Very well written. I feel the people who use biological arguments as.justification for an unjust world order are usually the ones who have a skewed, one-sided at best and completely wrong at worst understanding of the specific phenomena they are referring to. It doesn’t help that because of the way academia works under a capitalist system, academics who parrot the ideas that benefit the ruling class are the ones who live a comfortable, secure lifestyle and mistake their success for correctness. An example for this is Nazis using eugenics as a post hoc justification for their atrocities.
Evolution is as you mention also not very well understood by most. The description of “seeing what sticks” is very good because in most cases it is random mutations not produced by selection pressure but sustained as a result of it. Comparison of our current political economy with evolution is not really apt as well as you said. I can’t think of a species other than ours which exhibit the phenomenon of a small section of the population hoarding resources like a Tolkienesque dragon while the ecosystem is edging towards collapse. But as usual the ones who have a weak understanding of biological phenomenon are the ones making claims like this.
I also have doubts about how “ruthless” competition is a driver of evolution. I see evolution as an attritional process. The implication is that if the competition becomes too ruthless too fast, there is the possibility that a helpful adaptation simply won’t occer and the result is the extinction of species in question.
As an aside, write.as uses markdown format. So if you want the first line of the article to be a heading, you can write it as:
# Is aggressiveness inherent to humans?
The # means it’s a heading. Subheading can be denoted by ##, ### and so on. If you google “markdown guide”, you can see more examples of formatting options that are available, such as making text bold or italic.
From what I have read the reCaptcha given to you is easier or harder based on how Google profiles you (no idea how it works for hCaptcha). If Google suspects you to be a bot it will give you harder challenges and will probably serve you images that it confidently knows the labels of so it can judge whether you’re a not or not. Otherwise it’ll give you a mix of images in which it knows the labels to some and not the others and consolidate information from that.
That argument is based on the premise of false equivocation of Nazi Germany and China, a narrative in which equating deradicalisation camps with concentration camps plays a large part. China is not an expansionist state. They claim Tibet, Taiwan, which is a separate discussion but they have no intentions of expanding beyond that. They haven’t been in any war in the last fifty years. Similar argument could be used to justify Americans fighting in the Vietnam war which I am sure you know was not a justified invasion.
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Right now I have a Nokia 8 and it cannot be rooted because the bootloader cannot be unlocked. Which sucks a lot. …
Noob question but here it goes. The place I work at has a website written in CodeIgniter, a PHP framework. The creator of the codebase was contracted and when he gave me a demo, the code was just sitting in /home/www-user/public_html
of the VPS and to show the code and make changes to it, he used …
Just the fonts that come packages with Windows. I used to rip them from my university’s library computer…
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Apparently Signal doesn’t run in the backgroud and give notifications if I don’t have Google Play Services enabled. …
I have gotten hold of a cheap drawing tablet and having a lot of fun with it. I only have experience with gesture sketching with pencil on paper but wanted to try inking and colouring too. …
I get slapped in my face with this shit on many many sites and it’s annoys the hell out of me. …
Valve is investing a lot of resources in Wine/Proton. dxvk is being actively maintained which is very good. Same with Vulkan. …
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Just wondering what the discord is up to…
Not bash specific but starship can let you do this https://starship.rs/config/#battery