/siberia/ - Off-topic

Israel is pounding tehran and ground is literally shaking.

Can we theoretically discover the one true religion with the use of AI? Just shove every holy text, every scizophrenic much textos on imageboard that involve spirituality, every scribbles written on leaf by American tourists while high on peyote for the first time, etc, shove it all into one Big LLM hole, and let cybernetic principles run from there. Maybe this is the final missing piece in human spirituality

most desires are artificially created by advertising and therefore "let people do what they want no matter how unhealthy it is for them" is a lie. am i an asshole for thinking this?
i don't believe advertising is some magical jedi mind trick shit that plants desires in your unconscious but i think it can cause desires in people in some very straightforward ways, sometimes by literally lying to you about the advantages and drawbacks of something.
but even beyond that there's the simple matter of controlling demand by obscuring alternatives. people don't like mcdonald's because they've tasted every possible burger and concluded that mcdonald's appeals more to their innate "personal taste". they just prefer it among the limited options that are accessible to them and then get used to it so that they're often uninterested in other burgers even when more options do become accessible.
so isn't it actually pretty justified to criticize people's personal desires, whether it's food or hobbies or fetishes or drugs or etc? and even to advocate for government intervention in these matters in the case of really unhealthy things like hard drugs and poor nutrition?

Do you know any good alternate history settings where some other civilisation instead of Western Europe pioneers capitalism and unifies the world under its banners?

so how did you counter bullying in your school days?
others act tough and less gay like study, me i made sure to bully the shit outta my bullies

I know Eugenics bad but someone should try to breed superhumans similar to how we breed dogs. Human equivalents to pitbulls, cane corsos and rottweilers would be so cool.

What's your thoughts on the 'dating a sex worker' question?

If you get your philosophy from this book you are a liberal

Why do redditfags still use imgur? Their servers are down most of the time and they regularly 404 images.
What should we do with redditors after revolution?