Category: conflict
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Life in a Petri dish
On January 20, 2025, shortly after his inauguration, President Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States a second time from the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance. This is another high-level example of how we humans are incapable to act in the face of overwhelming…
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My body, my choice: birth, sex, drugs, death.
Content warning: this post mentions rape and suicide. Also note the atheist premise of the blog. Please leave any comments below or send them to input@ponderer.io. The first and maybe the only uncontested thing anyone can claim ownership of is their body. Absent the viable option to upload your consciousness to some form of a…
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On meaning (Part 1): nothing really matters
On Valentine’s Day 1990, the little spacecraft Voyager I, which was exploring the outer rims of our Solar System, turned its camera around to take a picture of Earth as seen from afar. The picture shown above became known as “Pale Blue Dot” because it depicts Earth as what it is: a grain of dust…
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The survival problems of homo economicus
All humans today are homo sapiens, the wise man – I know, unbelievable. Archaeology tells us that there have been multiple human species in the last two million plus years. Our last cohabitating cousin was homo neanderthalensis – a couple of tens of thousands years back. This is not that long ago in archaeological terms.…