The Probability Broach: Meet the big bad

The Probability Broach: Meet the big bad

Why libertarians can't abide moral complexity.

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One terawatt per year, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

We're making more progress on green energy than most people realize, and the Iran war may supercharge that trend.

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#climatecrisis #solarpower

Miscellanea: The War in Iran This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…

A military historian sums up the colossal blunder of the Iran war, and gives a well-thought-out set of predictions for what might happen next:

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The Probability Broach: Shame, shame

The Probability Broach: Shame, shame

"It's a recent and modern innovation in ethics to hold that you can't punish people for their opinions, no matter how offensive."

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The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs

The Probability Broach: Backyard WMDs

Building weapons of mass destruction with no oversight. What could possibly go wrong?

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The greatest-ever review of Atlas Shrugged, via Reddit:

"Each page is covered in words."

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The Probability Broach: Non-state violence

The Probability Broach: Non-state violence

Is it only governments that wage war and commit violence? You wish.

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The colossal stupidity of war with Iran An unwinnable war without a goal and with consequences for the world.

The colossal stupidity of war with Iran, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

An unwinnable war without a goal and with consequences for the whole world.

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#war #iran

Hereditary peers to be removed from Lords as bill passes The bill abolishes the 92 seats reserved for peers who inherit their titles through their families.

The UK Labour Party is fulfilling a campaign pledge to end all hereditary positions in the House of Lords. Good - this was an embarrassing relic. Now get rid of the reserved seats for bishops next!

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Reforestation: A greener future for planet Earth? Deforestation is slowing and could be reversed in our lifetimes.

Reforestation: A greener future for planet Earth? by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

Deforestation is slowing and could reverse in our lifetimes. We might still be headed for a solarpunk world where futuristic skyscrapers rise amidst lush garden cities.

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#environmentalism

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe - Inside Climate News Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months, and to fully run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel supplies to Texas airports, trigger a surge in gasoline prices a...

The city of Corpus Christi, Texas, is going to run out of water as soon as this year, because Republican leaders invited businesses that use lots of water to set up shop without regard for how much water there actually was:

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The Probability Broach: Blue sky

The Probability Broach: Blue sky

We owe many of our most valuable breakthroughs to pure curiosity-driven research that wasn’t undertaken to serve a commercial purpose.

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Author Philip Yancey Confesses Affair, Withdraws from Ministry - Christianity Today The writer said he will retire from speaking and writing and grieves “the devastation I have caused.”

Philip Yancey, author of bestselling Christian books like The Jesus I Never Knew, confesses to an eight-year extramarital affair and says he's withdrawing from public life:

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The Probability Broach: The myth of the lone genius

The Probability Broach: The myth of the lone genius

The persistent libertarian delusion that one smart guy can do everything by himself.

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The Bible is too woke for Christians Anti-immigrant theology is a perfect catch-22.

The Bible is too woke for Christians, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

Anti-immigrant theology is a perfect catch-22 of absurdity.

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#evangelicals #bible #immigration #johnpiper

Hurrah, Freethought Blogs lives! DNS problems finally fixed. New posts coming soon.

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It's a really good story, a deeply humanizing account of life in a country that the media trains us to see as the enemy, and an indictment of just how badly America has failed for what it's done and is still doing to the Iranian people.

I've been reading Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel, Persepolis. It's an autobiographical account of growing up in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, moving to Europe as a student to live freely, and eventually becoming homesick (and homeless) and returning to Iran.

Judge Fred Biery: A defender of human rights and secularism Judges like this one are America's last line of defense.

Judge Fred Biery: A defender of human rights and secularism, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

A hurricane of authoritarianism is crashing against the walls of the American constitutional system. Judges like this one are the last line of defense.

onlys.ky/judge-biery/

#secularism #humanrights #law

FYI: Freethought Blogs is down due to webhost issues. Work is ongoing to get it back up, but I don't know how long that'll take.

Artificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant The patient is faring well nearly three years later, thanks to the life-saving device

Scientific progress is both cool and body-horror-esque: Doctors saved a man with a critical, incurable lung infection by removing both his lungs (!) and keeping him alive that way for 48 hours (!!) with ECMO until he could get a transplant.

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The Probability Broach: What have the Romans ever done for us?

The Probability Broach: What have the Romans ever done for us?

"What dollar value do you place on having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and roads that aren’t littered with the smoking wrecks of unsafe vehicles?"

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The Probability Broach: Robots do nothing

The Probability Broach: Robots do nothing

John Henry would've been pleased.

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American brain drain We used to be the world's safe haven for science, but now scientists are fleeing.

American brain drain, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

We used to be the world's haven for science, but now scientists are fleeing the U.S. for safer shores. China, the EU, Canada and other nations will benefit from our losses.

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#science #antiintellectualism

The Probability Broach: Too much freedom

The Probability Broach: Too much freedom

Nothing's more libertarian than a Dust Bowl.

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Protecting secularism in religious enclaves Communities of choice can't be allowed to cross the line into becoming mini-theocracies.

Protecting secularism in religious enclaves, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

Religious communities of choice can't be allowed to cross the line into becoming mini-theocracies where dogma is law.

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#secularism

The Probability Broach: Fair cop

The Probability Broach: Fair cop

"Why would an accused criminal be so obliging as to put up a bond, if there’s no authority that can force them to do so?"

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The Probability Broach: Economies of scale

The Probability Broach: Economies of scale

Where's my cyberpunk dystopia?

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American autocracy The U.S. government is at war with its own people. Other countries' experience gives us a guide for what to do.

American autocracy, by @daylightatheism.bsky.social

The U.S. government is waging war on its own people. Other countries have thrown off the yoke of autocratic rule in the past, and their experience gives Americans a guide on what we should do.

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#uspolitics #resist

Showed this to @daylightatheism.bsky.social He said “I bet those companies were run by Beric Badams who looks like Eric Adams with a mustache.”