularly if it "feels wrong but seems true" is to enter into and sign up for those internal conflicts writ large in one's own life.

I also don't believe that the universe is absolutely deterministic, but that's a different argument that others have made better than I likely would.

I'll help:

You are not interpreting me correctly.

Edit: give a snarky response, get a snarky response.

Look into Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and the philosophical implications of that.

A lot of times, when we're dealing with the assertion that we don't have free will, we're analyzing that according to rule-based systems. The system that we use to evaluate truth isn't entirely rule-based, and is necessarily a superset of what we can consciously evaluate.

In effect, some less-complex system that is a subset of your larger mind is saying 'you have limits, and they are this.' But your larger mind disagrees, because that more rule-based subset of rights is incapable of knowing the limits of its superset. Though, we just feel like it's 'off'.

If it feels like it's off, there's a good chance that the overall way you're thinking of it isn't right, even if the literal thing you're focused on has some degree of truth.

In short, it's possible to know something that is technically true, but that isn't interpreted correctly internally.

If you accept the model that you have no free will without processing the larger feelings it evokes, then whether or not your internal sense of free will is rule-based, you'll artificially limit the way you think to filter out the internal process you think of as free will. ..and that can have massive consequences for your happiness and viability as an organism, because you've swapped away that which you actually are for labels and concepts of what you are - but your concept is fundamentally less complex and led capable than you are as a whole.

Fortunately, rule-based systems break when faced with reality. It's just that it can be very painful to go through that process with what you identify with.