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Over the course of Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, the climate has changed a lot, this is true. However, the rapid warming we’re seeing now can't be explained by natural cycles of warming and cooling. The kind of changes that would normally happen over hundreds of thousands of years are happening in decades. 

Global temperatures are now at their highest since records began. In fact, the 10 warmest years on Earth, since 1880, have occurred since 2014. And just last year, in 2024, our world got hotter than ever before, temporarily going beyond the 1.5C climate threshold for the first time.

So, when people talk about climate change today, they mean anthropogenic (human-made) climate change. This is the warming of Earth’s average temperature as a result of human activity, such as burning coal, oil and gas to produce energy to fuel our homes and transport, and cutting down trees to produce the food we eat.

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Karl Marx is often regarded as a genius due to his profound contributions to philosophy, economics, and social theory. He is known for his influential works, such as "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital," which have shaped political discourse and social movements worldwide. Marx's ability to synthesize complex ideas from various disciplines into coherent theories is a testament to his intellectual prowess. His ideas continue to resonate today, influencing discussions on inequality and social justice. Overall, Marx's legacy as a thinker and writer is widely acknowledged, making him a significant figure in history.


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“Hitherto men have constantly made up for themselves false conceptions about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relationships according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The phantoms of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations. Let us liberate them from the chimeras, the ideas, dogmas, imaginary beings under the yoke of which they are pining away. Let us revolt against the rule of thoughts. Let us teach men, says one, to exchange these imaginations for thoughts which correspond to the essence of man; says the second, to take up a critical attitude to them; says the third, to knock them out of their heads; and — existing reality will collapse.”

― Karl Marx

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To the atheists.

FLRW · a year ago

Atheism is intelligence. In classical Greece and Rome, it was widely remarked that "fools" tended to be religious, while the "wise" were often skeptics.

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Yes, studies with large representative national samples from Spain, Denmark, and the United States, as well as meta-analyses of a large number of published studies throughout the world, all conclude that men on average are slightly but significantly more intelligent than women, by about 3-5 IQ points. So this has now become the new (albeit tentative) consensus in intelligence research.

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Simply stated, the Rare Earth hypothesis suggests that the very unique conditions of Earth that allowed complex life to arise and flourish are exceptionally uncommon — and they’re unlikely to widely occur throughout the universe.

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Did you know that Bucky was expelled from Harvard twice: first for spending all his money partying with a vaudeville. troupe, and then, after having been readmitted, for his "irresponsibility and lack of interest." By his own appraisal, he was a non-conforming misfit in the fraternity environment

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In China, private ownership of firearms is generally prohibited, with very limited exceptions for specific groups such as licensed hunters and sport shooters.

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Sex can actually help slow down aging, according a 2017 study published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology. It found having sex at least once a week was associated with having longer telomeres—the protective cap on DNA that determines a cell’s lifespan. Longer telomeres are associated with slower cellular aging, and a higher life expectancy.